Signs point to Seneca starting legal challenge

Signs from Seneca indicate city leaders have lost their patience with their counterparts within the Joint Regional Sewer Authority and are ready to follow through with their threat to legally challenge the makeup of the JRSA board, which Seneca believes is under-representative of the argest and highest-paying customer.  A motion to that effect was approved after an executive session that included two city attorneys.  In the meantime an attorney for JRSA provided the sewer commissioners a memorandum, the conclusion of which reads the following:  “…we are of the reasoned opinion that a court of competent jurisdiction, properly briefed, could determine that Seneca may not unilaterally require a change in the composition of the Authority Commission or a reallocation of voting power of the Commissioners, nor may Seneca compel the remaining Members to take action to authorize amendments to the Authority Agreement to implement any such change….”