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Any Thoughts on Last Night’s Meeting, Where We “Learned” Why We MIGHT Owe $1,000 Next Month, for Our Water in Belleville?
I attended last night’s council meeting, seeking “answers” to our community’s many questions of why water is so high for us, for the period of just July to now, October. And I got tired and disgusted as I heard our mayor tell us, tall tales?
Our Belleville Mayor Michael Melham said he THINKS our bills are the result of a “mistake” made by our town’s financial leaders. Melham said he thinks they mistakenly left out some businesses in our little town, as they calculated the water bills due soon, in early November! Here in Belleville, we not only pay the salary for a township manager, who has served us for years. We pay another unknown salary, too, to a new, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), that Melham says is greatly needed. I don’t know who this CFO is, nor what he or she is paid. But I know it’s too much, since this person failed to see whatever mistake Melham thinks was made in our water bills!
Melham said the mistake might have led to us all being billed too much for our Belleville water, which we know is a little tainted by lead and other contaminants. Melham said at last night’s council meeting that, some businesses might have gotten overlooked, as our CFO and other leaders worked on our water paying formula. We in Belleville know our town is just a few acres. So our businesses can easily be seen. But I guess, Melham thinks maybe, our experts overlooked maybe, the many, many, “new” businesses that now operate in Belleville, in this money-making, Coronavirus pandemic?! We might have businesses operating in empty buildings. Walgreens might still be functioning, in that now ugly, beige, Washington Avenue building, which we thought was just – empty? Melham said Belleville might find and re-adjust water fees to, businesses that were not seen in time for our latest water bills – to maybe, finally, get accurate, water bill calculations?
But, uhm, what do we do now, Mayor, as Belleville re-crunches our water bills numbers? Should we pay something now, as we await our CFO and others finding the mistake Melham thinks might have happened? Just pay all that is said we now owe, Melham told us last night! Even the $1,000 water bill that a senior citizen told me he has now, must be paid soon, according to Melham! Melham told us we might get credits, when the re-crunching of numbers finally ends. When might we see water bill credits, we asked. Maybe later, said Melham.