[Goldwingnut]

Originally Posted by Mjsscotto

You are right on. Our district eliminated the $150 cap so now they are free to increase the fee year after year and as much as they like We elect these people who are making these decisions. Time to vote them out. We need officials who fight for cost reduction and homeowners
Anyone can raise fees and taxes to pay for increases they face. Let’s see the budget line by line I’m with you. Michael

You are grossly misinformed. The amenity rate can only be increased a maximum of the CPI increase for the previous 12 months. It does not have to be increased that much if the budgetary needs do not require it.

The budget is available for everyone to see and you can participate in the annual budgeting process over the course of the next few months at the monthly CDD, PWAC, and AAC meetings.

You obviously have never been to any of the local government meetings, if you had you would see that the elected supervisors and the District staff are constantly pushing for cost controls, reductions in cost, and greater efficiencies to control costs.

Digital courage is cheap, come to the meetings, get involved, and run for office if you think you can do a better job. Most of all, get educated on the topic before making such rash and irresponsible statements.

If you want to see an example of effective budgetary controls take a look at the maintenance budget for CDD-10 for the last 5 years. During this time maintenance assessments have decreased by 3% and capital reserves have increased by a million dollars. This requires a tremendous amount of work and effort by all involved in the process to achieve. Your supervisors are working for you, continuously.