Council weighs moratorium on sewer bill collections

BRIDGEPORT — Frustrated City Council members are threatening a moratorium blocking City Hall’s controversial efforts to collect late sewer use fees. “You wanna hold us up, we’ll hold you up,” Councilman Marcus Brown told two municipal lawyers Tuesday during a tension-filled ordinance committee meeting, which Brown co-chaired. That committee has launched an aggressive — and at times seemingly unwieldy — probe into the city’s longtime use of private collection attorneys and property foreclosures to go after bills owed the Water Pollution Control Authority. The council hopes to reform that process and set up a new mediation program for homeowners who have fallen too far behind.

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