From a concerned resident
I think it's not right that VOIL offers a bill payment service but we have to pay a convenience fee to ePay.
Northern Moraine Wastewater Reclamation District does not charge a fee to pay online, so why should VOIL residents
have to pay a fee?
http://www.illinoisepay.com/epay/GetSite?cmd=get&siteId=693
http://www.illinoisepay.com/epay/GetSite?cmd=get&siteId=693
Maybe the Village Clerk's wants to see our smiling faces come in to pay the bills (to avoid the convenience fee) NOT!!!
or we may then forget ourselves and not stop at one of the many stop signs conveniently located around the village hall
(loss of ticket revenue to the police department if people pay online!)
14 comments:
Its all about $. That's the kind of contracts this town sets up. They do not want our comments at the meetings. Lowering our costs means less money for the Village to spend the way they want. No accountability for their actions. Messed up town. The inmates are running loose.
In all fairness to VOIL, the fee is charged by the state for running the web pay service. I don't think the village gets the fee.
Thank you Larry! I think you are correct . . .
I think this board is doing what is best for the residents as a whole. I look forward to the board continuing to work in the best interest of all of us.
Wayne. . .gets your facts straight. We have it better than any village around us. The money spent in the village budget goes right back to the residents of the village. The board isn't spending it on themselves!
Max said: “The money spent in the village budget goes right back to the residents of the village.”
LOL! Max... give the real facts! When the VILLAGE refuses to follow its own rules and ordinances money spent from the budget goes into the pockets of the attorneys not the residents!
You are corrected on that LouiseTHEslugger. Money comes out of our pocket every time the VOIL calls the attorneys.
If you don't want to pay the 'convenience' charge for using e-pay on the VOIL website, set up your online bill-pay through your bank to cut the check for free. If your bank charges, get a new bank.
Did any of you read this part? H E L L O!!!!
Northern Moraine Wastewater Reclamation District does NOT charge a fee to pay online, so why should VOIL residents have to pay a fee for its bills to residents?
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You don't have to pay a fee to NMWRD !!!!
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What part of this don't all of you get?????
Poor sad, misled, confused and pathetic Max, Doc, or whatever the hell it's name is at the moment.
It tells Wayne to get his facts straight and then states "I THINK you are correct..."
You've been gone a while Max/Doc, please don't think people forgot you're a clueless little follower, unoriginal, and boring.
Honestly, I assumed the writer must have been comparing apples to oranges; that NMWRD was using their own online bill pay system - not Illinois e-pay.
Strange how there is a convenience fee on one site and not another, both using the same system. Perhaps the village should call NMRWD and see if there's a special grant or waiver that you can apply for to avoid charging the convenience fee.
In the meantime, use my suggestion and pay online without the fee using your own bank. Just be sure to give it enough snail-mail time to get it there. Mail always seems to take 3 days longer than it should coming from out of town and through our post office.
From Alexi Giannoulias' E-Pay web site:
"E-Pay complies with the Local Government Acceptance of Credit Cards Act (ILCS-345) and prevailing credit card rules and regulations. E-Pay is offered to local agencies free of charge, but payment processors may assess the following fees."
"MAY charge". NMWRD decides not to charge, VOIL does.
It's funny - if you are an ordinary business or merchant, it's either against the law (or in violation of your agreement with Visa, Mastercard, etc.) for you to charge a "convenience fee" of any sort. Yet if you're a governmental entity, you're free to do so.
Obviously, the NMWRD sees that in order to attract more payments of this type, they give up a point or two willingly. Probably much more efficient and timely in this manner.
With the extra fee imposed, betcha there'll be fewer epays than anticipated. Watch for the Village to announce that the E-Pay "experiment" was a failure.
DBTR
Have you noticed that wherever we “go” now, Herrmann is shaking the tin cup for fireworks?
As Vinnie Barbarino once said, “Gimme drugs, gimme drugs”.
In the Newsletters, on our water and garbage bills, special festivals, on the epay site, etc., etc., etc. She must have forgotten about bumper stickers, or maybe THAT would be too crass?
In these hard times, why not solicit instead for all the various area charitable organizations, including the Food Pantry, among other things?
Herrmann even wanted to hijack the Lion’s Club beer concession’s profits for fireworks!
Why not create and raise funds for a town benevolent fund – help needy residents out with their Village bills?
I agree with Shannon about the civic benefits of the fireworks, but don’t you think getting behind these other more worthy causes also serves to foster community, as well as demonstrating to our young people what values truly matter?
DBTR
What can Santa get you this Christmas, Little Debbie? A pony?
No Santa, I want fireworks!
LOL @ DBTR
Downnbytheriver said " Why not create and raise funds for a town benevolent fund – help needy residents out with their Village bills?" That would make too much sense. Are you crazy? VOIL wouldn't get their cut. Maybe Deb should let the residents shoot their own fireworks off. Let the hospitals make some money.
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