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To the Editor:

At the September 25 meeting, the Town Council voted to pay the City of Anacortes $5,114 for reconciliation of the operation and maintenance (O&M) portion of the 2017 water bill. By my calculations, La Conner only owed Anacortes $3,050, a difference of $2,064. The accounting for Capital expenditures is never reconciled.

Anacortes made three mistakes. They assigned some charges to Regional (us) when they should have been assigned to Retail (city). For county taxes they charged us the full amount instead of reducing the amount by the overhead rate. They charged us for items that...