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Mayor pushes for city majority on proposed Jackson Metro Water Authority as council presses billing fixes
Summary
Jackson leaders debated S.B. 2,611, a bill to create a Jackson Metro Water Authority, with the mayor insisting the city must hold a board majority while councilors urged better billing, collections and earlier inclusion in negotiations; no formal vote was taken.
The mayor said the city must retain control as the Legislature considers a bill to create a Jackson Metro Water Authority, and council members pressed for fixes to long-standing billing and collections problems before the system is returned to local control.
City Attorney Drew Martin opened the discussion by describing two bills provided to the council: Senate Bill 2,611, which would create a Jackson Metro Water Authority, and Senate Bill 2,649, a repeal of an airport-takeover law. Martin said the water-authority bill would create a public entity to take over the city’s water and sewer system when interim management by Jackson Water ends, and that the authority could refinance system debt and remove that debt from the city’s books. He told the council the airport repeal bill had been killed and that the 2016 state law to disband the airport authority never took effect because of…
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