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Manage Your Electric, Natural Gas Costs with Boston Buying Power
The City of Boston invites
all local businesses to group together in Boston Buying Power and
receive all the utility management services that until now have only been
available to the largest of organizations.
The City has selected the UtilityModule company to work with local
businesses and provide a service that has been implemented by national
companies to manage their energy costs. With so many options and
decisions in the energy marketplace, UtilityModule provides customers
with the best products and services in the industry to efficiently
manage your utility expenditures.
There are
two ways to save energy dollars: either use less energy, or pay less for what
you use. Boston Buying Power addresses both aspects and provides your
business with the most effective purchasing and energy services the
market has to offer.
When you join Boston Buying Power, your account is grouped with other
local businesses to create purchasing power in the energy markets.
EnergyAuctions is a state-of-the-art "reverse auction" in which suppliers compete to serve the aggregated energy requirements.
Businesses that join Boston Buying Power are grouped with similar
accounts for pricing efficiency, but each account retains its
individual contracts and billing. EnergyAuctions carefully evaluates
all eligible suppliers in the marketplace, giving you peace
of mind knowing that all options are considered.
Purchasing energy is only one component of utility management. Before
your purchase is made, there are many ways to save energy dollars.
After your purchase is made, there are also ways to save. Boston Buying Power takes advantage of these opportunities. They
benchmark your usage to similar businesses, identify options to reduce
your consumption and choose suppliers to complete the work.
UtilityModule provides all members with the tools and services
available to isolate problems, plan solutions, increase efficiencies
and lower costs.
Although there is no guarantee that market prices won't drop below the Boston Buying Power negotiated rates, past performance indicates and virtually all experts believe that market prices will continue to increase in the long term.
A public information session on Boston Buying Power will be scheduled in the near future. In the meantime, please call 888-317-3923 or visit www.bostonbuyingpower.com for more details.
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Improving Business/Youth/Police Interactions
This past December, SMAMS and the Neponset Health Center held our first business/youth/police roundtable
discussion. We were able to bring together business owners from the SMAMS business district, as well as officers
from the MBTA Transit Police Department and youth from the community. The
discussion focused on issues leading to youth violence in the South Dorchester
Area and how business owners, youth, and police can interact more positively.
The discussion was very informative and
allowed the business owners, youth, and officers to share both positive
and negative experiences with one another. Some of the issues that were
discussed concerned disrespect, shoplifting, and
loitering. Many of the business owners discussed strategies that
they could use to address these issues, especially during the before- and after-school hours. In addition, they discussed ways to deter crime inside and outside
their stores.
Although
the issue of teen behavior in the businesses was the driving force behind the discussion, public safety was also addressed. Store owners and law
enforcement officers believed that if youth behavior was different in the
businesses, then business owners and youth could interact more positively and
vice versa.
Our
next round table will be held in March, and we will publicize the time and place. Even if you can't attend, we
still need to hear from you! Call us or email us and let us know what
your experiences are with youth in the community. Share ideas on how you think
youth, business owners, and law enforcement can have more positive
interactions. In order for us to come up with strategies to change the dynamic, we encourage all of you to take a stand in making our community
a better place to work and live.
Thank you! Please feel free to contact any one of us:
Dan Larner, Executive Director
SMAMS
617-825-3846
office@smams.org
Ryan Ribeiro, Director of Community Programs
Neponset Health Center 617-282-3200, ext. 291 Stacey Robinson, Prevention Specialist
617-282-3200, ext. 167
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