At November 2004 Board meeting

The Town Board admitted to illegally over charging, but refused to return all moneys due to its residents.
Today the people that have been effected still want their money back, some could mean a couple hundred dollars for one year, and here we are talking 7 years of overcharges. Ifthey owed me just ninety dollars just in overcharges could you imagine what one would have paid with a $500.00 water bill, 24% on 500.00 is equal to$120.00 in over charges. A bill with $100.00 is $ 24.00 dollars over a course of a year would mean $100.00 overcharge for the $100.00 bill.
Area Towns do buy their water from other sources as I have investigated. They bill their customers way less than what we are paying. Our water rates are so high that a both Oneida and Rome pay less than we do in two years. Rome pays their water bills twice a year,we: four times a year. Vernon every quarter they get a water bill, I believe anything under 5000 gallons is something like $20.00, our elderly are using maybe 3000 gallons per quarter and are paying for 10,000 which result in $44.40. They the elderly are being taken advantage of because they Water Dept will take your meter reading and yet charge you the minimum of $44.40 then the next quarter do another reading and charge you the same. example January reading is 123456 , April reading is 126456 ,July reading 137456, Here what you would pay, January $44.40. April $44.40 in July $51.75. In 9 months you have used 14000 gallons and have paid for 31,000 gallons, total cost being $140.55. In Vernon it would cost approximately $65.00 if that.