"Racketeering, bribery, extortion and fraud charges were levied against the former mayor; his father, Bernard Kilpatrick; previously indicted city contractor Bobby Ferguson; former top mayoral aide Derrick Miller, and former water department chief Victor Mercado in one of the largest public corruption investigations ever in the City of Detroit," according to the Detroit Free Press.
This has major implications for the suburbs using Detroit Water.
Five of seven city council members in Rochester Hills have promoted spending nearly $20 million dollars on water reservoirs in an attempt to help control water rates. However, we are still waiting for the city to provide a financial analysis that would show any payback or profitability from this project (at least for the residents and taxpayers).
Perhaps their time and resources could be better spent working with the other suburb municipalities in trying to get suburban representation on the DWSD governing board. It would be nice to have someone looking over the contracts and have a little oversight and transparency in the business dealings. This could have a real positive effect on residents' water rates.
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