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Failed sewer authority’s debt results in litigation |
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The reasons the supervisors went behind closed doors with legal counsel following completion of the public deliberations of May 10 were another mystery until the public learned a creditor of the failed Montross-Westmoreland Sewer Authority has gone to court in an effort to collect the fees that consultant purports he is owed.
It will be two years this Thursday since the Westmoreland supervisors, the Sewer Authority and Montross Town Council convened the joint session that authorized the county government to acquire the failed authority’s assets and public debt obligations.
On April 23, 2010, Waste Water Management Inc. of Fairfax filed papers in Westmoreland Circuit Court asking the court to compel the failed authority, Westmoreland County, Montross Mayor David O’Dell, Montross Town Manager Brenda Reamy, Montross Council Councilman Joseph King, Authority member Bonnie Chandler and Westmoreland Supervisors Darryl Fisher and Russell Culver to pay Waste Water Management the $50,000 it is owed for that firm’s design services and another $350,000 in damages associated with failure to meet the outstanding debt obligation.
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Regional jail bond retirement was occasion to remember long service of Sheriff Jackson |
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Board Chairman Woody Hynson had the late, but long-serving Westmoreland County Sheriff, Buddy Jackson, on his mind this Monday when the supervisors met with the Davenport & Company, bond counsel they share with the regional jail authority, to retire the bond issue that built the jail that paid for itself sooner than supposed.
The bonds were issued to support construction of a jail immediately outside the incorporated limits of Warsaw that would be shared by Westmoreland and Richmond counties and the Town of Warsaw.
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Next sewer project is single May 10 public comment topic |
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Westmoreland County Citizens Association (WCCA) President Kennon Morris was the only speaker during the May 10 Board of Supervisors meeting’s public comment seg-ment.
The local government’s new and old public sewer projects were the subject addressed by Morris during the last minutes before the supervisors recessed for a luncheon meeting at the nearby Bay Aging establishment.
Morris told the supervisors he has attempted to make sense of county’s most recent audit of sewer accounts. “The question,” he noted, “is are these systems paying for them-selves?”
The WCCA president recalled a 2009 Board of Supervisors action to raise the systems’ monthly service fees, a consideration not reflected in the public auditors’ review of an accounting period that ended last June 30.
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