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City Utility Bill contain many errors
CITY
UTILITY BILLS CONTAIN MANY ERRORS
If you get (or
are supposed to get) a utility bill from the City, you need to
check it closely. We’ve received many interesting comments
about the bills. Some bills were read on a FIFTY (50) day cycle, so
that bill is very high. Then the meter reader came back and read
the bill 12 days later, so that bill will be low. People cannot pay
these tremendous bills caused by sporadic meter reading. This
especially puts a hardship on people on fixed incomes.
Also, it
has been advised that you watch your GAS portion of your bill.
An example of a problem is that last month someone using 16000 kw
was charged $228; this month they used 13,400 kw and were charged
$425. This is obviously wrong, and your bill may be wrong too. As
of 4/14/05, several people had yet to get a bill at all. We suggest
you start reading your own meters around the 20th of each
month so you know what you should be charged for and what you are
being charged for. We’ve also been told that people without
sewer were charged for it on the last bill. CHECK
YOUR BILL and make sure you understand what you’ve been billed for!
We will remind
you that about a year ago the City paid around $40,000 for a new
utility billing system. It was scrapped when Mr. Berry came to
town. Now we are paying to set up another system and there seems to
be lot of problems. Hopefully, the bills will be right and the cost
of utilities will come down in the near future. Thomasville does
the utility bills for10 other cities, so things have got to get
better—we hope!
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