Jackson Jambalaya

Maybe he can try his hand at "fair equity billing" of the sewage as well.

Thank you, Your Honor. While I don't agree with all of Mr Henifin's past proposals (such as property value based billing vs usage billing), at least he'll try to fix the problems whereas the do-nothing Mayor has, well, done nothing to fix them.

That should justify doubling his fee from $400K to $800K, which should also double Chowke's cut. Right?

Now, if we could just get the Judge to turn the police department over to a receiver; and the garbage collection over to a receiver; and the street maintenance over to a receiver. And, oh while we are at it, might as well turn the libraries over to a receiver as well.

Then all the Mayor will have to do, other than travel around the country bragging about his successes (which he has proven to be quite adapt at), is getting the zoo reopened, the Convention Center operable, and Farish Street as a reasonable investment.

Maybe, though - a receiver might be considered there as well, considering Baby Chock's failure with the zoo (despite millions of dollars poured into it, along with his nationally known contractor that wasn't), and his failure with the Convention Center and Farish Street.

Oh well. Maybe next week's court hearing can move more of this along.

but is 600 million enough?????????

to fix both systems????

This means the affluent parts of north Jackson will be subsidizing the other areas in Jackson. Bend over!!!

I'm not a fan of Mr. H, but this makes sense. He should be able to set rates and oversee spending in order to unfxxk but departments. And if he can't, znd I think this likely, Wingate can find someone who can.

At an additional salary of $400,000 per yr?

So now both water and waste water are in federal receivership. Where's the "Lumumba keeps winning!" guy?

Whoops let me see here. The white legislature supplement a broken law enforcement and judicial system and it racist.

Federal Judge appoints a white receiver to fix a broken water and sewer system but that’s not racist.

I’m a dinosaur

It is ridiculously easy to fix the billing. Literally every other municipality, sewer district, water association and utility authority in the state does it.

I understand that Ted will impose a $100 per toilet surcharge for Jacksonians residing in Eastover, Leftover, Belhaven and Fondren

One toilet flush per pay will be implemented.

So it’s his fault there is 5 billion gallons of raw boo-boo in the Pearl River? Those poor endangered Pearl Darters.

@4:15 Don't give him any ideas. I think he's ticked off that he didn't get his way with the water bills.

Double the pay he'll be the highest paid man in the state.

Good. Now maybe we can get some damn contractors and equipment in here.

I’m afraid to ask what their socialist method for sewer billing will be. Gives a whole new meaning to “from each according to his abilities…”

I'm still pissed that a pack of extra strong/extra soft Charmin toilet paper has increased 85 percent.

Now...
Ted Henefin's involved with "this shit" ....( yes, pun intended).

Gawd help all towns on the Pearl River south of Jackson.

A lot of people mad about someone making $400k. Not even really that much money. Bunch of poors on this site. Sad!

6:41 - "Poors"? You probably have no clue, but (assuming a doubled pay rate) he will be making much more than the average attorney pay in the metro and will be right up there with many medical doctors, not all, but many.

You don't know anybody making 800K per annum.

Is any portion of the city of Jackson is actually functional?

Henifin can fix it. Many folks can. The reason he can fix it is because he’s got the 2 magic things needed.

1). A huge pile of government money.

2). A judge ordering Lumumba and other city officials to leave him alone.

You can fix anything if you throw enough money at it.

Wonder where Henifin is going to get money to fix the sewer system. Maybe he will do what the city of Jackson refused to do - access the state's revolving funds (yes, they offer loans - the thing that Lumumba didn't want, even though they were at minimum interest rates.)

Or will he try to finagle the money given for water - the funds that were claimed to be needed because of "THE FLOOD" which we all know was bullshit, the system crashed a month before the great August flood.

If that's the recourse, then might be some sense of fairness - Jackson getting $800 million for "water", due to the mismanagement of the system by Baby Chock was always a crap deal (thank you Cindy Hyde, your worry about the kids at the Blind School was misplaced - but guess you had to do something while you were a somebody on appropriations committee.)

Spreading that water money into fixing sewer as well might mitigate some of the ridiculousness of the federal bailout of Baby Chock and his Radical New City (another name for NewAFRIKA.) Stopping the raw shit from flowing down the street and into the Pearl would be a good move, as long as Henifin doesn't bring his liberal leftest pay-for programs along with his new found powers.

Out of that potential $800K he has to pay for his lodging here, airline tickets to/from Bean Town, meals, vehicle, and of course the "big guy's" cut.

Please someone explain where Ted will get the money to fix the sewer system??? Don’t see any federal earmarks coming his way with republicans in charge of congress.

Maybe if he can get $100M in revenue from 50,000 customers but that’s $166 per month per customer!!!

1. HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GETTING FREE WATER AND GARBAGE PICKUP FOR 12 YEARS? I really hope someone here can answer that. Like from a legit source.

2. How many people in the above subset were recently forgiven every dime from the recent $1 million + handout?

3. How many of them will continue to receive free water and garbage pickup?

4. HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO NOT FIX A BILLING SYSTEM IN 12 YEARS? A 5th grade math class could do it by hand in a month.

5. Why can’t the ones who don’t work, don’t pay taxes, get every handout imaginable PICK UP THE F*CKING LITTER STREWN ALL OVER THE CITY? The amount litter is disgusting. It’s not a few bottles here and there. It’s more like car and truckloads of foljs actually pull over and throw all their shit out the windows. There’s probably some legal prohibition against having strings attached to free money.

Chokwe’s gotta love all this. It gives him extra cover for doing nothing. What on earth has he done to the Public Works Department? If any division of city government needs full funding and staffing, it’s PW. At the rate we’re going now, Jackson will look like Raqqa at the end of his term.

"Federal Judge appoints a white receiver to fix a broken water and sewer system but that’s not racist." Until there is no or little action taken. He's gonna be rolling in the dough for quite awhile I'm guessing.

the affluent will now be paying for the effluent ....

Just to be clear, the federal funding was always intended to address wastewater treatment as well as the drinking water supply. In addition, the Corp got money to mitigate flooding.

10:17 - and just where do you find that "intent"?

Kinda depends on which pot of $$$s is being discussed, as there are several sets of "federal fund(ing)" and only one part might be inclusive of wastewater by my reading.

Mitigating flooding by the Corps is what they get much of their money for, but the dollars directed to Jackson was not all directed to flooding issues. (They used the 'flood' as the basis for federal intervention, conveniently ignoring the fact that the August/September water crisis was not caused by the August 30th flood of the Pearl.)

This is odd. Just got my water bill. Blurb on it: "You can view your account information, bill history, and pay your bill online by visiting us at dss-coj.opower.com."

dss-coj.opower.com????

9:31. YES. Copy and paste it then hit enter. DA.