Flutterby™! : Petaluma Creamery

More evidence for the "If you owe somebody a thousand dollars and don't have it, you've got a problem. If you owe someobody a million dollars and don't have it, they've got a problem." hypothesis: Petaluma Threatens to Shut Down Creamery Due to Safety Concerns. Petaluma Creamery owes the city close to a million and a half dollars.

In a 2010 letter to Peter threatening to shut off the plant’s water unless he paid some of his debt, then-City Manager John Brown indicated that the city had been lenient in an effort to save the Petaluma Creamery, which was originally founded as the Petaluma Cooperative Creamery in 1913.

Brown wrote that the city had worked with the Creamery “because it is important to the city to support agribusiness and because we recognize the outlet the creamery provides local dairy farmers for their milk. Nonetheless, the city’s water/wastewater ratepayers cannot subsidize the creamery.”