Jenks:
‘Find us a better utility deal’
Published: Monday, August 6, 2007
Alan Lewis Gerstenecker, Editor
From the “Utility War of Words” came an edict during the City Council meeting Monday night, as Mayor William S. Jenks, III, issued an edict to utility watchdog Tracey Watson and her RMU4U group: “Find the city a better utility deal.”
“I’m serious about it,” Jenks said. “If she can find the city a better contract, I’m all for it. It’s not good enough just to say, ‘let’s get out of MoPEP.’ That’s not a solution.”
“She seems to have a lot of time on her hands. Find us a better cont[r]act,” Jenks said after nearly a half-hour executive session to discuss real estate, on which no decisions were made.
“We need to find a 40- to 60-peak magawatt supplier, and I don’t know who can supply that,” the mayor said of the contract the city now has with the Missouri Public Energy Pool.
Watson, questioned outside City Council Chambers as the board headed into executive session, said she would pursue other options.
“I guess I have that authority, although I don’t know who will talk to me as long as the city’s under contract with MoPEP,” Watson said. “I realize he’s upset, and he said there were factual errors in the presentation, but we checked those things out,” she said about MoPEP crediting the city for its generators.
“Since I have so much time, I’ll look into it,” Watson said.
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