about 90,000 customers—haven’t paid up.
Total past-due bills add up to nearly $90 million,
the average delinquent residential customer owing $540
Somebody’s going to write that off real soon...guess who’s going to pay????
“About 11,000 commercial accounts were overdue when the shutoffs began. The top 40 delinquent commercial accounts alone totaled $9.5 million”
This is where the real money is. You do not want to turn off the water to the 85 year little old lady. That looks bad on the evening news. However, when a golf course has not paid $400K then it just shows that someone has not kept an eye on the bottom line. I would start by FIRING the person who is the head of the water department. IF the comptroller and credit manager of my company did not collect $9.5 million dollars , they would be gone.