In Landers last night, the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency board of directors, having exhausted all other attempts to collect on past due accounts, approved what is the last option to recover the monies owed. And sooner or later, that option is always effective. Reporter Mike Lipsitz has more…
The transfer of seriously delinquent accounts to county tax rolls in the form of property liens occurs annually. Some 110 properties representing approximately $40,000 owed to the small water agency are included in this year’s action. Also last night, the board set the fiscal appropriation limit at approximately $136,000; made modest increases to the basic facilities charge and one-inch service line installation fee for residential meters based on the Consumer Price Index; re-established the $30 per acre annual standby assessment in the Goat Mountain Improvement District; and awarded an $80,000 contract for safety upgrades to three water tanks also in the Goat Mountain Improvement District.
