01-09-2007 CCM (2)Joint HUC/City Council Meeting
January 9, 2007
Members present: President Craig Lenz; Vice President Don Walser; Secretary David
Wetterling; Commissioner Dwight Bordson; Commissioner Robert Hantge; General
Manager Michael Kumm; Attorney Marc Sebora.
City Council members present: Steve Cook, Bill Arndt, and Jim Haugen. (see minutes of
January 31, 2007.)
President Lenz called the meeting to order at 4:00 pm.
GM Kumm presented advertisement for bids for service truck replacement of unit 643.
This is a budgeted item but because it’s over $50,000 it needs commission approval.
Secretary Wetterling made a motion to approve the advertisement for bids for service
truck replacement of unit 643. Vice President Walser seconded the motion and it
passed unanimously.
Discussion took place regarding combining HUC electric/gas billing with the City
gas/water/sewer billing, with the possibility of this coming to fruition in 2009. Also
discussed was the plausibility of installing natural gas lines to serve customers outside
the city limits of Hutchinson.
GM Kumm presented the operational and financial benchmarks for HUC, with emphasis
on SAIFI (number of times a customer is without power), SAIDI (length of time the
customer is without power), and CAIDI (length of the outage) and the measures in place
to improve reliability.
Discussions were held on:
Alternative energy Natural gas pipeline litigation & condemnation
Tree Power Program Natural gas purchase program
Highway 7 Project Big Stone II
CIP Program Underground conversions
Commissioner Hantge made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 5:22 p.m. Secretary
Wetterling seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.
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Secretary,
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President,