REGULAR BOARD MEETING
EWEB BOARD ROOM
500 EAST FOURTH AVENUE
MARCH 1, 2011
WORK SESSION
5:30-7:30 P.M.

  Start time Length
1. EWEB’s 100-Year History Book Presentation – Retiree George Mason
5:30 30 min.
2. Board Governance – Roger Gray, General Manager, and Sheila Crawford, Strategic Planning & Governance Coordinator
6:00 30 min.
3. Governance Process Policy GP4 – Agenda Planning Discussion – Roger Gray, General Manager, and Sheila Crawford, Strategic Planning & Governance Coordinator 6:30 30 min.
4. Update to the Electric and Water Long-Term Financial Plans – Debra Smith, Customer & Shared Services Division Director, and Patty Boyle, Fiscal Services Manager 7:00 30 min.
     

REGULAR BOARD MEETING
7:30 P.M.

 
  Start time Length
1. Agenda Check (President Brown) 7:35 5 min.
2. Public Input 7:40 5 min.
3. Approval of Consent Calendar (Items will be approved by one motion and without discussion. If discussion is required, specific items will be removed from the Consent Calendar and considered separately.) 7:45 5 min.
4. Items removed from Consent Calendar 7:50 5 min.
5. Items from Board Members 7:55 10 min.
6. Correspondence 8:05 5 min.
7. Board Agendas 8:10 5 min.
8. State of the Utility Speech – President Brown 8:15 10 min.
9. May 2011 Electric Rate Proposal – Debra Smith, Customer & Shared Services Division Director, Patty Boyle, Fiscal Services Manager, and Harvey Hall, Senior Energy Risk Analyst (NOTE: This is a 45 MB PDF that may take several minutest to download) 8:25 15 min.
10. First Public Hearing on Proposed Electric Rate Increases 8:40 15 min.
11. Customer Security Deposits & Late Fees Approval – Debra Smith, Customer & Shared Services Division, and Mark Freeman, Customer Service Manager 8:55 15 min.
12. Three Phase Padmounted Transformer 5-Year Contract Approval
ERMCO c/o Hees Enterprise. Periodic purchase of Three Phase Padmounted Transformers when the utility requires transformers. Electric Division. $1,342,756 (over 5 years). Tom Buckhouse, Electric Division Director
9:10 5 min.
 

Consent Calendar
March 1, 2011

 

MINUTES

1a. December 21, 2010 Work Session
1b. December 21, 2010 Regular Session
1c. January 4, 2011 Special Session
1d. January 4, 2011 Regular Session

 

CONTRACTS

2. Eugene Register Guard Publishing – Publicize required legal notices and other advertisements as needed. Customer & Share Services Division - $175,000 (over five years). Contact Person is Debra Smith, 541-685-7196

3. General Electric – Joint operating agreement with the Springfield International Paper (IP) plant for Turbines – Generator OEM parts and equipment for overall of the IP Unit #4 Co-Generating plant - $300,000 (EWEB Shares $150,000), Contact Person is Clay Norris, 541-685-7106

4. Kelly Services – Temporary summer staff for Water Management’s seasonal Commercial & Industrial Landscape Audit Program. Water Division - $45,000, Contact Person is Tom Buckhouse, 541-685-7166

5. McKenzie Watershed Alliance – Grant to support the operation and administrative costs to the McKenzie Watershed Alliance. Customer & Share Services Division -$120,000 (over five years). Contact Person is Debra Smith, 541-685-7196

6. Peter Roberts, LLC – Post-Construction Assessment of the Roosevelt Operations Center (ROC) building project. General Manager Division - $45,000, Contact Person is Kevin McCarthy, 541-685-7130

7. Telephony Services – Required telephony service at various locations in Oregon, Washington and Idaho with various carriers. Services include the provision of Local Dial Tone, Integrated Services Digital Network and DSL Lines. Customer & Share Services Division - $760,500 (over three years). Contact Person is Debra Smith, 541-685-7196

8. TriAxis – Engineering design and support service for the Transmission and Systems Engineering Departments. (Subject to replacement by master engineering service RFP that is underway.) Electric Division - $149,000 (over 5 years), Contact Person is Tom Buckhouse, 541-685-7166


GRANT REQUESTS

9. SDC Grant Request from Housing Policy Board for Willakenzie Crossing – Grant requested to offset Water System Development charges for a 56 rental units for households earning less than 50% of the Area Median Income. The proposed development is located on Willakenzie Road at City of Eugene’s Landbank site. Water Division - $34,067, Contact Person is Tom Buckhouse, 541-685-7166.

 

RESOLUTIONS

10. Resolution No. 1102 – Electric Utility System Bonds

11. Resolution No. 1103 – Water Utility System Revenue Bonds

12. Resolution No. 1107 – U.S. National Association Designation Signatories

13. Resolution No. 1108 – Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Portland, Oregon Designated Signatories

14. Resolution No. 1109 – Wire Transfers

15. Resolution No. 1110 – Local Government Investment Pool Funds Depository

16. Resolution No. 1111 – Bank of America Designated Signatories

17. Resolution No. 1112 – Governance Process Policy GP4 – Agenda Planning Policy

 

Correspondence Only
March 1, 2011