Commissioner Amanda Fritz was the only Commissioner willing to stand with businesses and citizens today, and she was the only Commissioner to vote against Portland Water Bureau’s rate hike request which includes funding for millions of dollars in unnecessary and premature LT2 project spending.
Commissioners Nick Fish, Dan Saltzman and Randy Leonard had nothing to add to clarify (justify?) their vote to move forward with these expenditures, even in the face of new legal evidence there are ways to avoid replacing our reservoirs. Mayor Adams only spoke enough to put a plug in for his “Mayor’s Budget”, by way of thanking the Water Bureau for acting on his request to trim the hike by 1%.
The business community, public health community, low-income housing advocates, labor and union advocates, environmental activists, and joe citizen all oppose this move. They oppose the rate hike, they oppose the LT2 expenditures. Yet, the majority of our Commissioners voted to approve a course that will give us double digit rate hikes for years to come. It’s a bad day for a "city that works".
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