If Judge Robert Flourney III’s dismissal of the 31 indictments against Dwight Brown resulted from a technicality about accessibility, then we encourage Cobb EMC, and our own Washington EMC, to embrace this new found enthusiasm for transparency and full disclosure, and set an example by applying this business philosophy to all their operations.
Former Gov Roy Barnes, who appointed Flourney and is defending Brown, said the indictment must be presented in court “so that a man with mud on his feet, dirty, smelling, can walk right in.”
Yet the same man, or a freshly showered EMC member, cannot access the meetings of his or her elected representatives on the Cobb or Washington EMC Board of Directors. Cobb and Washington EMC members must submit a written request to attend a Board meeting of their own co-op.
Washington EMC members have respectfully asked our EMC Board for a special meeting so that co-op members can ask questions, and hear answers, from the Board members we elected to represent us. Instead we have been told that our Board will only meet with members in very small groups.
Why isn’t our Board of Directors willing to bring all members together so that everyone hears for themselves why our Board believes out-dated, expensive dirty coal is the best choice for EMC members, taxpayers, and property owners?
Visit the FACE web site at http://www.faceenvironment.org for updates as Cobb District Attorney Pat Head appeals the ruling. Washington EMC members are encouraged to ask their board representatives to operate in a member oriented, transparent way for the benefit of all co-op members. Contact information for the Board members is here: http://washingtonemc.com/maps/map.aspx or call 552-2577.
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