Bastrop, Tx–City utility customers who have paid their bills on time for at least a year are in line for water and electric service deposit refunds before Christmas. Those eligible for the refunds include residential and commercial customers, the city council agreed at a meeting Dec. 8.
Refund checks–not credit against current and future bills–should be in the mail by Dec. 15, City Manager Mike Talbot said in a Dec. 10 interview.
Those eligible for deposit refunds include customers who paid their bills late no more than twice in the past 12 months, said Talbot. The refund plan was approved, in general terms, when the council approved its operating budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year in September. Tuesday’s action authorized the refund action and included a broad overhaul of the city’s utility policies aimed at making Bastrop services more competitive with area cities, said Talbot.
Under revised rules adopted this week, new city customers may not be required to put down deposits for utility service if they can show a good record of payments to previous providers, said Talbot.