{"id":19090,"date":"2024-08-30T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=19090"},"modified":"2024-08-30T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T18:40:05","slug":"decatur-writes-off-delinquent-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/decatur-writes-off-delinquent-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur writes off delinquent bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As required by the State Board of Accounts, the City of Decatur has written off utility accounts considered non-collectable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The delinquent accounts total $9,981.18 involving 49 customers, and that number is down quite a bit from recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"418\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0DD3E02B4195440192CCAA85B2E5C5EC.jpg?resize=418%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0DD3E02B4195440192CCAA85B2E5C5EC.jpg?w=418&amp;ssl=1 418w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0DD3E02B4195440192CCAA85B2E5C5EC.jpg?resize=300%2C276&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Erin Heyerly at board meeting<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Utilities Director Erin Heyerly told the city&#8217;s board of works and safety that $15,179.16 was written off a year ago, and that nearly $21,000 was lost two years back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also noted that one of the non-collectables had to be included although the person involved has vowed to pay his bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heyerly did, however, express some concern about what 2025 may bring since that is five years out from the pandemic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state board requires municipalities to write off accounts not collected after five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GRID DEAL: The board also approved the renewal of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the Decatur Football League (DFL) to use the field at the Merit Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MOU states that the daycare center at the Merit has the first use of the field until 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com As required by the State Board of Accounts, the City of Decatur has written<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-19090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}