SEELEY LAKE - As you may know, I am OPPOSED to the General Obligation Bond for the Seeley Lake Sewer project that we will be voting on in February.
Phase I voters will be voting on a Revenue Bond and the General Obligation Bond and both have to pass to get funded. If the Bond were to pass there will be funding available for the sewer and collection system for Phase I. Phase I people will find the following components charged to them every year: the debt for the General Obligation Bond, the debt for the Revenue Bond, Operation and Maintenance for using the sewer and an Assessment Fee for operating the District.
People in Phases 2, 3 and 4 will pay the debt on the General Obligation Bond and an Annual Assessment Fee for running the district.
This past October many people went from an annual Assessment Fee of $154.79 in 2019 to $1,595.59 in October 2020. I was one of them.
The reason this jumped so high was because the Sewer Board ran up exorbitant attorney fees (not related to any lawsuit) which you and I paid for through our annual Assessment Fee. I hope the Annual Assessment Fee goes down as the years go by but it will be a slow process.
Also, Phases 2, 3 and 4, you need to realize that we will be paying FOR YEARS before we ever would have access to a sewer. I’m NOT willing to do that!!
For example, I did some figuring and found out that I would be paying nearly $1,000 a year just for the General Obligation Bond ALONG WITH the Assessment Fee to support a sewer that I DON’T HAVE ACCESS TO!!
If you want to take the time, you can figure out approximately what you will be paying each year for the sewer project.
I hope this letter-to-the-editor gives you some insight into what will happen if you pass this Bond.
P.S. We have been threatened that Missoula County will force us to have a sewer. They are NOT prepared to force us to build a sewer but they will expect, as individual property owners, to address any wastewater treatment problems that they specifically identify.
Don’t fall for false threats.
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