RESOLUTION
BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT COLLINS-BELLAMY, MAJORITY LEADER RUBBO, MAJORITY WHIP ROBINSON, MINORITY LEADER BREEN, COUNCILMEMBERS, PINEDA -ISAAC, DIAZ AND MERANTE:
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RESOLUTION CALLING UPON THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE TO PASS AND THE GOVERNOR TO SIGN S.1701/A.2614, S.1896/A.1028, AND OTHER PROPOSED LEGISLATION GIVING GREATER OVERSIGHT AND ENFORCEMENT POWERS TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION ON BEHALF OF YONKERS RESIDENTS FACING ESCALATING ENERGY UTILITY COSTS
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WHEREAS, one of the most significant challenges residents of the City of Yonkers face is high and ever escalating energy utility;
WHEREAS, in so many ways the present energy utility system lacks transparency and protects and favors the utility industry over regular residents and utility consumers;
WHEREAS, in New York State the governmental agency charged with regulating and overseeing the utility industry, including such dominant energy providers as Con Edison, is the Public Service Commission;
WHEREAS, presently before the New York State Legislature is a comprehensive series of measures designed to protect and provide relief to residents and energy utility consumers by making the industry fairer and more transparent, and giving the Public Service Commission greater regulatory and enforcement powers over energy utility providers;
WHEREAS, one such measure is S.1701/A.2614, sponsored by New York State Senator Shelley Mayer, a proposed amendment to the Public Service Law, recently passed by the Senate, which would eliminate the statutory limits on penalties for violations by public utility companies, institute a new process by which the Public Service Commission sets a penalty, and alters the provisions relating to the imposition of penalties on combination gas and electric corporations, including by eliminating the statutory limits on penalties for violations;
WHEREAS, another such measure is S.1896/A.1028, also sponsored by New York State Senator Shelley Maye...
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