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Board signs SRRI lien-service agreement and approves two commercial garbage applicants
Summary
Scottsburg approved two commercial garbage route applications and a service master agreement with SRRI to manage lien filing, notices and releases; the vendor charges a per-lean fee plus postage and requests a $10 pass-through charge to customers, while the city pays a small upfront portion from wastewater.
The Scottsburg Board of Public Works and Safety approved two commercial garbage applicants and a service master agreement with SRRI, a vendor that handles lien processing for multiple counties and cities.
Lauren Richie described the garbage applicants as standard commercial routes that are not food-service operations and said the board could sell their cans and place them on city routes. "Neither one of them are food services ... I don't see any issue of why they wouldn't be able to set their can up on like a normal route," Richie said. The board approved the two commercial applicants by motion.
Richie then explained SRRI’s lien-service portal, saying the contractor would handle much of the timeline work: pre-lean notices, certified mailings, filing liens, and filing releases, and would maintain records. "They do all of the stuff on the timeline as far as sending up the pre-lean ... filing the lean, filing a release," she said. SRRI charges a $5 upfront cost plus postage per lean and asks the city to add a roughly $10 pass-through fee to customers; the city pays some upfront costs from wastewater and is reimbursed when liens are collected through tax bills.
Board members said SRRI should reduce confusion about partial payments and improve coordination between county and cities. Tom Lewis moved approval of the SRRI service master agreement; Karen Grecious seconded, and the board approved the contract by voice vote.
Why it matters: outsourcing lien processing may reduce administrative burden on city staff, clarify payment applications and improve revenue recovery for unpaid sewer charges. The board authorized staff to finalize signatures and move forward with implementation.
