City to assume billing of sewer customers

Friday, September 16, 2011

Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Missouri American Water will no longer send sewer bills to customers for Jefferson City.

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The city’s finance committee has forwarded to the City Council a city staff plan on how the city will assume the billing. It proposes a 75-cent per bill fee to cover the upgrades the city will need to make to its billing system.

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gofish 1 year, 8 months ago

.75 per bill? Really? I wonder if they ever considered contracting this out to someone that already has the equipment. Seems to me this is a huge ripoff over the long term.

JCsleeper 1 year, 8 months ago

Does anyone else have apprehensions regarding this plan ?

JCLifer 1 year, 8 months ago

Why not just pay for the sewer through the 1/2 cent ambulance tax that the city collected? Why does the city have to send bills when they are already getting our tax dollars? Are they going to start sending bills for people to go to the parks too?

I smell cahoots and waste here, just like the trash contract that should have been paid for through our taxes, not through sending out bills.

What "services" does the city provide for all the tax dollars we pay?

Last month I paid $15 city tax just on my Ameren bill. We pay city tax money on our electric, our telephone, our cable TV, our cell phones, and all kinds of other services the city has nothing to do with providing. All these taxes and now they want to send more and more bills out too?

Wake up, people! How many taxes does the city need? How much money will ever be enough for the city? Why do they send bills out to collect more taxes?

truthbeknown 1 year, 8 months ago

All of the above, plus it needs mentioning that by sending out an extra bill that is that much more paper being generated that doesn't need to be. I don't see why the water company can't collect it, they don't collect the money anyway, you have to pay the bill at Grocery stores and Convenience stores.

Sounds like the city just wants that 75 cents, and is that a one time charge or per bill?

Nathan needs to go he is the driving force behind all of this, ever since he has been running things, taxes have gone skyward, and the City wastes more money on things it doesn't need.

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