Atlanta Refuses Task Force's Offer to Pay Part of Shelter's Water Bill: 1 Year Ago in Midtown

During this week last year, the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless offered to pay the City of Atlanta $100,000 of the $400,000 the city claims is owed on the task force’s Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter’s water bills, but the city refused to accept the partial payment.

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the task force had hoped to pay off a quarter of the bill, then set up a payment plan that would keep the Midtown homeless shelter’s water running. The city threatened to shut off the water on Sept. 22 if they did not receive full payment by that date.

The task force said the city wants the homeless shelter to shut down so the property can be redeveloped, and claimed that the $400,000 figure cited by the city was an exaggeration.

Director of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless Anita Beaty and attorney Steve Hall were trying to resolve the situation with city attorneys on the afternoon of Sept. 19, the AJC reported.

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