The Pacific County PUD met on Tuesday, August 16 for their regular bi-monthly commissioner's meeting. General Manager Doug Miller started the meeting out with the Pledge of Allegiance, before listing what correspondence the commissioners have received since the last meeting. Miller moved to the manager's report.
"Our utility submits a Public Utility credit application for low income assistance each year to the State of Washington Department of Revenue. This application, due by July 1, allows for a credit to our monthly public utility tax based on a formula utilizing the amount of billing discounts under our senior discount program. The low income assistance credit determined for the period of July 1 2016 through June 30 2017, using the computation in the application was $8,058. The actual number approved by the DOR is actually higher at $8,963 due to the fact that some utilities do not have a discount program," said Miller. This completed the manager's report and so the council moved to the next item.
The next item the commissioners dealt with was four contracts for service extensions, all of which were residential, before moving to the Willapa Operations Center Building Addition Change Orders. "As we talked last time we were hear we approved change orders 1-3, and that process can continue," said Miller. The commissioners voted to approve change order 4 through 9.
The next item was a surplus of district vehicle number 18, which is a 1998 Freightliner Aerial Manlift truck.
"Certain items become unserviceable, obsolete or warn out over time and are no longer of use to the district in our daily operations. According to RCW 54.16.180 the PUD is authorized to sell or dispose of this property. Our PUD board acquired a 2016 Freightliner Cab Chassee with Altech Aerial Manlift at the conclusion of our September 1, 2015 board meeting in Raymond. The district is scheduled to take the delivery of this vehicle early next month and possibly as early as later this month." Normally the PUD would hold a bid for the surplused vehicle, but this time the PUD dealt with it by approving the sale of the surplus vehicle within the same meeting.
At the end of the meeting member of the public Dick Anderson had a question: "Are you guys going to have an exception when someone has an emergency and has to have a locate," asked Anderson. Miller answered by assuring Anderson that the law allows for the emergency secondary locate.