By:Andrew Hall
August 27, 2013
Albany, GA --- The Albany community found out earlier this week that their bills will be raised if their linked to the water gas and light services. The Albany Commissioners had a meeting amongst themselves and decided that it was necessary to raise ‘the bills to create a safety net fund for the flood victims of Albany.
August 27, 2013
Albany, GA --- The Albany community found out earlier this week that their bills will be raised if their linked to the water gas and light services. The Albany Commissioners had a meeting amongst themselves and decided that it was necessary to raise ‘the bills to create a safety net fund for the flood victims of Albany.
The flood fee will add on an unknown fee to all the customers, which may or may not be feasible for the citizens in the community. The commissioners voted that it was acceptable to increase the customers’ bills to fund this upcoming project.
After the federal government’s mandate that requested that Albany act on this storm maintenance issue. I feel that this made the commissioners make a rush decision that may hurt certain citizen’s financial positions.
Its been reported by Fox31 in 2011, Albany has been reported to be the fourth poorest city in the nation. This means that Albany has a large amount of homeless and poverty level individuals that might or might not be affected by this passed bill.
Mr. Lowe, a water gas and light customer, said that “depending on what the wages are this could take a hit on my household because I have multiple kids to provide for and this could take away from previous placed funds.”
The limited funds of certain citizens should have been token into consideration by the commissioners. They might be potentially harming their community financially as they try to build this flood victims safe net.
A vote or at least an input from the potential customers affected by this bill should have been focused on before this decision was made in my opinion. I believe there will be some angry customers after this bill is put into effect. The people will be interested in the potential outcome of this water storm fee
