City of Flint Water

[OHRoadwarrior]

What cities in the north are you talking about exactly?

If there are residents on a street paying for city services, the city is obligated to service those residents.

Once they have demolished all homes on a given street, they are vacating them. Youngstown OH is specifically the one I was thinking of. The discussion of closed systems was related to specific large businesses staying if the city were to close.

 

[JenniSam]

Trying to shave water costs has definitely cost the State (and all Michiganders) and will for a long time.

Governor Snyder has asked the legislature to approve $30 million for credit to be applied to the water bills of Flint residents, from April 2014 and into the future. At least JeniSam may be able to receive a refund that she can pass on to her tenants.

The problem with the leaching lead could have been avoided (or at least delayed) if Flint had waited until the Flint river system was in condition to service the residents. At the time of discussions on switching from the Detroit Water to the Flint River, it was expected the Flint system could be safely operated no sooner than 2016.

At any rate, it is a mess and one not likely to be resolved by closing down roads and transplanting the 90,000+ residents to a different city.

Providing a refund would be great and I would certainly pass that money back to my paying tenants (past and present). But based on the initial plans I've read about the "refund", it will actually be a credit for future bills that they hope will be in place by June of this year. That seems very unfair to those who paid but may no longer be residents. Under this plan, it is not clear to me how we can fairly refund money to past tenants. I will just have to wait for more details to be provided.

 

[quincy]

Providing a refund would be great and I would certainly pass that money back to my paying tenants (past and present). But based on the initial plans I've read about the "refund", it will actually be a credit for future bills that they hope will be in place by June of this year. That seems very unfair to those who paid but may no longer be residents. Under this plan, it is not clear to me how we can fairly refund money to past tenants. I will just have to wait for more details to be provided.

I agree that what is intended needs to be clarified. I have heard it will be used as a credit on past (back to July 2014) and present and future bills.

But I am not sure residents (or former residents) will be happy with credits and no refunds. In fact, I think I can see in the future yet more lawsuits to add to the many already filed.