I would have liked to have been contacted, even for one paragraph stating the obvious, that I am in dispute with city hall over a tenant’s unpaid and mismanaged water and sewerage bill.
The story erroneously reported that this matter was over an unpaid bill when in fact it is over the way city hall runs a ransom policy in getting their W&S bills paid when a landlord is left holding the bag. I paid my monthly utilities bill for my Springfield Road tenancy on February 12, three days before becoming delinquent and am current on another city property.
I only have one final bill to pay on Springfield Road, when city administrator John Tracy so graciously allowed me to reconnect the utilities for one week to clean up the absolute filth left by the last tenant. It was hard to convince city hall to reconnect for a week because they have such a monstrosity W&S payment policy.
To all the other three uninvolved aldermen, I ask that something be done to assist landlords in the transition of tenants…I think its called an ounce of commonsense.
I refute John Tracy claim that city hall ‘now has proof’ of accurate record keeping which seeks to deny me due process in bringing mismanagement matters to city hall.
If he is calling this proof ‘a staffer’s notation on office records’ as acceptable notice that I was contacted in good faith, then city hall is indeed working under a heavy fog. The Missouri statutes concerning a landlord’s W&S bill are clear, fair and reasonable and this is the point city hall remains ignorant and untruthful about.
The page 1 story last week tells exactly how anal management is by citing innuendos, half truths and disregarding the city taxpayer’s issues.
We are not talking about non-payment of utilities as the beat-up, on the story asserts; we’re talking about the law of responsibility leveled for the landlord and city hall to work with. It’s not happening in Owensville!
All I am asking for respectful commonsense to deal with this issue, not a one-sided, vengeful barrel of monkeys intent of have a cheap shot at my good name.
Neil Reed
(Editor’s note: a previous letter from Mr. Reed was included in the page 1 news story published last week).
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