Where a community - a city or county or district - is not satisfied with the service rendered or the rates charged by the private utility, it has the undeniable basic right, as one of the functions of government, one of its functions of home rule, to set up, after a fair referendum of its voters has been had, its own governmentally owned and operated service.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932

• INTRODUCTION
  Restructuring Changes the Game
• Who Are the Stakeholders?
• PART I Back to the Future?
  • The Options for Local Governments Today
• PART II Political and Economic Issues
  • "Community" Vs. "Loose" Franchises
  • Ideological Opposition
  • Public Vs. Private Green Aggregators
  • Environmental Groups as Legitimizers
  • Aggregating Municipal Facilities Vs. Aggregating Municipalities
  • Not Aggregation but Re-Aggregation
• PART III Local Government Case Studies
  • Lessons from SMUD
    What a Municipal Agency Can Do
  • Public/Private Partnerships
  • City Purchasing Policies
  • "Loose Franchise" Community Aggregation
  • Community Energy Cooperative
• Conclusion A Question of Politics

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