What's in a name?

Shouldn't this notice read: Hyannis Water Supply Division

NEW BUSINESS (Refer to Public Hearing June 4, 2009) (Roll-call)
BARNSTABLE TOWN COUNCIL - ITEM# 2009-113
INTRO: 05/07/09

2009-113 APPROPRIATION ORDER TO FUND THE FY10 DPW WATER SUPPLY ENTERPRISE FUND BUDGET

ORDERED, That the sum of $2,731,839 be appropriated for the purpose of funding the Town's FY 2010 Department of Public Works Water Supply Enterprise Fund budget as presented to the Town Council by the Town Manager, and to meet such appropriation that $2,731,839 be raised from current year revenues by the water supply operations.

SPONSOR: Town Manager John C. Klimm

Between Deb Krau and Mark Ells we'll never get clean drinkable water in Hyannis.

Comments

[Big Josh]

All enterprise accounts have there own names as required by law

[Annoyed]

Then they should call it BOHHICA... Bend Over Hyannis Here It Comes Again!!

[yea, right.]

Yes, I know. But, since when is it the DPW WATER SUPPLY ENTERPRISE FUND. Until last week, it was the Hyannis Water Supply Division.

[Wilbur Johnson]

Here is a list of the town's enterprise accounts:

Community Services Department Golf Course Enterprise Fund
Community Services Department Sandy Neck Park Enterprise Fund
Community Services Department Marina Enterprise Fund
Dept. of Public Works Water Supply Enterprise Fund
Dept. of Public Works Water Pollution Control Enterprise Fund
Dept. of Public Works Solid Waste Enterprise Fund

Each of the above funds is the fund/budget for a specific operation with the town. Each operation or department has it's own name.

[bugsy]

Solid Waste and Water Pollution are town-wide Enterprises. Hyannis Water is Hyannis Water.

Wilbur - you live in Centerville. Why are you working so hard to screw Hyannis residents?

[changing of the guard]

from the Patriot...

There will be two open seats on the school committee for the November election. Ralph Cahoon and Dr. Debra Dagwan announced that they will not seek reelection. Cahoon also announced that he will step down as chairman at the end of June...

Vice chairman Patrick Murphy will take over as chairman, pending a committee vote, in July, Cahoon said, adding, “I applaud him for being willing to take over.”

Dagwan was the first committee member to announce that she would not be seeking reelection at the end of her term in November.

“Instead I have an opportunity to run in my precinct for Town Council,” she said. “I’d like to take advantage of that. Those opportunities only come around once in a lifetime.”

Dagwan, a resident of Precinct 8, ran for town council in 2003. That election was won by longtime incumbent Harold Tobey, who is not seeking reelection. Charter Commission member John Alden, who campaigned unsuccessfully for the Precinct 8 seat in 2005, plans to run again.

See: http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/home2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17874&Itemid=152

AND...

...Marcel Poyant has closed his company’s commercial real estate sales division. “I want to start taking it easy, too,” he said.

After more than 40 years in the family business, Poyant will continue to perform specialized appraisals and do consultant work while his longtime associate in the sales division, Gene Burman, a member of the town’s licensing board, continues in the business with Carey Commercial Inc., of Hyannis and Cape Cod...

...Poyant said he sees tourism and retirement as the pillars of the Cape’s economic foundation but fears the lack of investment in newer tourist-oriented properties such as hotels could dampen progress. “All our hotels are more than 25 years old,” he said, and are in competition with newer facilities in emerging tourist Meccas like the Maine coast.

Poyant said he feels badly that Barnstable‘s growth incentive district downtown got caught in the middle of the economic tsunami and that sales of condos have lagged on what otherwise was a good idea. “If they had started three years earlier, it would have been a different story,” he said.

See; http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/home2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17872&Itemid=152

[Wilbur Johnson]

Hyannis water effects everyone in Barnstable and beyond in some way

And no I am not trying to screw the residents of Hyannis!!

[bugsy]

GREAT. Than why do you belittle our efforts to promote ELECTED WATER COMMISSIONERS?

Don't you think that we've paid enough "for the good of the town." It is time for the town to take a little better care of us.

[Jim]

So few people in Barnstable care about this.

[bugsy]

Yup...that is true.

This is also why the rates have jumped 140% in 3 years and why they will increase another 240% over the next ten years.

Every time Klimm needs to go to the well to underwrite one of his half cocked development schemes, he turns to the water company for a subsidy.

Remember the BARLACO lands which were acquired as watershed "for the good of the town." Just the other day a "parcel" of that land showed up in a plan for an airport runway extension.

We're paying $1 million a year for land we already bought. Do you think for a minute that the airport will pay their fair share for it.