Small Cells ZTA Montgomery County: Mini Cell Towers In Front of Our Homes: Action Alert: Tell The WSSC a $200 Opt Out is Extortion and Environmental Racism. Vote on Wednesday

WSSC wants to charge ratepayers $200 to Opt Out of their toxic smart meters with AND on top of it spend 200 Million on toxic AMI meters. See PPT WSSC will present here.

Action needed immediately

1. Write the WSSC and Tell them NO EXTORTION: Opt outs should be free. Shame on WSSC for charging people for something they do not want!! How did they come up with 200 dollars?? Put in the subject line- Opting out of toxic AMI meters should be free

2. Testify at the November 18, 2020 WSSC meeting and/or send testimony to the WSSC

Link to the meeting here https://www.wsscwater.com/contents/events/public-meetings/commission-meetings/2020/commission-meeting-november-18.html

Watch: Virtual meeting will be broadcast live for public viewing

Call-in number to provide comment: 1-240-800-7929 / Conference ID: 913 233 470#

The public comment period will start shortly after 10 a.m. Those wanting to speak should watch the meeting via the link above to know when it’s time to call. Members of the public will have three minutes to speak.

How did WSSC determine the 200 dollars!

Many communities opt out fees are less https://stopsmartmetersbc.com/wp-content/uploads/OPT-OUT-FEES.pdf

Email list for WSSC Meeting November 18, 2020

PG residents send to:

budgetgroup@wsscwater.com, chris.lawson@wsscwater.com, eloise.foster@wsscwater.com, fausto.bayonet@wsscwater.com, howard.denis@wsscwater.com, keith.bell@wsscwater.com, sandra.thompson@wsscwater.com, marc.elrich@montgomerycountymd.gov, countyexecutive@co.pg.md.us, BLLaster@co.pg.md.us , CouncilDistrict1@co.pg.md.us, councildistrict5@co.pg.md.us, CouncilDistrict6@co.pg.md.us, CouncilDistrict7@co.pg.md.us, CouncilDistrict8@co.pg.md.us, ouncilDistrict9@co.pg.md.us, District4@co.pg.md.us, DLTaveras@co.pg.md.us, dmglaros@co.pg.md.us, GPKonohia@co.pg.md.us, anne.healey@house.state.md.us. joseline.pena.melnyk@house.state.md.us, mary.lehman@house.state.md.us, ben.barnes@house.state.md.us, alonzo.washington@house.state.md.us, nicole.williams@house.state.md.us, geraldine.valentino@house.state.md.us, marvin.holmes@house.state.md.us, ron.watson@house.state.md.us, erek.barron@house.state.md.us, andreafletcher.harrison@house.state.md.us, jazz.lewis@house.state.md.us, darryl.barnes@house.state.md.us, nick.charles@house.state.md.us, dereck.davis@house.state.md.us, veronica.turner@house.state.md.us, kris.valderrama@house.state.md.us, jay.walker@house.state.md.us, susie.proctor@house.state.md.us, michael.jackson@house.state.md.us, Damion.Lampley@wsscwater.com, James.Price@wsscwater.com

MoCo residents send to:

budgetgroup@wsscwater.com, chris.lawson@wsscwater.com, eloise.foster@wsscwater.com, fausto.bayonet@wsscwater.com, howard.denis@wsscwater.com, keith.bell@wsscwater.com, sandra.thompson@wsscwater.com,marc.elrich@montgomerycountymd.gov, countyexecutive@co.pg.md.us, Councilmember.Albornoz@montgomerycountymd.gov, Councilmember.Friedson@montgomerycountymd.gov, Councilmember.Glass@montgomerycountymd.gov, Councilmember.Hucker@montgomerycountymd.gov, Councilmember.Jawando@montgomerycountymd.gov,
Councilmember.Katz@montgomerycountymd.gov, Councilmember.Navarro@montgomerycountymd.gov, Councilmember.Rice@montgomerycountymd.gov, Councilmember.Riemer@montgomerycountymd.gov, anne.kaiser@house.state.md.us, eric.luedtke@house.state.md.us, pam.queen@house.state.md.us, kathleen.dumais@house.state.md.us, david.fraser.hidalgo@house.state.md.us, lily.qi@house.state.md.us, ariana.kelly@house.state.md.us, marc.korman@house.state.md.us, sara.love@house.state.md.us, kumar.barve@house.state.md.us, kumarbarve@gmail.com, jim.gilchrist@house.state.md.us, julie.palakovichcarr@house.state.md.us, alfred.carr@house.state.md.us, emily.shetty@house.state.md.us, jared.solomon@house.state.md.us, charlotte.crutchfield@house.state.md.us, bonnie.cullison@house.state.md.us, vaughn.stewart@house.state.md.us, lorig.charkoudian@house.state.md.us, david.moon@house.state.md.us, jheanelle.wilkins@house.state.md.us, Damion.Lampley@wsscwater.com, James.Price@wsscwater.com

Testifying to WSSC?

AMI smart meters (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) are the highlight of the meeting with 2 agenda items. The first AMI agenda item is a review of the recently-released AMI cost benefit analysis (updated from a 2011 study). The cost of the AMI program has doubled to $208M - mostly because it calls for the replacement of all 492,805 meters (why WSSC has not been installing AMI-capable meters since 2011 is a head scratcher). The analysis purports that AMI is financially beneficial to WSSC - mainly by claiming that replacing older, underbilling meters with newer, more accurate meters raises revenue (but if that is true, so would a non-AMI initiative to simply refresh meters). The degree to which newer meters increase revenue by billing more accurately is not backed up by data from other utilities. The City of Rockville found that this was true, but mainly for large commercial meters that are sometimes wrongly-sized. Arcadis, the company with a $9M AMI consulting contract since June 2018, produced the analysis after months of prodding by commissioners.

The second AMI agenda item is a recommendation and vote on the opt out policy. Staff is recommending either of 2 options: Meter relocation out of homes to the property line or opt out with a fee.