Urge the County Legislature to replace RG&E with a public utility! - Metro Justice

Urge the County Legislature to replace RG&E with a public utility!

Have you had enough of RG&E profitting off of failure for decades? Join Metro Justice in calling for a tried and true solution: a public utility! 

There's an answer to this problem with RG&E, and Metro Justice has been calling for it with our Rochester for Energy Democracy Campaign. We can turn RG&E into a public utility within the City of Rochester and Monroe County! Public utilities across the nation are proven to be more affordable, reliable, renewable, and economically beneficial to their local communities than private utilities. Rochester area residents have a chance for a real solution - NY state law states that with an implementation study and a positive referendum, RG&E would be forced to sell to the public. 

It's time to call on the County Legistlature to take the RG&E crisis seriously and take the first step towards a solution: allocating up to $1 million for an implementation study on taking over RG&E in Monroe County and turning it into a public utility. This money would go towards a joint fund with the City of Rochester, so that the City and County are partnering to commission the study. This study would give us a comprehensive road map for establishing a public utility that is affordable, responsive to your needs, local, renewable, and invested in our local workforce and economy.

The County Legislature has the power to stop $108 million a year from bleeding out of our community to line RG&E's shareholders' pockets despite gross mismanagement. They owe it to residents to act on the RG&E crisis, and they need to hear from you to do so! 

The next County Legislature meeting is Tuesday, February 14th at the Monroe County Legislature Majority Office (39 W Main Street, Rochester, NY, 14614). The Public Comment period begins at 6 PM, so please plan to arrive by 5:40 PM if possible so that you have time to park, go through security, and find the Chambers. 

To join us:

- The first step is to RSVP below to let us know you're coming! Whether you're speaking or coming to show to your support in the audience, we want to know that you'll be joining us! 

We highly encourage you to sign up to speak: hearing constituents share their RG&E stories and directly call on them to fund a study for a public utility is most effective in moving County Legislators take action. To sign up to speak, you must call David Grant, Clerk of the County Legislature, at 585 753-1950 to register to sign up to speak as soon as possibleIf you sign up to speak, please email Mohini Sharma (mohini@metrojustice) and Michelle Wenderlich ([email protected]) to let us know! 

You will have a strict 2 minutes to speak, and people will speak in the order in which they signed up. Please plan to end your remarks with a call to the County to allocate up to $1 million for an implementation study for a public takeover of RG&E in Monroe County, and to work with Metro Justice and the City of Rochester to commission the study. Here is a more detailed guideline for your remarks!  

Let's make sure our County Legislatures sides with us, the ratepayers, instead of protecting RG&E! 

WHEN
February 14, 2023 at 6:00pm - 8pm
WHERE
Monroe County Legislative Chambers, County Office Building
39 W Main St
Room 406 - 4th floor
Rochester, NY 14614
United States
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CONTACT
Mohini Sharma · · 585-397-3534
116 RSVPS
Tori Valachovic Rachael Pepper Masiti Sharif wendy a schleyer Michelle Linton Adam Henne Scott Gilbert-Moore Stephen Carey Lisa Johnson MaryLee Miller Lisa Stupia Dominik Messer Hannah Pickert Sarah Peters Brian Managan Kelly Cheatle test test Karen Pelc Karen Managan Daniel Moore Anne Perez Bonnie Cannan Mary Prochaska Robert Adams Shawn Hagan Abdullah Watkins Luke Jarzyna Marybeth Knowles Wilbert Germany Eric Howard Marissa Burkland Xemu X Xenu Jr Cassandra Rabe LaWanda Shipman Rev Roy Jones Robert MacFarlane Rebecca Hill Victoria Pacheco Kate Caven Jonathan Hardin Jack Simel Brien Graham Kevin McCabe Pauletta Brown Laura Hammond Lauren Wiener William Bayer

Who's RSVPing

Julie Garrett
peter peterson
Rachel Crawford
Carmelo Crassi
L Turner
Kinra Johnson
Raymond Banks
Gregory Lebens-Higgins
Lorretta A Walker
Austin Retzlaff
Rebecca Scales
Allen Blair
Stephen Falzoi
Jeannine Lee
Patrick Murphy
Isaac Harris
Matthew Witten
Yolanda Manns
Tori Valachovic
Rachael Pepper
Masiti Sharif
wendy a schleyer
Michelle Linton
Adam Henne
Scott Gilbert-Moore
Stephen Carey
Lisa Johnson
MaryLee Miller

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  • wendy a schleyer
    commented 2023-02-08 19:42:15 -0500
    Paul and I will try to be there. Can you send a reminder email to [email protected].
  • wendy a schleyer
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    Paul and I will try to be there. Can you send a reminder email to [email protected].
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