Mary Lindsey
Although not giving a reason for stepping down from the Electrical Utility Advisory Board, most of us can figure it out. There comes a time when banging your head against a brick wall is giving you nothing but a headache. Mary Lindsey gave kudos to all the members of the board.
As Mayor Triolo had originally appointed Lindsey, she got to choose her replacement. Carla Blockson, former candidate for commissioner District 2, will now be on the Board. We haven't seen Carla since she ran as a pro business candidate in 2010 wanting to end the Utility Conservation Program to save less than a buck on our utility bill. We can also give Blockson credit for the vicious "Mad Scientist" attack mailer against Commissioner McVoy that Shanon Materio, now commissioner in West Palm Beach, was behind.
The commission voted in Lisa Maxwell as the new Chair, taking over for Lindsey. The vote was 3/1 with McVoy dissenting. She has appeared at city hall a few times since that election where she lost to Suzanne Mulvehill and ran on the platform of cleaning up our streets, preventing the bankruptcy of our city and stopping unfair utility fees and assessments.
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Carla Blockson wanted to do a lot more than save pennies on the Utility Bill. Blockson knew the X Code Enforcement Officers turned Conservation Inspectors--costing about $500,000, including Benefits, were completely ineffective.
Blockson also knew that the Conservation Program was not cost effective and was a waste of time, effort, Staff and resources-including money. i. e. Cara Jennings hit the program for $3,000 while showing a decrease in electric and water consumption that required a 17 year payback to break even.
Another frustrated citizen bites the dust.I thought Maxwell had sold her house and moved. Sad to hear she is still in Lake Worth.
Oh, but the conservation program was effective and very important.
In December 2008, the City Commission voted to issue a notice of Contract Rate of Delivery (CROD) to the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA) in order convert the electric utility’s participation in the FMPA All Requirement Project (ARP) to a method by which the City could
enter into additional agreements for wholesale power purchases. CROD becomes effective January 1, 2014, at which time, the City must have entered into a contractual agreement with another wholesale power supplier, or be able to generate full requirements in house.
The ability to convert the ARP participation to CROD is contractually dependent primarily on
the city’s ability to generate enough power to meet peak load, plus 15%, as measured by the FMPA in 2013.
Carla Blockson she knows about the utility?
Sad to see Mary go, she has so much knowledge about the utility, but Lisa Maxwell will be great. she is no nonsense and will get to the heart of the matter.
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