City Of Henderson Stealing Taxpayer Money

The Las Vegas Sun has an excellent article today(Wednesday) about a government agency that no longer exists but yet is still collecting money from taxpayers. Further, not only the City of Henderson is refusing to stop collecting the money for the defunct agency, they are keeping the money they already have collected and refusing to give it back to the taxpayers.
From the Sun: Millions of dollars are being collected in Southern Nevada for a small public agency that no longer exists.
And although Clark County plans to return about $2.7 million to sewer ratepayers, other municipalities have yet to decide whether to keep the money they have collected on behalf of the Clean Water Coalition, earmark it for another purpose or return it to people who paid it.
The coalition was established in 2002 to oversee construction of an $860 million pipeline to return treated, phosphorous-rich wastewater deep into Lake Mead so it would not promote shoreline algae blooms that threaten water quality. But almost 10 years later, water treatment experts say the pipeline is no longer needed because of new wastewater treatment technology.
The Clean Water Coalition is scheduled to be formally shuttered in June. Its board decided it would not collect fees for the pipeline after Oct. 1.
However, in it's arrogance, the City of Henderson says this: Henderson collects a monthly fee for the Clean Water Coalition from utility ratepayers, about $8 annually. For the moment, it doesn’t have plans to refund the money or stop collecting it.
The city is considering a new use for the fee, which brings in about $800,000 annually, said City Councilman Steve Kirk, Henderson’s representative on the Clean Water Coalition board.
“One idea is to call that fee something else and keep collecting it,” he said, possibly for wastewater treatment upgrades, a reserve fund, legal fees or discretionary spending. He added that he is not necessarily in favor of any of those options.
But fees are still being collected. (emphasis mine)
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/mar/09/pipeline-plan-died-so-where-do-fees-go/
We are not talking about a lot of money per person, but this shows that once a tax is implemented, it is almost impossible to get of.
The City of Henderson should be ashamed of it's self. They are collecting a tax for an agency that no longer exists. The arrogance of Steve Kirk is just amazing. Doesn't this man have an ounce of ethics? Nahhh, he's just a greedy politician. And the City of Henderson is just another greedy city.