The County Commission and City Council put only developers and the elected officials who are on the developers payroll on the new Cape Fear Public Utility Authority. Some of those running the Authority are now positioned to steer sewer infrastructure to their very own projects. Conflict of Interest? Keeping the rates level this year is designed to trick people into thinking the Authority won't cost them more, so they just keep on keepin on. Look at the projections, and you see that water and sewer rates are going to skyrocket in the years ahead. The very creation of the Authority cost millions and its sole purpose is to hand over control of the infrastructure to greedy developers, allow the elected officials to say "don't blame me" as the rates keep going up and we get more sewer spills, and remove the ability of taxpayers to change this regime. Taxpayers can't vote the Authority Directors out of office. Start saving because it's gonna cost us all later.