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Water /Sewer Duplicate Bills <br />Please add an agenda item to our next City Council agenda for the <br />following: <br />In the past, we allowed Landlords (property owners) to request a <br />duplicate water and sewer bill for their property. Under our new <br />policy, we have limited billings to only one person, the property <br />owner. The owners are primarily responsible for the accounts and I am <br />not suggesting a change. <br />I have been requested by a landlord to send a duplicate bill out to a <br />tenant. This can be easily done by our billing system. This would be <br />helpful to landlords that travel and a small inconvenience for the <br />City. I understand that in the past, we have charged a duplicate <br />billing fee of $1.00 to cover costs and I would suggest that we <br />reinstate the policy that allowing for 1 duplicate bill be sent to whom <br />ever they want (probably a tenant). <br />Under this amendment to our policy, all property owners (landlords) <br />would receive a monthly bill as the party primarily responsible for the <br />service. <br />If requested by the property owner, the City will send out a duplicate <br />monthly billing to another party. The additional fee for this <br />duplicate billing shall be $1.00. We will not contact or pursue any <br />tenants for collection (only property owners), but will accept payments <br />from anyone that wants to pay an account. <br />This change should help the City to be more friendly to our business <br />owners who are landlords and would be an improvement in collections <br />through more timely notification of delinquencies for all the <br />interested parties. <br />Thomas J. Ryan <br />