Supports of SB11, and perhaps even the folks who are lining up to claim the bill will probably do no harm, should understand that the coincidences between what SB 11 says it wants to allow (and what it cannot clearly prohibit) and that which the Regional Planning Boards seek to implement after or through appropriate legislative action…are creepy.
In order to foster regional approaches to providing utility services to multiple municipalities, the state must enable municipalities to enter into agreements that provide for efficient means of collectively financing and operating such services.”
For a water and/or sewer utility that encompasses more than one municipality, the 7 intermunicipal agreement shall create the water and/or sewer utility commission and representation 8 on such commission shall be proportional to the number of the owners or users, or both, of properties in the water and/or sewer utility district as defined by the intermunicipal agreement.
SB 11 creates the very thing that the RPC’s want or need to advance their own creepy agenda. An agenda that is far more invasive than the supporters of SB11 could possible admit without having to accept that regardless of their intentions they–through SB11–are acting as enablers for a larger unaccountable system which has demonstrated an ability and willingness to take control of water rights, rain water, to tax run-off, and claim ownership of personal well and rain water for the good of the collective.
It’s already being done. And SB-11 creates the legislated mechanics to allow it in New Hampshire, regardless of its original intent. More importantly. It does not prevent the RPC’s from using it for that purpose now or at any point in the future.
