If I am reading the new Langford sewer-user fee schedule correctly, my fees will jump from $72.87 to $271.53 in five years, which means by then I will be paying almost four times as much.
Assuming that everyone working in the sewer department has so far been paid, and that $30 million has already been invested in the required infrastructure, which would indicate a well functioning organization, is this immense increase in rates justifiable?
I reflect that if teachers or nurses were asking for such an increases, there would be an enormous public outcry.
J.C. Cowan
Victoria
