{"id":6685,"date":"2023-09-18T19:51:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=6685"},"modified":"2023-09-18T19:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T23:51:11","slug":"old-debts-written-off-antennas-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/18\/old-debts-written-off-antennas-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Old debts written off; antennas sold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The City of Decatur has written off just over $15,000 in delinquent utility accounts, but officials say the losses have been even greater in previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the accounts are five years old and the State Board of Accounts deems accounts that old to be \u201cuncollectible\u201d and says they must be written off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the recent meeting of the board of works and safety, Utilities Superintendent Kevin Hackman received permission to do just that with the latest five-year-old debts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accounts being forgotten were around the $30,000 mark a few years ago, \u201cso they’ve been going down,\u201d Hackman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the reason for that is the city’s hiring of a collection agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While those accounts were being dumped, the police department was bringing in some money, receiving permission from the board to sell two unused antennas to the Berne Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Decatur Police Chief Kevin Gerber said the antennas \u201care kinda hard to find\u201d and Berne offered to pay $300 each for them, the cost that the Decatur PD had in the devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also at the board of works and city council meetings;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* The city fire department was given the okay to hire ProTech to clean up a mold problem in the basement of the fire station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProTech bid $14,474.31 for the work, while Paul Davis Restoration bid $14,462.60. The ProTech bid was a bit higher, but its quote contained more extensive work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* The owner of a home at 510 Patterson St. will be sent a letter from City Attorney Anne Razo, and after it is received the owner will have 10 days to clean up the property; if not done do after 10 days, fines of $100 a day will begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assistant Building\/Zoning Superintendent Brad Roe said \u201cany means to contact the owner have not worked,\u201d and that the code enforcement issue \u201chas been going on for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* The third and final reading of an ordinance gave approval to a handicap parking space at 350 S. Third St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* An agreement with Bellmont Cadet Football was approved, affording the league permission to use the open area on the MERIT Center property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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