No need to continue energy adjustment

The $450,000 deficit in the Milltown electric utility caused by the exorbitant summer 1999 electric bill will be paid off two months earlier than anticipated.

At the Nov. 27 Milltown Borough Council meeting, the ordinance I introduced at the Nov. 13 meeting to cancel the energy adjustment charge for the November and December electric bills was approved. What this means for the ratepayers is that the energy adjustment charge applied to the April-October electric bills will not be applied to their November and December electric bills.

In April the council passed an ordinance to add an energy adjustment, based upon a ratepayer’s electric usage and rate, to their April-December electric bills as a way of paying off the deficit. We asked the ratepayers to make up the shortfall, and they did. Now that the deficit has been satisfied there was no reason to continue the energy adjustment. It was the right thing to do.

Gary Walters

Councilman

Milltown