A good Public Agenda
We all wish to be successful at what we do.
Almost all! All public volunteers ( i.e. politicians) would love to find a way to lower taxes on their watch.
Especially, doing it year after year.
Your taxpaying citizens will love you!
How about saving in your first month in your community, over $25,000 within perhaps, 20 minutes, with 10 of those just looking for a place to put your coffee cup…really.
Interested?
It begins in your first month…and grows.
Now, let’s begin.
Most towns are served by their own Water Department.
The cost of delivering that water can vary for a multiple of reasons.
But for now, let’s focus on the easiest method step by step quickly. (for your first time.)
Step # 1 – Most sources of water ( lets call them Wells for now).
Have separate electric meters, one meter per pump usually.
So simply ask for the electric bills for all the wells. (This is one piece of data.)
Ask for the amount of gallons pumped at each Well. ( The second piece of Data.)
Step #2 See? That was easy… now divide the Electric by the gallons pumped to get a nice round number.
Like Miles per gallon, right?
The first time we tried this.
We saved $57,000 that season.
It can be refined to a high art but it remains pretty easy.
Example: Well # 1 cost $270 per million gallons pumped and
Well # 2 cost $870 per million gallons pumped.
Step # 3 choose Well # 1. If that well pumps 30 million gallons in one month, then you could have saved $18,000 the very next month! ( or perhaps even more!)
If you saved $25,000 and you can do this, all but the peak period of highest demand ( where you may need every pump you can get…) that would be 10 months for a yearly total savings of a cool Quarter million dollars of saving.
And you can also declare that over the next 10 years you may be able to save your community 2.5 million dollars in taxes. Math works out easy in this.
That is a very impressive number for anyone.
With comparing only two Wells ( sources), if you have more, then you can even more amazing results!
Now, can you say, “Job Security?”
Being able to run on a demonstrated fiscally sound basis like that for your community, should allow you to keep on in your role.
Pretty good results for 15 minutes of math, one day a month.
If this technique has helped you any, please take a moment to “Like” this and even “Share” this to get the word out to those who could benefit from this initial technique.
I hope this has allowed you to be of greater help to your citizens.
I hope this has served you.
Let me know.
Larry Coslow