We’re learning more about accusations that JEA may have failed to collect as much as $100 million worth of fees.
JEA rates have been on the rise, with customers seeing their bills increase by 3.7 percent last April and another 5.1 percent increase scheduled for this October.
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But at the same time the utility was approving rate hikes for its average customers, it was considering a deal that would have involved forgiving $18.9 million owed by a major company: Mayo Clinic.
Action News Jax obtained a 2024 memo offered by JEA’s former General Counsel, Regina Ross, in which she estimated Mayo’s water and sewer usage had ballooned to nearly 644,000 gallons per day, or 453 percent of the initial capacity approved back in 1995…