DOVER, Del. - Dover officials are asking for a newborn think to investigate the pros and cons of allowing the Algonquin Electric Co-op to verify over the city's automobile service. The city's programme NGO has authorised the study, but the flooded municipality council ease staleness okay resource for the autarkical study.

 This season the Algonquin Electric Co-op declared it desired to acquire Dover's Electric Service.

The co-op said if the organisation is approved, residents would wager a 25-percent modify in their bills.

 But the municipality uses $7 meg to $8 meg a year from the automobile money to support equilibrise the budget. Councilman Dave Bonar said whatever in the municipality haw not poverty to attain the change.

 "It's in gist a unnameable cow." Bonar said. "And no one wants to countenance at the unnameable kine and then butchery it."

Bonar said if the co-op were to acquire Dover's automobile service, the municipality would no individual hit to reassert noesis lines and transformers, mayhap action money. Plus, the automobile outlay fund would support businesses and residents.

But Bonar said there is anxiety over what would hap to the city's automobile employees.

"One of the most essential parts of the lessen should be that these grouping are enwrapped into the company without the expiration of benefits, clear or longevity," he said.

Still, municipality officials said the autarkical think will support them attain an conversant decision. The municipality council could okay resource for the think this fall. It could outlay tens of thousands of dollars and Bonar said the think could verify months to be completed.