LEAVE BOCO OUT – Received the email below today and according to the authors, the City of Boulder will take over all Xcel property in both the City and County. I have quickly browsed through Boulder’s PUC petition, Proceeding No. 15A-0589E, and the separation boundaries are not clear from that document. I’ll do more research and report back. I’ll also upload the petition, but it’s too late and I’m too tired to do it now.
LEAVE BOCO OUT
Leave BoCo Out is a new organization formed by Boulder County residents to oppose the effort by the City of Boulder to condemn all facilities serving City and County customers of Xcel (down to and including the meters on our houses). We need your support.
Leave BoCo Out has hired Ray Gifford, an attorney with Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP, and a former Chairman of the Colorado Public Service Commission, to represent the organization. Ray will represent us before the Colorado Public Service Commission to oppose Boulder’s application to take these assets and turn county residents for all practical purposes into customers of the Boulder city utility. Boulder filed its PUC petition, Proceeding No. 15A-0589E, and it is available through the Commission’s website at www.colorado.gov/dora/puc. (See bottom of post – Ed)
County residents have been left out of the municipalization process from the very beginning. We had no vote in Boulder’s decision to create a municipal utility. We were first told by Boulder that we would not be included in its utility’s service territory. Then, Boulder said it would include County residents as customers. In yet another about-turn, we now find out from Boulder’s application that in fact Boulder wants to take all of the wires, poles and meters that serve County residents and have Xcel “wheel” power back to us. In effect, County residents would be customers of Xcel in name only. All service would be provided by Boulder. Any repairs would be done by Boulder. System reliability would be the responsibility of Boulder. And yet, Boulder admits it has no idea how much it will cost to serve County customers through its proposed arrangement with Xcel.
Leave BoCo Out is asking for your support. If you agree with our position, send an email to leavebocoout@outlook.com. If you would like to contribute, send a check payable to Leave BoCo Out, PO Box 11125, Boulder, CO 80301.
- Michael Dorsey Erik Ringkjob Janusz Okolowicz
Carolyn Buck Charles Danaher David W. Smith
John B. Irons, Jr.
