SHREVEPORT, La. The city of Shreveport owes water and sewer customers more than $9.6 million, according to a ruling Wednesday in Caddo District Court.Â
The ruling by District Judge Michael Pitman is second monetary judgment assessed to the city in connection with a water billing class action lawsuit. Last month, the city issued refunds to customers totaling almost $6 million that represented one part of the lawsuit that disclosed the city s practice of rounding up water usage when determining the amount of monthly bills during the winter months.Â
This recent judgment deals with too many days of overcharges.Â
Over 100,000 families who are current and former water and sewer customers will benefit from the ruling, the Harper Law Firm said Thursday in a news release.
Shreveport Sends Out Checks for Water Overbilling
Residents are getting checks from the city this week. This is the end of a long saga over water billing in the city. A class action lawsuit was filed over the way the city rounded up bills between October 1, 2011 through December 31, 2019.
If you were a customer of Shreveport s Department of Water and Sewer during those years, you will be getting a refund check. Many of those checks have arrived in mailboxes this week.
Caddo Parish District Court Judge Michael Pitman approved a settlement of $5,900,000.00 for overcharges on Shreveport water and sewer bills. The nearly six million dollar settlement comes after a long litigation and heavy negotiations between Class Counsel and attorneys for the City of Shreveport.
Clint Willour
Clint Willour, a giant of the Texas art scene, died of cancer on Thursday, February 4, 2021. He was 79.
Throughout his nearly 50-year career, the impact Mr. Willour had on the transformation of Houston into a destination for art cannot be overstated. He arrived in the city in 1970, when its contemporary art scene was fledgling, and his ethos and generosity continued to influence on the city’s museums, nonprofits, and galleries until his death.
Mr. Willour is perhaps best known across Texas for his 25-year stint as curator at the Galveston Arts Center (GAC) a nonprofit, non-collecting art space located in the port city. During his tenure as curator, from 1990 to 2016, he oversaw multiple exhibition spaces in the building and organized the Galveston Art Walk into a successful, regular event. At GAC, Mr. Willour gave many Texas artists their first institutional exhibition opportunities; he would include young artists alongside Texas stalwarts in group shows, and would