In November 2019, Mike Esmond walked into City Hall in Gulf Breeze, Florida and paid $4,300 to pay for 36 local residents whose gas and water bills were overdue and are at a risk of being disconnected. Again this month Esmond, 74, owner of a pool and spa construction company in Gulf Breeze, cleared $7,600 overdue balances for 114 residents to ensure they could heat their homes through the winter holidays.
This generosity of Esmond inspired few others to do the same something for the community, which has been hit hard by twin disasters: Hurricane Sally in the month of September and the ongoing Pandemic Outbreak. “When he first came in, I thought this was incredibly generous,” said Joanne Oliver, the utility billing supervisor for Gulf Breeze, which has about 7,000 residents. “I’ve been in customer service more than 20 years, and this had never happened.”
Esmond said he had a memory with the Utility bill, in 1983 when he was broke and his own gas and water service was shut off over the holidays. “We’ll just have to see how things go,” Esmond said. “I’m 74 years old and I don’t even know if I’m even going to be here next year, but I can guarantee you one thing: If I am, I’ll do something to help people out.”
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