Every person that has a Penlight bill is an owner of the company. That is right, it is owned by everyone that has a power bill. You paid a share at the beginning to be an owner.
Yet CEO Jafar Taghavi runs Penlight like a dictator where he chooses to do whatever he wants and the board is not approachable to us.
I got my first taste of this when I was Mayor of Gig Harbor. In 2019 Penlight hacked the trees on the East side of Stinson by the sidewalk in half without even talking to the city. When we contacted them, their answer was, “We can do whatever we want and do not have to ask you”. Then we realized the city’s Franchise agreement with them had expired. So, Jeff Langhelm, head of Public Works, and I proceeded to meet with Jafar to discuss so we had some say within our city as to what they do…