Did anyone notice on the upcoming election in March that there is a referendum in Bolingbrook?
So what does this mean to us? Well, the Village has been conducting a hostile takeover of the water, and now it wants to "work deals" for electric which we are ALREADY getting. What this means to home owners is that you will be approving tax payer dollars to go to this cause and unlimited bonds to be spent.
I mean sure, it is great we might save $5 a household per month on electric. But don't be blind, because it will probably add hundreds of dollars to your homeowners taxes annually to pay for the bonds or funds this venture took. Not only will it raise bonds, but whom will run it? More politically connected morons who cannot run the businesses and departments that we already have? It was not that long ago that Public Works lost over $600K to theft of employees. It is every year for 10 years that we have lost money on the Golf Course poorly operated venture. Don't even get me started on how much we have lost for the Americana Estates venture.
So in the long run, nobody in the Village has expressed what this will cost or save residents. We want to know... how much will it save us annually on electric and how much will our Village bond debt go up, causing property and sales taxes to rise? WE want the bottom line, will we benefit from this or be hurt by it. So if that is such a simple question, how come we have gotten NO ANSWERS to this?
Let's talk for a second how it is being held on the least attended election cycle in Bolingbrook. The Mayor gets his 2,000 people to come vote and nobody else shows up. Is this even a surprise anymore?
When you can answer the question about benefits to the residents, then maybe the smart people of Bolingbrook, will vote in your favor...
This is what the Referendum states:
VOTE NO, NO, NO, NO, and NO!
Spread the word!
Village of Bolingbrook (DuPage and Will Counties):
Doesn't Naperville supply the water and electric to that town?
ReplyDeleteAll the referendum means is it will give the village the power to negotiate for a power contract on the resident's behalf. A resident can opt-out of whatever is negotiated if they want and stick with their own power source, whether that is ComEd or some other company. The referendum is NOT about buying power facilities, power lines, or power generation plants which would take a selling of bonds to accomplish. This is simply the village trying to negotiate the best rates it can for the residents.
ReplyDeleteVote yes!
There is plenty of information on the village web site. Take a look at it. This could be a good thing. Not everything that the village does is suspect.
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