City fixes code on sewer billing

Seymour Common Council corrected an error in the city's code on sewer rates at a brief meeting Monday.

Clerk-treasurer Fred Lewis explained that when the city adopted new sewer rates in 2001, a section of the old code allowing for sewer credits to mobile home parks was inadvertently left on the books.

"Mobile home parks used to get credits for each mobile home, and this section is still in the code," Lewis said. "It needs to be eliminated."

Lewis said the error was brought to light when Gregg Pardieck came before council to inquire why his family, who owns and manages Village Green Mobile Home Park on the south side of the city, had not received sewer credits.

"Mr. Pardieck feels he is entitled to the credit, but we don't think he is," Lewis said. "When we passed the ordinance in 2001, it repealed everything before it."

Pardieck did not attend Monday's council meeting.
City attorney Rodney Farrow explained further.

"Something was left out of the ordinance codification in 2001," he said. "This ordinance just cleans that up to make it clearer. Mr. Pardieck will say the credit was good until 2002, but the courts will have to decide that."

Lewis said so far Pardieck has not sued the city over the situation.