Remarks by Nancy Henjum
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“Thank you, Madam President. We will be voting here on the rate case for net metering. I believe they're the actual votes. And this process started over a year ago when we heard a rate case regarding solar rooftop customers in Colorado Springs. And there was a tremendous amount of opposition to that rate case. I appreciate and want to thank utilities, utilities leadership for hearing this council at that time and who actually denied the rate case at that time. And spent this last year reaching out to net metering customers, to customers who are not net metering, to hear their thoughts and…”
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“So you didn't receive, do you, is there any building on your properties?”
“Councilman Hinchin. I think Kevin, you can sit down. I don't need you. Are you done, Dave? Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, okay, well, no.”
“Thank you, Madam President. I want to focus some questions specifically on who received ballots and who didn't. And we heard Chuck Murphy come here and mention that he didn't receive ballots. And my understanding is that a lot depends on who owns the property, who lives there. There's a variety of different definitions of who can vote for a particular parcel. And I don't know if this is acceptable or not. Maybe it needs to be, Trevor, but I do see an attorney here from Spencer Fain, who I believe is the firm that actually ran the election, and I don't know if that attorney can speak to that…”
“Okay, that's fine. Then, Trevor, if you wouldn't mind.”
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“Would it be fair to say, and this is sort of my working assumption, that someone could live in a property that looks as though it's on a map but not meet the actual criteria of the statute and not have received a ballot themselves and been able to vote? Is that accurate?”
“So by nature, the map, and it's an election that impacts very, very few people overall in the population, and you read something in the news. I mean, there's a lot of reasons that it could be confusing that I didn't get to vote in this election. And without going through each of the whatever it was, 600 whatever it was, parcels, it's hard to know, correct? Correct. Okay. Well, I think, I'm assuming we probably want to get to a vote this sooner than later, but I guess my thoughts are on this particular matter that I really don't understand where it originated and why it's so urgent that we…”