[Watchdogs] Board Replacement strategy, conserve power.
Paul Langston
langston at zeecon.com
Fri Jan 2 11:49:16 CST 2009
Dear Alfred: Cutting back on energy use is an all-around good idea. I have calculated you electric bill: 250 KWH X 10.67 cents per KWH = $26.68
add the fixed meter charge $20.00
Total should be about $46.68
Your ave. cost per KWH is 18.7 cents per kwh.
Compare that to my last bill, I paid 11.4 cents per kwh. You paid 64% more per KWH than I did.
I have asked PEC to eliminate the $20.00 meter fee for small users like your self. So far, no reply. Your suggestion that we all use 10% less is a fine idea except that a COOP can and will raise the kwh rate on us to keep themselves in the "Diamond Jim" style that they are accustomed to. They raised the rate twice in 2008 and I fear that another raise will come soon.
You are correct in that saving at least 10% is a fine idea. The PEC Coop automatically increases the net cost per KWH to pay for their overblown overhead costs.
You might like to drop into one of PEC Electrical Offices near you and check my figures. Best Regards, Paul Langston 830-598-1322
----- Original Message -----
From: alfred stlouis
To: watchdogs at pec4u.org
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 10:34 AM
Subject: [Watchdogs] Board Replacement strategy
One sure way to get the attention of the board is to cut back on energy use. This is a mild winter, try to cut back at least 10% of electric usage. There is no need to run electric heaters with daytime temps in the 70's.
Last month I cut usage down to 250 KW, this month I expect to use about 300 KW or less. Members can show their contempt for this rotten Board leadership by cutting the funds they have to work with and asking for another cut in their pay!
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> Subject: [Watchdogs] Article in the Marble Falls Highlander
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> Director asks PEC president to resign
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> by Bobbi Gage
> Highland Lakes Newspapers
> 2 days 5 hrs ago | 0 0 comments
> <http://www.highlandernews.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Director-asks-PEC-president-to-resign%20&link=push::target_page&hash=comments_1024233&id=1024233&>
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> Pedernales Electric Cooperative?s District 7 director Patrick Cox wants
> board president R.B. Felps and District 4 Director and
> secretary-treasurer O.C. Harmon to step down from their positions at the
> cooperative.
>
> ?In order to achieve the further reforms that the members deserve, I
> urge President R.B. Felps and Secretary-Treasurer O.C. Harmon to step
> down as officers of the PEC Board,? Cox said in an editorial column.
>
> Cox issued his request after Navigant Consulting Inc. released a
> 391-page report detailing the wrongdoings of the co-op?s former executives.
>
> ?The Navigant Consulting Inc. review of the (PEC) clearly demonstrated
> that the previous board and management of the organization betrayed the
> membership and tarnished the reputation of the nation's largest
> electrical cooperative,? he said. ?As a board member, I have pursued and
> will continue to pursue positive reforms at the PEC.?
>
> When contacted by The Highlander, Felps said, ?I have no comment to make.?
>
> Harmon was unable to be reached.
>
> Cox is not the only one suggesting that Felps and Harmon step down from
> their posts?a group of customers are asking for all holdover members to
> do so.
>
> ?We need to get rid of these guys that were rubberstamping everything
> (former PEC general manager) Bennie Fuelberg put before them,? said PEC
> customer Sue Barnett. ?That is my biggest problem.?
>
> Besides the president and secretary-treasurer, Barnett and other members
> seeking change are asking that District 1 director Vi Cloud and District
> 6 director Val Smith leave the board.
>
> ?The people with the ability to vote are all that matter to us right
> now,? Barnett explained. ?Eventually (we want all) holdover board
> members who don?t have the power to vote (to resign), but that is not
> the battle right now.?
>
> Though Barnett said she does not have any background information about
> Cox seeking the resignation of Felps and Harmon, she is ?thrilled? with
> his decision.
>
> The group of PEC members is planning to ask the two men to step down
> from their positions at a Jan. 15 special meeting being held to discuss
> the findings and recommendations of the Navigant report.
>
> Though Barnett believes Harmon is ?right up there? with Felps when it
> comes to lack of oversight, she is insistent that as a board member
> Felps has not provided the oversight required of his position.
>
> ?He should have been providing oversight, and it is clear to us in many,
> many, many situations that he has not looked after or followed up on,?
> Barnett explained. ?When (members) ask what is happening, he claims he
> has no knowledge. That is terrible. He should have knowledge as a board
> officer. In my opinion, it is his lack of oversight. He has not been
> representing the membership as the bylaws state he should.
>
> ?It is shocking to me they haven?t been humiliated into stepping down
> yet,? Barnett said.
>
>
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