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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 $12,000 to Local Charities
Money Came From Late Bill Payers
(Traverse City, Michigan) — At the last Traverse City Light & Power Board meeting (June 10), $12,127.86 was approved to be distributed equally among the Father Fred Foundation, Love INC, the Salvation Army and the Northwest Michigan Human Services Agency. The funds are derived from Light & Power’s “red tag” warning program of possible service termination. The red tag program results in a fee being charged to those customers who are in the final step to collect an overdue bill after three previously mailed notices have not been responded to by those customers.
Since 1996, when Light and Power implemented the red tag fee, L&P has donated over $84,144 to area agencies.
“This money is being donated to local agencies that help financially challenged people,” said Linda Johnson, Chairman of the L&P Board. “These are among the most popular organizations that people with no financial means turn to 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. The red tag fee is less expensive for the utility than the additional labor required for personal collection visits.
Traverse City Light & Power (www.tclp.org) is a community-owned, community-focused municipal utility that offers reliable 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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