City of Hillsboro discusses utility deposit system
The Hillsboro City Council met on Tuesday, April 20 and discussed the utility deposit system. Council member Brent Driggers was absent. “Currently if a customer cannot produce a letter of credit from a previous utility they are required to post a $125 deposit. The deposit is held for one year or until the utility service is discontinued. Deposits are refunded with interested earned at the end of the year. If someone discontinues service and leaves without paying their final bill the deposit is credited to the outstanding balance,” said City Administrator Matt Stiles.
Stiles went on to explain that bookkeeping for the deposits requires a significant amount of monthly paperwork and never balances out. He said that state statute requires that the city pay customers an interest rate on their deposits that is set by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
In the midst of a freeze, Hillsboro gets update
HILLSBORO In the grips of the worst cold in decades, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 16, the Hillsboro City Council heard from Mark Chesney of Kansas Power Pool with an update on power and on the city’s power meter reader project.
Chesney said “a heck of a lot” of electricity is generated using natural gas, rather than coal, and gas prices rolled down to electric companies.
Chesney commented the prices of natural gas were “breathtakingly expensive,” while “the sport market price for electricity makes you swallow hard.”
While Hillsboro was not subject to one of the rolling blackouts across the Midwest, Chesney said cities that did experience blackouts had “very little notice. Some cities got between zero and five minutes notice before the power was interrupted and saw a duration of up to 120 minutes. This was not comfortable. It can be explained; it’s not at all comfortable.”
FlexGen, KPP Team Up to Deliver Kansas Solomon Energy Storage Center
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DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ FlexGen, a leading energy storage technology company, announced that it is partnering with The Kansas Power Pool (KPP), to design, build and operate the Solomon Energy Storage Center in Minneapolis, Kansas. KPP is a member-driven public power organization which procures energy and transmission service for community-owned electric utilities across Kansas.
FlexGen Batteries help utilities like the Kansas Power Pool power up when the grid needs it the most. KPP chose FlexGen to deliver Kansas Solomon Energy Storage Center, providing 1 MW of power to utility members.
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ELLINWOOD The Ellinwood City Council held its first meeting of 2021 Tuesday night and voted to opt out of the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles related to the city’s annual audit. The city is required to conduct an audit each year in accordance with state statute.
The statute specifies that audits are to be conducted according to GAAP guidelines. The council determined that several components of the GAAP are not necessary for a municipality and provided little meaningful data and annually opts out of the requirements.
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