Lets look at what they have done with data on right sizing and compare it to municipalization. For example, I just checked out the Empower Our Future website (empowerourfuture.org) and saw that multiple council members have endorsed information on the site. I am astounded by this. Why the double standard? It has become very clear that the "cash-flow" and PUC filing are full of discrepancies, "incomplete", or just down right false yet nothing has been done to pull back on the project whatsoever.

If right sizing "failed to respect people's lives" what is happening with municipalization is on a much greater scale. The outrageous and blunt disregard of people's money and the consistency of misinformation is totally unacceptable and the fact that council is still endorsing still this is appalling.

Heather Bailey may have just opened up a can of legal worms with this filing. The brief acknowledges that there are other alternatives that could be presented to the PUC but were not... and were not analyzed in the cash flow, the Third Party Evaluator or any public models. In essence, Boulder acknowledges here their application was not "complete" (as PUC staff and XE have argued.)

Why not? They certainly have the funding and engineering staff. The City will spend close to $5 million this year and they couldn't put forth another, possibly better alternative? This is malfeasance and dishonestly with the citizens of Boulder because they had a contract and financial responsibility to the citizens to put forth the very best plan.

Here is where the spin gets interesting: The City seems to be setting up Xcel Energy--when the PUC sides with the PUC Staff XE's Motion to Dismiss--to be the bad guy here by saying the City of Boulder didn't have all the data to make the best decision it could. Somehow Xcel Energy is with holding the golden nuggets of information that would make this all so much clearer! Not so...

Let's us remember the report from Michael Booth as their Third Party Evaluator, which was required by the Charter Metrics, where they said it was the most complete application they had ever seen. While the report was a sham in the first place, it did not say the City needed more data from Xcel Energy in order to make a "complete" plan. All the propaganda from the City says they have done exhaustive studies and research with the smartest minds in the country to come up with the very best plan that provides lower costs and more renewable on Day One. Why is it only now they are saying they needed more information from Xcel Energy?

The City is being untruthful and intentionally trying to mislead the public ... and city council on this. Heather Bailey and Jonathan Koehn: Please show us the formal requests made to Xcel Energy for specific data. If you are making these claims, then please put on the Energy Future website TODAY what you asked Xcel for and what the response was.

Everyone who has looked at this filing, including the PUC staff, have claimed it is, in essence, pure jibberish. It has 350 pages on the 2013 city budget and virtually no information about how they would actually separate the system. Is this the course of action the Boulder City Council endorsed in its Executive Session last Monday? City Council should be embarrassed by the lack of professionalism in the application and now this motion. Energy professionals see the application as junior varsity and the effort of amateurs. People who think they know what they are doing, but don't. And now, months after they have filed, as the chickens are flying home to roost, they want to do discovery... On Just Xcel Energy? The legal community is chuckling this morning.

This is a desperate Hail Mary attempt. It's not just the City Council and their attorneys and staff who should be embarrassed, but all of the citizens of Boulder. All the people who have sold us this scheme and polarized the community over this issue should be ashamed. It doesn't really matter if you support the muni or not, the people who filed this application have put a dark face on Boulder publicly at a time when we are trying to be leaders on energy climate change.

Jane are you going to take control? Time to button up those egos, figure out what you want out of this charade... and then sit down with Xcel Energy to discuss real opportunities for climate change and reducing coal plant emissions.

Boulder submitted a poor plan. Heather is being unprofessional. She needs now to show us official requests to Xcel Energy for that information!

Obviously Ms. Herbert is not familiar with the plan that was submitted. There were no specifics on cash-flow analysis, transmission lines, reliability etc. This plan was dead the minute it got to the PUC.

If you have not seen the reworked Empower Our Future Website (empowerourfuture.org) it would be worth checking out. The site is endorsed by city council members and represents false information about the muni including a fuel mix that has never been presented by the city. Mr. Danaher mentions reliability, know how etc. which are very important aspects to running a utility. If the council is endorsing this false information publicly can we expect them to run the muni the same way?

The updated website from Empower Our Future advocates only one perspective; Spreading propaganda to mislead the public.

The graph that outlines the "renewables versus rates" is very misleading. XE is the national leader in high percentages in renewable energy in the fuel mix. It is totally unprofessional to display a graph on a website that portrays the opposite of the truth and misleads the general public.

In all of Boulder's modeling that they have released there is not one scenario that incorporates a 21% solar and 49% wind fuel mix. It does not exist and if it does than it was withheld from multiple CORA requests for that information and modeling (which should have been made public in the first place).

The advocacy going on here is totally unprofessional and falls more into the category of propaganda, something this organization is quite familiar with.

There is a meeting tonight at Vinelife Church in Gunbarrel at 7845 Lookout Rd at 6:00 pm by some folks in the county that STILL do not want to be included in the City's acquisition plan. BOCO FIRM will be giving a presentation and the city has been invited. Please consider attending!

There is a meeting tonight at Vinelife Church in Gunbarrel at 7845 Lookout Rd at 6:00 pm by some folks in the county that STILL do not want to be included in the City's acquisition plan. BOCO FIRM will be giving a presentation and the city has been invited. Please consider attending!

There is a meeting tonight at Vinelife Church in Gunbarrel at 7845 Lookout Rd at 6:00 pm by some folks in the county that STILL do not want to be included in the City's acquisition plan. BOCO FIRM will be giving a presentation and the city has been invited. Please consider attending!

There is a meeting tonight at Vinelife Church in Gunbarrel at 7845 Lookout Rd at 6:00 pm by folks in the county that STILL do not want to be included in Boulder's acquisition plan. BOCO FIRM will be giving a presentation and the City has been invited. Please consider attending!