Decorah Power representatives speak to the Decorah Rotary Club Tuesday about "Vote Yes"

Two representatives of Decorah Power got a chance Tuesday to speak with 40 members of the Decorah Rotary Club about the upcoming May 1st municipal electric utility referendum.  Alliant Energy representatives had spoken to the group the previous Tuesday (http://www.decorahnews.com/news-stories/2018/04/19106.html)

Decorah Power's Emily Neal stressed how keeping payments for electricity in the community could become an engine for economic growth.  "We can thrive together," she told the group.

She told a story about visiting Waverly for a soccer match and seeing that the soccer complex there had been built in part through payments from Waverly's municipal electric utility.

Decorah Power's Andy Johnson told the Rotary Club a 2008 Iowa Utility Board ruling against Kalona and four other small communities which wanted to start a municipal electric utility actually provided a "road map" for other communities wishing to do so.  He said the IUB's ruling was meant to open the door for other Iowa communities.  Johnson, like Neal, stressed the importance of "keeping energy dollars local."