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Lake
Dock Permits Webster Concern
Dick Cazeault
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
July 24,2002
To the Editor:
In reference to the 7-2-02 article “Dock permits opposed” in
Webster, the lake residents were told on several occasions that
the new Webster dock registrations would save “thousands of
dollars” in costs incurred by registering with the state. All the
Webster permit money would be deposited in a “Waterways Fund” and
go back into the lake.
At the Selectman’s Meeting on July 1st we found that
the state permitting process is less expensive than the Webster
permitting process and that the Webster money would go into the
General Town Fund and not into the fictional “Waterways Fund”.
Since the Lake Residents are a minority voting block in the town
the chances of getting this money appropriated back into the lake
is nil. At the meeting Officer Bagley also mentioned that the $10
fee per dock/float/mooring was only an initial fee and might have
to be raised if it did not cover the cost of administration.
The Webster Lake Residents are not against the fee, but how the
money is spent. The town officials betrayed our trust with their
misinformation. The purpose of the permitting process is just to
create another bureaucracy funded by lake residents and jammed
down our throats.
When Chairman Martel told us to have our own Boston Tea Party, it
was a Freudian slip. She knows that this is taxation without
representation. The meeting was a travesty of democracy for the
protection of the bureaucracy. Save the lake from the weeds and
bureaucrats!
Richard Cazeault PE |
