Here are a couple of key slides:
Notice that they cloak their lobbying under the guise of "local control". In reality local control is when the taxpayer controls the funding and how their taxes are spent individually. But as you can see from the slide they do not want any control of the Municipal Owned Utility to be taken from them.
The 4th item shows they want to continue to transfer $9M+ from the overpriced utilities to the general fund.
The 5th item says they want to keep everything about the utilities "secret". No way for the citizens to evaluate the city's financial management of the utilities!
Perhaps it is time to sell the utilities to private industry to enable competition based on price and service!
As a minimum the citizens deserve full transparency into the utilities so that voters can use their vote to approve or disapprove the management of their taxpayer dollars!
It is unconscionable that the City uses taxpayer funds to lobby against the best interests of its citizens!!
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