Infrustructure Tax in support of WSSC Rate-payers
Thomas V. Miller, Jr., President, Maryland Senate Michael Busch, Speaker, Maryland House of Delegates 100 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401-1925 Dear President Miller and Speaker Busch: We, the members of the Customer Advisory Board (CAB), are writing to advocate for the adoption of an “Infrastructure Tax.” The WSSC CAB is responsible for representing the interests of WSSC rate-payers to WSSC Commissioners and the WSSC General Manager. WSSC 's top priority should be to reliably deliver water and sewer services to WSSC rate-payers at a fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory rate. The enormous backlog of maintenance work on WSSC 's pipe and facility infrastructure present a challenge to the ability of the water and sewer utility to reliably deliver it services to rate-payers. At the present rate, it will take 100 years [1] to address the entire backlog of work that must be done WSSC 's infrastructure. To accommodate the increasi...