Why Your Sheffield Utility Bill is So High?

 

The Shoals Chamber of Commerce is an asset to the area. It fulfills such a need that your city may contribute each year. That is unless you live in Sheffield. In that case, your utility department contributes.

That's right, as much as $10,000.00 a year of the utility budget is given to help promote Sheffield. That might sound fair enough...unless you think about it. According to one who complained to this blog, Sheffield Utilities serves "all rural regions of Colbert County, from the state line to the borders of Franklin and Lawrence Counties." One reader continued by saying "I seriously doubt that people in Margerum want their money going to promote Sheffield."

The first thing that comes to mind here is the history of this donation/payment. How did Sheffield Utilities come to be responsible for this donation? To what else is this public utility donating that concerns only the city?

If you're served by the Sheffield Utilities Department, you have a right to question this...