Friends of Mill Valley

Posted from the Marin IJ Letters to the Editor: 2/22/10
By: Trip Ames, TIBURON

Residents of Marin recently received a mailing from "Marin Clean Energy" notifying most PG&E customers they will now be buying their electricity from a new government agency called Marin Energy Authority (MEA), unless they choose to opt out.

What the notice does not tell you is that as ratepayers and taxpayers there is significant financial risk.

Several Marin cities - Novato, Larkspur, Corte Madera and Ross - have wisely decided not to join the MEA.

Mill Valley is now being urged to opt out as well.

Eleven former Mill Valley mayors have written a very strong and well-researched letter to the mayor and the council outlining the financial risk to their citizens.

I urge every citizen and elected official of Marin to read that letter, which can be found at www.friendsofmillvalley.org.

I also challenge former Marin supervisors and mayors of each of those participating cities to get organized and appeal our current elected officials to wake up.

They are certainly not listening to their constituents, but they might listen to you.

Trip Ames, TIBURON