Jackson Jambalaya

I can perhaps see a justification for a disparity in billing between residential and commercial, but do not respect Hennifin's penalty for not using Food Stamps (EBT). All residents in Jackson pay the same rate for electricity, cell phones, natural gas, cars, plane tickets, etc; why is price of water service, specifically, subject to socialist manipulation? I have not swallowed any Jackson water out of the tap for about 6 years. I will continue buying potable spring water in gallon jugs.

I understand your point on the EBT. So much time, money, and court appearances have been spent on that. 7000 receiving water and not being billed. Has that ever been corrected? Apartment complexes not paying their bills? Is there some reason those owners haven't been sued out of existence to get the money?

Multi-Millions of dollars uncollected and never will be.

"If you can't raise the revenue required to do the job right, then you shouldn't have it..." and "if you've got a City Council that is not going to approve rate increases, then you should not be running a water system..." Amen, Ted. Where in the hell is the State Legislature? They didn't even bring a bill forth in the 20245 session did they?

This may be a little off subject, but is the artesian well that was located at the old Primos Northgate location still producing water? I remember in the late 60's and early 70's my uncle going up there regularly filling up 5 gallons jugs. Guess you could consider that our early version of bottled water.

Don't think for a moment that those apartment complexes just stopped paying in the last couple of years.

It appears Ted doesn’t have the spine for this job. The non-paying customers should have been cut off long ago starting with the biggest users. Lumumba was using revenue owed to the city to buy votes by giving away free water. Letting people continue to get free water accomplishes nothing, but cutting off the non-paying customers at least lowers the load on the water treatment plants.

The man knows what he's talking about and it's astounding to me that so many are confused about the difference in rates. Ted has no control over that aspect, and every one of you know it. That is a political decision. This city is too stupid to understand that this isn't a water system upgrade. It's a fucking remediation brought back from the verge of complete collapse with money that we didn't have to do it.

Raise 'em. I pay the highest now, but if I'm going to stay here, I'll pay the increase. Just please don't give this system to another bunch of fuckers that are going to make me wake up to a dry tap again. Mind you though, I'm not gonna' be cool with ridiculous annual increases like this. Just get it solvent.

Did Ted say it was going to take many years to replace the 2 inch pipes that should be 6 inch pipes? So, that means he will be long gone before that work is done aka it won't ever get done?

@4:41, so you want the apartment complexes summarily cut off even though the people living there have been paying for water, regardless of whether the amount they're paying is/has been correct?