Opinion
Yowee! Lakeport residents, have you looked at the city’s proposed water and sewer rate increases?
They total an eye-popping 100-percent increase over the next five years with no ending date.
It is based upon some out-of-town “expert” who doesn’t understand our cost of living, income or our lifestyles.
I look up and down the street at my place and half of the homes already have dead lawns. The city council needs to think of the side effects of this proposal and not just rubber stamp it without considering what it will do to the city.
The last “bright idea” the city approved, over a room full of protesting citizens, was the mandatory garbage that has rattled us out of bed, brought us torn up streets littered with garbage cans that lay there for days, and numerous rate hikes.
This proposal will burden us all at a time when there has been years with little or no increased in Social Security or paychecks. We already have three half empty shopping centers and numerous empty houses and shops.
This new “tax” will greatly burden all of us. If you have already let your lawn die, I guess now you are suppose to quit bathing and washing your clothes!
Tell the city council no! File a written protest by Sept. 18 and have them reconsider and scale this down so it doesn’t break us and turn the city brown.
Bob Bridges lives in Lakeport, Calif.
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At 11: 15 a.m. on Labor Day, Monday, I was sitting at Redbud Park in Clearlake when a truck pulling a boat was pulling in and a police car with red lights flashing came in.
The boat was filled with three men and the truck with a couple of females. They were pulling in to launch the boat. Obviously they were getting pulled over for the men riding in the boat.
The police car had a female officer driving and a male officer in the passenger seat. They flashed the lights at the driver and hit the siren. The driver was pulling in slowly, clearly looking for a safe place to pull over where she would not be blocking anyone.
The officer hit the sirens again as she apparently was not stopping fast enough for their liking but was still clearly trying to pull over. She stopped right in her tracks not out of the way mind you.
The male officer jumped out of the car and yelled very loudly, “Stop the f***ing truck.” He then proceeded (more like stormed) to the passenger side of the truck where he yelled at the driver something similar if not exactly, “When you see a red light and a police car pulling you over, you stop your vehicle.”
At that point the female officer came up to the driver side window and spoke to the driver. She then yelled at the men to get out of the boat. They did so. The male officer stormed back to the squad car and they drove (more like sped) away.
My point is that it was completely out of line. The male police officer is supposed to be a role model. He was at a park with children and acted like a child himself.
Is this really the kind of police officer that we want “serving and protecting” us?
Teresa Welter lives in Hidden Valley Lake, Calif.
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