As long-time Fountain Hills residents, we have been reading about the upcoming Sanitary Board election with great interest. What seems to be going on is that there are two candidates with no relevant experience challenging two incumbents, Gregg Dudash and Tom Reski, who have 70 years of related experience.

The challengers say new blood is needed, yet three of the five present members of the Sanitary Board have been serving for less than two-and-a-half years, and one member has only been in place since August. Clearly, new blood is already in place.

The challengers say there needs to be better communication with the town. Again, we read that the new Sanitary Board’s District Manager has already reached agreement with the Town Manager to meet at least quarterly. They also agreed to set a joint workshop early next year between the Town Council and the Sanitary Board, and to exchange agendas and meeting minutes in a timely manner.

Lastly, the challengers talk about the need for a higher quality of waste water delivered by the Sanitary District to the town lake, but they haven’t said how this would be done. Maybe they have a secret plan. We read that the only way to do this would be for the Sanitary District to build an expensive new reverse osmosis facility at a cost to the rate payers of $30 million dollars. Even so, there is no dump to take the waste that a reverse osmosis process would produce. Clearly, this is not a workable plan.

We just voted for Gregg Dudash and Tom Resiki. We urge you to do the same. Experience counts!