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Residents press Sulphur council on contractor water use and lease payments; administration asks for formal records requests
Summary
Resident Joshua Baden told the council public-records requests returned no records of water usage or payments by contractor VEXUS since 2024 and questioned enforcement; city staff said no records show VEXUS purchasing water directly and suggested third-party subcontractors may be the gap in paperwork, and described the marshal's building lease/renovation arrangement.
During the public-comment period, Joshua (Josh) Baden said his public-records requests returned no data on gallons of water used by the contractor VEXUS or payments since 2024 and asked how the city could hold a contractor accountable without records. He told the council, "my response was 0. We haven't received any amount of gallons of usage," and asked for answers.
City administration responded that the city has no…
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