This was my first meeting at the MID board to hear and comment on discussions involving all kinds of things. Today, the reason I showed up was to defeat the biomass facility that would raise rates for the ratepayers, once again, and lock us into these high rates for at least 20 years. CRAZY!!!!!!

The meeting was a 9 AM in the morning. First, why does the board have a meeting in the morning when most ratepayers work? Even most of the board members have other things to do during the day. I found out, since it took over two hours to get to the meat of the meeting regarding the Biomass plant. A lot of opposition left because they had to work. Heck, I left early because unless my business is open, I’m not getting any money.  I think it may be time to petition the Board to meet in the evenings when rate payers can attend the meetings to voice their concerns about ever increasing rates.

So what happened?  To make a long story somewhat shortened, MID had already voted against this plan. There are lots of reasons and if you want to read more, look here: http://voiceofmodesto.org/wordpress/

But the local yokel who backed the plan threatened to sue MID for not going through with his plan. He claimed oral contract, yada yada yada. MID’s lawyer stated that there was not oral contract and that the agreement they signed when they first started discussions, clearly outlined that cancellation was the right of either party, and the Board of Directors of MID had to agree to the plan.  It was clear that the Board was going to vote down the plan, so I left the meeting early. I can’t believe it was voted down 3-2…that there were actually two of these idiots who wanted to raise our rates. I’ll dedicate a blog spot for that later.

I did learn a lot at the meeting though and essentially we are going to have higher rates. Read next section for Why.