Not too late for smart meter vote

Three councilmen who will go unmentioned can get excited about how chickens roam, reside and shelter on some guy’s property because a few neighbors complained about the clucking.

Nobody bothered to ask if the off-fall of their waste could be used to generate reusable energy and, as such, be a significant contributor to Naperville’s cutting edge green, Agenda 21 reputation. Instead of a chicken in every pot we could have a children’s contest to design a logo showing a chicken roosting on top of each house’s smart meter.

The chicken could act like a canary in a coal mine. If the chicken died from EMR you could just leave it for a day and have roast chicken for dinner. Birds have always been disparaged because of their pea-sized brains. Some bipeds, maybe even some on the city council, seem to display a similar handicap when they stick their head in the sand and hope a problem will just go away.

This “sky is falling” mentality against a nonbinding referendum that over 4,000 residents requested is a case in point. The PR disaster brought upon our fair city by this council’s actions re: smart meters is beyond comprehension.

You can still turn this sow’s ear onto a silk purse by letting the taxpaying, voting citizens of Naperville have a legitimate say in whether they want smart meters.

Stop the grade school bullying and give us a real opt-out by letting us keep the analog meters and charging a reasonable cost to read them, six times a year as is currently done. Hopefully, city council members will rejoin the human race and stop acting like bird brains.

G H Schilling

Naperville