So the city now will charge utility customers a dollar to use their credit cards to pay their bill? Talk about creating waste!

It goes something like this when using of credit card: Phone City Hall, give person credit card number, person enters payment on computer, bill paid.

Now our fiscal managers have created another scenario: Write a check, put it in a stamped envelope for the postman to collect it and drive it to the post office where others will spend time and effort handling it and delivering it to City Hall where it must be handled again, entered into the system and then the check must be sent to the bank for further handling by others.

Can you see the waste of fuel, paper, postage, manpower, energy, time and materials and the addition of fossil fuel emissions to our atmosphere — all because our city’s managers want to save a few cents on credit card service fees?

Talk about blind, self-centered fiscal and environmental irresponsibility. And these people are in charge of spending our tax money? I’m thinking Alice’s Mad Hatter and the demented Queen are more rational than they.

T. C. STREFF
Grand Junction

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