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DOUGLAS, GA (WALB) -
Dozens of people showed up at Monday night's Douglas City Commission meeting to complain about skyrocketing power bills.
The police had to be called in to settle the crowd down after some were insulted by the way one commissioner referred to them and the head of the local NAACP chapter was asked to leave the meeting
The citizens say they can't afford the bills, and the city needs to do something about it. Patricia Laster said, "I want to hear them say that they made a mistake on our light bill, and that they gonna correct those mistakes, and the people that they have wronged with these light bills that they gonna straighten them out. They gonna straighten them out. Not us having to pay and go deeper and deeper in debt."
City leaders insist no mistakes were made. City Manager Terrell Jacobs says because they're implementing a new billing system, the last billing cycle covered a smaller number of days.
The most recent bills included extra days and came during hot weather when people ran their air conditioners more. Jacobs said, "We checked all the bills in regards to July and August. All their bills were correct. There were no actually rate incorrections in regards to that. It was just a simple premise that they actually had additional days on their billing cycle."
The city is giving customers a special extension, allowing them to split up their bills, but they have to pay up in full in three months.
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