To the editor:

You should have received your ballot for the Water Company elections by now. I urge you to CAREFULLY read the second proposal on the ballot. If that change is approved it will be even more difficult to get information from the water company than it is now. I voted against the second proposal and suggest you might want to do the same. If that proposal passes the only questions you can ask the management would be about finances. You could not ask any questions about the physical operation of the organization. For example you could not ask questions like these:

1. How do you check chlorine levels in “dead-end” waters lines during the summer when the snow birds are not here?

2. How often do you flush the fire hydrants?

3. Why do I see a guy pulling into his driveway around 9 or around noon several days per week in a Water Company truck?

The new wording would limited members to asking only financial questions. The ballot says this is to increase security. Do you really want us to believe the above type questions would threaten security? Come on. Again, I urge you to read this ballot carefully and to think before you just sign the ballot and mail it back. I wonder what the real reason for this proposal is?

Richard A. Roane

Bokeelia