Your $50 Million Grant May Arrive Yet

 

Replacing the City of Grants Pass Water Plant will take longer than getting our FEMA funding.

Federal Judge Richard G. Sterns ruled that FEMA must restore billions of dollars in federal disaster mitigation funding, because Congress appropriated the money specifically for these grants and FEMA must follow the law that Congress passed.  We may yet get our $50 million grant for our new water plant.

We look forward to repeal of the panic-induced unit rate hikes that make our city utility bills less affordable.

Better would be to remove all the extra “City Services” fees from what was our water and sewer bill.  Find another way to collect small fees and large fees and remove the possibility of losing our homes because of non-payment of those fees.  Rationing rates for vital utilities has caused many people to lose their homes and wind up on the streets. 

Rate-rationed water has caused huge fires.  If Paradise had not rationed its water with ever-higher unit rates, it would not have burned.  Pacific Power got the blame but was not responsible for the dryness of that city and surrounding forest. 

Wildfire anywhere in or near a city can be laid to city water rationing that was never necessary.  Water vapor from sprinklers spreads upward and outward, humidifying its surroundings.  Evaporation is not waste.

 

12-17-2025 2-minute Speech to Grants Pass City Council

Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener      541-955-9040           rycke@gardener.com