The alleged $480,000 savings appears to be equal parts pious hope and ham-handed fiction. The Clean Water District (CWD) Advisory Board asked to see an accounting of the $480k savings and was greeted with silence.  Not even Council has seen one.   

SWM claims they'll save money by not having to track and budget the fees according to the geographical area in which they are collected, but promised at the Council hearing that they'll continue to do just that.  They can't have it both ways.

Also, the fees in the Clean Water District (Stilly basin) would NOT stay the same after consolidation, because the Conservation District, cut out of their share of the CWD fee, will be forced to levee its own.

It's interesting that Mr. Hall finds "obsolete" the promises of service and citizen representation made to CWD ratepayers when the District was established.