Proposition 1 is a blank check for City Hall.
This is a scheme to raise utility taxes and water bills.
City Hall will increase those taxes and water rates any time they choose without a vote of the people.
This flawed strategy shifts the costs of increasing city spending onto local businesses, working families, and senior citizens. City Hall has not considered other ideas, like growing our economy to produce more revenues.
Local control does not require total control by City Hall.
Proposition 1 would threaten Ronald Wastewater District and Shoreline Water District, which already provide the best service at the lowest price because they legally must reinvest every drop of revenue to operate, maintain, and improve their systems. City Hall has no such requirement.
Shoreline’s ratepayers have already paid for their existing water system. Don’t buy it again. No one knows what the final costs will be, or what it will include. If Seattle decides to sell its system, Seattle will set the price. Proposition 1 is a bad investment. We cannot afford to make that mistake.
Don't give City Hall a blank check. Vote NO on Proposition 1.
