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News Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Cooper, Key Accounts & Marketing Mgr., Traverse City Light & Power
Phone: (231) 932-4560 or E-mail: jcooper@tclp.org
Contact: Phil Callighan, Sr. Account Executive, Knorr Marketing
Phone: (231) 947-9707, ext. 207; Mobile: (231) 342-7590
or E-mail: philc@knorrmarketing.com
L&P Donates Over $9,000 to Local Charities
Money Came From Late Bill Payers
(Traverse City, Michigan) — Last Tuesday night (April 11, 2006), the Traverse City Light & Power Board approved donating $9,496.30 to be distributed equally among the Father Fred Foundation, Love INC, Salvation Army and the Northwest Michigan Human Services Agency. The funds represent half of the proceeds collected this last year from a $5.00 fee L&P charges a customer when they place a red tag “shut-off” warning notice on the customer’s door. The other half of the fee offsets L&P’s cost for tagging the customer. The red tag is L&P’s final step to collect an overdue bill after three previously mailed notices to the customer have been ignored.
Since 1996, when Light and Power implemented the red tag fee, L&P has donated over $61,850 to area agencies.
“We’re pleased this money will be donated as unrestricted funds to local agencies that support financially challenged people,” said Linda Johnson, Chairman of the L&P Board. “People who have no financial means often turn to these agencies for help, so we are confident the money we donate will be well spent.”
According to L&P, one of the reasons the red tag fee was instituted was to discourage the practice by some customers of not paying their bill until someone from the utility showed up at their door to collect.
Traverse City Light & Power (www.tclp.org) is a community-owned, community- focused municipal utility that offers energy at low rates in the region to over 10,000 customers in Traverse City, and parts of Blair, East Bay, Elmwood, Garfield, Peninsula and Paradise townships.
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