The next few posts I'll show pictures of some of the "residential" properties that the City of Ingram, TX allowed to connect to its new wastewater system at the residential rate of $25.00. The City's owns ordinances and regulations classify commercial properties as those which house businesses, and apartment buildings with three or more units. The connection fee for a commercial property is $5,000. So, if the City connect a business for $25.00, the taxpayers lose $4,975.
Here's a property that Ingram only charged $25 because it is a "residence" -
How can this happen? Are the business owners paying bribes to have the fees reduced? It a good old boy network?
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