re: #74 marjoriemoon

With all due respect, you’re wrong.

You ever have a payment lost when you paid the bill? Never received by the company?

Ever not receive notice of a payment due?

Not paying for PUBLIC services in your taxes is nothing short of insane and any one of these things can happen, other than the more common one of “I forgot.”

Actually, I don’t disagree with you on that as a general observation. But, IIRC, according to the article I read, the homeowner knew he hadn’t paid the subscription. But, I’d also agree with ya that - if the council/fire district - or whoever was tasked to handle finances - never sent follow-on notices that he was behind in his fees, they blew it as well.

As to your final point, we agree there as well. Clearly, the subscription policy is nuts, and the county needs to find a way to provide these services and fund them from the property tax.