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  1. Scott Burger Says:

    March 16, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    GREEN PARTY OF RICHMOND
    Thursday, March 15, 2007

    Contact:
    Scott Burger, Chairperson, 804 714 5444
    scottburger@mac.com

    Greens Announce A $100 Contest

    At Monday’s Richmond City Council meeting, the Chairperson for the Richmond Green Party, Scott Burger, addressed city leaders about the City’s residential water rates. Today, the Richmond Greens put their money where their mouth is by sponsoring a $100 contest to find any city in the entire United States that has a more regressive minimum water and sewer rate than Richmond’s.

    Richmond’s utility charges each citizen $43.55 in minimum water and wastewater service charges.
    At the City Council meeting, Burger asked the Richmond City Council to eliminate the high volume discount rate in its residential service for over 100 CCF of water usage, and to greatly reduce the minimum water and sewer rates to actually reflect the minimal cost of providing water service. He asked that Richmond emulate Henrico County by offering a deep discount for those customers who use 6 CCF or less of water per month. By implementing the bi-monthly water billing schedule found in Henrico County, the City of Richmond could save further expenses.

    Reforming Richmond’s draconian water rate structure is both a conservation issue and a social justice issue. By acting now, the City of Richmond will minimize water shortages in the future.

    The contest is to discover minimum service charge rates for a city’s residential water and sewer, which, like Richmond, do not include any water (For example, Baltimore’s minimum rate is actually higher than Richmond’s but it includes 10 ccf’s of water.) The first person who names a city with a verifiable minimum water and sewer utility rate more regressive than Richmond and contacts Richmond Green Party Chairperson Scott Burger at his email address, scottburger@mac.com, will receive a $100 cash. The contest will last 30 days. If there is no winner the money will be donated to Richmond’s Earth Day celebration.

    The purpose of this contest is to garner more discovery and discussion of the City’s services. “We believe this issue deserves more public attention and the contest is a way to make sure that it receives it”, says Burger.

    The principles of the Green Party can be found in our Ten Key Values statement at:
    http://gp.org/tenkey.shtml

    TO GET INVOLVED:
    http://www.vagreenparty.org

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