Jackson Jambalaya

Don't need majority on authority.

The authority could raise rates.

Only thing that satisfies any of them is boil water alerts.

The city leadership already ran the water system into the ground once. Are they wanting to show us that they can run it into the ground a second time?

There are people outside Jackson trying to save Jackson from its own stupidity, but Jackson keeps showing there are new levels yet to reach.

The authority could operate the systems properly so long as Jackson does not have majority control of the authority.

I get it, it's our Capital City. But, there's a part of me that thinks, "ok, try it again COJ. DO the same thing (not maintain the plants) and get the same result". No matter what your thoughts are on the subject, you can rest assured after a few or more years of neglect, it'll be chapter 2 of the same ol' book.

Wouldn't city get it back when debt is paid off?

Jackson "leadership" refuses to understand that no one, not one entity with money will help Jackson if they must submit control of their money to Jackson. Track records count at the bank and in government. Any fool knows Jackson's fiscal record is beyond questionable. It's life.

The louder they protest the more it tells me that they have a per$onal monetary ve$ted intere$t.

I'm not happy until the city council is not happy.

I'm here for this.

Get out of Jackson now! Don’t walk run and don’t look back. That’s what did and I can drink the water

After years of mismanagement of the water system by the City of Jackson, why would anyone think management would improve under the current city government?

Jackson is a little Detroit

5:53 Stop it! Detroit will run circles around Jackson. Detroit has the clout to come back and it will. No comparison.

The bill was changed to give Horhn voting control. What is the beef now?

5:51 you can drink the water in Jackson.

What makes the city council think Uncle Sugar is going to have the money to bail out the water/sewer system again, after they run it in the ground.

They want to make sure they control it.

Horhn will almost be out of office by the time Jxn Water leaves.

The majority of Jackson continues to vote for the same children and clowns. It has to get worse before it can get better. Give them the authority they voted for. Keep my tax dollars out of Jackson.

New beef: all the surrounding areas should be rolled into the Metro Jackson Authority with Hohrn having voting control. Garbage included too.

Go big or shut it all down!

Jackson will not have voting control, but the council must approve the appointees for Ridgeland and Byram, which will made by the Mayor of each city.

There is the City of Detroit Water Authority apart from the City of Detroit that provides very fine water to many cities. Flint, Michigan got in trouble with its water supply when the Receiver for Flint decided it was cheaper for Flint to have its own water plant and then had incompetent people run run it. If they had stayed on Detroit Water Authority water the lead problem would never have happened. A City of Jackson Water Authority can produce very good water if politics stays out of it and competent people like Ted Henifen are allowed to run it.

Yes! Please and thank you

Jackson being a Third World country type city could be solved. The State would have to revoke its incorporation and make it a State run city similar to Washington DC, but replace the current elected clowns put the city under a City Manager.
The State does it with failing school districts. The State did it with Capitol Police. The State can do it with the whole COJ. State appointed City Manager with a State appointed City Board running the place could restore Jackson to a respectable, safe place.

The citizens of Jackson have proven themselves incapable of selecting competent leaders through representative government. Time to take the management of the city out of their hands. Universal suffrage is a failed experiment.

It’s nice to live in a city with constant running water, low crime and safe streets. Good luck Jackson, one day you guys will figure out why the city is in the shape it’s in.

The CoJ realizes that a rate increase is inevitable, and they want to ensure that they get a taste.

Please don't take over the water system or the COJ. My city has to make everything work, mostly on its own, COJ should be the same. I'm not close to COJ, no reason my state taxes should have to support an inept COJ government that is not likely to change. There's a reason the tribe spent 40 years in the desert, bad habits die hard.

Amazed that conservatives are now in favor of federal government control rather than letting towns and cities and states solve their own problems and request help when needed.
Oh wait, I got it! It's the MONEY! They want the money instead of the cities or states!

It seems inevitable that the COJ will eventually ruin the safe flowing water again so I don't devote much thought to it.
I suppose at a minimum it will be entertaining to watch from afar.

What more can Jackson do to ruin its assets? Please take away COJ's control of the airport, often the first worst experience of potential investors and possible new businesses.

Until adept and proficient leadership comes to Jackson (if ever), control of water and airport must be managed by a competent system or authority for the sake of the residents and state. This city has been in a downward spiral since 1997 because of greed and self serving opportunities at the expense of its citizens. It's not about race but real facts.

JAN is a dump.

Close the zoo. This will free up COJ employees to focus on water system.

Wrong, it’s because conservatives have seen the awesome way the administration of Jackson handles their business. Incompetence runs deep in Jackson. But hey, they are the ones that will suffer if the city takes over the water system.

I strongly support Mayor Horhn, but the City needs to leave JXN Water ALONE!!!!!!! Under Henefin, this is the first time pipes haven't frozen and burst all over the City, leaving residents without clean drinking water, and businesses forced to close. Rates should not be raised. There just needs to be a strong damn collection effort!

2:48 they cutting off thousands.

The more I read about COJ on JJ the more I am glad I live way out the country!

The bill has where authority can raise the rates. I wonder when mayor and
council are gonna speak against it.

If Brandon, Madison and all the surrounding cities are paying higher rates...what is the justification for a large city like Jackson's refusal to increase rates?