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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF COMMON COUNCIL
• • OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND , INDIANA, SERVING
• AS A COMMITTEE IN CHARGE. OF THE OPERATION
OF THE MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC LIGHTING & POWER
PLANT.
MQNDAY, .JANUARY 5, 1950
REGULAR SESSION ' CALLED TO ORDER AT 7:-OO PM IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS IN CITY
HAIL WITH COUNCILMAN CRUM PRESII DI NG. COUNCILMAN VI V I ANlA�SMENT . THE,
FOLLOWING BUSINESS WAS HAD , TO-WITh I I _ _ .
COUNCILMAN MARINO MOVED THE READING OF THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEET-
II ING BE DISPENSED_ WITH . SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN SALZARULO . UNANIMOUSf1VOIC=
VOTE .
COUNCILMAN SMITHMEYER MOVED THAT PILLS IN THE AMOUNT OF 3504,356_1.54 BE
ALLOWED AND PAID. SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MARINO . UNANIMOUS VOICE VOTE .
MR. 'BECK REPORTED THAT THE SYSTEM DEMAND FOR DECEMBER WAS UP 14061% OVER
. DECEMBER O,F 19571, AND THE PEAK . ..,-PAD . WAS` 7. 21% OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN
1957. MR . BECK 1ALSO REPORTED THAT -DUE TO THE GREAT GENERATION IN THE:
LAST 14 'WEEKSI, THE -195P GENERATION EXCEEDED -• THE 1957 GENERATI ON .BY 2.08%.
,�. 4 I 1 i 1 TIT ,„ .
. COUNCI LMAN SALIZ�ARULO� MOVED THAT RI-CHMOND ELECTRIC BE GIVEN THE I151g
CONTRACT FOR LAMPS FOR STREET LIGHTS. SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN SMITHMEYER . .
. UNAN 1.MOUIIS VOICE VOTE. i - T
MR. BECK , REPORTED THAT ,HIE HIAD RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE . ENO COAL QL .J
ADVISING HIM THAT 7AS .OF JANUARY I , 1959,, COAL PRICES 19OULp INCREASE
AN
$. 15 PER TON , ' D THAT THERE WOULD BE ANJ IN CREASE OF AlAir LEASIT .0 ON
L' APR•I I ,, ,I959. HE SAID THIS JIINCREASE 1WOULDr I1NCRIEASE THE, RATES 0. 17 MILLS
PER KWH AS OF. THE FIRST OF- APRIL..
REPORTING ON THE 15 ,000 KWI TURBIO-GIENERAT'OR , MR . BECK SAID HE HAD SECURED ,
FOR INS. COS . , RESULTS OF THE TESTS GIVEN TH1IS GENERATOR BY THE G_ENERJAL
ELECT,R I C; CO . HE FURTHER STATED THAT, IN VIEW -OF THIS REPORT ON THE GEN-
IIERAT]OR HE -THOUGHT IT WAS FOOLISH TO SPEND $�, 5.OI,OdO.00 TO -REVIND IIT AS ALL.
INDICATIONS SEEM TO BE THAT IT WLL BE SERVICEABLE FOR SOME] TIME TO COME .
MR . BECK , SAID HE HAD CONTACTED SEVERAL CONCERNS ABOUT THE PURCHASE OF OLD
LIGHT PLANT EQUIPMENT THAT WAS NO LONGER IN USE', AND ASKED THE C1ITY
ATTORNEY I'F THE CITY COULD SELL THIS EQUIPMENT . THE CITY ,ATTORNEY -1SA I D
IT COULD BE LEGALLY SOLD , BUT ADVISED- THAT BIDS SHOULD BE RECEIVED AND ALL
TRANSACTIONS BE ENTERED IN THE RECORDS OF THE BOARD, OF DIRECTORS. MR. B'ECK
SAID HE WOULD PRESENT TO THE BOARD ANY. B.I D-S RE .RECEIVES. '
THE FOLLOWING TRANSFERS WERE INCLUDED IN THE BILLS; .
83 ,610.52 FROM CASH OPERATING FUND TO UTILITY BOND FUND -_ '
0 989.48 FROM CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT FUND TO UTILITY BOND FUND
$342, 170.99 FROM CASH RESERVE FUND TO THE CITY OF RICHMOND
THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS , ON MOTION DULY MADE , SECONDED AND CARRIED ,
THE MEETING ADJOURNED.
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