Wednesday, October 19The Palm Beach Post
Commissioner Jo-Ann Golden's Letter to the Editor
Editorial Wrong on Electric Rates in Lake Worth.
When you get through reading the letter, you will immediately want to pack up your bags and move to Lake worth.
Joann, you really stink as our commissioner, you cannot even e-mail us back, your own constituents, you do not deserve to be re-elected, you have not listened to us nor have any respect for us as citizens here. I am voting for Andy Amaroso now!
ReplyDeleteI knew your loss would catch up with you.
This saves Commissiner Golden the expense of sending out a campaign mailer.
ReplyDeleteThe Commissioner left out the facts that the Utility is so mismanaged that we had to outsource Customer Service because the Utilities director said that the employees couldn't be trained. The utility management is so bad that we have yet to collect any of the over $9,000,000 in over 120 day past due owed annually over at least the past 3 years.
ReplyDeleteGolden also left out that our high rates will be increased after leaving FMPA. Our consultant, Sue Hersey, says--we will lose the personnel and buying power economies of scale that FMPA has that a small municipal utility doesn't have.
Unfortunately, customer service has been an on-going problem in the Utility Dept. Outsourcing is the answer to this problem because the City can't even discipline a rude employee becausse of the Union. By outsourcing, we will get rid of the insufferable employees and get rid of the Union in one fell swoop thus saving us a lot of headaches and a lot of money.
ReplyDeleteNot true, 10:41 above on the FMPA rates.
ReplyDeleteThe utility should provide a benefit to the city and thus far because of its gross mismanagement, the electric utility has been a burden to residents who pay more and get less than FPL customers. But part of that problem, the high cost of electricity FMPA charges for the power we use; will be subject to some competition now that we took the necessary to exit from the ARP. We are, at last, unshackled from FMPA’s mind numbing constraints and now we can actually take a look at how we want to power our city. Sue Hersey was hired to show us the way and the RFP is now out I beleive.
Yes we have exited out of FMPA. However no one knows for sure what the new cost will be so to speculate one way or the other is an exercise in futility at this point. Not one person in the city will go on record on this issue.
ReplyDeleteNo one can predict the future. We might have a global collapse by then and at that point, none of us will have to worry about it. Occupy Wall Streeters will be happy. The only businesses making money will be gun shops and the rest of us, even the 1%, will be dumpster diving.
ReplyDeleteI like Joann as a person and while I agree with some of her points I won't be voting for her this time around.
ReplyDeleteI agree that outages are down, at least at my house. Back in 1999 or 2000, my stove clock would be blinking every other day because the power had been out. I, for one, have noticed a great improvement. While our rates are higher than FPL I don't find them very out of wack, my real problem is that the utility bill has turned into a way for the City to add on new taxes (or assessments if you want to call it that). The conservation surcharge is nothing more than a back door tax and I've clashed with Joann about it, she does generally email me back.
Regarding the fire assessment, its illegal, there will be litgiation, the city will lose. Yes an assessment is more fair, assuming its legal, but in this case assessing for pension costs is not permissible regardless of fairness. Yes I'd like people who are paying nothing in property taxes here in LW to pay more so I can pay less but the fire assessment does not solve this problem but rather increases my taxes.