McLoud Mandatory Water Connection
Well! There it is: The printed version of the City of McLoud’s Mandatory Connection to City Water and/or Sewer ordinance was recently distributed. This legislative ordinance does not list the effective date, but I am guessing they passed the emergency clause by simply declaring it to be an emergency without going the required step of stating the actual emergency in a separate paragraph. No matter though, it would have gone into effect in 90 days anyway.
Whether you like it or not, if you fit the ordinance, you best connect to the services; hopefully, someone will understand paragraph A to know whether you are required to connect if your house is more than 100′ but less than 300′ from the line. I sure would not know from reading the ordinance, but I do know I could not pay the $20.00 per day fine for very long without beginning to see it as a drain on my bank account.
Now, to the meat of this letter: Are you happy that they shoved this down your throat? If I were one who lives in the rural city limits and would be subject to this ordinance, I would not be happy about it at all, and as a result of that unhappiness, as I wondered what they might be planning for me next, I would begin looking for a way to undo what they had done to me, and I think I would find it at the Oklahoma Secretary of State’s office in the form of instructions on how to put together an initiative petition to ask the voters of the city to order the city council to enact an ordinance repealing the mandatory provisions of this legislative ordinance and make it optional. Oh! I have already made that trip and came away with a hand full of instructions and samples.
But I would not stop with asking the voters for a repeal of this ordinance; I am so adamantly opposed to a bunch like has been on the town’s, now city’s, boards since I moved out here in 1974 telling me what I can and cannot do and interfering with my plans, I would ask the voters of the city to order the city council to de-annex me from the city: a separate initiative petition (One issue per petition). By the way, I have a long list of issues equaling many petitions.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Hey, Pete
Are they trying to raise more money so they can utilize the Wes Watkins lake? I would be really pissed if I had a good well and someone tried to force me to use treated city water.
I miss my well water more than anything else after moving to Shawnee. Good luck to all who fight city hall.
March 12th, 2010 at 6:51 am
I believe it has to do with the new sewer plant that they built. The city has a $5 Million plus debt that has to be serviced, so it is out beating the bushes for dollars for them. I guess they must have had this extortion in mind when they built the sewer plant, and now it is being put into practice.
There was a guy up at the last council meeting who was not happy about having to pay that minimum charge for a water line he does not need.
What might they think of next? Oh, Yes! Putting everyone in the city limits on their trash service will be next. It looks like they got a contract bid in at $7.25 per household, and they are going to force every household in McLoud to take it at $12.50 for a profit of $5.25 per household just for adding the charge to the water bill.
Don’t you wish you had a business where you could tell everyone he or she must buy your product, and you could set the price, and all you did was rake in the funds?
March 14th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Pete, scroll down a ways until you see the headding META then click on __Log in___ . that should do it.
March 14th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Thanks, Aquarius; someone told me how to do it a while ago, but I had forgotten, and I just could not figure it out. Why don’t they make it easier?
Pete