Exeter Township · Public-Record Calculator
How much of your water bill traces to Mark Gillen's 2015 vote?
Plug in your monthly Exeter Township water + sewer bill below. We'll show you what fraction traces to Act 12 of 2015 — the privatization law Mark Gillen voted YES on.
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Your monthly water + sewer bill:
Estimate based on PA PUC docket history showing roughly 60% of post-2015 Exeter Township water rates trace to Act 12 privatization (inflated rate base + 10 years of compounding rate cases). For your exact figure, see your PA American Water bill detail.
The 2015 vote that built today's bill
What Act 12 actually did
On October 20, 2015, Roll Call 789, Mark Gillen voted YES on Act 12 — the law that allowed Pennsylvania municipalities to sell their water and sewer systems to private utilities at "fair market value" instead of book value.
Exeter Township sold its water system to PA American Water under Act 12. The sale price became the rate base — and Pennsylvania utility law lets the operator earn a guaranteed return on rate base, locked in by the PA PUC. Higher rate base → higher rates, every year, forever.
The Center Square reported Mark Gillen himself quoting Exeter residents pay $3,600 a year for water and sewer. He didn't mention his Act 12 vote.
What David Hughes will do day one: The four-bill repeal-Act-12 package — return rate base to book value, prohibit Act 12 future sales, refund the rate-base inflation to municipalities, and put PA PUC oversight back on consumer-side instead of utility-side.
What you can do
May 19 is the only mechanism
Mark Gillen will not vote to repeal his own 2015 Act 12 vote. The only way to repeal Act 12 is to elect a State Representative who will. May 19 Republican Primary, PA's 128th District.
Paid for by Elect David Hughes PAC. hughes128.com · 2026 Republican Primary Candidate, Pennsylvania 128th District. Calculator estimates based on public PA PUC docket data.