LITIGATION......Harbor Villas vs Village Abay

 A while back at a VB meeting dating 7.14.09, there was an item that was brought up under new business....Harbor Villa's request to have $250.00 fee waived.
The mayor starts off by saying......."oh this looks interesting"......





VB Meeting 7.14.09 from p guston on Vimeo.
Give it a listen...move your sliders to about 26min into the audio


It is not just a 250.00 waiver that the Harbor Villa's is requesting.....it gets much more interesting.  Apparently the accountant [for Harbor Villa's} missed the water bill for the month of January 09.  The accountant also missed the delinquent notices that the village sent out after the Jan. water bill was not received.  The village will add an additional $250.00 per unit after a water bill is  5 months past delinquent.  THAT IS PER UNIT.  Harbor Villa's had 16 units that became delinquent.  16 time 250 equals $4000.00.  Now the Harbor Villa's is in the water hole to the Village of Abay for at least $4000.00.

{Go Here and click on the Vimeo box dated 9.22.09 and move your slider to 29mins and listen to the Harbor Villa's agreement request of the village.  No discussion by the VB, just that it was a situation that is now in litigation}

Allow me to play the Devils Advocate,  at what point does the villages complex automated water billing system get so complicated that a human does not make some kind of effort to call the owner of Harbor Villa's and say something like.......Hello Mr. M. your accountant must have screwed up [btw fire him/her] your water bill is way behind and it is going to be out of control if you don't get in touch with us.  Or do we as a village just let things get so unmanageable that the business owner is just over whelmed with financial distress.  Forcing him into a corner which has now created feelings of distrust and unleashed the lawyers, who will be the only ones that will profit.  Nobody wins except the lawyers.

The other side of this coin is that the village board may not care and only wants to keep as much revenue coming in so that they can purchase police bikes and compensate for lost revenues from the mismanaged village docks....[and the negative relations the vb has created with the boaters and tourists.....]

End of  this Devil Advocates OPINION