About a month ago, Christopherson-Cote found out city council had cut $50,000 in funding for that water supply as part of a larger budget item eliminated during budget deliberations.

Never been so ashamed of paying my taxes, before.

  • nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    1 month ago

    Yes, that’s another workable solution, but one that requires more planning and upfront investment (and possibly negotiation with landowners in some areas). For the two-plus years it would take to get the additional fountains through city budgeting, planning, finding contractors etc, the bottled water would still be needed.