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City contractor reports $3.1 million collected from delinquent municipal-court cases; 57% recovery rate
Summary
Nicole Johnson, Tyler’s municipal court administrator, and Patrick Woods of the city’s collections contractor reported to the council on Jan. 8 that about $5.5 million in delinquent municipal-court charges has been referred to the contractor since 2019, with $3.1 million liquidated and about $2.3 million remaining outstanding.
Good morning, Mayor Warren and members of the Tyler City Council: municipal court staff and their outside collections contractor presented results on a five-year delinquent-court collections program on Jan. 8.
Nicole Johnson, Tyler’s municipal court administrator, introduced the report and said the city has worked with the contracted firm since 2019. Patrick Woods, the collections project lead who appeared for the firm named in the staff presentation, told the council the firm has received more than 70,000 delinquent cases over the past four years and is actively working about 37,000 of those accounts.
The presentation gave dollar figures: the firm said $5,500,000 was turned over to it since 2019, $3,100,000 has been “liquidated” from…
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