By Benjamin Cox on April 28, 2021 at 1:36pm
The Village of South Jacksonville’s President-Elect has alerted the public of a 5-year old lawsuit concerning the city’s utilities.
President-Elect Tyson Manker says that the village has been involved in litigation since 2016 with Jacksonville Affordable Housing LP over water and sewer utilities. In the alleged lawsuit, Affordable Housing, better known as Labor Drive Housing, discovered in the Spring of 2015 that the village had been overcharging residents of Labor Drive over the past decade. The lawsuit alleges that between January 2006 to December 2014, residents of Labor Drive were overcharged over $326,000 and from January 1, 2015 to May of 2015 they were overcharged nearly $35,000.