Rate Chart Provided by the City of Fortuna.

Came across this website, thought I'd share it. Here is how the owner described it in an email:

Although your blog and my website represent the way the current city counsel governs without consent, the blog and website have very different purposes. My website serves as a protest to the rising water rates and also serves as a warning to those considering moving into the area. If anyone googles Fortuna Water Rate, an estimate of the cost of a the monthly water bill they will have to pay can be seen. This is useful information for people planning a budget.

My website also shows how the city budget was in the black, which the current city counsel branded as the, "pay as you go" system. Now, for the first time, Fortuna is in the red by tens of millions of dollars of debt, and a portion of our water rate money that we pay, and our local tax dollars go to pay interest on the debt that our current city council put us in. This is why our water rates keep rising, and are scheduled to keep rising. We could have funded water projects slowly over time, without getting our city into debt. We get nothing for the interest we now pay out to municipal bond holders.

And my two cents: I remember there were those who felt we didn't need to borrow money (issue bonds) to repair the water and sewer infrastructure. Perhaps we should have heeded the warnings back when the bonds were issued.
Now we need to make sure the the money is used wisely. Unlike the Tank in the Park, which is simple to understand, talking about the water system is harder for people to get excited about. But building a new 2 million gallon reservoir is at least $4million project and we need to look at it closely. My investigations point to using the existing Vancil reservoir and spending more on piping/pumping improvements. But there are other ideas floating around...