Wednesday, July 1, 2009
News Homeless shelter pays its water bill
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:41 PM
The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless has met a court-ordered deadline for making a $15,000 payment to its wildly delinquent water bill — kind of.
A Fulton County judge last Tuesday ordered the city to reinstate water service to the huge Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter, on the condition that the Task Force pay its April and May bills by June 30.
According to Department of Watershed Management spokeswoman Janet Ward, the group dropped by on Friday with a check for $1,000. Then, yesterday, they sent over another check for $13,809.82, which left them short. Finally, today, they brought a third check for the final $190.18.
So, could the city have shut off the water again last night, when the Task Force still owed a couple hundred bucks?
No, says Ward: "We're required to give them a day's grace period to cure the debt."
Ward didn't know if Task Force leaders offered an explanation for why it was paying the bill in seemingly random increments. She was just glad they didn't pay their bill in nickles.
What we do know is that the shelter is facing another $8,000 bill come July 15 and the judge has already said he won't intervene again if they miss a future payment.
Even if the Task Force makes its next three payments, it faces a big reckoning come September. Up till now, judges have simply issued temporary injunctions to keep the water turned on, but the shelter must return to court this fall to explain why it shouldn't have to pay more than $170,000 in overdue water bills. Then come the real fireworks.
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Anyone want to give odds on how much Anita would have paid on her water bill if the water department hadn't shut off the water last month? I'm betting the amount paid would have been exactly zero dollars and zero cents.
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Why doesn't the rich King family or other affluent black leaders/residents kick in some $$ to pay these bills. Aren't most of these residents their family/relations anyway? What's with all their chanting CHANGE?BROTHERHOOD?POWER TO THE PEOPLE...nobody cares about anybody but themselves in real life. The homeless are mostly mentally ill, drug dependent, or folks just out of jail or lost their homes in forclosure (due to above of course).These shelters get eveything donated. Why not water bill too? Atlanta is so screwed up!
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