Tonight (Tuesday 6-17-08) the Fuquay Varina Town council voted to accept the new EJT agreement that the Town Managers from Fuquay and Holly Springs have been working on for the past few weeks. The Holly Springs town council voted tonight as well and also passed a resolution to approve the agreement.
The Fuquay Varina town council then passed a resolution to rescind the previous resolution for the Annexation Action for the James Slaughter, Bass Lake, and Sunset Lake road areas.
The Annexation is officially cancelled and is NOT going to happen. Please pass the word to your neighbors!
Thank you all for your continued support and contributions.
Sincerely,
Jeff Yauger
On Behalf of the Stop Fuquay Annexation Coalition
Aqua North Carolina Rates: $3.94/ 1000 Gallons used, sewer = $0.00 per 1000 gallons used
Fuquay-Varina Water Rates: $4.20 per 1000 gallons used, sewer= $4.00 per 1000 gallons used for a total of $8.20 per 1000 gallons
Hookup Fees (estimated figures based on current rates):
Water: Initial fees include $1000 Capacity Fee + $750 Meter Fee. $78 per foot of road frontage to install lines + $78 per foot to run pipe from the road to your home. This does not include the cost to repair landscaping and driveway damage.
Sewer: Initial fees include $1750 Capacity Fee + $750 Meter Fee. $107 per foot of road frontage to install lines + $107 per foot to run pipe from the road to your home. This does not include the cost to repair landscaping and driveway damage.
About Hook Fees
You as a property owner are responsible for paying all hookup fees. This is true even if you do not request services. How’s that work? We’ll let’s assume that you have a well and good septic however your neighbors down the block do ask for service. You’ll pay for the lines that are installed in front of your house, this might occur at a later date but you will at some point have to pay because you will be forced to hook up. This forced hook up requirement has happend time after time even after residents were promised that hook up would remain voluntary.
Keep in mind that town policies at any time after the 180 day period of no policy changes required by Law.
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Thanks in part to the hard grassroots work of Americans for Prosperity members, the N.C. State House Select Commitee on Municipal Annexation voted to recommend a moratorium on involuntary (forced) annexations and satellite annexations. If it were to become law, the moratorium would last until June 30, 2009.
This is GREAT News in the forced annexation fight that reflects the power of the public's letters, e-mails, phone calls, visits to lawmakers and testimony at public hearings. Just months ago, there was little hope that the Study Committee on Municipal Annexations would recommend a moratorium. But they are! This is a beginning, not the end. But, it is a great beginning. The vociferous objections to, and horror stories about, forced annexation heard by the study committee moved them to challenge the incredibly powerful League of Municipalities (who have already gone on the attack). Now, the General Assembly needs to make the proposed MORATORIUM a reality. Americans for Prosperity believes that voters and property owners should have a final say on whether or not their neighborhood is annexed by a higher tax municipality. Please contact your State lawmakers today to urge them to support the moratorium of forced annexation.
Dallas H. Woodhouse
State Director
My name is Robert Padalino and I am the Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Sunset Lake Homeowners association. I am also heading up the Coalition Against Forced Annexation by Fuquay-Varina. Last evening we held our first meeting at the Sunset Lake Lodge. Needless to say it was a huge success and the turnout was in excess of 150 homeowners from the various subdivisions that are affected by this annexation plan. At this meeting, we all signed a petition stating that we are all vehemently opposed to being forcefully annexed by Fuquay-Varina and demanded that it be voted down...