The Commonwealth Health Care Corp.\u2019s monthly utility bill totals $400,000, but it can only afford to pay the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. just $71,000 a month, resulting in a debt that has now ballooned to $27.7 million. <\/p>\n
At a CUC board meeting last week, CUC executive director Gary P. Camacho disclosed that, according to CHCC, it can only afford to pay CUC $71,000 a month at this time because of other obligations they must meet. <\/p>\n
Yet even that is apparently a problem. Camacho said it is his understanding that CHCC has not made payment, \u201cnot even the $71,000.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s challenging and the discussion was made. It is imperative that we recover our costs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Citing internal CHCC computations, Camacho said that CHCC\u2019s $71,000 is \u201call they have left in the pot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut their usage is easily over $400,000 a month,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He said CUC is diligent about disconnecting residential and commercial customers and that CUC has worked out different arrangements with other agencies that also have outstanding debts.<\/p>\n
He underscored the need to be creative to work something out to collect the receivables but CHCC \u201ccan only be creative up to $71,000.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo again, everybody is going to have to pay that bill at some point. Believe me it\u2019s [going to] be an issue in our audit. It\u2019s [going to] be an issue with the [House Public Utilities and Communications Committee],\u201d Camacho said.<\/p>\n
CUC board treasurer Matthew Holley said CHCC is supposed to be making payments of $400,000 a month and is the one who came up with the $71,000 per-month payment plan. <\/p>\n
Last March, CUC reported that CHCC owes the utilities agency $27,412,615, with its past due going back four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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