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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1966-01-18 Min - Board10i Truckee , California January 18, 1966 The members of the Board of Directors of the Truckee Public Utility District met in a regular meeting at the office of the District on Main Street at 7:30 P.M. Meeting called to order by Chairman Aweeka . At roll call the follow- ''"" ing Directors were noted present: Aweeka, Rose, Doyle, Fink ( arrived during the reading of the minutes) . Absent: Director F irpo . Also present: Longo, Cattan, Best, Snyder. Minutes of the regular meeting of January 4th were approved as cor- rected - the correction be ing : changing item 4 in the Manager's Report to read "Donner Creek Pump House" instead of "Armstrong Pump House" as the location of the new lime injector pump. Following Statement of the Electric Department was presented for approval: ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT STATEMENT AS OF JANUARY 181, 1966 Bank Balance as of January 4th, 1966 $8, 665.77 Deposits 1/5/66 through 1/18/66 16*769,91 25,435.68 Adjustment: Check of Edw. Crichton Ret' d by bank 10.10 25g425.58 Paid Out: House of Travel (Plane ticket) $290.00 Bank of America Traveler Chks. 310.00 Bank of America (Aerial Ladder) 435.20 _ 11035 20 1035.20 24, 390.38 Payroll: Gross Net O/T Nowlin Haltom 77.00 66.10 L . H. Best 236.25 198.83 20.25 Allene Bouillez 200.00 149.60 George Cattan 375.00 311.49 Manley Haltom 354.38 294.76 6.08 Louie Ramirez 305.63 258.03 5.63 Phyllis Snyder 200.00 164.80 Patsy R. Tonini 152.50 126.87 Charles Tramley 212.88 171.71 4.88 David Vieu 115.90 rrw■ � 97.67 ��.�rr r■ ■rnrr.■� 1, 839.86 - 2229.54 1839.86 36.84 22, 550.52 Bills For Board's Approval: Allied Automotive Bancroft -Whitney Chas. Carveth Ins, Masonic Temple Assn. (Repl. Lost Ck) Osburn Super Service Pac if is Telephone Petty Cash Fund Shell Oil Coo Sierra P ac if is Power Co. Sierra Sun Truckee Tahoe Lumber U. S. Post Office Wedco , Inc. Western Union Telegraph (Rental) Wilsey Ham & Blair 49.96 5.07 19.50 70.00 11.05 58.25 16.53 120.12 15, 607 .28 75.06 2.70 50.00 71035.67 2.50 337.24 23o460.93 23,460.93 Dr. 910.41 Minutes January 18, 1966 Continued - A motion by Director Rose, seconded by Director Fink, that- the listed Electric bills be paid, carried and so ordered. The following Statement of the Water Department presented for approval: l WATER DEPARTMENT STATEMENT AS OF JANUARY 18, 1966 Bank Balance as of 1/4/66 3,599.09 Deposits 1/5/66 through 1/18/66 6,042.35 9,641.44 Adjustments: Nevada Sales Tax ded . Record Supply bill + .90 Bank Deduction for Printed Checks 11.02 Paid Out: Bank of America - Backhoe Payment Payroll: Gross Net O/T 9,631.32 198,13 „ Nowlin Haltom 33,00 30.58 L. H. Best 175,50 149,77 13.50 Jack,Arnold 255,75 222.35 15.75 Joseph Britt 369.25 306,06 89.25 Manley Haltom 72,96 66,77 72.96 Charles Tramley 52.00 41.90 David Vieu 201.39 166.12 73,28 983.55 1159.85 983.55` 264,74 8 *449.64 Bills For Board's Approval: Allied Automotive 9.90 Bancroft -Whitney Co. 5,07 Charles Carveth 19.50 Farmers Machinery & Supply 90.65 Masonic Temple Assn. (Back rent Feb .65) _ 80.00 Osburn's Garage 2.00 Pac if is Telephone 9.65 Petty Cash Fund 4.65 Shell Oil Company 120.11 Sierra Chemical Co. 6,65 Sierra Sun 23.10 Standard Oil Co. 7.01 ThorntonIs Garage 12.00 Truckee Tahoe Lumber Co, 27,08 417, 37 417.37 8,032,27 A motion made by Director Doyle, seconded by Director Fink, that the listed Water bills be paid, carried and so ordered. MANAGER'S REPORT: 1. Manager presented a full written and verbal report on his recent trip to the hearing in Washington, D.C., along with an accounting of his expenses for the trip. He read and explained the significance of each of the many meetings held with power officials and members of Congress. The official hearing before the Federal Power Commission and the actions of Sierra Pacific and P.G. & E . officials and our own legal representative were covered by both the Manager and by written report from Attorney McDonough. Copies of both reports were distributed to each Director, and discussion EXPENSE RECORD - FRANCIS LONGO TRIP TO WASHINGTON, D.C.- FEDERAL POWER MEETING 1/8/66 - Truckee to San Francisco 410 miles C 109' 2 meals Telephone Hotel 1/9/66 - Enroute to Washington, D . C . Airport Bus Fare, Washington D .0 . Meals & Tip Hotel 1/10/66 - Cab fare Meals & Tips Telephone Hotel 1/11/66 - Cab fare Telephone Meals & tips Hotel 1/12/66 - Meals & tips Cab fare Hotel 1/13/66 - Meals & tips Cab fare Airport bus fare, Washington D .0 . 1/14/66 - Traveling - Stops at Cincinnati, Ohio 1/15/66 -- Traveling - Cincinnati to Sacramento 1 meal Mileage - Sacramento to Truckee 100 miles C104tr Plane fare $2.90.00 (Coach) Expense check 310.00 $600.00 Bank Charge for Traveler's Checks 3.00 Ret' d to District 151.27 154_.27 41.00 4.10 .15 13.00 1.50 4.20 13.52 2.40 5.20 .40 13.52 .80 .20 6.20 13.52 4 a4O 1.20 l3.52 2.20 1.20 1.50 N/C 2.00 10.00 $155,73 ITINERARY AND REPORT - WASHINGTON, D.C. HEARING BEFORE FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION -- 1/10/66 1-8-66: Left Truckee Saturday, January 8th, A.M. Drove to Sat, San Francisco, arriving late that day, staying over - •night in order that I might be certain of being at airport at time of departure, 9:15 A.M. Sunday. 1-9-66: Met at airport by Attorney McDonough who boarded plane Sun, with me for the coach flight - accompanied on flight by Representative Bizz Johnson. Arrived Washington, D . C . , Dulles International Airport at 5 : 00 P.M. EST, By bus from Airport to Congressional Hotel in Washington. 1-10-66: Attorney McDonough presented the District's case in a Mon. Meeting of Counsel with Federal Power Commission and others, as reported in a Memorandum prepared by Mc Donough, attached to this report, On Monday morning I went Public Power Assn., where with public officials who problems. Accompanied by McDonough and Manager met Johnson, who was briefed presentation. o the off ices of the American meetings had been arranged are concerned with our utility Mr. Leon G. Billings of A.P.P.A , with Congressman H. T. (Bizz) in the Federal Power Commission During the time Attny McDonough was in the meeting of counsel, I met with Congressman George V. Hansen of the 2nd District, Idaho, who is a member of Congressman Moss' Sub -Committee on Power Problems, 1-11-66: We met with Congressman John E. Moss of California at Tues. 9:30 A.M. in his office. Our situation was explained to him and he arranged for a meeting to follow immediately with Mr. Ph ine as Indr it z , an attorney who counsels Cong . Moss' House Sub -Committee, On Tuesday afternoon we met with Mr, John A. Carver, Under Secretary of the Interior, and appraised him of our situation and a forthcoming meeting with Assistant Secty. of Interior Ken Holum. We then met with R.E .A. ' s Assistant Administrator Richard H. Wood and Gerald F. Diddle, Director of Western Area - Electric, R.E.A. 1-12-66: A morning meeting was held with Mr, Ewing Hass, Adminis- Wed, trative Assistant to Senator Thomas Kuchel, a member of the Senate Interior Committee who are concerned with power and allocation of power from Federal Projects, Next we met with Assistant Secretary of Interior William Holum and Bill Keating, Division of Power Chief, Bureau of Reclamation. This meeting was also attended by Cong . Bizz Johnson. Our position was clearly understood by these men and their assistance with our problem assured. Itinerary and Report - Washington, D . C . Continued 1-12-66: Our final meeting on Wednesday was to review our Wed. problems and their possible solutions with Mr. Herbert Cont, Blinder, Larry Hobart and Alex Radin of American Public Power Association, through whose assistance we had been able to meet with the various principals who could assist with our presentation of our case. 1-13-66: I checked out of hotel and departed from Washington's Thurs . National Airport enroute to Sacramento. On the trip home I stopped over at Cinncinnati, Ohio, the home of my daughter. I concluded Jay trip at Sacramento on Saturday, January 15th, and returned to Truckee immediately. Dated: 1-17-66 Respectfully Submitted, FRANCIS LONGO, General Manager - 2 - NOTES ON IMETING OF COUNSEL WITH F m P. C , , ATTORNEYS AND OTHERS, JANUARY 10 -12 , 1961 on Monday, January 101 1966, at 9030 a.m. counsel for the parties to FPC Docket. E424g D Complaint of Truckee Public Utility Disttict, met in the offices of the Federal Power Commission, Room 41.20.:. in Washington,, D. C The meeting lasted until 12 p 40 pqmo. Co wl ' Present -r as l: Drexel. D. Journey, Prineipal Staff Attorney for F,P*C * John S . Everett, Jr a , Staff Attorney for F.P.C. Malcolm At McK.liop, attorney for Pacific Gas and Electric Coo Richard G. Campbell, Vice4opresid6nt and General Counsel, Sierra -Pacific Power Co. Martin McDonough, Attorney for Trucks* Public Utility District Gabe, Rof fenberg , Attorney for Nevada Public Service Commission Re sent for FOP -.Cos Po r�+er rs o Abt E�r-a., o Sster and PI nol" %V � Gat4.; Ivan .P. Berk Also present with Mrs, 14 110P was Pacific o s rate manager, John Roberts; with Mr. Campbell was Merl.s He Atche-son, a Vicempresiden't of SierZao At the request of JCS=- ey►, McDonough outlinad the compi,int, and the r el . �f desired. Discussion f ollowad , during which the following points were made,, 1. with respect to the Heidrick study of facilities necessary to bring CVP power fr= the Summit to Truckee, MacKil.lop said that the Company had not examined or checked it. He said that substantial protective equipM ment would be necessary at the interconnection between the 60 kv lines of PG&E and Truckee, and he did not know whether Heidrick had provided for it. There were questions about the assumptions in the result of operation studies, and Heidrick° s outline of them was distributed. Braitman asked whether any study had been made of the reliability of service dependent on a single circuit from the summit. McDonough . said that the matter had been considered and that Truckee was satisfied, but that no study was available., Journey indicated that the Comma s'sion would be concerned in view of recent events, if a', change it might order would result in a ,substantial increase. in the number and duration of outages, and__ that if the Comis'ston ordered wheeling by PG&E, it might al. oo want to consider our , arrange.m merits for alternate (standamby)-tran'sm3.ssion and generation, In response to a question, McDonough said that Truckee had studied and would continue to study possibili- ties for its own generation, as supporting wheeled CVP power but had no definite plan to propose at this time. In response to another que stion $ McDonough said 2 that Truckee would desire, if successful against PG&E, to contract with Sierra for wheeling and firming, or, if Truckee constructed its 'own line, for an interconnection* Some discussion ensued as to the possible cost of such service to Truckee. McDonough said that he did not know what Heidrick f igur e s would show for the - cost of 'Truckee' s proposed transmission line on a basis of mills per kilowatt hour. Braitman said that his rough estimate of the cost of getting power from the summit to Truckee were 1 1./2 mills per kwh whether this was done by Truckee or Sierra. Pacific answered Sierra's question that it had a "stand-by" schedule, under which two or three customers are presently served. 2. Journey raised the question of whether the relief requested included relief under section 202(b) of the Federal Power Act, which permits the Carnmiesion to order interconnections (that is; direct sale by PGW), as it did in the recant cane of the application of the City of Shrews - burg , Mass,( Decision 438 * on Docket E� 70 21) . McDonough said that the complaint did not ' refer to or attempt to activate this section; Truckee did, however, have a prayer for genera, relief and would r4t want voluntarily to 1irn3.t the Corm s sion in granting any relief it desired to grant, Journey said that any stipulated factual situation should either include facts relevant to section 202(b) , or ex- pressly withhold the issue from the Commission, 32 FPC, 373s 8460 3 Braitman said that he had made a rough calcula- tion of Pacific' s f �R" Schedule which would compute to about eight mills per kwh. He thought that with the addi" tion of 1 1/2 mills for wheeling from ' the surmrnit it night be too expensive to be desirable to Truckee as an alternate to Sierra power, McDonough said that although his infor- mation indicated that there was still a difference, wheeled power is definitely more desirable, and Truckee wanted all the emphasis put on this avenue- of relief. Campbell acknowledged Truckee' s calculation that it would have saved only 3 1/27. under Sierra's new rates, for the last 6 months of 1965, but said that under single point delivery the new rate would save 6 so 7%. and might be lower than 11 mills, if the District load factor was as good as in 1964. 3. With respect to the Pacific m Sierra contract, Campbell said that if Sierra received the first consideraws tion for the power brought over the wait, Truckee' s serv- ice would be uncertain. The characteristics of the current are such that Sierra must supply reactions to keep production up, During summer peaks deliveries at the summit may not exceed 90,000 kw, even with the vars supplied by Sierra. He agreed that most of the time Truckee is now supplied from the 60 kv line at the summit, but that Sierras s power sources, now totalling about 200,000 kw, are occasionally required to supply the load. He said that if either 115 kv line to 4 � - suaanit was out, the 60 kv would be overloaded. 4. MacKillog said that the issues described previously were secondary issues, and that Pacific .wanted to raise pry issues, which were: Truckee had no rights to receive Service or tine Vhga2ing contract at all, since it was not a party - to it, and since the con4a tract related to an area Bch ,did not include Truckee. Furthermore; it was outside the area in which Pacific had been certificated. to serve, by the California Public Utili4w ties Commission. And Pacific had made no dedication of utility faoiliti*e beyond its certificated service area. McDonough asked whether a meant that Pacific contended that the Federal Power fission had no juris® diction here because of the certificate issued by the Calies f ornia Cssion. Mac tillop said t it did ® McDonough Federal Power . said that he thought: Pacific bead c o nc e d ed tet'Onission jurisdiction by fiUM its aontracts with FPC. Maas i.ilop saki tit oo � been filed because under certain. situatimes,,power was delivered inter state, but this would not apply to service to Truckee. . f3 Journey said that . tbe order of Ppe cw films cf such con tracts had ame larAwsage that sib` bo ire riled as Saving language in it. McDcoough said t rct. he had referred to a `could remove the case to that tribunal. Journey said that FPC would probably not like this; and while he did not know what PPC could do about it, he was opposed to it. He sug- gested the possibility of joing hearings. N,acKillop said that immmity of the Company from forced wheeling was so important that, he thought, the Company would raise every objection, including the jurisdictional one, before whatever body was considering the matter, McDonough said that this position made a removal inadvisable. MacKillop said that this view was only his own opinion, and he would check fur- ther with other Company policy makers, There are actually two jurisdictional issue involved; one, whether Pacific' s transmission lines are transmission lines within the mean- ing of the Act; the other, whether Congress had in the de- bates and hearings or. the 1935 amendments to the Federal Power Act shown a desire to withhold jurisdiction over wheeling of federal power from FPC. 5. Counsel discussed, then, whether they would need to submit the whole matter to the Commission at one time, including the issues.on capacity of the lines, reew liability of service, raised by MacKillop, before tackling the secondary issues. Journey said that the Commission was generally reluctant to decide such cases piecemeal, but might be persuaded to in this instance if the facts rele- vant to those issues could be sorted out and agreed to. 6 MacKillop asked to be allowed to draft a stipu-- lat-'Lon s for consideration by the other pax ties, which would form the basis for discussions of these primary is- sues; he thought there would be a good opportunity to clear the policies involved with Company policy makers. He under- took to circulate such a stipulation to other counsel in about two weeks. Counsel generally agreed to the policy; but Journey raised a question about the factual record on the issues of jurisdictions, which would relate to the movement of power across state boundaries over P G & E lines. McDonough said that it seemed to him that the evidence relied on by the various parties would be contradictory by definition. This possibility worried Journey considerably, but his conclusion was that the issue might be handled by stipulated offers of proof, rather than by the actual taking of evidence. In response to an inquiry by braitman, the attorneys agreed that the first stage would be similar to a hearing on demurrer in court. Pacific would move to dismiss; the parties would brief the issues, and argue it to the Commis- sion, If the Commission decided in favor of Truckee, fur- ther proceedings to determine the secondary issues will be necessary unless the parties agree to them. If the Commis- sion decided in favor of Pacific, the decision would and the matter so far as the Commission is concerned. No briefing 7 or argument schedule was discussed; Journey thought that it should be possible to obtain a Commission decision on the primary issues reasonably soon after the matter is sub- mitted. Journey expressed himself as well satisfied with the conference, He said that both Department of Interior and California Public Utilities Commission had been notified of all meetings, but that FPC had heard nothing from them. He asked Pacific and Truckee to keep the California Commission informed on happenings in the case. During the same trip to Washington, McDonough and Francis Longo also talked to the following persons about Truckee` s problems in getting CVP power: Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson member of Congress from the 2d Congressional. District, California, including Truckee; John E. Moss, member of Congress from the 3d Congressional District, California, Chairman of a subcommittee on Power problems of the House Committee on Government operations; Phineas Indritz, counsel to the Moss subcom- mittee 3 Ewing Hass, Administrative Assistant to Senator Thomas H. Kuchel, of California John A. Carver, Jr., Under Secretary of Inter- ior; Kenneth Holum, Assistant Secretar of Interior, Water and Power, with whom was Wi liam H. Keat- ing, Chief, Division of Power, U. S. Bureau of It Declamation; Richard H. Wood, Assistant Administrator, 8 Electric, REA, and Gerald F. Diddle, Director, Western Area office, (including Truckee) . Congressman Johnson attended the meeting with Messrs. Holum and Keating. All the above meetings (except with FPC) were arranged by the American Public Power Association, under direction of Mr. Alex Radin, and one or more of the staff members, either Leon G. billings, Lawrence Hobart, or Herbert 1. Blinder, attended each meeting. Minutes January 18, 1966 Continued followed regarding the hearing and our District's possible future actions following decision by the Federal Power Commission. Such decision should be rendered within one year. Legal briefs are to be submitted within two weeks by all attorneys involved - no other evidence should be required by the Commission to reach their decision. Director Doyle moved and Director Rose seconded, that both Mr, Longo ' s - and Attorney McDonough ' s reports be made a permanent � part of the minutes; carried and so ordered,. 2. Manager advised Directors that Richard Woods Assistant Administrator, and Gerald Diddle,. Western Area Director -Electric, R . E .A . , will be in Truckee February" 21 s t and 2 2nd to discuss our problems, Want to meet with our complete Board if possible* Although February 22nd is a legal holiday, � Directors felt that it was important enough to call a Special Meeting at that time., after confirmation of their trip is received. 3. Auditing firm of Semenza, Kottinger & McMullin have employees here doing the preliminary work on our books. our 1964 books have not yet been returned by Warren Tilson, previous auditor; because of the delay by Aetna Casualty in assuming the obligation on their bond. Attorney Chamberlain will be asked to contact Aetna, and Tilson will be requested to return necessary records. 4. Manager advised that it would be necessary for him to attend a meeting of the Regional Water Quality Control Board in victorville, and that he would therefore be absent from area the last two days of this week. OWN - ADJOURNMENT : Mot --ion by Director Rose, seconded by Director F ink , for adjournments carried and so ordered. Adjournment at 8 : 55 P.M. v r EDWARD N. AWEEKA, Chairman of the Boara 2e4aC C s Phyllis Sn der , Re.cording Secty .