The proposed reforms would allow Jackson to pay for the costs of improving and operating a water system that is in such disrepair it could fail again at any moment.
in Mississippi’s capital city released a new financial plan Friday to change the way Jackson bills for water and spend hundreds of millions of federal relief funds paying down the system’s debt.of its debt and introduce a new billing model that would become effective in the budget year that begins on Oct. 1.
“I’ve got to tell you, I could walk out of here right now and lose the system. It’s that tenuous,” Henifin said at a Friday news conference. “We’ve done a lot to improve this system, but it might fail tomorrow.” The O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant in Jackson, Miss. on August 31, 2022. Jackson is struggling with access to safe drinking water after a disruption at the water processing facility.Henifin said that Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba called him in a panic earlier Friday because he had lost water in his home. The mayor was worried the system had failed again. Repeated breakdowns have caused many in the city of about 150,000 to go days and weeks at a time without safe running water.
The plan would change the way Jackson issues fees for water use. Water fees would be established as a percentage of assessed property values, subject to a monthly cap. This is Henifin’s proposed solution to a loss of revenue Jackson has experienced as its tax base eroded over the past few decades. Increasing maintenance costs in a city where 25% of residents are in poverty could lead to increases in water rates, further accelerating migration out of Jackson to the suburbs. This represents a “slow death spiral” that many cities in the United States have faced over the past four decades, according to Henifin’s proposal.
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