Why decide on anything when you can act angry and annoyed?  From the AJC…

Political infighting and limited public involvement caused DeKalb County commissioners to reject $36.3 million in federal stimulus bonds.

The low-interest loan money was considered for proposals ranging from turning the former Doraville GM plant into an Atlantic Station to upgrading the sewer system. There also was talk of a convention center near the Mall at Stonecrest, some relief for the crowded Recorders Court or a new police academy.

In the end, all of those ideas were killed, and the money will likely go back to the state.

In other news, the Commission is considering a 67% increase to your water bill in order to pay for needed repairs to keep H2O flowing from your faucet.

Anyone want to help me dig a well?

If water rates need to be twice as much as it is now, who the heck calculated the old rate?

Take it away AJC…

A DeKalb County family’s water and sewer bill could increase 110 percent from 2009 to 2014 — and even more if the state declares a drought.

The upgrades are needed to help pay for $1.79 billion in capital improvements to DeKalb’s water system, Watershed Management director Francis Kung’u said.

“Our water and sewer infrastructure is aging,” Kung’u told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday. “If we don’t do this, it will continue to degrade. We will get more breaks and won’t have enough capacity of wastewater treatment. We won’t be able to support growth of the county.”

SCENE: a poorly lit room where people do things like calculate water rates:

Worker 1: “Well, if you ignore that $1.79 billion we’ll be needing for capital improvements, the rate would only be X amount.”

Worker 2: “Oh that’s much better!  Let’s just go with that for now and hold out hope that by 2010 everyone will just be bathing and watering their lawns with Coca-Cola  products.”