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HomeMy Public PortalAbout05-19-1997 27 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, INDIANA,SERVING AS A BOARD IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION OF THE RICHMOND POWER& LIGHT PLANT MONDAY, MAY 19.1997 1 The Common Council of the City of Richmond, Indiana, serving as a Board in charge of the operations of the 2 Richmond Power& Light Plant met in regular session at 7 p.m. Monday, May 19, 1997, in the Council Chambers 3 in the Municipal Building in said City. Chairperson Bing Welch presided with the following Councilmembers in 4 attendance: Howard "Jack" Elstro, Etta Lundy, Bruce Wissel, Sarah "Sally" Hutton, Geneva "Gene" Allen, Alan 5 Stamper, Bob Dickman and Larry Parker. The following business was had to-wit: 6 7 APPROVAL OF MINUTES 8 9 The minutes of the meeting of May 5, 1997 were approved on a motion by Councilmember Wissel,second by 10 Councilmember Allen and the motion was carried on a unanimous voice vote. 11 12 APPROVAL OF BILLS, INVESTMENTS AND TRANSFERS 13 14 Upon recommendation of the Finance Committee, Councilmember Hutton moved to approve the following bills for 15 payment,seconded by Councilmember Lundy and by unanimous voice vote the motion carried. 16 17 Bills Already Paid 18 Payroll and Deductions 226,017.00 19 20 Investments Purchased From: 21 Cash Operating Fund 22 Bond Sinking Fund 23 Utiity Bond Reserve Fund 24 Depreciation Reserve Fund 25 Insurance Reserve Fund 26 Consumer Deposit Fund 111 27 Cash Reserve Fund 28 Group Insurance Fund 29 30 Total Investments 31 32 33 Transfer from Cash Operating Fund to: 34 Cash Reserve Fund for payment 35 to City in lieu of taxes 36 37 Transfer from Cash Operating Fund to: 38 Depreciation Reserve Fund 39 for Property&Plant 40 41 Transfers from Depreciation Reserve to: 42 Cash Operating Fund 43 44 Transfers from Consumer Deposit to: 45 Cash Operating Fund 46 47 Transfers from Utility Bond Reserve Fund to: 48 Bo©d Sinking Fund 49 50 Transfers from Cash Operating to: 51 Interest and Bond Principal 52 Bond Sinking Fund 53 Cash Reserve Fund 54 Utility Bond Sinking Fund 55 Depreciation Reserve Fund 56 Insurance Reserve Fund 57 Consumer Deposit Fund 58 Interest and Bond Principal 59 End of Month Petty Cash 60 Revenue Bonds 61 Interest Coupons Redeemed 62 Bond Coupons 63 Miscellaneous Prepaid Invoices 149,390.04 64 Total Prepaid Invoices 375,407.04 65 Less EFT/Direct Deposit of Payroll (47,499.70) Total Prepaid Invoices 327,907.34 Total Bills Not Paid 628,641.45 Grand Total 956,548.79 RP&L Minutes Cont'd May 19, 1997 Page 2 1 REMARKS BY CHAIRPERSON 2 3 Chairperson Welch announced there would be an executive session at 7 p.m. May 28, 1997. He stated that Mr. 4 Mikoff has promised that they will have a recommendation from the first packet of resumes submitted to Mikoff 5 and Associates for review and will be going through the list that night. 6 7 UNFINISHED BUSINESS 8 9 There was none. 10 11 STREET LIGHT COMMITTEE REPORT 12 13 Councilmember Stamper announced that he will be having a committee meeting to review what can be done to 14 make street lights more affordable to the City for neighborhoods that do not have them and at the same time they 15 will be working on ways to obtain revenues for the City to buy them. Councilmember Elstro said they should get 16 with the Mayor, as that is where the money comes from, not RP&L. He also asked Councilmember Stamper if he 17 had anything particular in mind and Councilmember Stamper answered that he was not at liberty to say. 18 Councilmember Elstro stated he was getting as much flack about sidewalks and curbs as he was about street 19 lights. 20 21 MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS 22 23 There was none. 24 25 REPORT BY GENERAL MANAGER 26 27 General Manager Irving Huffman announced that at the next meeting they will be opening bids for the building 28 which is to secure cable and hardware. He said they had finished their No. 2 outage and wanted to put it back on 29 line but the field closing relay failed and they had to get a new one which will hold up the work another day. He 30 said they brought down Unit No. 1 last Friday to look at the duct work because of Public Service Indiana's 31 complaint they use a common duct work. 32 33 Chairperson Welch asked about the wire loss of 750 to 1,000 feet of heavy duty cable on the back path and 34 questioned if someone would have had to drive a truck onto the property in order to get that quantity of material. 35 Huffman answered that someone had backed a truck up on an embankment, cut the fence and rolled the reels or 36 cut the material, then carried the pieces out and took off with them. Chairperson Welch asked where the plan 37 stands for putting up a security fence on the parameter of the plant and Huffman answered that they are going 38 ahead with that project and clearing trees around the area to continue the project. 39 40 Huffman said they are doing it in stages, but in this case, as far as security of the equipment,they will have to put 41 motion detectors on the fence similar to what is in place at Johnson Street as well as on the cameras and lighting 42 systems. He said it has been effective at Johnson Street and it is hoped it will work as well on this project. In 43 answer to a question posed by Councilmember Dickman, Huffman said No. 1 will be out for two weeks, noting 44 that a major overhaul takes four weeks and an inspection takes one week to 10 days. He said this particular unit 45 will not be down for a long period of time. 46 47 ADJOURNMENT 48 49 There being no further business,on a motion duly made,seconded and passed the meeting was 50 adjourned. 51 52 53 54 55 56 Bing Welch, Chairperson 57 58 59 60 61 ATTEST: 62 Myra Miller, Deputy Clerk 63 64 65