Shaffer: time for Carmel to upgrade its stormwater system

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Dear Editor:

In the last five years, Carmel elected and unelected officials have spent $3.5 billion and ignored infrastructure decay – especially stormwater management.

In the quarter century Carmel social engineers have lavished borrowed money on:

• Unneeded roundabouts, and
• Subsidized projects that won’t return a dollar in property taxes for 25 more years, one problem has been swept under the rug.

The priorities are upside down.

Carmel ended last year with $310 million in cash, $1.4 billion in assets.

Homeowners cough up $83.40 a year in stormwater control fees.

A pittance compared to the ever-growing need.

Bad management resulted in general decay throughout the area between U.S. 31 and Keystone.

It’s high time antique storm sewers are upgraded, and the needs of the people take precedence over the borrow-and-spend, fun-and-games priorities of the past.

Bill Shaffer
Carmel