At last night's City Commission meeting, which I attended, the Commission voted 4-1 to accept blended rates for the city's electrical arm, Electric City Power. According to Coleen Balzarini, blended rates are usually lower, but no guarantee this will always be the case. (See here for the Tribune's article).
Commissioner Jolley requested that the issue be postponed and that a work session be held. She cited the Yellowstone Valley lawsuit, which in part has to do with blended rates; the fact that there are documents in the "secret box" that pertain to blended rates, and finally, the public's inability to accurately address the issue when not all of the information is known.
It didn't come as a surprise when Commissioner Beecher said he didn't share Mary's concerns. He sees no reason not to go down this road.
How does he know there is no reason? He and the other commissioners have deliberately kept themselves in the dark over this issue. When Commissioner Jolley asked how many other commissioners had looked in the "secret box", nobody else had.
So, who again is the uninformed and under-informed ?
Commissioner Jolley requested that the issue be postponed and that a work session be held. She cited the Yellowstone Valley lawsuit, which in part has to do with blended rates; the fact that there are documents in the "secret box" that pertain to blended rates, and finally, the public's inability to accurately address the issue when not all of the information is known.
It didn't come as a surprise when Commissioner Beecher said he didn't share Mary's concerns. He sees no reason not to go down this road.
How does he know there is no reason? He and the other commissioners have deliberately kept themselves in the dark over this issue. When Commissioner Jolley asked how many other commissioners had looked in the "secret box", nobody else had.
So, who again is the uninformed and under-informed ?
2 comments:
Edmund Burke's quote is absolutely relevant. Four of the five commissioners IGNORE the facts and are not DOING the People's business.
let's see, beecher hmmm...
when it was announced that ECP was in violation of the law, beecher said that it was not.
when it was shown SME was more expensive, beecher said in the tribune article it didn't matter because SME was less expensive.
now because he claimes to be purposly ignorant (maybe he did look inthe box, then again his "audited accounts" are no secret but he is still ignorant) he "sees no reason" not to continue to vote in ignorance.
Maybe Beecher is senile.
Hey beecher, I know you read this, would you rather be know as senile or dirty?
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