No word on Detroit mosques.
A historic Detroit church is being hit with a huge bill that’s 100 years in the making by the city. It’s part of the city’s plan to attempt to tap into some long forgotten cash.
It’s the only Hungarian Catholic Church in Michigan. Founded in 1905, Holy Cross is currently home to about 475 parishioners and has been doing everything right in the Delray section of southwest Detroit for almost 100 years.
“We have no problem until this moment, we are shocked that we have to pay extra,” Holy Cross Friar Barnabas said.
The city is telling the church to pay up – to the tune of $2,500 a month. The city seems to have found some 20,000 parcels of property that were never billed for water drainage. One of those parcels is Holy Cross.
According to Drainage Change Program Manager Eric Rothstein, the city spends $125 million a year to contain storm water. The city says these discovered parcels account for about $8 million of additional revenue for the city’s water department.
“Everybody’s been paying, but these parcels,” Rothstein said. “There are lots of reasons why an account may not have billed.”
Those reasons don’t matter and the water department is going after the properties.
ht/ rob e.
I smell muslim bullshit behind this maneuver.
Abolition of govt is looking better and better all the time, isn’t it?
Aside: I’ve about decided to start calling myself an Abolitionist instead of Anarchist. Abolitionists have much more positive name recognition.
So, it took you 100 years to bill us. Not our fault. So we’ll opt for the 100 year payment plan.
Didn’t they know they owed the money?
Give me a break
As I understand it, they are not being billed for 100 years of storm fees. It also looks like the city would only be able to bill for the past 6 years – if they wanted to. But they’re not.
So what’s happening is they are NOW going to be billed for what they haven’t been billed before.
Not so outrageous.
$125 million a year for storm water containment? WTF?
Gravity does the same thing for free. I think it’s called the Great Lakes.
There may be 125 people scamming a million each out of the “drainage change program”, but they sure as hell never spent a dime on drainage infrastructure.
The republic is lost.
I’d like to see how much the Mosques pay each month in “drainage fees.”
Sounds like a shakedown.
Side note, if the 475 church members actually tithed (giving 10% of gross income) they would be able to pay that fee no problem.
Better to go with Plan B:
Move the parish out of Deetroit, default on any church debts, send them a greeting card from the suburbs.