Commonwealth Failing Chester

Endnotes and Factual Support

[1] – Chester Mayor, Thaddeus Kirkland Statement on Fiscal Emergency Declaration:

https://www.chestercity.com/mayor-thaddeus-kirkland-issues-statement-on-gov-tom-wolfs-fiscal-emergency-declaration-for-chester-2/?fbclid=IwAR2CvZJcS3gVXDBw243o9t87bXXvzceo6vK5sWzPaQnlG_B9ImW5c0004wU and DCED Newsroom website posting, Wolf Administration Issues Declaration of Fiscal Emergency for the City of Chester: https://dced.pa.gov/newsroom/wolf-administration-issues-declaration-of-fiscal-emergency-for-the-city-of-chester/

[2] – Receiver’s Recovery Plan for City of Chester, Pg. 40:

https://dced.pa.gov/download/chester-city-receiver-recovery-plan-2020-08-20/?wpdmdl=103816&ind=1597957980469

[3] – While the City of Chester

has purchased water from the CWA, it has done so as a customer, and not as a source of capital contributions. As a customer, the City of Chester owes the CWA significant amounts of money going back several years for water and fire hydrant service.

[4] – The secret meetings between the DCED and Aqua were discovered through right-to-know-requests served on the DCED

See https://www.delcotimes.com/business/chester-water-authority-sale-discussed-for-months-emails-show/article_de6b8034-027f-525c-82af-6d28963d7508.html, http://chesterspirit.com/2017/11/collusion-catania-docs-show-state-aqua-plotted-a-cwa-takeover/, and https://chesterwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Email-Update-No-8.pdf (pg. 21 of PDF is an April 24, 2017 Email from Dan Schuller from Aqua to Dan Connelly, Act 47 Coordinator, regarding a meeting held with Aqua, for which other documents show Schuller billed 2 hours for).

[5] – Information about Aqua’s offer and other information about the fight for the CWA can be found at:

https://chesterwater.com/about-cwa/cwa-sale/ and http://chesterwater.com/savecwa/.