LATEST DEVELOPMENT IN SPECIAL WATER RATE INVESTIGATION...

SHOCKING NEWS FOR COTTONWOOD WATER BILL PAYERS: HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHERE YOUR WATER REVENUES ARE GOING TO??? BELOW ARE A FEW EXPENSES CHARGED TO THE CITY OF COTTONWOOD'S 9,000 WATER BILL PAYERS SINCE 2014!!! BIGGEST CHARGES TO THE WATER RESERVE FUNDS (SEE ATTACHED WATER BILL DIAGRAM) IS $202,947.30 WHICH WAS FUNNELED TO THE CITY'S RIVERFRONT WATER RECLAMATION PLANT (SEE DESCRIPTION BELOW). Sherry Twamley--Verde Village News publisher--recently started an investigation on behalf of the City of Cottonwood's 9,000 municipal water bill payers who want to know how/where their inflated water bill revenues are going to. Her early research reveals that more than 100 questionable expenditures were made from Water Utility Reserve Funds (including the Water Resource Development Fund, Water Source Assurance Fund, Gila River Adjudication Fund, & Water Conservation Fund, see attached) during fiscal years 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 year-to-date which appear to be inappropriately charged to water bill payers for the so-called 'Environmental Education Center, $45,516.30"; $16,614.56 paid to Desert Dragons Promotional Products LLC PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS (Silk Screening, Embroidery, Products for Advertising), brochure racks, booklets for kindergartners, Sci Tech expenses,educational books, advertising/graphics/promotions (including embroidery, silk screening, promotions) and approx. $202,947.30 to date in engineering, drilling, geological services and fees, and injection well expenses for the City's est. $14 mil. Riverfront Water Reclamation (Satellite Wastewater) Plant, which is now under construction. SOURCE: PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS, received in March 2017, from Cottonwood City Attorney, Steve Horton.