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County consultant reports falling delinquent-ticket roll, $3.5 million collected in payments
Summary
Purdue, Brandon, Fielder, Collins & Mott LLP reported to the Henderson County Commissioners Court on its collections work for the county’s Justice of the Peace courts, saying the firm has turned over nearly $8 million in cases for collection over the life of the contract and that more is being removed from the roll each year than is being added.
Doug Burnside, a partner with Purdue, Brandon, Fielder, Collins & Mott LLP, told the Henderson County Commissioners Court that the firm has worked on collection of delinquent Justice of the Peace fines in the county since 2013 for one precinct and since 2017 for the remaining precincts.
"We've had almost $8,000,000 turned over to us for collections," Burnside said. He told the court the firm has resolved $5,660,000 of that total, which the firm describes as including about $3,500,000 in payments. Burnside said the firm’s approach…
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