Jackson Jambalaya

Letting the Mayor effectively control rate increases is preposterous. Play stupid legislative games, win stupid prizes. Horhn is just another self aggrandizing politician.

Everyone makes it sound so easy to collect from those who aren't paying. So easy but Henifin can't get it done? Bullshit.

This mayor term will be almost up when Jxn Water leaves.

This ought to seal the fate of Jackson, everybody else going to pay for mismanagement and grift.

I heard Bill said city gets it back after debt is paid off.

What happens to Doj case with city?

Delay and postpone until Gavin and AOC take the White House House and their DoJ drops the charges

After Sister R becomes major Jackson the city can hold some struggle sessions and just secede from the deal.

I can't believe i live in a city where it has come to this. Straight up third world shit. Actually, I can believe it.

[1] They're solving the collections problem by writing off the pre Jan 1, 2026 balances. So to everyone who has been faithfully paying their bills all this time you will receive a middle finger and a big f*&k you.
[2] They shift ~$200 million in debt from Jackson to the water authority.
[3] They are setting up a process where raising rates is going to be extremely difficult and as politically unpopular as it is now and maybe even more so.

How do you think that will work out?

Where's Rukia?

Atty Martin alludes during the Q&A that the refi'd debt should cost less to service. He has no idea whatsoever what rates will be in the future.

Get the hell out of Jackson/Byram/Ridgeland or any other areas served by this future water authority while you can!

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They can't write off anything as long as
Jxn Water is in charge.

He can say whatever he wants.

Bond rates don't get set by fools.

Jacksonians, I encourage you to contact your State Senator and ask them to vote No in the Senate on this bill. Make no mistake despite what the Mayor says, HB 1677 gives control of the water system to the City of Jackson as the Mayor and City Council will control 5-6 spots on the 9 member board. We CANNOT have Jackson back in control of our water system. HB 1677 as originally written prior to all the amendments was a good bill with a 13 member board and with Jackson only getting 4-5 of those spots. Yeah, so Mayor Horhn may make decent appointments to this board, but when Jackson voters inevitably elect another Lumumba JR or Yarber, do you want that Mayor in charge of who gets on this board? Hell no you don't.

Wingate will tie up this legislation for years-no one will even have to ask him.

" Is this provision fair to the people who have been paying their bills"

What the hell has fair got to do with it? It's equity, and inclusion, all the way, baby. Free the water, with the land, and you know it, baby.

@1:18 PM RE: #1

Yates understands bill payers ain't who she needs to pander to now in her district.

Don't seem like they could refinance the debt until Jxn Water is gone.

Does this legislation impact the thousands of straight-pipers?

Does anyone know the Governor's thoughts on this bill giving Jackson control of its water system again? Would he sign the legislation or veto it?

I wonder which legislator(s) pushed to have bills written off that were "deemed uncollectible" prior to the first of this year?

Could it have anything to do with Fabian Nelson and Tony Little?

"write off revenues deemed uncollectible"
Well, I guess now that Henefin & Co have had to actually talk to customers and try to correct their bills, he is starting to realize that many, many people never owed what they were being billed. It will be easier to write it off than to try and correct the thousands and thousands of accounts that were billed incorrectly for water usage that never happened.

JA athletics should turn into a financial aid program for backlogged water bills.

"The bill should mandate the Authority follow state purchasing laws and bidding procedures. Period."

Why should they KF? You have never thought Ted should!

Citizens need to let him know to veto it.

OR you can fix it by removing the requirement that Byram and Ridgeland submit their nominees to the Jackson City Council.

THANK GOD I don’t live in Jackson !

What senators should we contact?

What committee would it go to in the
Senate? We can email them.

3:40 Jxn Water will not write them off.

Jackson is the State Capital. The State government should have a larger representation on this water authority's board than the City of Jackson government should.

Great more government bureaucracy masked in “fairness”
This bill smells like John Horhn fronted by Yates.

Ted is not subject to state law since being in FEDERAL recievership.

No reason to believe that the closest comparison to this bill is a dice game that occurs within the confines of public housing soon after the first of the month in democrat led cities.

State Affairs and Ways and Means

If Fabian Nelson and his crooked friends paid their bills all of this would be unnecessary. The city has too many freeloaders.

... realize that many, many people never owed what they were being billed.

Absolute crap. The arrears owed are from late 2022 forward. Not the totality for years and years of non-payment going back to the original meter replacements under the Harvey Johnson ushered in Siemens fiasco.

People don't want to pay what they owe for what they've actually used. There is no accountability in this damn city and the actual taxpayers jamming the exits are proof. City is dying folks, get a clue.

You think rates are high now and you're worried about them going higher? Just wait until Jackson has lost another 15,000 or 20,000 in population. 2040 forecast at the current rate of loss is 119,105.

The water system has been operating in the effective red for decades but you ain't seen nothing yet. The real pain is coming.

Should turn the CCID into a wholly state operated district.