Garrett Bill Would Hold ComEd Accountable
Task force of municipal officials drafts white paper for state senator to turn into legislation.
When state Sen. Susan Garrett (D-Lake Forest) called a meeting in July to bring municipal officials and ComEd executives together to resolve some of the problems arising from severe summer storms, Glenview Village Manager Todd Hileman asked to attend. Little did Hileman know he would be volunteering to head a task force examining ComEd's response to outages. On Tuesday, he and others presented the results of their work during a news conference sponsored by the Northwest Municipal Conference in Chicago: a white paper that Garrett hopes to turn into legislation to hold ComEd accountable for its actions. More storms, more problems Hileman served on a similar task force three years ago after an earlier series of storms and thought some …
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Louis G. Atsaves
1:01 pm on Wednesday, October 12, 2011
ComEd needs to get more people to work on the ground. They are a complete failure at this and no legislation establishing additional liability will solve the problem. I had a tree that pulled an electrical wire to within 4 feet of my garage where it sat for 6 days BURNING while ComEd lied to me and my neighbors with comments like "we'll be right out there." When they showed up on a Sunday … more ›