Banana Kelly also owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes and water and sewer fees.

The city of Bell assessed property owners for sewer fees without getting the mandated voter approval.

Then there are an imminent property assessment revaluation and a sewer fee that has more than doubled after a new sewer treatment plant opened last year.

Nothing in the law requires the city to notify people when they have overpaid on their property taxes and water and sewer fees, officials said.

The water fee is $ 120 and the sewer fee to $ 250.

Residents pay no property taxes or sewer fees.

In July he was sworn in for the $60,000-a-year job of managing six employees and collecting $169 million a year in town taxes and sewer fees.

Additional connection fees and annual sewer fees will be charged for tying in.

It collected $26 million in sewer fees, covering all expansion of the system.

In Lake County, municipal water and sewer fees raise the total burden on new buyers to $6,000 to $8,000 for the average house.