[Watchdogs] Do Our Directors Represent PEC or TEC? (On Rescinding a 2002 Fuelberg Directive on Buying from TEC without Competitive Bidding)

[Milton Hawkins]

Friends,

 

Watch the video of Monday's Board meeting, about the 3:30 point, where the
directors are discussing a resolution (copied below) to rescind Bennie
Fuelberg's directive that PEC purchase major items from Texas Electric
Cooperatives (TEC) without bidding, and ask yourself whom the directors are
representing, PEC or TEC.

 

After expressions of tender regard for TEC ("We are their business model."
"TEC is dependent on us." - Larry Landaker), and a display of confusion
about the effect of a newly adopted purchasing policy, the resolution was
ultimately withdrawn.  

 

As a result, though it has now been declared "moot," the Fuelberg directive
lives on at PEC, and TEC, an organization that has worked consistently
against extending basic rights to member-owners of cooperatives across the
state, is to be invited to come and make its case for its favored position
as sole-source provider for poles, wire, and transformers, the major items
PEC purchases. 

 

Milton

 

Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Regular Meeting

September 20, 2010

 

RESOLUTION (ID # 1350)

Recission of Resolution and Agreements to Purchase Materials

Without Competitive Bidding

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF

THE COOPERATIVE, the May 22, 2002 Board resolution authorizing the

Cooperative "to purchase materials from Texas Electric Cooperatives US&S

whenever available, without going through the bid process" is rescinded,
effective

Oct. 1, 2010, and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any accompanying or subsequent alliance

agreements to purchase materials from Texas Electric Cooperatives and its
affiliates

are likewise rescinded, effective Oct. 1, 2010, and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Acting General Manager or his designee is

authorized to take such actions as needed to implement this resolution.

 

Milton Hawkins    milton.hawkins at gmail.com    830-868-9075

 

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