Thu, Nov 26 2009
|
|
Settlements hold back taxes from cell-phone companies Salchow said the city will settle soon with Sprint/Nextel for $41,000.
Carl Junction Carl Junction will decide on a settlement with AT&T by Feb. 11, according to city clerk Maribeth Matney. Verizon settled in November for $18,545 and U.S. Cellular settled Jan. 8 for $34,417. Matney said the city had not heard about a settlement from Sprint. Neosho The city of Neosho has settled with most of the cell-phone companies in the issue. Bob Blackwood, Neosho finance director, said Verizon settled in October for $16,000 and U.S. Cellular settled in December for $34,000. Blackwood said the city is currently in negotiations with AT&T, but was not at liberty to discuss the amount. He also said the city should be settling with Sprint soon. The city did not have T-Mobile customers. Blackwood said he hopes to have the protested payments in hand within the next two months. Monett Dennis Pyle, Monett city administrator, said the city settled with Verizon in November for $14,080 and U.S. Cellular in December for $29,292. Pyle expects the city to settle with AT&T later this month for $153,366, and with Sprint next month for $10,416. Alltel is the largest service provider in Monett, but Pyle said the city hasn’t gotten any settlement information or payments from the company. “We are going to address it with our attorneys,” he said. Monett will start discussions with T-Mobile next, Pyle said. Aurora Kathie Needham, city clerk and finance director for Aurora, said the city settled with Verizon in October before joining the coalition of other cities requesting back taxes from the cell-phone companies. Verizon settled for $2,249. Needham said the city settled with U.S. Cellular in December for $7,873 and just passed an ordinance Jan. 7 approving a settlement with AT&T for $68,672. The council will approve a Sprint settlement Jan. 22 for $12,402. Needham said Alltel is probably the largest cell-phone provider in Aurora, and expects it would be the largest settlement, but said the city hadn’t heard anything from the company yet. 
•
Click to discuss this story with other readers on our forums.
More from the Local News section
Canine ‘pawsengers’ take inaugural pet rescue flight Fourth Street scheduled to reopen Funeral for soldier killed in Afghanistan scheduled in Galena |
Print this story
E-mail this story
Post to del.icio.us
Discuss this story
Photographer documents struggle with cystic fibrosis w/ slide show and link to National Transplant Assistance Fund page
 |
 |
: Special Offer For New Subscribers
:
 |
|||||||
|
|||||||
 |
|
|
Published by Newspaper Holding, Inc. 117 East Fourth Street, Joplin, MO 64801 Using our site is your agreement to the terms and conditions. News: news@joplinglobe.com • (417)623-3480 Advertise with the Joplin Globe Copyright © 2006 The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO All rights reserved. 
|
Popular Business directory links - Joplin Apartments | Joplin Attorneys | Joplin Auto Dealers | Joplin Auto Parts | Joplin Auto Repair | Joplin Beauty Salons | Joplin Car Rental | Joplin Dentists | Joplin Doctors | Joplin Flowers | Joplin Hotels | Joplin Insurance | Joplin Loans | Joplin Mortgages | Joplin Movers | Joplin Pizza | Joplin Realtors | Joplin Restaurants | Joplin Storage | Joplin Tax Preparation | Joplin Travel | Joplin Featured | More...
|
|
Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. • CNHI Classified Advertising Network • CNHI News Service |
