What Waste

There is a bit of a disruption in the farce primarily around storm water. Seems the city has been using, some say abusing, the private waste water infrastructure in some neighborhoods. This [ab]use is costing these groups of homeowners and the city is ignoring their concerns. 

It is almost a shame the city founders insisted on taking over storm water, especially since they've tapped the funds for their spending peccadilloes. Priorities. Think about that every time you pass one of those Dunwoody Dildos. 

Would the county be any better? City propagandists would say thee nay, but maybe. We're no longer serviced, for storm water, by the county, but we do get water/sewer from them and maybe that's an analogy. Maybe not, but maybe.

Now that's a water bill. In Dunwoody. Notice anything interesting? No, no, not the Total Amount. Well maybe, but the amount is fairly low because there is no charge for sewerage. Why would that be? Because this homeowner is not connected to DeKalb Sewer and ... wait for it ... consequently does not pay for sewer service. 

Wow! What a concept. 

Imagine a community with privately owned roads and a retention pond system to contain all storm water runoff---from roads, roofs and yards. This community would use no storm water facilities beyond what they own and manage. Should they pay any fees whatsoever to anyone else? The city seems to think so. In fact, the city thinks they can dump stormwater into this private system without compensating them at all. 

Still think all things DeKalb are bad and all things Dunwoody are great?

Be Prepared

For promises broken. 

Not like they haven't been already, but if you read the Blue Bag Rag you noticed Mother Mayor getting front page ink to let you know what's coming, even though they've already crossed more lines than Trump. We no longer have the city manager reporting to council. No, no. Not his idea of fun? Beneath him? Regardless, the city charter calls for the city manager, and the city manager alone, to show up. In fact, the city charter has no notion of a "department" of city manager and one of the few things council can actually do to rein in this madness is to eliminate that "department." Immediately.

Without delving into the dick-pic fiasco, the city police department is objectively inferior to what we had as unincorporated DeKalb. Well, if one of your key performance indicators is "cops show up in our neighborhoods to enforce laws" but maybe that's not your KPI. Is yours PR stunts like coffee with a cop? Really? 

Then there's the bloat. Mapping all the bureaucratic entities this city has spun up would be a full time job and it is one of the many jobs the city isn't going to do. Because that kind of transparency is unflattering.

So Mother Mayor has been sent out to grease the already slippery slope. Who's pulling those strings? In any event they are about to run, not walk, away from every founding principle, every promise made. All to gorge themselves on greed. Will enough ever be enough?

Dunwoody Fruit Stand

You may not have noticed. It's where bureaucrats and elected officials get together to compare apples and oranges. The fruits of the moment are the fruits of your labors: taxes. See some folks, including Mother Mayor, have gone to social media to whine about Dunwoody's low tax rates. You know, the one they brag about not raising? Each and every year as they greedily grab a backdoor tax increase. Yeah, that's the one.

Now they like to compare Dunwoody to neighboring cities including the original Porter-Dale: Sandy Springs. What these propagandists do not disclose, and it is propaganda, is that Sandy Springs runs its own fire department, whilst Dunwoody? Well, not so much. And if they did, and they did trial-balloon that, they'd run it about as well as they run the city. Abysmally. 

Yet, they're starting the campaign to get their hands on more of your money.