The Jackson City Council approved a workaround this week to keep residential trash pickup running, a move that underscores a persistent financial standoff between the city and JXN Water that could soon return to federal court.
At the council’s Tuesday, Dec. 30, meeting, council members amended the city’s routine “claims” docket to allow more than $2 million in sanitation-related bills to be paid from the city’s general fund because the designated sanitation fund is effectively empty.
City officials say it’s empty for one reason: JXN Water, the public utility that has managed the city’s water and sewer system since 2023, is withholding sanitation fees residents already paid on their water bills…