To the Editor: 06.23.2025

To the Editor,

Pertaining to the Water and Sewer albatross, who is assessing which community members are going to be charged for the payback to Waterbury with the mounting interest backlog still accruing every day? Besides the residential and commercial customers, there are the municipal customers, including the Fire Department’s water usage on calls, and the BOE. Seven years of changes have hit the customer base, including business closures and homes sold. To account equitably and fully for each one is a phenomenally huge and very difficult task. Frankly, no one in our government is financially skilled enough to capably tackle this.  Who is going to be trusted to figure this all out, task force or not? The cost to perform such work will strike us just as hard as the absurd amount of time which has passed. The users deserve respect and full and open transparency of the Town’s eventual repayment plan, including all the calculations used to assign such user repayments. This monumental task should have been underway years ago by our infamous decision-makers.

In case you haven’t heard yet, the Town is now appealing to the State Supreme Court. More costs are going to mount.

This town-imposed burden was placed on all of us townspeople secretively by one or more Department and Government individuals, who arrogantly and then weakly presented “our case”against the City of Waterbury in Court. We the people knew nothing of this gamble being taken and we the people did not approve the short-paying of the Waterbury invoices! We are not going to be suckered into the game the Town continues to play. Those yet-to-be identified Department and Government individuals are the ones specifically responsible for paying the interest owed to Waterbury, not the innocent rate payers. It’s time for big changes around here!

Rose Soboleski

456 Davis Street

Oakville, CT06779

203-217-9786