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LIGHT AND POWER CONMITTEE
Committee Report
January 15,1968
COMMITTEE:Brodie -Tregent -Petrocine -Sweetland -Bailey
ATTENDING:Brodie -Tregent -Sweetland -Bailey
ABSENT:Petrocine
OLD BUSINESS:
1.Committee gave Sweetland authorization to secure quotations
from three or four different auto manufacturers for a new
line truck.Anticipated cost:$21,000.00.
2.Committee asked for rate study of light and power rates to be
conducted by a competent engineering firm.Mr.Clarence Hoper
was contacted and will attend the next regular meeting of the
Committee on February 19,1968 at 3:00 P.M.to explore
possi1i1ities.
NEW BUSINESS:
1.Committee gave authorization to purchase ten new 250 watt
street light fixtures at approximate cost of $70.00 each.
This does not include installation cost.It is planned to
install them where most urgently needed.
2.Committee gave approval for purchase of one new oil circuit
reclosure switch which will replace the one which has been
in service on the South line near El Rancho.Estimated cost:
$1,600.00
3.Committee gave approval for Sweetland to purchase a new cal
culator and trade in the one now in use.
4.Sweetland explained to the Committee the possibility of
abondoning about one and one-half mile of the Town’s primary
system located near Stead’s Ranch and located within National
Park boundaries.Two Town customers would be affected and
subsequently served by the National Park system if such an
agreement should be found to be beneficial or desirable by
both government agencies.
5.A progress report was given to the Committee on data pro
cessing for light and power bills.From all indications,
the January billing will be prepared by the data processing
center in Fort Collins.Mailing will be done locally.In
order to properly adminster collections under the new system,
it would be most effectively accomplished under a new and
slightly different policy (resolution or ordinance)recommend
ed to read as follows:
Bailey
1/15/68
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Light and Power Committee
January 15,1968
BEGINNING JANUARY 1968,ALL LIGHT AND POWER
BILLS WILL BE MAILED APPROXIMATELY ON THE
FIRST DAY OF EACH MONTH AND BECOME AUTOMATI
CALLY DUE AND PAYABLE BY THE TENTH DAY FOL
LOWING.IF NOT PAID BY THE TWENTY-FIFTH DAY
OF THE MONTH,A NOTICE WILL BE MAILED DECLAR
ING THE BILL DELINQUENT AND SHOWING SERVICE
WILL BE DISCONNECTED AS OF THE TENTH DAY OF
THE FOLLOWING MONTH.NO FURTHER NOTICE WILL
BE MADE.
IF SERVICE IS DISCONNECTED FOR FAILURE TO
PAY BILL,A CONNECT CHARGE IN THE AMOUNT OF
$2.50 IN ADDITION TO PAYMENT IN FULL OF THE
BILL,WILL BE REQUIRED BEFORE SERVICE IS
RE SOTRED.
The above proposal is about the same policy as we are now using
from the stand point of time allowed the customer for making
payment.The main difference is that the method now in use is
based on no more than sixty days credit which has to be figured
individually;whereas the new policy,as outlined above,applies
directly to a specific service bill which required no figuring
and is more readily understood by the consumer
There being no further business,the meeting was adjourned.
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Bailey
1/15/68