I see where this story got bumped off the front page, I may submit a new piece specifically concerning my post/topic from a few days ago to put it back in view & obtain additional opinions since it was only up for a day or two(front page). So if you have commented feel free to copy and paste your initial responses or add to them. "Jerry" I'm sure there are A LOT more out there with similar experiences as ours than not.

66. Posted by truthisgood September 18, 2009


"* Fact/Assumption each FPB customer is charged for a minimum usage of 2000 gallons of water per monthly billing. So if you do your civic duty and try to be "Green", conserve etc...and happen to keep your usage under 2000 gallons FPB makes that much more of a profit off of me/you/everyone. In my most recent billing I used 1400 gallons(do they always round UP to the next '100'?), therefore FPB profited by 600 gallons. Including this billing and the prior 11 months I averaged 1383.3 gallons per month so in addition to their built in profit margin on average they make another 617 gallons worth of profit per MONTH off of my conserving efforts. "

The statement you made is true, and irks me to no end. I'm like you and never consume that amount. That's not the worst part, one month they "estimated" my usage at 3800 gals. Never happened, they charged for the extra 1800 gals, that includes the extra sewer charge and taxes, and the next month after a reading my usage was only 100 gals, notice I did not say 1000, I said 100 gals. I went to argue this, and got no where. Short of going to jail, I stormed out and all in hearing distance new I was not happy. Like they say you can't fight City Hall, espically this one.

Here we go again, I guess. All I was saying was that the Plant Board distributes/mails the bills for the sewer department. That's what the general manager told me. He stated that the sewer department does not fall under the plant board. That's all I was saying. The sewer is operated/owned by the city of Frankfort. He said that the plant board DOES serve the city with various services, but the city DOES NOT own the plant board. I made it a point to call him and ask.

You all are forgetting that the Plant Board does not have anything to do with the Sewer Department. That is operated by the city. The Frankfort Plant Board just sends the bills out to customers for them. If you doubt this, please do not hesitate to call the Sewer Department. You will see for yourselves. Oh, yes, by the way, the city DOES NOT own or run the Plant Board. You can call the General Manager and he will explain it to you.

Recon/george_dx_dexter/phillipsonline/moonbeamky1/ etc. You among others seem to be will versed in this matter but if there is anyone else who has information please comment.

My issue(s) are with FPB's Water and Sewer "Charges", since I can not get FPB to reply to my electronic inquiries I will post it here with the hope of receiving some pertinent information and or advice.

* Fact/Assumption each FPB customer is charged for a minimum usage of 2000 gallons of water per monthly billing. So if you do your civic duty and try to be "Green", conserve etc...and happen to keep your usage under 2000 gallons FPB makes that much more of a profit off of me/you/everyone. In my most recent billing I used 1400 gallons(do they always round UP to the next '100'?), therefore FPB profited by 600 gallons. Including this billing and the prior 11 months I averaged 1383.3 gallons per month so in addition to their built in profit margin on average they make another 617 gallons worth of profit per MONTH off of my conserving efforts.

* Sewer is based on actual usage at $8.27 per 1,000 gallons, correct? Then why is my Sewer bill always at or above $20 a month? Last 2 months @ $20.54, 9 months prior @ $19.94, and October 2008 @ $15.16. Or am I mistaken and there is a built in minimum profit margin for Sewer just like water?

Would this have anything to do with the 'separation' (be it real or bogus) of the FPB Water and the City Sewer? The attempt to have it appear the 2 are not joined at the hip owned and operated by one and the same, just so FPB can say they do not have a Monopoly???

I read in the Lexington paper (September 15 & 16) where Attorney General Jack Conway fought the Columbia Gas proposed rate hike and cut it nearly in half to 6.13 million - down from an initial request of $11.57 million.Was there ever anything at all concerning this mentioned in the State Journal? After doing a search on Jack Conway & Attorney General Jack Conway, the most recent article was September 10th concerning State Employee numbers. Columbia Gas serves more than 91,000 customers in 33 counties, what is the number of FPB Water and or Sewer Customers in Franklin County? May be he could look into some of the FPB questions a large majority of customers seem to have concerning FPB's actions and what seems to be free reign in price fixing/setting.

Thanks in advance for suggestions and comments.

Recon:

You're so FOS it's pathetic. I'm the one who can't comprehend English?

Let's go back to post 43, your exact words:

"The FPB charges 54.00 per month for 8meg BB service, they license their service from Sprint. Sprint offers their complete mobile broadband service for 46.00 a month, and it is 20meg...."

Let's continue. Look at post 46, again, your exact words:

"You can get a Sprint mobile BB card (looks like a little router) with unlimited 20+meg for 46.00 a month. you can hook it to a router, or take it with you even, and when it is mobile it can hook up 5 devices at once."

But wait a minute. What is that you said in your last post? "YOU CAN NOT get the full 20mbps on the MiFi device...."

Is that you contradicting yourself? These are your claims. It's not a matter of me understating, it's a matter of you knowing WTF you're talking about. And you don't do you?

And I'm not arguing that FPB uses Sprint, I have no idea, don't care honestly. I'm just after the cheapest price for high speed internet that I can get at my house.

Is that not to much for YOU to understand?

Here we go....didn't take long for the insults and the name calling to come out did it Forrest!

YOU get on here claiming something and when someone asks about it what do you do? Just run your damn mouth as always. Now it's "capable" of 20+ meg? WTF?

I don't use FPB's email so I could give a hairy damn (to use one of your expressions) what they use! As you claim it's wireless, why doesn't Sprint then advertise it in the area if it's "20+ meg capable" as YOU claim to get? Answer me that?

Hey I'm not on here to argue with you, I thought you were onto something that would be a better choice for me. Tell the truth. 1.4 is what you get, not 20.