City of San Diego propose Fee hike on city lakes use

[basssjk]

I know some of you use the City Lakes here in San Diego and after two years of meetings ... The City Water Department is proposing a fee hike to use the lakes. There is a meeting tonight that is open to the public but more than any thing you need to write your council member and voice your opinion about no fee hikes if you live in the city of San Diego as they will not respond to any one outside of the city limits.

This fee increase is unjustified by the water department. They have not addressed any of the issues that we have been asking them about for over two years now but to only raise the fees and take away some of our uses.

Kelly



this was in todays paper ......

Ed Zieralski
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

November 20, 2008

A joint proposal from the city of San Diego's water department and park and recreation department is calling for sweeping changes to recreation at the city's eight reservoirs and an increase in fees.


Advertisement The changes will be the topic of a town hall meeting set for tonight at 6 at the old water department training and facilities building off Kiowa Drive, near the south entrance to Lake Murray.
Officials from the city departments have drafted a proposal that calls for the elimination of many existing programs at the lakes and the doubling of some fees.

Here's a list of some of the recommendations, which must be approved by the City Council:

Eliminate weekday boat rentals at Murray, Miramar, Hodges and El Capitan.

Eliminate boat rentals, catfish restocking and duck hunting at Sutherland Reservoir. Fishermen still will be able to fish from shore at Sutherland or from a private boat. Sutherland's turkey hunting program will go on. But all future visitors to Sutherland, located approximately seven miles north of Ramona, must pay a parking fee, making that lake the only one in the system with a parking fee for visitors.

Eliminate phone reservations for boat rentals.

Eliminate more than four positions in the Reservoir Recreation Program and reassign the staff members to “core reservoir maintenance duties.â€

[HngDvnDave]

Hi Ed,
I went to that meeting last night. It is what I expected it to be, just going through the motions of saying we had a "Townhall" meeting. The BRP proposal is already a done deal. The only discussion was SD Water and Parks & Rec. defending their actions and this proposal. Nothing changed, modified or moved. The proposal will go to SD City Council just as we saw it last night.

Members of the fishing community and water contact community have been asking for meetings and cooperation for the last two years and last night was the first meeting they got. Several times the bureaucrats were outed as liars by well reasoned arguments and facts about their ommissions of documents and past research. No cooperation, no input to the proposal, just ramming the proposal down our throats!! The fisherman and water contact people continue to pay for all users of city lakes. Spread the pain.

These bureaucrats know they can brush us off because we are so busy eaking out a living in the current economy. They rely on keeping us uninformed and in the dark until the last possible second and then they claim they met with the public and everything is fine. They are only concerned about keeping their jobs and placating their superiors.
They truly believe they do not answer to nor work for the tax paying public. I have seen this behaviour demonstrated in action at every level of governement. City, State, BLM they are all the same.

I want a refund on my taxes. The performance of my tax dollar and these tax paid, water bill paid functionaries could best be spent somewhere else!!

Dave