Kimball City Attorney and Marion County Attorney Billy GougerKIMBALL, Tenn. – City officials recently discovered that one local company hadn’t been paying its required franchise fees, but so far they haven’t gotten a response concerning the matter.
Trinity Communications in Jasper, Tenn., which offers local cable, phone and Internet service in Marion County, has only paid the city once since July 2008, officials said in June.
A payment of $498.53 was received in April 2011, but officials said no paperwork accompanied the payment, so there was no way to know how Trinity calculated what was owed.
A company’s franchise fee is based on the number of customers a company has within a municipality.
At the July meeting of the Kimball Board of Mayor and Aldermen, City Attorney Billy Gouger said he had tried to contact Trinity General Manager Jim Hunter about the matter twice by phone.