" If you keep voting down budgets, the meat of the budget is cut not the fat. They will just lay off teachers, janitors, and DPW workers. Get involved with the governmental process and vote. Do something about waste and mixed up priorities. And quit whining for government to be your babysitter. Stop complaining when a playground needs cleaning up or asking the schools to pay for sports, music and turf. Raise private funds for non educational needs that don't benefit all students and volunteer to clean up public property. If a ballfield needs fixing get donations from businesses and fundraisers. The schools should require community service from students. Try a more creative approach other than just voting down budgets. "

" A couple reasons. One the surrounding towns are paying over 250% less than the Auburn resident for sewer service. Two, my understanding is, at least in Owasco, that your sewer bill is based on your water use. There are no 'sewer meters' to read at each household.

Remedies, insist that the city reopen talks with the neighboring towns post-haste and equalize the rates out. Pay close attention to your water use. If you are filling swimming pools you may want to see if it more cost effective to have a hauler come in and fill for you. Sprinklers, whether recreational or for lawn watering, should be minimized. Even though the water is not technically entering your sewer, it is your water use that your bill is based on. Put in water saving faucet aerators and shower heads, turn off the water when brushing teeth, place a quart bottle filled with rocks, sand or water in your toilet tank to use less per flush (experiment with the size of the bottle, if you have to flush twice to clear the toilet it defeats the purpose), take shorter showers; anything to reduce the amount of water passing through your meter.

Another issue is that government spending is out of control and until we start voting down budgets and increases our officials are simply not going to get the message. The typical voter is not a bottomless money pit that can be drawn on every year. Concessions simply HAVE to be made by government and it’s employees.
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" anonymous, I could care less HOW someone writes THEIR words--I give her credit for WRITING about an issue thats not only a fact but a concern for the whole town to ask!! "

" So why are sewer rates in Auburn so high? "

" Writing for someone else, and not very well either. "