As I read the SECO announcement, this increase is to convert light poles to be LEDs. Given that this will result in lower power consumption, longer unit lifetime, and hence lower maintenance costs, how many years will it take to complete this conversion? Will SECO then decrease the rental fees after the conversion is done?

Get rid of them.....Use Solar powered lighting instead. Price Gouging should be punished by jail time. I bet it would quit if the law was enforced.

Framing this as a HUGE 400% increase is highly deceptive.

If the increase is $5/mo a rooftop, that is more like a 10% adjustment to the Maintenance fee.

So what's the correct number to use?

Ok, We see you know nothing about this!:ohdear::ohdear::ohdear:

:rant-rave: Dear Lord, How do dumb people live this long !!

I guess that depends on how you look at it.

$5/month is 10% of my maintenance fee. So either I accept a 10% increase or the CDD has to find a way to trim 10% of their budget for this additional cost.

10% of the budget doesn't sound too bad until you consider fixed costs. For my CDD, 67% of the budget is obligated for PWAC. This number seems to be non-negotiable. So the increase does not come out of the full budget, it comes out of the 33% that is left over. Another 10% of the budget goes to other fixed items such as salaries, legal fees, and management fees to the VCCDD.

All in all, this leaves about 25% of the yearly budget to cover an increase equivalent to 10% of the yearly budget. In other words, the $5/month per rooftop works out to be about 50% of the spending the CDD controls. Half of what gets done that is not accomplished through the PWAC will need to be cut to cover this increase. To me, that is quite significant.

That solution will work well during a 2 day storm, when, you know, there is no sunlight to charge the lights.

How?

Welcome to a world driven by.....we ain't allowed to say it here but you know.

I do know all about it and you are making a big deal out of a few dollars a month, what do you expect in this inflationary environment? It proves that you know nothing about this. Oh My, Oh My, Oh My, if you can't afford it they are hiring at McDonalds, can Daddymac make a Big Mac.

Nothing to do with amenity fees.

Recent electricity bill ratesin IL went up 3x from last summer with lots new wind farms & added solar arrays, shut down nat gas & constantly attacking existing nuclear plants. Green costs a lot of green but produces a lot less usable power.

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Very interesting, appreciate the details.