How to collect unpaid county garbage bills in rural Kentucky Posted: April 22, 2014
Kentucky statute KRS 109.310 allows a county government to include delinquent solid waste fees to a client's property tax bills. Countys can place liens and auction land belonging to those unwilling to pay their garbage bill. This method has proven to be a very effective means to collect late solid waste debt for counties. As much as 95% of a county's outstanding solid waste receivables have been recovered from deadbeat property owners. Since about 90% of the public pays their garbage bill, making the remaining reluctant 10% also pay their bill is generally popular.
This Zip file contains all the software and source code with sample data to manage a county solid waste billing office. Use "USER1" with password "12345" to login to the system. The software is written in Foxpro, a deprecated database system (still available on ebay, 2014). Any version from V5 to V9 will compile and run the system. Run ready executables are included in the zip file. This software is "as is" under the MIT license and comes with no warrenty, but it is free and open source. See the source file act_.prg. All the data shown here is public record, and was FOIA'd by John Cleveland in 2006.
An example property tax bill that includes long (>90 days) overdue garbage debt:
Some documentation on operating the accounting program is here, on reports available from the accounting program is here, on running residential bills, here,on running Commercial bills is here, on importing PVA ARM tax bill data (the newer of two common PVA data sources) into the accounting program is here, on importing PVA TRIM data (the older of two common PVA data sources) into the accounting program is here, and documentation on how to link the solid waste debt to a property tax bill is here. This documentation is incomplete, and does not cover most things. For starts, it does not cover bill printing, nor all the sources of data needed to place delinquent debt onto a property tax bill, and it does not cover any of the auditing or security methods. Some parts of this software are still (2014) in service. Contact ap@appal.org with questions.
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