We thought we'd spend some time today, on Earth Day, to talk about all of the beautiful ways that Detroiters try to improve their environment and communities.But instead, we find that the local news is distracted by more nonsense at the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD). It turns out that DWSD employees are frivolously spending our public money from petty cash boxes to get back an impounded DWSD vehicle after one of their employees was busted on the job with a hooker. Thousands of other dollars in related funds have been spent for lavish retirement parties, in violation of City policies.
The nerve of these scoundrels! Every year DWSD officials come before Detroit City Council demanding that they need massive water and sewage rate increases and claiming that customers are delinquent. Meanwhile, they're also racing around town shutting-off water to low income Detroiters who are foregoing medications to pay what they can on their water bills.
MWRO, Call 'em Out, and the newly formed People's Water Board will continue to call out the snakes at the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department and demand these thieves be held accountable! Join us at the next DWSD Board of Water Commissioners meeting on 5/27/09 at 2pm at the Water Board Building (735 Randolph, 5th Fl, Detroit, MI 48226).
(Image from the DWSD)
1 comment:
Would you prefer that the Sheriff's Department of Wayne County confiscate and sell the vehicle, costing ratepayers $25,000 instead of $1,400?
Just checking.
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