Voters across Alabama will see Statewide Amendment 9 on their ballots next Tuesday, but the legislation directly affects only residents and businesses in and around the city of Lake View, which sits on the boundary of Tuscaloosa and Jefferson counties.

Amendment 9 would put a private sewer system that serves the area under the regulation of the Alabama Public Service Commission.

Lake View Mayor Adrain Dudley said the city’s residents who are customers of Tannehill Sewer are concerned about rates and what he said is a lack of customer service. Dudley said residential customers pay a flat rate of $126 a month for sewer service.

“Residents want to understand what they’re paying for,” Dudley said. “Residents want to be able to talk to somebody if they have issues. And residents want to be able to make partial payments. They also want to have some kind of idea about why their rates go up if the rates have to go up. And they want there to be some system in place that gives them that information. And right now there’s not.”

Dudley said residents can’t pay bills online and notes that Tannehill Sewer’s website is not operative.

Dudley, who has been mayor for two years, said he and the city council support the amendment. The mayor said he worked with Rep. Rich Wingo, R-Tuscaloosa, on the legislation, which passed the House of Representatives 95-0 and passed the Senate 23-2.

The amendment would put the sewer system under the regulation of the Public Service Commission for the next five years, beginning January 1. The regulation would apply to Tannehill Sewer’s service in Lake View in Tuscaloosa and Jefferson counties and in unincorporated Tuscaloosa County. The PSC is an elected, three-member board that regulates utilities, including 25 water and waste water utilities.

“The PSC would have a metric for identifying what the rate should be,” Dudley said. “And that will give people some solace, because even if the rates go up then they know why the rate is going up.”

Amendment 9 is one of 10 statewide amendments on the ballot Tuesday, including Amendment 8, a similar proposal that affects private sewer systems in Shelby County.

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