HomeMy Public PortalAbout12-16-1946 - Re-opened after 12-16-2023 Meeting Adjourned 150
MEETING OF THE COMMON COUNCIL ,SERVING AS A
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION OF THE
MUNICIPAL- ELECTRIC LIGHTING & POEER PLANT .
OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.
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The Common Council of the City of Richmond, Indiana, serving as a •
Committee in charge of the operation of the Municipal Electric Lighting
and Power Plant of said City , met in the office of the Light Plant at
32 South Sth Street and reopened the adjourned meeting of December 16th
,19L.6 at 7:00 o'clock P. M. --The following members being present; Homan
Chairman, Brehm, Chambers , Evbank , Kinder, Marino, Harris & Russell.
Mr. Stevens , General Manager of the Utility went through the wage
schedule of the employees showing comparisons with the local Telephone
CompFi.ny , Indiana Michigan Electric Company, Indanapolis Power and Light
, Public Service Company of Indiana , Ft Wayne, Frankfort and Anderson Ill
Municipal Plants. He made a recommendation that as of January lst,19L+7
the rates for the Light Plant Employees be increased 150 per hour for
hourley workers and $30.00 per month for salary workers. On Motion by
Mr. Kinder and second by Mr. Marino a mo$cion to grant his request was
unanimously approved.
Mr. Kinder then brought up the subject of the General Manager's
salary.and Mr. Stevens that he had no intentions of his salary being -
brought up , that he was only interested in having something done for
the rest of the group. However Mr. Harris made a motion , seconded by
Mr. Kinder that the General Managers salary be increased to $7,800.00
per year. Mr. Stevens then asked to be excused from the meeting if they
were going to vote on this and during his absence the motion was carried
unanimously.
Mr. Stevens then advised that the vacation period for Utility employees
b ' limited to the period between June 1st and September 30thand that June 1st
* the dead line on having earned a vacation. The present plan being that they
must be employesd 1 year on June 1st to be entitled to two weeks vacation .
He recommended that the vacation period be extended to cover the calander
year -and that a basis of earned vacations be based on one day of vacation
for each two months of service prior to a fixed date. By consent of the whole
group Mr. Stevens was given authority to make whatever changes in vacation
period and earned vacations that he thought was proper.
There being no other business to perform on proper motion the meeting
adjourned.
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Presiddnt
Attest;•
City Clerk. -
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Mr. Stevens, Supt. of the Light. Plant, was not able to be present and confined
in the hospital and Mr. Homan, Chairman of the Utility Committee, presented the
following report.
To the Committee:
111 As explained to you yesterday, I will be unable to attend the
meeting Monday night and thought I would give you the following report.
DECEMBER 1946
Gress Generation 8,392,000 KWH
Used from Interconnection. 252.600 u
Total g,644,600 "
This is an increase of 9.1% above December, 1945. Our peak load for
December this year was 20,500 KW, an increase of 17.1% over December
1945.
�-� Our total generation and interconnection for 1946 was 95,851,300 KWH
as compared with 91,896,000 KWH in 1945, an increase of 4.3%.
Our peak demand in 1946 was 21,000 KW as compared with 18,700 KW in
1945, an increase of 12.3%.
NEW BOILER
Erection is progressing satisfactorily with all four drums now in place.
Tubes were scheduled for shipment on January 4 and the stoker scheduled
for shipment Jan.22.
NEW TURBINE
The erection engineer has been here a few days this week making preliminary
plans for receipt of the turbine-the first carload of which was shipped
December 30. The balance of the turbine will be shipped on by carload lots
as fast as it is disassembled at the factory.
I wish to mention too that all of our employees are very grateful
to the Board of Directors for the action taken on payroll increases as of
January 1, 1947.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) W.R.Stevens
General Manager
Attest; �1,4P�a��lY1J�— President
City Clerk