With the advancement of tracking technology to now include transitioning to AMR Water Meters from the foolproof never breaks down analog water meters for the Town of Glenville now taking place the question as to how the town intends to recover $1.7 million needs to be addressed and with very specifically detailed answers by the Town. It’s already known that $10 will be slapped onto the next billing. However, that total amount based on the 5,500 homes quoted to be transitioned leaves a balance of around $1.6 million as ‘The entire cost will be borne by water district customers’. This will be accomplished by a new billing system. Once the new computer software is in place the billing criteria will change. What is typically done with this type of system where the pulsed signals are captured either by device, radio signal relay, etc. will occur minimally on a monthly basis, if not daily, once all relative infrastructures is installed. The benefits that will be told to the customers such as any leaks can be identified and individual home monitoring use can be reviewed on line. That is conditioning the customer to accept being monitored. In other words all customers will be spied on depending on how on the sophistication of the computer software and radio signaling, to when, at what time and how much they consume water. The propaganda spewing benefits such as discovering a leak where even without this monitoring device would be discovered easily in any home will help the unsuspecting to embrace the new tracking device. And yes, water is a precious resource. However, long term where with the agendas along with different town government incumbents may work against even the most conservative users. Reviewing the revised Comprehensive Plan dated October 23, 2017 now posted on the Town of Glenville’s URL under General Information where anyone can download the plan. On page 100: F) Priority Initiatives 1) Government • Conduct an analysis of the Town’s water use fee structure to evaluate opportunities to fund capital improvements. There you have it. Glenville residents have now been advised what will occur for ‘use fee structure’ by the town. Analysis means ‘more to come’ to be sure! It’s a matter of figuring out where to find this ever so special nugget of information. There are additional discussions in the Town Plan to hopefully expand water service (opportunities?) to adjacent communities. However, monies will potentially be needed for those types of ‘capital improvements’. Be it for current investments or expansion plans the residents (customers) are expected to be the venture capitalists without any return on investment yet with only an eventual lofty water bill. One can wonder why it is felt that expansion of water service to adjacent communities is needed except for the desire and/or need to generate income to the Town’s coffers. That concept does not need to be considered as negative as it could be viewed as a segment of total revenues in keeping the town solvent as well as continue with the ability to provide very good services. Yet the town’s residents may have to cough up monies that will strap many. Even if the town is able to renegotiate for the 2020’s share of tax revenue generated from the county such as the casino revenues and successfully increase that share to the town the hopeful tax offset could be passed on. Yet, there likely will not be much gain, if any, in anyone’s pocket due to this capital expenditure. It is hard to know at this level right now. Does the current Town Board and Planners have nefarious intent as what is described by installing this type of tracking technology water meter system? It is very likely not the case and all are well intended. And that is evident to the many very good improvements occurring in the town over the past several years. However, insufficient research is obviously limited or done only in one direction on the water meters along with some other plans on their part. Why? Why then has the Town of Glenville have taken what is really an unnecessary route to add what is nothing other than a very expensive and intrusive piece to the Smart Grid agenda is really unknown unless one has inside information or is part of the Board or Planning Committees. It’s possible the local (town) government in this area has waived, or in a way required to give up or even that they drank the Kool-Aid by handing away that level of control to the state level along with associated nongovernment associations and public private partnerships steering the Agenda 21/Agenda 2030 initiatives. Two to mention, although reviewing the web sites on the agendas and plans reveal some specific and more with plenty of platitudes and propaganda yet are still worth giving a review: Smart Grid Roadmap New York September 2010 and New York State Regional Economic Councils. Then research those very informative sites such as Technocracy News to begin to understand what is really going on across New York State and across the country affecting privacy and property rights to name two. It’s interesting to note how the verbiage on both the short and long term goals for the Town of Glenville’s Updated Plan submitted October 23, 2017 appears uncannily similar to the Smart Grid Roadmap for NYS September 2010. Image Source: We Can’t Live in Fear of Our Own Intelligence Community
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