Jacksonville’s government watchdog is now circling JEA after sources said the city-owned utility may have skipped billing as much as $100 million in mandatory “additional” capacity fees. The inquiry, confirmed Thursday, lands on top of weeks of public scrutiny over how JEA is run and how it charges customers.
JEA says it is building a program to track down and bill any missed capacity fees and insists that fixing the problem would not put its bond obligations at risk.
According to Action News Jax, three people familiar with the situation told the station that the potential $100 million hole involves mandatory, one-time water and sewer capacity fees that were never billed over an unspecified period. The first public hint came from a social media post by Councilmember Rory Diamond, the station reported…