The recent approval by the County Council of a contract that could eventually cost taxpayers nearly a quarter of a million dollars to pay for a bizarre and vague branding slogan (“Live Exponentially”) could not come at a worse time for those who wish to expand Council’s power over our Dept. of Public Utilities and its Board by voting to approve Charter Amendment 2.

I’ve heard good arguments from both sides of the discussion and have been undecided to some degree. Having said that, no one has convinced me that there is anything significantly wrong with the present setup of the DPU and its Board that Amendment 2 will cure. 

Perhaps, therefore, the citizen’s best advice right now is that old expression: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.