To provide quality service at an environmentally safe manner at an affordable rate, and to educate our customers and future customers on water conservation. To maintain our commitment to affordable rates and excellent service levels. To continually seek and identify cost saving procedures without sacrificing quality. An Authority is an independent agency created by a governmental body to carry out a certain enterprise function. There is no tax money involved in the operation of an authority.
All income is derived by billing the people who use the services.
As a result, anyone not using the service does not pay toward it. By the same token, this is why tax money can not be used to help offset the cost of sewer installation as some people have suggested. When the cost of a project is determined, the Authority borrows the money by floating a bond issue and then pays off the bonds through the fees charged to the customers for installation and use. And here is the good news. An Authority charges the customers only what it costs to operate the service.