Hillsdale Council Supports Utility Investigation After Sandy

The Hillsdale Council voted 5-1 in favor of a resolution this week calling for the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to investigate PSE&G and other power companies for their response to Hurricane Sandy.

"The more attention they have to pay to the BPU, the better off our residents are," Councilman Doug Frank said.

Some residents have criticized New Jersey's power companies for their response to the storm. In Bergen County, some residents were without power for almost two weeks.

Councilman Tom Kelley — who works for Verizon and also responded to downed lines during the storm — said he believed there may have been some issues with PSE&G's management during the storm, but that it was not fair to condemn the whole company and its workers.

"When [power] came back on, I made them coffee and said 'thank you,'" Kelley said. "I didn't go out and yell at them."

Kelley said he believed the utilities restored power in a "reasonable time" considering the severity of the damage caused by the storm.

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