Friday, March 22, 2019
March 26, 2019 EPB Regular Meeting
3:02 PM | 
Posted by
Billy Ray |
REVISED REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
GLASGOW ELECTRIC PLANT BOARD
MARCH 26, 2019, 6:00 PM
1. CONSIDER ADOPTING ROBERTS RULES OF ORDER - Newly Revised 11th Edition as the Board Rules of Order
2. CONSIDER APPROVAL OF AGENDA
3. CONSIDER REPLACEMENT OF BOARD COUNSEL
4. CONSIDER ALLEGATION AND REMEDIES REGARDING OPEN MEETINGS VIOLATION(S) CHARGE BY MELINDA OVERSTREET AND GDT
5. CONSIDER ACTION RELATIVE TO DEFAMATORY ARTICLE IN BARREN COUNTY PROGRESS
6. CONSIDER PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
7. REPORTS
A. COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON EPB RATE DESIGN HISTORY AND FINDINGS
B. BOND ISSUANCE CLOSING
C. EMAIL SERVER ATTACKS
8. ADJOURN
MEMORANDUM
TO: Members of Glasgow
Electric Plant Board
FROM: William J. Ray, PE
DATE: 3/21/2019
SUBJECT: Board Meeting Information
March Main
Topics
Ø Peak prediction missed due to missing a peak
on February 1 that was not eclipsed during the rest of the month
Ø Consider formal open meetings violation
complaint by Melinda Overstreet
Ø
Receive
comprehensive report on the five-year history of EPB rate design decisions
Ø
Consider
options regarding defamatory article in Barren County Progress
Ø
Consider
Programming Committee appointments
Ø
Reports
Action Items
March 1 FCA
Ø The April 2019 TVA FCA will
decrease to 1.680 cents per kWh. This is the third consecutive small decrease
in the FCA. These decreases are afforded by the copious rainfall over the last
few months, which is allowing TVA to make more low-cost power from
hydroelectric facilities.
Ø On April 1, the energy
component of our retail rates will adjust to reflect this anticipated decrease
to the wholesale cost of energy.
Respond to
Open Meetings Complaint by Melinda Overstreet
Ø
This is the matter that was not acted upon at the
last meeting.
Ø
Melinda agreed to extend the time allotted for a
response to an Open Meetings complaint, to this meeting. Since another grace
period is unlikely to be granted, this matter should be addressed at this
meeting.
Presentation
of the history of data and board decisions that led to EPB retail electric rate
changes 2014-2019
Ø This discussion will be led by William Ray and other members of the EPB
staff. It will be a comprehensive review of how previous boards received
reports on EPB trends and challenges, and how they reacted to that data to
transform retail electric rates.
Ø Completion of the report will be dependent upon the questions and
concerns raised by the board. This item might carry forward into future
meetings.
Consideration
of possible Board actions relative to recent article regarding electric rates
in Barren County Progress
Ø
Several outrageous and inaccurate claims about EPB
electric rates as they compare to Kentucky Utilities Company, and to statewide
averages, were made at the top of the front page of the March 14, 2019 edition.
Ø
The EPB team dropped what we were doing and set out
to research the claims made and the conclusions reached, relative to rates, in
the article. We discovered that the website used for most of the data was more
than five years out of date, and that all the conclusions reached in the
article were wrong by very wide margins.
Ø
A copy of a letter to Jeff Jobe is included in board
package. It points out the errors, and the damage done to EPB through his
defamatory statements.
Ø
Jobe’s response is also attached. Until we see how his story, referenced in the
letter, is written, we do not know if he is retracting his previous false and
defamatory statements. He makes, yet again, a request for a report that is
vague and impossible to interpret, but we may make some guesses at what he
might be attempting to ask for; and provide that.
Ø
At the meeting we may, or may not, have sufficient
understanding of his response to our demand, such that you can determine a
course of action.
Cable
Television Programming Committee Appointments
Ø
The Programming Committee acts independently of EPB
to consider what programming is appropriate for the EPB Cable Television system.
The committee makes these determinations and recommends same to the EPB.
Ø
The committee was purposely created to isolate EPB
from any potential violation relative to the First Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution.
Ø
The committee consists of six members, with
staggered terms, in addition to the Superintendent, who acts as Chairperson and
liaison between the committee and EPB.
Ø
The terms of Mary
Genice Burchett-Bower and Karl Napier expired at the end of 2018. Ms.
Burchett-Bower has served two terms and Mr. Napier has served one term.
Ø
Action on this item
is needed this month.
Reports
Ø
Information on recent, and ongoing hacking attacks
on the Glasgow-ky.com mail server, and information relative to the bond
closings on March 5, will be provided at the meeting.
Conclusion
Please let me know if
you have any questions before the meeting.
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