News
Click here for the latest updates.


Get Involved!
Contact us for leadership roles!

With a small commitment from everyone, we will easily accomplish what we set out to do!



Our Goals
1. Reasonable Water & Sewer Bills
2. Friendly City Service
3. Responsible City Financial Management
4. Cost Effective and Environmentally Friendly Sewage Treatment System
5. Equitable Property Tax
6. Parity (North Port Wentworth treated same as Old Port Wentworth)
7. Neighborhood Parks
8. Solve Traffic Problem
9. Excellent Schools
10. Great Place to Live – A Green City


Our Mission
To develop Port Wentworth as a great place to LIVE!

Almost 200 residents showed up at the Port Wentworth City Council meeting last Thursday, September 25. Our numbers and the vocal, articulate speakers expressed our dissatisfaction and concerns. The Mayor’s challenge to the people to prove to him that someone’s water bill was $300 to $400 (other than because people had not paid their previous water bill) was thunderously answered by angry citizens with their bills in hand. A large portion of our complaints were directed at the attitude of the city. Not only have we complained, but our complaints have fallen on deaf ears and we've been treated rudely by city employees.

A third concern was expressed about the new City Treatment Plant. After six years, no permit has yet been granted. Plus, who is going to pay for the portion of the plant for Old Port Wentworth? It was expressed that North Port Wentworth is paying almost $5,000 per home, financed into our payments, but that all of our SPLOST funds will help pay for the citizens of Old Port Wentworth. The rest of their portion might have to come from increased taxes or from our SPLOST funds in the future. Why should we pay millions of dollars for Old Port Wentworth, in addition to $5,000 for each of our homes? Why don’t the city officials take our SPLOST funds and spend it on a “State of the Art” metering system for us so we don’t have to pay $200 to $300 monthly water bills?

We found out that the city is losing money on the water system. How can that be? Someone must not be paying their fair share. The council voted for a 10 unit cap on our sewage bill. After three years of residents complaining, the night that we all showed up, coincidently, they slightly reduce the sewage bill... for sewage we were not using in the first place.

Several of us expressed concern about the same city officials' (who are mismanaging our current water system) abilities to manage a sewage treatment plant dumping treated sewage into the Savannah River next to a wildlife refuge. What will happen to our already astronomical sewage rates? We certainly cannot pay more. Also, it was pointed out that after six years of trying for a permit for the Sewage Plant, no backup system has been explored. What happens if the Plant cost is prohibited? What do we do?

The largest concern is that the city is badly mismanaging the money that North Port Wentworth is providing (especially since Old Port Wentworth citizens are practically exempt from property taxes). In answer to our financial concerns, Councilwoman Patricia Jaudon began to talk about the “good” things that the council has done for North Port Wentworth. All we could hear is that they spend a half million dollars for this and a million dollars for this, and millions of dollars for other projects. No wonder we are in a financial bind.