Boynton Beach recovers unpaid Sewer money - What about Lake Worth?

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It seems that Boynton Beach had a similar problem to Lake Worth. It involved customer sewer charges and staff billing errors. And as much as I have said "Thank God, it could be worse, we could be living in Boynton Beach," this time Boynton did something right or rather, it worked out well--after two auditing firms found the under-billing errors, Boynton negotiated unpaid sewer bills that had gone on for decades.

One community had not been charged since 1993 due to a data entry error.  Once Boynton notified them, they began to pay--no problem. Villa Lago Condos settled as well after Boynton had undercharged them by 1/2 million bucks.

These cities, all six of them plus Palm Beach State College, owe us to the tune of $10,418,237. One more time—we have been trying to collect this money for over 7 years. And again—we have not been able to collect nor have we been able to negotiate one darn dime.

All we get in Lake Worth are arbitrary customers who say "prove it" along with attorney Trela White in the act who not only is the attorney for The League of Cities but she is the attorney for all the cities including Palm Beach State College (a facility that has always received FPL rates from Lake Worth)  that were billed for sewer after the comprehensive independent audit by Rampell and Rampell discover4ed that they owed us. discovered they had not been billed for years. Their refusal to pay resulted in sewer rates going up by 30% regionally and 13% locally and all the residents of Lake Worth are paying for all those cities who owe us a lot of money.

How is that Governmental Conflict resolution with Chapter 164 of the Florida Statutes coming along?

We need the "visionaries" to tell us what was discussed at the League of Cities convention in Boston where all the people are taught how to screw their residents in one way shape or form. We have some still condemning the former city manager, Susan Stanton, who actually was the one who discovered  and exposed the sewer billing errors that amount to over $ten million dollars.