08-26-2020 HUCMMINUTES
Regular Meeting — Hutchinson Utilities Commission
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Call to order — 3:00 p.m.
President Don Martinez called the meeting to order. Members present: President Don
Martinez; Vice President Matt Cheney; Secretary Robert Wendorff; Commissioner Monty
Morrow; Commissioner Anthony Hanson; GM Jeremy Carter; Attorney Marc Sebora;
Conflict of Interest
2. Approve Consent Agenda
a. Approve Minutes — Correction to the Special Meeting Minutes; President
Martinez called the meeting to order not Morrow.
b. Ratify Payment of Bills
Motion by Commissioner Hanson, second by Commissioner Wendorff to approve
the Consent Agenda. Motion carried unanimously.
3. Approve Financial Statements
GM Carter presented the Financial Statements. Electric Division net loss increased
$56,625 over July 2019. GM Carter noted that there was no power cost adjustment
for July leaving the total at $249,268 YTD. There was an error in the system control
data which if caught before the bills were processed would have resulted in $62,205
being collected through the PCA for July. This amount will be added to the formula
for determining the PCA for August. Natural Gas Division had a net loss of $63,041,
which is a negative change of $82,819 from July of 2019.
Conversations were held on continuing trends or effects COVID-19 has had in the
divisions.
Motion by Commissioner Morrow, second by Commissioner Cheney to approve the
financial statements. Motion carried unanimously.
4. Open Forum
5. Communication
a. City Administrator —Matthew Jaunich —Absent
b. Divisions
i. Dan Lang, Engineering Services Manager — Absent
ii. Dave Hunstad, Electric Transmission/Distribution Manager —Absent
iii. Randy Blake, Production Manager — Absent
iv. John Webster, Natural Gas Division Director — Absent
v. Jared Martig, Financial Manager- Absent
c. Human Resources - Brenda Ewing — Absent
d. Legal — Marc Sebora —
Nothing to Report
e. General Manager — Jeremy Carter
i. Touched base with Dan on Capacitor Bank, originally thought to start this Fall,
but now ground work may not start until Spring and will continue through Fall
of next year.
ii. Insurance Update
iii. Projects going well - more maintenance than capital work is being done right
now.
iv. Continuing to review CDC and MN Dept. of Health on Covid-19 along with
updating the HUC Preparedness Plan.
6. Policies
a. Review Policies
i. Hutchinson Utilities Commission Establishing a New Electric/Natural Gas
Account
ii. Deposit Requirement — Residential
iii. Deposit Requirement — Commercial/Industrial
iv. Terminating Electric/Natural Gas Service by Customer
v. Errors in Billing
vi. Payment of Your Bill
vii. Automatic Bill Payment Plan
viii. Budget Payment Plan
ix. Minnesota Cold Weather Rule
No changes recommended at this time.
b. Approve Changes
i. Definition of Your Bill
ii. Explanation of Billing Procedure
GM Carter presented changes that are needed to the two policies.
Motion by Commissioner Cheney, second by Commissioner Hanson to approve the
policy changes. Motion carried unanimously.
7. Unfinished Business
a. None
8. New Business
a. Approve Rate Adjustments for 2020 & 2021
GM Carter recapped conversations that were held last month on the rate
adjustments for 2020 & 2021. HUC instituted the first 2-year rate track
adjustments back on Oct 1, 2018 & Oct 1 2019 on the various customer classes.
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that follow the 6 & 9 year glide keeping
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Adjourn
There being no further business, a motion by Commissioner Cheney, second by
Commissioner Wendorff to adjourn the meeting at 3:57p.m. Motion carried
unanimously.
ATTEST. ITIT�
Don Martinez, President
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Robert Wendorff, S ary