This meeting of the Toledo City Council Finance Committee covered updates from the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) on water bill collections and disconnections, a review of monthly financial reports from the Finance Department, and a discussion of the city's remaining ARPA funds. Public comment addressed sewer billing fairness, public banking, and scam alerts. No formal votes were taken, but several action items were identified.
Is your mic on? Oh, okay. Oh, sorry about that. That's okay. Could you just repeat that? I am happy to repeat that. I'm sorry about that. Um, do you want me to go over the whole thing or just the June information? June information. Sorry about that. I'm not sure what happened. So for June, looking at June 1st through June 15th, knowing that our disconnection process started on um June 1st, we have already seen a huge increase in installment and payment plans for our uh residential customers specifically. So in June, um we have already had 340 enrollments. We have had 12 accounts that were delinquent were paid in full, uh, bringing in a total of 232,000 dollars. If we keep this trend through the end of the month, this will be the highest collection month that we have had with Promise Pay. So obviously we're paying very close attention to that, um, knowing that our approach to disconnection was to help our customers be successful in paying our water bills. This the data that we're receiving this far, um, June 1st through June 15th is sh is showing that. So I just wanted to highlight that, um, knowing that the May numbers that you have in front of you, but but as you can tell, you know, in May, we had 436 customers already in June or um account set up already in June were at 352. So, were there any turnoffs? There were. Um not in May, no. We did not start disconnections until June. Um, currently we have done 17 disconnections. Um, of those, we have had um one that has reconnected due to signing up for a payment plan and being put in put on a payment plan. Okay. But in June, we won't uh, we will show all of that on the yeah, in in July for the June report will um what we could add to this, what we were thinking about for June is maybe modifying this report a little bit to sort of sort of give a capture of those delinquencies since the moratorium. And then show you the outstanding balance, then we would show essentially our active delinquent balance. We thought that might be helpful, and then what's what's collected, knowing that those disconnections started in June. Okay, all right. Council uh council vice chair, Driscoll. Thank you, Mr. Chairs. How many how many accounts do we interface with that were given a disconnect notice? I'm just not sure if we're all the way through that 102 number. So I could get that to you by the rolling. Right. We were doing a little bit of a slow roll. If you recall, um, our approach and how we were starting was with the 102 residential customers that actually had their water disconnected before the moratorium went in place and and hadn't had any active payments or made an attempt to pay their their water, their past due water bill. So we started with those accounts, they received the notices. Some some paid, some went into payment plans, which is wonderful. We never had to, you know, give that disconnection notice. Um, unfortunately, some did not, and we have had to disconnect the water. Of those that were disconnected, we have had one customer reconnected because they they've paid. Do all of these accounts though represent somebody who's still until the disconnect was still util was still using water? Yes, because when the moratorium was in place until January, well, yeah, until January 1st. These aren't like vacant, but that's my question. These aren't like vacant houses that have gone together. We are tracking that. We are tracking and we could show that in the July report or June, we could show which which are um which appear to be occupied or not. Okay.