tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post5440748275904440969..comments2024-03-28T14:08:47.975-05:00Comments on Jackson Jambalaya: Jackson Seeks Water Bill ReliefKingfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184990110961727404noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-55306094427555718002018-12-30T23:26:47.816-06:002018-12-30T23:26:47.816-06:00I keep thinking about Kenny Stokes and the rest of...I keep thinking about Kenny Stokes and the rest of the radicalized City Council and mayor. You know damned well they will want to carve-out about 75% of the renters in Jackson and claim they are 'disproportionately impoverished', whatever that means. And that group (in fact a majority) will be free services of every sort. <br /><br />So, to recap...the city hired a professional to be in charge of this corrupt program and he comes before his employer to suggest the employer dump this untenable situation at the feet of the State Legislature. In case a few of you don't recognize it, this reeks of socialism. <br /><br />How are all these disproportionate folk managing to pay for electric service, cable, cell phones and car tags?Shades of Bernie Sandersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-6036154352511509512018-12-30T00:08:31.182-06:002018-12-30T00:08:31.182-06:00To me the real travesty is the fact that the Publi...To me the real travesty is the fact that the Public Service Commission continues to give Jackson a pass. A couple of years ago, when I still lived in Jackson, I looked up the regulations for public utilities on the PSC website and found that my water bill violated several of them. From what has been posted, I wasn’t the only one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-35606420819442928372018-12-29T20:07:17.539-06:002018-12-29T20:07:17.539-06:00For comparison - we live in the City of Madison. ...For comparison - we live in the City of Madison. Water, sewer and garbage pickup (twice a week) are billed thru Bear Creek Water and around $80 on average (around $100 if we water yard during summer) - family of four. Water quality reports are annual and are on-line for anyone in the public (Madison resident or not). Bills show actual usage each month. Based on the above it looks like we’te pretty comparable on cost to Clinton and South Rankin County. Hope that comparison helps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-88792881612861242092018-12-29T13:08:35.295-06:002018-12-29T13:08:35.295-06:00Before y'all know it your radical mayor will f...Before y'all know it your radical mayor will fix everything and it will be water under the bridge. Hee hee.<br /><br />Oh wait, it will be fixing the water problems or the pot-hole problems, but not both. For the most part Jackson doesn't need streets, because who goes to work? Oh wait, they need streets for the drive-bys to be able to shoot little babies.Cynical Samnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-5312266056765204622018-12-29T12:02:36.510-06:002018-12-29T12:02:36.510-06:009:20 you are funny. I hope that you were trying to...9:20 you are funny. I hope that you were trying to make joke for if not you are crazy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-84597569780722426672018-12-29T10:28:05.384-06:002018-12-29T10:28:05.384-06:00Living in the radical city includes a radical wate...Living in the radical city includes a radical water bill!Baby Choknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-52057481279976178322018-12-29T10:01:13.605-06:002018-12-29T10:01:13.605-06:00Actually there are two cultures.
A "culture ...Actually there are two cultures.<br /><br />A "culture of non-payment", 82%... and a culture that does pay, 18%.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-79246332187344088902018-12-29T07:58:11.775-06:002018-12-29T07:58:11.775-06:00We also have Bear Creek Water and pay $45/month fo...We also have Bear Creek Water and pay $45/month for water/sewer.<br /><br />How is that "Radical City" working out for y'all? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-54668454904771154312018-12-29T07:02:29.193-06:002018-12-29T07:02:29.193-06:00A "culture of non-payment" naturally ari...A "culture of non-payment" naturally arises when people realize that only suckers pay their bills. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-37713757069523856472018-12-28T23:28:13.572-06:002018-12-28T23:28:13.572-06:00Before moving North two years ago my water bill wa...Before moving North two years ago my water bill was over $300.00 USD per month . Now my H2o provider is Bear Creek and my bill averages around $45.00 USD per month. It’s stunning to see how the ruling class has screwed things up so badly in the Bold New City.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-51033513742335875402018-12-28T21:20:16.132-06:002018-12-28T21:20:16.132-06:00us loyal Jacksonians May look like the bottom to y...us loyal Jacksonians May look like the bottom to you white flight Madison people but don’t you see what you see as a crisis Is actually an opportunity. See folks Siemens sold us on the dream of meters that sends a signal to the meter mans truck as he drives past once a month. As we know... that didn’t work out well. First, the meters all went haywire. Then a whole bunch of employees took advantage of the situation big time with a bunch of funny business of all types of fraud. Remember when 60 people got arrested? Then if you had any sense, when you stopped getting a bill you stopped paying. Free water for a long damn time. Now somebody has to pay. Who will it be? Well Siemens of course. And I would like to personally thank them for doing so. Probably saved me several thousand dollars. You mfers in Madison let me know when some big Corp pays your water bill for four years and counting. but don’t worry your pretty little heads we will survive this with minimal inconveniences to our citizens and we will still be here for you to comment on and continue bitching about 2019 and beyond. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-64080227781170934202018-12-28T21:12:36.810-06:002018-12-28T21:12:36.810-06:008:44
Siemens sold a product.
Seriously doubt the...8:44<br /><br />Siemens sold a product.<br /><br />Seriously doubt they had any obligation to actually do accounts receivable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-61897378798075448722018-12-28T20:53:49.893-06:002018-12-28T20:53:49.893-06:00The legislature may as well get used to this and s...The legislature may as well get used to this and start pumping cash to Jackson and start putting money away for Rankin County. What happened in Jefferson County Alabama and their bankruptcy is exactly what is happening in the metro area. Decaying, unmaintained water and sewer infrastructure coupled with suburban areas overbuilding new infrastructure without the customers to support it equals bills neither can pay. The legislature supported building a new, wholly unnecessary WWTP in Rankin County so that they could divorce from Jackson. Neither can make it without the other. This plant will easily be 2.5 to 3 times more expensive than Pickering (who has never built a plant like this) estimates (Also intersting how this estimate has no correlation to like-type plant costs in the last ten years...but is almost exactly the estimated share of Rankin County’s costs for Savannah Street plant repairs). And that is without the additional cost of piping and pumping to the new plant location miles on the EAST side of 49 and pumping and piping of effluent back to the west of 49 to discharge in the Pearl River. Pappy Odanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-52926185693518100862018-12-28T20:44:39.010-06:002018-12-28T20:44:39.010-06:00Does Siemens have any culpability in correcting th...Does Siemens have any culpability in correcting these problems, or did the City of Jackson screw it up all by themselves?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06733660541845053088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-88954260646545260942018-12-28T17:50:33.689-06:002018-12-28T17:50:33.689-06:00Maybe instead of bailing out Jackson, the state le...Maybe instead of bailing out Jackson, the state legislature should just move the state capital to one of your finer, economically and culturally advanced Mississippi cities -- you know, like Meridian, Greenville, Columbus, Greenwood, Laurel, Natchez, Yazoo City, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-42887639525376309232018-12-28T16:51:25.147-06:002018-12-28T16:51:25.147-06:00They will have to sue the hell out of siemens duh ...They will have to sue the hell out of siemens duh that is the answer. Many many millions. Big big money. We will all come out smelling purtierAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-18705160753219220552018-12-28T15:58:26.294-06:002018-12-28T15:58:26.294-06:00The city government of Jackson is incompetent. Th...The city government of Jackson is incompetent. The state should not enable this incompetence.<br /><br />If another city in Mississippi (or another state) declared that they could not collect, say, taxes due, and they were going to go broke, they should not be bailed out. You don't enable incompetence.<br /><br />There are many other alternatives. The city, for example, could sell the water department or service. A private company might pay considerable amounts for the opportunity to be a local utility.<br /><br />The city government's incompetence is also on full display at the Jackson Wiley Evers Airport. The upper level pick-up and drop-off lanes are still "under construction" after months and months of work. The West Concourse of the airport is worse than most third-world airports: There are no functioning bathrooms after you pass TSA and it has been that way for weeks. There is only a single runway. The airport is a third-world experience that should disturb most locals and does disturb every visitor.<br /><br />We have incompetence at all levels of city government starting at the top and continuing through all the city council. Jackson is an embarrassment. It is very sad. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-51463501316539828852018-12-28T14:56:56.084-06:002018-12-28T14:56:56.084-06:00"This situation should have been handled as s..."This situation should have been handled as soon as the problem arose before it got out of hand.<br />December 28, 2018 at 1:34 PM"<br /><br />No, genius, this "problem" should never have arisen at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-67350738603288349212018-12-28T14:28:47.079-06:002018-12-28T14:28:47.079-06:00One of the few services that pays for itself and c...One of the few services that pays for itself and can make money is that of water.Sewers and trash no but water can be a good money maker if managed properly. How to you think small water associations in rural area can make it; they tend to business. No payment no water. Jackson is a good example of poorly managed socialism. May be the worse run city in the country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-71473971871898271682018-12-28T14:10:53.756-06:002018-12-28T14:10:53.756-06:00Jackson, your typical DIM-O-KRAT utopia dream!!!!!...Jackson, your typical DIM-O-KRAT utopia dream!!!!!<br /><br />Below average incompetent employees led by totally useless leaders. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-19249084768287822812018-12-28T14:06:30.683-06:002018-12-28T14:06:30.683-06:00I'd tell you how low our water/garbage/sewer b...I'd tell you how low our water/garbage/sewer bill is in Madison County, but then you would probably want to move here. Stay away! Nothing to see here! You elected those fools! Own it! Suck it up, snowflakes!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-78821832645087444412018-12-28T13:54:49.151-06:002018-12-28T13:54:49.151-06:00@1:36 that is funny about PRVWSD. Good for them. ...@1:36 that is funny about PRVWSD. Good for them. I work at a central Mississippi water provider. When we did cutoffs last month, I had one customer tell me "I don't think this was an accident, I think ya'll cut my water off intentionally." I told him "You didn't pay your bill, so you are correct that we did it intentionally. That's the whole point."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-68027905954772978522018-12-28T13:53:57.946-06:002018-12-28T13:53:57.946-06:00I live in Clinton - 2 adults and 2 kids. Water/se...I live in Clinton - 2 adults and 2 kids. Water/sewer/garbage bill averages $70/month.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-46106219564683951592018-12-28T13:53:19.309-06:002018-12-28T13:53:19.309-06:00Live in Jackson and can't complain about the a...Live in Jackson and can't complain about the amount of my water bill - either now, or before the new system. Granted, I am a minimum user (single resident, no landscape watering) - TOTAL bill runs $35 to $40 a month; water $4 to $5; sewer $13 to $15; garbage $4.80/week so depending on month $19 to $24. (Getting hosed on garbage collection based on usage but realize it is a fixed cost no matter how much trash I generate.)<br /><br />Problem with billing is not with the amount, because once they got the system fixed to actually bill based on use, but the fact that the city is not collecting on many of the users that haven't paid for years - and now are being sympathetic and claiming that they can't pay what is due even with the payment plans being offered. Before the taxpayers have to start forgiving these bills, we should check to make sure that the debtors aren't paying for cable TV, cell service, or other non-necessities. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-3260947326052072152018-12-28T13:36:17.394-06:002018-12-28T13:36:17.394-06:00I live in rankin county. Pearl river valley water ...I live in rankin county. Pearl river valley water supply district. If you are one day late they send out a disconnect notice. They don’t play. And they will cut your water off if you don’t pay your bill. <br /><br />It’s unfathomable that there are so many delinquent accounts who are still being provided with service in the city of Jackson. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com