Cooper City Water Conservation Rebate Program Does Not Sit Well With Me!

REBATE!    REBATE!    REBATE!    REBATE!    REBATE!

I really am not concerned how many times it is said, the entire Cooper City Water Conservation REBATE Program does not sit well with me!

We are living in a very distressful  period.  Folks have lost their jobs and continue to lose jobs.  Folks are losing their homes to foreclosure or else just walking away from them.  Homes are not selling. Families are in deep pain.   Money is so tight out in the City that the Charitable Food Pantries are always near empty.  More free breakfasts and lunches are being eaten at our schools by students whose parents  have signed on to the Program.  Thank God for that Program for the school age children.

The question is:  Who in this City has the money to invest  in new water saving toilets and devices,  new irrigation systems, rain barrel systems,  all to conserve more and more water and then to receive a small check from the City as a REBATE!   REBATE,  an enticement to spend money to conserve water.  An enticement to spend money we do not have!

It does not sit well with me because this is just not the time in our history to initiate a REBATE Water Conservation Program!   The only residents who can take advantage of this REBATE Program are the folks who have jobs--an income--which permits them to spend money!  No mistake, we are happy for them!

This appears to me to be a Program  for  our City Government to help those who already have money by giving REBATE  checks, but not helping those who need help in paying their utility bills.

More of us would feel better about our City Government if the $80,000 used in the REBATE enticement Program were used to assist our Cooper City  families in paying their utility bills.   We all know we are already paying exorbitant prices for our water and sewer,  and those prices will go up another 2% October 1st.

Why can't the City Administration cancel the REBATE Program for now and put that $80,000 into a charitable fund to assist our residents in paying their utility bills?  If  the Cooper City Administration feels warm and fuzzy over the REBATE Program, just think how they would feel knowing the $80,000 was really going to a good cause, like helping our families in need instead of helping those who have jobs, incomes,  and can afford to upgrade their toilets to the newest water saving models.

THE CHARITABLE PROGRAM WOULD CERTAINLY SIT MUCH BETTER WITH ME!  AND THINK OF ALL THE COOPER CITY FAMILIES WE COULD ASSIST IN THEIR TIME OF DEEP DISTRESS AND NEED!