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Nogales staff to explore options after council reviews $360,000 in overdue sewer accounts
Summary
Council and city attorney discussed the city—s options to recover large past‑due sewer charges — including liens, working with the water provider on shutoffs, and buying tax liens — and asked staff to research practical next steps.
City Attorney Joe Estes told the Nogales City Council that the municipality has legal tools to try to recover large overdue sewer accounts but that each option has limits and practical tradeoffs.
Estes said the transcripted list provided to council showed about 88 delinquent accounts with a combined balance roughly in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars (staff reported the list total as approximately $360,004.06). He explained that Arizona statute permits municipalities to place liens for sewage charges in appropriate circumstances but…
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