Water Bills

FEB 26, 2025

"I am not going to start WQA until 2025 so I can stick it to the people of Aledo 1 more time" City of Aledo City Manager - Noah Simon

We found on social media a comment by Priscilla Brown, former Utilities Billing clerk (need to add her to the count and update the City of Aledo City Hall - TOXIC workplace? page) Below is her entire comment, screenshot of her comment and a link to the post here. 

Cory is not lying.

So far Noah has managed to get rid of anyone that doesn't fit into his plan. Every employee is leaving because he makes it a toxic place to work there. And the ones that are going to suffer is the citizens of Aledo.

And Noah is lying saying everyone is just going to work to get experience and then leave to get other jobs. THAT IS A LIE! I retired from another city and was called while I was in Georgia by one of their consultants asking me to come to work there to help get the billing straightened out. Because I would call out things I knew was wrong. Noah made it impossible for me to keep working there. I really enjoyed working with the Aledo public. Employees that are the ones really working like Aaron and Travis and Will and Sammy who did all the work in public works and Whitney in communication, Josh and Misti and Deana and Amy and Kevin. I was really sad that they had to keep working for a narcissistic manager that made statements like "I am not going to start WQA until 2025 so I can stick it to the people of Aledo 1 more time". And he raised the rates of the community center from $25 and hour to $100 and hour to keep people from renting the community center because he didn't want them to rent it.

RNS has known for about a year now why the City of Aledo's water bills were messed up. We are ready to announce why and what the City Manager Noah Simon and Mayor Nick Stanley did to cover it up. We will post details in the next day or two. 

The reason the City Manager and Mayor raised the rates on the Community Center is that they do not want anyone to rent so they can argue they need to sell. Why. its part of the mayors business partners plans. More here.

Do you see why we got into the library business, they want the property for The Master Plan. 

More to come....

JAN 8, 2023

They still can't get it right. Today we all received an email advising that our water rates where going up and winter averaging needed council approval. 

This is some of the poorest communication that we have seen from City Hall and Council to date. 

In todays email, they stated: 

Winter averaging for wastewater (sewer) charges is still being considered by City Council for approval to begin in Fall 2024 - Winter 2025. This method considers the amount of water used during the months of December, January and February. The single month with the highest water usage is discarded, and the average of the remaining three months is calculated and used as the basis for billing wastewater charges for the following 12-month period.

If City Council approves this method, customer water use in December 2023, January 2024 and February 2024 will be used to calculate future sewer charges beginning in October 2024.

Rates and Winter Averaging was approved  on DEC 2021. This was motioned by then Councilman Nick Stanley and second by Councilman Shane Davis. What was not decided was the number or months or what months would be averaged. See attached minutes from DEC 2021 council meeting and screenshot of the minutes in question. 

NOTE: According to the minutes - Winter averaging is supposed to begin OCT 1, 2024

No advance notice was given to the citizens about the rate increase. 

Todays notice is dated December 2023 but was sent January 8, 2024.

The above email that the city sent us is also incorrect. The language around the winter averaging is totally wrong and should not have gone out. DEC, JAN and FEB will be averaged. Sources have shared that City Hall said nothing about the highest month being dropped off. They also said that a corrected email will be sent out and new rates will be posted. 

Paper bills for DEC where mailed out JAN 02, 2024. 

With a little research on the Cities Website we found the NewGen Proposal which contains the new water and sewer rates, the minutes from the DEC 2021 council meeting, The notice that the previous administration posted in 2021 about the new water and sewer rates. 

All are included for your personal review below. If you want to know your new rates, take a look below. 

#DefendAledo #RulesForTheeAndNotForMe #RecallNickStanley