A coalition of individuals and representatives of community formed in 1976 in response to the proposed rate hike by the municipally-owned utility, City Water, Light and Power (CWLP). Dedicated to electric rate reform.

Correspondence, announcements, press releases, clippings, reports, pamphlets, position papers, rate schedules, minutes and agendas, comsumer cost comparisons, and sundry other documents concerning the proposed rate hike by CWLP and the oppositions to it by SCFER. Also includes Springfield East Association news releases and minutes, a public hearing statement of the Mother Jones Chapter of the New American Movement and personal notes regarding opposition to the Capitol City Railroad Relocation Authority plans to relocate railroads on Springfield's Eastside, 1976; and a Capitol City Railroad Relocation Authority hearing document, 1981. The Springfield East Association's 1976 project, "Public Dialogue on Alternative Organizational Forms for Springfield City Government" is also documented.