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maintenance and improvement schedule.”
The mayor then delivered what he called “a message to the home office," and asked the utility representatives to deliver it. “We want to bury the utility lines in this historic town. This desire will not be shuffled away. We would like your cooperation to finance it over time. If we don’t get that cooperation, we will look to the way that other companies work with other historic towns. We will see what arrangements can be made. Then, when your utility comes up before the State Corporation Commission (for license renewal), we'll be there to make our pitch.”
Mrs. Willis added that the pending project to renovate the town’s water system presents a “golden opportunity” to put the lines underground — since the town’s streets and sidewalks will be torn up for that project.
The tension in the room became electric when Fran Eldred stood up and told the utility representatives that “service in this town is absolutely unbelievable: it stinks with capital letters." She said she feels that the Council’s minimum requirement of the companies, particularly Potomac Edison, ought to be that “the lines and lights be less offensive,” that they clean up the “schlock” which they have put up all over town.
Her husband Charlie added that “nothing is consistent. Look at the fixtures around town, every leftover light from the throwaway piles in your storage yards” has been put up in Washington.
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