To The Editor:
Let me make this clear, I am a regular attendee at Lower Township Council meetings and Lower Township Municipal Utility Authority meetings. I am also a proponent of solar energy and have been dismayed as our town council has been among the last to move towards solar.
The MUA took two years to develop a solar field and now there is a plan to cover seven acres in Erma with solar panels to provide electric for the schools, but what about town hall?
The fact that there is not a single light bulb powered by a “green energy” initiative for our township buildings is shortsighted. Our enormous electric bills for township facilities continue to be a drain on our budget, and it frustrates many of us to watch other towns move in that direction while we stand still.
But what has me angry is an attempt by Councilman Thomas Conrad to take credit for work towards a current plan developed by the Mayor’s Advisory Board in cooperation with our MUA. For him to say that he has worked hard to involve the township with solar power is flat out wrong.
I was at the meeting when he expressed total surprise when he learned of the MUA/Advisory Board initiative, and for him to try to capitalize for their ideas and work is simply wrong. It really doesn’t matter anyway. After talking about “green energy” for four years and doing nothing, I have to ask Conrad this one question: Why would the next four years be any different?
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