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When students from Redmond High School in Washington State investigated that question, they wound up trimming their school utility budget by $40,000 annually, encouraging action steps like turning off lights, turning down heat, recycling and persuading teachers to carpool.
Utility budget restrictions and new emerging threats to the urban water and wastewater systems, like climate change and population growth, further complicate the sustainable management of assets.
The utility budget is supposed to be paying for utility network maintenance and upgrades, not for building a cable service, an Internet service, or even a wireless service.
Moreover, according to the NY Attorney General, about 75% of Verizon NY's wireline utility budget has been diverted to fund the construction of fiber optic lines that are used by Verizon Wireless's cell site facilities and FiOS cable TV.
According to the NY Attorney General, about 75% of Verizon NY's wireline utility budget has been diverted to fund the construction of fiber optic lines that are used by Verizon Wireless's cell site facilities and FiOS cable TV.
As previously quoted, the NY Attorney General's analysis of Verizon NY's capEx for 2011 claimed that 75% of the wireline utility budget of over $1 billion was used for the delivery of FiOS and wireless services.
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"Municipal budgets are under pressure, just as investor-owned utility budgets are under pressure because state commissions are hesitant to pass through rate increases".
With contracts involving equipment investments — which can be $50,000 to tens of millions of dollars, depending on the scope of the projects — districts typically use existing utility budgets or borrow money through third-party lenders, and then pay it back out of their immediate energy savings so that no budget increase is needed.
In this situation, an Inter-Municipal Basin Committee was formed to manage a watershed protection fund and contributions to the fund come from the municipal water utility budgets.
Diverting the state utility budgets is only one of the sleight-of-hands employed by Verizon.
As we previously noted and will discuss, while Verizon has claimed it will be upgrading the city of Boston with fiber optics, the real plan is to do a bait-n-switch and offer wireless... but have the wireline utility budgets pay for it.
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