About Citizen Power, Inc.

Citizen Power, Inc. Is staffed solely by volunteers. Currently the following individuals are leading the effort to stop this unwanted intrusion and help preserve our neighborhoods:

Chairman of the Board	Andrea Frank	New Berlin
Board Member	Dale Whitehouse	Muskego
President	Kurt Barikmo	Town of Vernon
Treasurer	Paul Stieff	New Berlin
Secretary	Stephanie Bartolotta	Muskego
Communication Director	Mary Hiebl	New Berlin
Webmaster	John Hebert	New Berlin

Should you have questions, correspondence, contributions, or whatever, our official address is:

Citizen Power, Inc.
P.O. Box 324
Muskego, WI 53150-0324

If you'd prefer to call:
Phone - 262-679-6147
Fax ---- 262-679-6147

Or contact us electronically:
E-mail - CITIZENPOWERINC@YAHOO.COM

About the mailing address: it is an address of convenience for our treasurer. We considered separate addresses for each community, but the costs would be wasteful of your contributions. If you are uncomfortable with sending to a PO box, just give us a call and one of our staff will contact you. Thanks for your support.

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More information about Citizen Power, Inc.

In December, an insert in a Muskego wide mailing, provided citizens information about the El Paso proposal and requested the community's financial support. That mailing generated requests for information about who we are. Here is the reply from Citizen Power, Inc. President Kurt Barikmo:

12/21/01

I am writing in response to your note received that is requesting more information about Citizen Power, Inc. Our group is an assembly of citizens much like yourself, people that take time to learn and discover key issues taking place in their lives and communities. We are in fact a “non-stock corporation” that was organized in opposition to the proposed power plants being planned for our area. We have no paid staff, officers or board members. We are represented by a very well educated, concerned and capable attorney, Dennis Grzezinski. Mr. Grzezinski specializes in environmental law.

Having just renewed our “non-stock” filing with the State of Wisconsin, here is a list of our officers and board members.

Kurt Barikmo (me)	Board Member
Andrea Frank	Board Member
Paul Stieff	Treas.
Mary Hiebl	Board Member
Stefanie Bartolotta	Secretary
John Hebert	Board Member
Dale Whitehouse	Board Member

This group (listed above) is diverse in many respects. Nursing, farming, teaching, hazardous material emergency response, business ownership and public health are just a few fields of education/training represented above. There is also many additional very technical volunteers involved with Citizen Power at different levels.

The donations that we have received to this point have largely been used to finance our various mailings, educational meetings, research costs (copies) and legal expenses. We hope to continue using the “communicator” to circulate more information in the future. But, as you can imagine, that costs money. This most recent mailing was a calculated effort that will, in the end, pay for itself and help to inform the community of our findings. Some more internal efforts to obtain information are under way. That type of discovery is being done in preparation for our legal arguments before the DNR and PSC, if the power plant proposals progress to that point.

Citizen power meets quite often to discuss future actions and strategies for our battle over the proposed plants. We limit ourselves to documented facts that are used to protect health, safety, water, air and property values.

I hope this is the type of information you were looking for. If I can help any further, I will try. Please consider supporting our effort today. Your donation will certainly be appreciated. Thank you for your concern in this very important effort.

Sincerely,

Kurt Barikmo

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