[Vision2020] sewage treatment cost

[Reynolds, James]

Beth and I were looking at our city utility bill and noted once again that our sewage treatment bill is significantly larger than the water bill. I guess we must be paying off the cost of the last upgrades still?
 
When the upgrades were nearing completion we had a conversation with an engineer from the treatment plant that, at the time, made me proud of what our city facility managers were doing with the upgrades and all. It was this engineers thought, as he learned the ropes of the new system, that there would be less need of man-power at the new station because it was mostly automated and only required a minimal amount of physical labor for operation.
 
My thoughts now have hardened. I expect that the potential savings from the more efficient plant will be eaten up by empire building administrators who will not only have more people hired for the operation of the plant but will also have a much thicker coating of administrator payroll to tap off the excess monies that will tragically happen when the bond expires.
 
Administrators do need bigger boats and their relatives do need income.
 
Just a little synical, paranoid thought based on nothing more than the observation that almost all administrators are at least somewhat of the self-serving empire building cloth so I might as well get a head start on this issue.
 
James Reynolds
Moscow
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