June 8, 2007
There was in interesting report at the most recent MLGW meeting yesterday, Thursday, June 7, 2007. There was a report by Chris Bieber on hiring some 30 temps to man the telephones from July 8 to August 8, 2007. The reason: the MLGW is returning some $26 million dollars they collected illegally from their customers when they needed the money to pay for filing up several caves with natural gas. Then when the books were audited, the auditors decided that what they did was wrong and that they should return the money to the customers. What you heard from the MLGW and the media was that it would average some $50.00 per customer. What the customers heard was that they would get either a check for $50.00 or would get a credit on their bill for $50.00.
Now, what was obvious all along was that each customer would get a credit amount that depended exactly on the amount of gas that they used during the months during which they were charged for this gas filling operation. Some will get nothing, some will get $25.00, some will get $62.37, etc, etc, etc. However because most of the public is expecting $50, all those who get less than $50 will call and that is why they are hiring the extra temps. Also another additional cost is the programming that is necessary so that the temps can explain to Mrs. Jones that she is not entitled to $50.00 and here are the calculations. As you might expect, no one will understand these gross management errors. Things have improved at the MLGW since Joe Lee left but the hangover from Larry, Curly and Mo (Willie, Edmund and Joe) is still having an effect on the MLGW and still costing the ratepayers lots of money.
Also, there was a report by one of the board members, William Taylor, about a possible lawsuit by Joe Lee to get the division to pay for Joe Lee’s legal expenses from Robert Spence, who represented him during the examination of the Edmund Ford affair. Sounds to me like they will pay some, if not all of this bill, in order to avoid a lawsuit. IT IS CALLED LEGAL BLACKMAIL. How does that sit with the ratepayers who pay their bills each month on time?
There was in interesting report at the most recent MLGW meeting yesterday, Thursday, June 7, 2007. There was a report by Chris Bieber on hiring some 30 temps to man the telephones from July 8 to August 8, 2007. The reason: the MLGW is returning some $26 million dollars they collected illegally from their customers when they needed the money to pay for filing up several caves with natural gas. Then when the books were audited, the auditors decided that what they did was wrong and that they should return the money to the customers. What you heard from the MLGW and the media was that it would average some $50.00 per customer. What the customers heard was that they would get either a check for $50.00 or would get a credit on their bill for $50.00.
Now, what was obvious all along was that each customer would get a credit amount that depended exactly on the amount of gas that they used during the months during which they were charged for this gas filling operation. Some will get nothing, some will get $25.00, some will get $62.37, etc, etc, etc. However because most of the public is expecting $50, all those who get less than $50 will call and that is why they are hiring the extra temps. Also another additional cost is the programming that is necessary so that the temps can explain to Mrs. Jones that she is not entitled to $50.00 and here are the calculations. As you might expect, no one will understand these gross management errors. Things have improved at the MLGW since Joe Lee left but the hangover from Larry, Curly and Mo (Willie, Edmund and Joe) is still having an effect on the MLGW and still costing the ratepayers lots of money.
Also, there was a report by one of the board members, William Taylor, about a possible lawsuit by Joe Lee to get the division to pay for Joe Lee’s legal expenses from Robert Spence, who represented him during the examination of the Edmund Ford affair. Sounds to me like they will pay some, if not all of this bill, in order to avoid a lawsuit. IT IS CALLED LEGAL BLACKMAIL. How does that sit with the ratepayers who pay their bills each month on time?
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