SAWS proposes 7 percent rate increase

These cowards that sit on "Our City Council" and profess to be there for the people are pathetic excuses for leaders. They voted yesterday to stick it to the people of San Antonio.In May it's our turn to vote and we should stick it to....Mayor Julian Castro, Councilman Diego Bernal, Coucilwoman Ivy Taylor, Councilwoman Leticia Ozuna, Councilman Rey Saldana, Councilman Rey Lopez, Councilman Rey Lopez, Councilman Cris Medina, and Councilman W.Reed Wiliams! Let's send them all packing and put them out of the job that they are "not" doing. "IT'S TIME TO FIRE THE MAYOR" so that he can stop using the Mayor's Office for his own self promotional platform as he tours through NBC, CNN, Washington D.C., The Today Show and so forth. We need leaders with "courage" who can stand up and say "NO" when they are faced with challenges such as this outrageous Rate Increase as our rates have gone up over 50% in the last 10 years with our sewer charges leading the charge up over 300% in the same period! San Antonio needs leaders not "figureheads" to put "Mismangers" at SAWS in their place and who are not afraid of EPA threats. SAWS has created our sewer problems through their operational mismanagement of San Antonio's Water System, while they operate "In The Lap Of Luxury" of a 75 Million Dollar Former Fortune 500 Corporate Headquarters Building on Hwy 281, and operate with Texas' Highest Paid Utility Executives with over 15 employees there making over $150,000! SAWS is a Water Utility Company....not a Fortune 500 Company!!!. And our "Cowardly San Antonio City Council" has allowed them to do just that at the rate payers expense. The interesting thing about this whole rate increase vote is that almost half of those that voted for the rate increase stated in the meeting that they did not have confidence that they were operating "Effectively or Efficiently" with the San Antonio Tax Payers Money! Duh! Cowards! And props to Council members Soules,David Medina,and Chan for their courage!