Legal action was also taken to collect back rent and utility fees owed the cafe's landlord, Rockefeller Center.
She said she wanted to see how well the government's reforms would take hold, given the difficulty of raising taxes and utility fees in a weak economy.
In 2010, Oslo county utility fees for trash disposal, chimney sweeping and water will be 8,000 kroner ($1,300) for the year.
The Staten Island Yankees owe the city $570,202 in utility fees and late payment charges, according to an audit issued yesterday by City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr.
Local governments and city councils draw revenue mainly from taxes on utility fees and from property taxes for expenditure in areas including the construction and maintenance of roadways and the provision of local health and sanitary services.
Once caught in a vicious circle, it is hard for a region to recover: after losing the young, female and well-educated, municipalities have to close schools, increase utility fees to finance an oversized infrastructure and spend more on an ageing population all of which makes them still less attractive.
But as its pool of money from utility fees has deepened, a growing number of state lawmakers have tried to bring it under their control, arguing that the SBC charges amount to a tax imposed by unelected officials with little public input.
The towns of Islip and Smithtown and four town supervisors had sued LIPA and other agencies, saying it was unfair that ratepayers in their towns had to pay higher utility fees to help reimburse LIPA when taxpayers in other towns had received most of the benefits of the extra tax payments.
From recent news in The Wall Street Journal, it appears that AOL plans to convert to an advertising-only model instead of collecting its utility fees for its subscription-based service.
