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Pickens County weighs service-delivery strategy, considers challenge to Jasper water-rate differentials
Summary
County staff briefed commissioners on Georgia—service-delivery strategy requirements and options to address alleged "arbitrarily higher" water rates charged to unincorporated Pickens County customers who receive Jasper water; steps cited include public hearings, an engineer rate study, mediation and, if needed, superior-court action.
Bill, the county—s presenter on service delivery strategy, told the Pickens County Board of Commissioners that Georgia law requires each jurisdiction to document services, funding sources and intergovernmental agreements and that the state—s rules constrain how fees are set for customers outside a provider—s geographic boundaries.
"Water or sewer fees charged to customers located outside the geographic boundaries of a service provider...shall not be arbitrarily higher than the fees charged to customers receiving such services which are located within the geographic boundaries of the service provider," Bill…
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