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HomeMy WebLinkAbout#15 Stephen's report To: Board of Directors From: Stephen Hollabaugh, Assistant General Manager Date: January 12, 2001 Monthly Activity Report Power Supply Issues: I am sure that the Board has heard of the power shortages in California that have been in the news. The District is not affected by these reliability problems. I have been investigating many future power sources to stabilize the future power supply of the District. I met in Boise with Idaho Power and UAMPS concerning future power sales to both the District and UAMPS. I am working also with NCPA and ENRON just to name a few to try to get a good long term power strategy worked out for the District. Obviously most of my time has been spent trying to make since of the “California Energy Crisis” as I am sure each of you have seen almost nightly on the news. You might have heard on the news that Lassen Municipal Utility District (LMUD) in Susanville was caught short during this price spike and is approximately sixteen million dollars in debt. LMUD plans on raising retail electric rates 125%. When I have something ready for the Board to discuss, I will bring it to the board quickly, as power supply deals come and go promptly. I have spoken to several customers concerning the removal of our 11% wholesale energy credit. Nearly all the comments have been positive with many customers complimenting the District about our rates and reliability. I am scheduled to be at a meeting in Salt Lake City Utah the day of the Board meeting, so I will not be in attendance. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me. Power Supply Expenses for 2000: I have calculated our Power Supply Expenses for 2000 to be approximately 4.69 million dollars, which is about $75,000 under budget. Our cost could have been 21.77 million dollars if we were subject to the wholesale prices during the year. That’s a 17 million dollar difference. Labor Management Steering Committee: I am meeting each month with the Labor Management Steering Committee. Peter Holzmeister, Mary Chapman, and I represent management. Mike Connell, Rosana Matlock, Patrick Waite and George Caballero. We have been discussing job descriptions, training and promotion procedures and future job trends at the District. GIS Strategic Plan Issue: (Graphical Information System): I have attached a schedule and update prepared by Ian Fitzgerald. Geographic Information Systems – Update by Ian Fitzgerald Currently I have developed a schedule as follows: Sept 2000 Create GIS Team Oct 2000 Buy GIS Software; Create Nevada County GIS Data Consortium Nov 2000 Dec 2000 Final Parcel Data model developed Jan 2001 AutoCAD Land base complete (contingent on Cranmer Engineering) Feb 2001 Mar 2001 GIS Land base fully operational Apr 2001 Water/Electric Data model customization complete May 2001 Data Conversion Jun 2001 Data Conversion July 2001 Data Conversion Aug 2001 Data Conversion Sept 2001 Full Facility Data Conversion completed; Customer Data linked to GIS Oct 2001 Begin Full training of staff in GIS Begin looking at Outage Management Options Nov 2001 Tie in SCADA to GIS system software Dec 2001 Finish staff training in GIS 2002 Implement Outage Management; Incorporate 3-D Land Surface; Develop GPS Base Stations; Introduce GIS into Field; Development of Telco Data model and conversion of Telco facilities As of January 12/2001 the following has been completed:  Parcel Data Model completed in November, 2000  Electric Data Model completed January 11, 2001  Water Data Model to start Mid-February.  Land base completed for Tahoe-Donner, Donner Lake, Airport/Sierra Meadows, and Devonshire. This is still on target for completion in at end of January and GIS Implementation of March 2001.  Purchase of GIS software is completed; network implementation will be completed in early February.  Nevada County GIS Data Consortium has been initialized; next meeting should be in February. As a note, it seems all things are going smoothly in the GIS implementation. The above schedule was developed when I first arrived and seems to be holding very strongly. I do not foresee and difficulties with maintaining this schedule throughout 2001.