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The missing puzzle piece is why the 14 members of the ElectriCities board are not addressing these issues – Sam Noble, Tarboro Manager, chairs the group. Fred Turnage, former Rocky Mount Mayor; Bruce Rose, Wilson Mayor; Mark Williams, Wake Forest Manager; Wilson Lacy, Fayetteville Utilities Commission (this is a misnomer because Fayetteville does not have debt and is not part of the power agency and pays minimal dues yet your power agency pays him, like the other board members,$1000 a month. Figure this one out); Ron Elks, Greenville Utilities Manager; John Craft, La Grange Manager. Then, from the West, Richard Thomas, Mayor of Lexington; Stribling Boynton, High Point Manager; Jennie Stultz, Gastonia Mayor; Linda Story, Granite Falls Manager; Bill Seamone, Concord Utilities (see same comment as Wilson Lacy); Jerry Cox, retired; Bob Smith, Monroe Council.
Are some colluding with the CEO and others just plain don’t get it/understand it? Some probably do not want to go through the stress of hiring a new CEO. And, it is hard to do the right thing when someone is buying you fancy dinners and taking you on trips all the time. Because these officials get paid $1000 a month for being on the board for a three-year term, something I, and others, vehemently disagree with because it leads to what we have now – collusion and self-protection – some are bought and paid for and do not want anything to threaten this supplement to their salary. But the fact remains. Public entity. Public officials. Public accountability. The public needs to contact them.
Soaring costs, few legitimate. The Mismanagement at ElectriCities threatens the future of eastern NC. Time to stand up and say NO. Say no in your local Budget. Vote for the candidates willing to look into ElectriCities. Now is the time for all ratepayers to act. ElectriCities will not speak to these issues because they are true. Councils, Commissions – Now is the time for accountability and time to stand up and do the right thing for the future of eastern NC. We deserve it
Sophia, NC
The CITY'S MANAGER STRIBLING BOYNTON
- Posted in the Sophia Forum
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Power costs likely to rise By E.A. Seagraves
Staff Writer Sunday, Mar. 30, 2008 3:00 am High Point residents could see their electric bills climb in the next few years. Rising fuels costs are to blame for an increase expected later this year. And a new state law will bring additional increases in the coming years. Because of a 2007 state mandate, High Point and ElectriCities, an agency that manages the power supply for 19 municipalities, including High Point, need to incorporate renewable energy sources into the city's power usage. The state is requiring co-ops and municipal power companies to meet a 10 percent minimum requirement of renewable energy usage by 2018. Electric companies, such as Duke Energy, must meet a 12.5 percent minimum. The deadline is 2018. The percentages must be met in increments, with a 3 percent minimum for co-ops and municipalities in 2012. But residents shouldn't worry too much about their bills increasing drastically. There's a financial cap on how much electric companies can pass on to their customers. Capped in increments, the maximum cost passed on to residential consumers would be $34 annually, or $3 a month, by 2015. Caps in 2015 for commercial customers would be $150 a year and for industrial customers at $1,000 a year. A 2 percent rate increase has already been proposed and was to be voted on Friday. Steve Shelton, senior vice president of ElectriCities, noted that all electric companies are experiencing increases because of rising costs. ElectriCities has larger expenses from construction of facilities and fuel. The budget is actually increasing 2.5 percent, but with half a percent coming from surplus energy sales, customers should only see a 2 percent increase. Jesse Tilton, ElectriCities CEO, said the federal government is also considering a law that would require a 15 percent minimum of renewable energy. There are three ways for electric companies to comply with the law: build a renewable energy facility, reduce consumption or buy renewable energy credits from other energy facilities. Renewable energy sources could be wind, water, solar or bio waste. ElectriCities will investigate ways to help the city meet the new regulations. The company is looking for the least costly sources, Shelton said. |
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This is a hoot. The rates are increasing, not onl due to new laws, but due to excess and irresponsible spending. The poor lobbyists on fat cat contracts could not get anything done for the cities because Tilton is the CEO. And he threw in the towel last year. Ask legislators about an exception that was at play until Tilton paraded in with his inept lobbyists and said ok we will be part of it. His staff changes led to this junk which he know blames on others and asks High Point to lobby on when they did before but he screwed it up. Don't even get me started on his bad refinance deal.
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Power costs likely to rise By E.A. Seagraves
Staff Writer Sunday, Mar. 30, 2008 3:00 am High Point residents could see their electric bills climb in the next few years. Rising fuels costs are to blame for an increase expected later this year. And a new state law will bring additional increases in the coming years. Because of a 2007 state mandate, High Point and ElectriCities, an agency that manages the power supply for 19 municipalities, including High Point, need to incorporate renewable energy sources into the city's power usage. The state is requiring co-ops and municipal power companies to meet a 10 percent minimum requirement of renewable energy usage by 2018. Electric companies, such as Duke Energy, must meet a 12.5 percent minimum. The deadline is 2018. The percentages must be met in increments, with a 3 percent minimum for co-ops and municipalities in 2012. But residents shouldn't worry too much about their bills increasing drastically. There's a financial cap on how much electric companies can pass on to their customers. Capped in increments, the maximum cost passed on to residential consumers would be $34 annually, or $3 a month, by 2015. Caps in 2015 for commercial customers would be $150 a year and for industrial customers at $1,000 a year. A 2 percent rate increase has already been proposed and was to be voted on Friday. Steve Shelton, senior vice president of ElectriCities, noted that all electric companies are experiencing increases because of rising costs. ElectriCities has larger expenses from construction of facilities and fuel. The budget is actually increasing 2.5 percent, but with half a percent coming from surplus energy sales, customers should only see a 2 percent increase. Jesse Tilton, ElectriCities CEO, said the federal government is also considering a law that would require a 15 percent minimum of renewable energy. There are three ways for electric companies to comply with the law: build a renewable energy facility, reduce consumption or buy renewable energy credits from other energy facilities. Renewable energy sources could be wind, water, solar or bio waste. ElectriCities will investigate ways to help the city meet the new regulations. The company is looking for the least costly sources, Shelton said. |
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Read this poll. And vote
Does High Point need a new manager and mayor?created by: kinsley | Wednesday Apr 23 VoteResults Click on an option to vote 56 votes Posted in the High Point Forum Hot Polls | Recent Polls Create a Poll in High Point Yes, both are lacking leaders The Mayor needs to be replaced Strib Boynton, mgr, replace hi vote in a whole new council Yes, both are lacking leaders 32 57% Strib Boynton, mgr, replace hi 11 19% vote in a whole new council 11 19% The Mayor needs to be replaced 2 3% Current Total 56 |
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Yes, both are lacking leaders 36 54%
vote in a whole new council 14 21% Strib Boynton, mgr, replace hi 12 18% The Mayor needs to be replaced 4 6% Current Total 66 1 comment |
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Strib Boynton is part of the Raleigh Corruption.
Re: House wants lottery raises cut Good job Ty Harrell on cutting lottery official salaries. We can only hope our legislators in eastern NC will see what the issue is we have with ElectriCities of NC and Jesse Tilton. If you think these salaries are ridiculous, look at Jesse Tilton. He makes a lot more than the Governor and has mismanaged us all into a rate increase. He makes $500,000. There is no way this guy should make more than Erskine Bowles or Mike Easley. He has given 16-20% raises to people. One of his closest chronies, Clay Norris, makes $240,000 after 60% in increases over the past 5 years. They have 10 lobbyists raking in $500,000 and there is no issue on the table. The other electric companies have far fewer. One is a pay off to an employee who left after a short period of time and the lobbyists have turned over 75% over the past five years, including Alice Garland and Jeannie Bonds being run off by Tilton. How do you think local government employees feel with this mob making this much on the local government retirement system? And in Wilson we will have a whopping 15% rate increase. In other cities it may be higher and it is crippling us individually and our cities. Why? Tilton did a bad refinance deal that cost us 3%, he has increased operational costs with his taste for the high life and legal settlements by 2% and the rest is legitimate fuel costs. Absurd. Poor people in eastern NC are now going to pay for this guy and his mismanagement. How can we recruit and grow with this incredible electric bill? When two lobbyists leave in one week and one turns up as a contract lobbyist, we are suscpicious. We are also suscpicious with so many lobbyists working on no issue. And, the board should turn in its $1000 a month salary they get on top of their city salary until they straighten the place out. Tilton has told newspapers in the east multiple spins trying to create confusion but there is no confusion when you open your bill and know your monthly salary is flowing into his back pocket. Cal Sam Noble in Tarboro the Board Chairman. Be heard. If you live out here in the east, come to the rate committee meeting June 27 in Rocky Mount at 10 am at the Braswell Library and be heard on these issues. |
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Re ElectriCities Story
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/local/conte... We will make another formal public records request with the agency so you can see what the senior management salaries are and what they have been for the past three years so you can see the LARGE RAISES THEY HAVE BEEN GETTING. Why is Samuel Noble Jr., the town manager of Tarboro and chairman of the ElectriCities board, and Fred Turnage taking their $1000 a month salary on the board if they helped make the BAD REFINANCING DECISION? A turnaround of expecting to save $10.5 million a year to new service payments that are rising $12 million a year, or equal to a 2 percent hike in the wholesale rate IS A HUGE MISTAKE not a poor decision. "Who could have predicted the sub-prime (mortgage) crisis?" Raber said. "If the same set of circumstances (in 2004) presented itself today, we'd probably make the same decision. There's your reason for getting rid of them right there. MOST people work in their job for 15 or 20 years to get incremental raises accordingly. I think the salary scales for many of these jobs are so far out of line with reality that it just makes me wonder.....who hires these folks??? Don't give me that BS that you want the most qualified...most of the time the most qualified don't even get an interview. What makes that person really think they are worth that much money?? Apparently,this Tilton fella and his co workers aren't as qualified as they should be or we wouldn't be looking at such a huge increase in utilities. Either they need to be fired or their salaries need to be taken way down ($50,000 seems to be Wilson's favorite number) to compensate for their "little error." |
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Hey, ElectriCities … give us a break!
By Jeff Herrin | Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 04:37 PM Whatever you might think of the six-digit salaries commanded by almost 30 top executives at ElectriCities or the skyrocketing interest rates on some of the debt held by the management company, there’s no denying that things are getting tough for local businesses. As Telegram staff writer John Henderson reported Sunday, the proposed 14 percent electric rate increase is likely to have a big impact on everyone - from giant power users such as Nash General Hospital to mom and pop operations such as Koretizing One Hour Cleaners. That doesn’t even begin to address the folks like you and me, who are likely to see our utility bills jump if Rocky Mount passes along the increase. ElectriCities board members told Henderson that the salaries paid to top executives (CEO Jesse Tilton makes almost a half-million a year) have to be high to attract the best and brightest to those positions. Board Chairman Sam Noble also defended ElectriCities’ borrowing practices, saying the board signed off on the deal that converted fixed-rate bonds to those with variable rates, too. That’s all well and good, but neither factor makes the rate increase sit any better with the rest of us. The top executives of ElectriCities would buy themselves a world of positive press if they would announce plans to take a pay cut this year. At the very least, why not stagger the increase? A 7 percent hike now and the rest in January would still hurt, but at least it would spread out the pain a little bit. There’s no point in kidding ourselves. Energy costs are going up all over the country. Even so, the taste of that increase is especially bitter to Rocky Mount and the 31 other cities in the N.C. Eastern Municipal Power Agency, which ElectriCities is paid to manage. How about sweetening the deal a little? |
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Our View: Utility rate hike too much, too fast
Click-2-Listen Saturday, July 19, 2008 A decision by Tarboro's Town Council to up electric rates is one more blow to the local economy and a confirmation to residents that costs are going up everywhere. The fact that Tarboro already has made a pre-emptive rate hike shows just how Tarboro Town Manager Sam Noble – who also is chairman of the ElectriCities board of directors – thinks the area's power supplier will react to a proposed 14 percent hike in the wholesale cost of power it provides. Tarboro (as will all municipalities served by ElectriCities, including Rocky Mount) faced a tough choice when hearing of ElectriCities' plans. Unfortunately for that town's residents, it made the wrong choice and at the wrong time. Passing along a double-digit rate hike before the power supplier has even made its decision seems premature. It also sends the wrong message. No, jacking up utility bills isn't OK with Tarboro Town Council's constituents. Just ask them. The quick-draw rate hike is especially egregious in light of the 30 or so top executives at ElectriCities pulling in six-figure salaries. How about asking some of those folks to tighten their belts before coming after those who can barely scrape by, thanks to high electric bills, sky high gas prices, rising food costs ... Need we go on? ElectriCities should have found a more palatable way to deal with its financial missteps rather than dumping an inflated bill on cash-strapped residents. But since it didn't, the cities and towns represented by ElectriCities should fight for their residents. That's what our elected officials were voted in to do. Tarboro's Town Council is to represent Tarboro residents – not ElectriCities' board of directors. And we can't think of a single way that the council's decision to smack working folks and small business owners over the head with a blunt 13.2 percent electric rate hike best represents them. As Telegram Editor Jeff Herrin suggested in his online blog, at the very least ElectriCities could stagger the increases over time to spread the pain a little. Tarboro leaders could have pushed for that option, and had it gained any favor among ElectriCities' board, the town just might have been looking at bearing a lighter burden than what it faces come August when the rate spike goes into effect. Other area cities and towns under the ElectriCities umbrella should look at Tarboro's precedent and consider it the prime example of what not to do. We need leaders who'll stand up for us all and ensure we're being treated fairly. Noble and the rest of the Town Council could do better by remembering that. |
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Eastern NC SPEAKS OUT
ARTICLE http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/local/conte... ARTICLE http://www.wilsontimes.com/News/Local/Story/E... COMMENTS www.thepoliticalagitator.com COMMENTS http://wilsontimes.com/phpbb3/viewforum.php... Editor http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/blogs/conte... http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/blogs/conte... Tarboro http://www.gotarboro.com/cbb/ Scotland Neck http://www.topix.net/forum/city/scotland-neck... Editorial http:/www.rockymounttelegram.c om/news/content/news/opinion/s tories/2008/07/19/ratesedit.ht ml Citizens in Wilson http://wilson.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php... KINSTON http://www.kinston.com/news/average_47972___a... http://www.kinston.com/articles/north_48108__... http://www.kinston.com/news/water_46901___art... BLUENC http://bluenc.com/electricities-mismanagement... http://terrellforhouse33.blogspot.com/ If you live in one of the 19 western cities, especially those in Gastonia, Lexington, High Point, Granite Falls, Monroe (Board Member cities) and you want to help with a letter to the editor and comments to the council, email Alman on www.bluenc.com Same for 32 eastern cities especially Tarboro, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Greenville, La Grange and Wake Forest (board members). Different letter and comments. We will be spreading out and covering reporters in cities, councils/Mayors, business leaders. We will get a spokesperson for each group. Talk to your paper, call city council, email and call legislators. Time to let the voice of the people be heard about mismanagement at ElectriCities. Elizabeth City http://hamptonroads.com/2008/07/elizabeth-cit... http://www.dailyadvance.com/search/content/ne... Elizabeth City A 14 percent electric rate increase is proposed. Any rate increase from ElectriCities is likely to be passed along in full to customers because of previous city efforts to avoid rate increases. Public hearing, July 28 Hertford The Town Council rejected a proposal to increase retail rates 9.8 percent. Next month, it will reconsider the proposal and a suggested compromise. Next meeting, Aug. 11 Edenton The town manager expects to request a 12 to 13 percent increase in retail rates. Committee meeting, July 28 Decision expected, August On TV The ElectriCities presentation made to Elizabeth City’s council on Friday will be rebroadcast on Elizabeth City’s Channel 11 this week: Monday: 7 p.m. Tuesday: 8 p.m. Wednesday: 10 a.m. Thursday: 2 p.m. Friday: noon |
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Shock week
www.bluenc.com/shock-week Submitted by James on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 1:02pm. alman ElectriCities Well, this is the week when the ElectriCities board meets in Raleigh. Friday at 9 am. In all likelihood, board members will gloss over the damning record of management incompetence, and once again assure customers they're doing all they can in a tough environment. Hey, everybody makes multi-million-dollar mistakes, right? Poor CEO, it's not really his fault. |
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Elizabeth City editorial]
www.dailyadvance.com/search/content/news/ opinion/stories/2008/07/30/073 0 editeure2.html (Rocky Mount paper unveils details about mismanagement causing your bill to go up) www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/content/news/ stories/2008/07/31/power.html) www.bluenc.com/electric ities%3B-how-do-you-spell-m-i- s-m-a-n-a-g-e-m-e-n-t%3F |
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