Support the WCID 12 Bond Election
by Kemah Mayor Bill King
January 28, 2005 
 
Ladies and Gentlemen 
 

WCID No. 12 is currently holding a bond election to issue $11 million in bonds for various improvements throughout the District.  Election day is February 5.  Early voting continues through February 1.  You must go to the District’s office on Cien Street to vote.  

I would like to encourage each of you to support this bond proposal.  The District’s infrastructure in several areas, and especially in Clear Lake Shores , is very old, causing low water pressure and a high level of maintenance expenses.  I think this is an investment that we need to make.  In large measure, because of the annexation, the District will not have to raise taxes to support these bonds.

I have had some Kemah residents grumble to me, asking why they should support this bond proposal when most of the money will be spent in Clear Lake Shores .  I hope that someday, not to distant in the future, these kinds of questions will not even enter people’s minds.  The reason Kemah residents should support the bond is because our friends and neighbors are entitled to good water pressure and decent sanitation.  Also, I would remind Kemah voters that many of our neighbors from Clear Lake Shores joined us in supporting candidates that were committed to completing the annexation of South Kemah and Kemah Oaks.  To vote against this bond issue because it primarily benefits Clear Lakes Shores would be poor repayment of that support.  

It is time that we begin ignoring the nonsensical, jig-saw jurisdictional boundaries we have inherited from a different time and begin concentrating on what is good for this community as a whole.  This bond proposal is good for this community.