LETTER: EFUD commissioner candidate Rick Weston
May 12, 2026Friends and neighbors in the Edward Farrar Utility District:
Please vote this coming Wednesday, May 13, in the elections for seats on the Edward Farrar Utility District Board of Commissioners. The voting will take place at the town offices on Main Street. At 7:30 that evening, EFUD will hold its annual meeting in the Steele Community Room. Please join us.
I’ve been on the commission for two years now and am running again for a one-year seat. I ask for your vote.
In previous posts on Front Porch Forum and here on the Waterbury Roundabout, I described EFUD’s purpose, how it operates, recent work we’ve been focused on, and my qualifications for the job. Points I’d like to emphasize are:
Providing water of the highest quality is EFUD’s core mission. EFUD has consistently met state and federal water quality requirements. We owe this good fortune to a far-sighted investment strategy and the dedicated efforts of our professional staff.
We’re engaged now in a process to identify and assess potential risks to our water supplies in the coming years. This is a public process, as are all of our activities. We want your input and feedback on our work.
My family and I have lived on Union Street since 1990. From 1997 to 2001, I was a member and then chair of the Waterbury Planning Commission when it functioned as both the development review and planning authority for the town and village.
I bring to the commission relevant training and experience. In 2023 I retired from a 35-year career in utility policymaking and regulation. For eleven years, I was an administrative law judge and economist for the Vermont Public Service Board (now the Public Utility Commission). For the more than two decades that followed, I was a director of a small NGO that advises governments (state, national, and international) on matters relating to the regulation of their energy sectors, all with the aim of improving reliability and minimizing long-term financial and environmental costs.
My participation on the EFUD Board has been and, if I have the honor to be reelected, will continue to be guided by a simple, essential standard: how can we best promote the public good? I’ll do my best to answer the question.
Thank you,
Rick Weston
Waterbury
EFUD Commissioner Rick Weston is seeking re-election to a one-year term on the EFUD Board of Commissioners.