The Marietta City Council held an agenda work session on Monday, May 12, 2025, at 5:15 PM in the Council Chamber. The meeting included the BLW (Board of Lights and Water) report, reappointments to various boards, discussion of several development proposals, bond schedule amendments, and the addition of new agenda items. Most items were approved to be moved to the Wednesday, May 14, 2025, regular council meeting, many on the consent agenda.
Order, please. The first item is uh April the 7th. Agenda work session minutes. Any addition, deletions or motion? Make a motion to approve. Second. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion carries 5-0. Mr. Richardson, the BLW report, please, ma'am. All right, so the BLW meeting was held today, and we started off the regular part with a pledge of allegiance and invocation. Then we went to some presentations, and the mayor presented a proclamation in recognition of water professionals and drinking water week, declaring that May actually it's 12th, May 12th through May 18th is water professionals and drinking water week. Our apprentices were the top three, they were one through three. I think we had the fourth best overall time. So our linemen always thank alignment, whether it's thank alignment week or not. If you got power coming to your house, thank alignment. So if you see alignment, thank them. Now we didn't have Mr. Shalfont here, but if you have our book with the water report is in there, and you can take a look at that. And if you have any questions, I'm sure we can address them. Next with BLW financials. Okay, normally I would have the PowerPoint, but um Stephanie's um a little preoccupied, so I'm gonna go through it and you can um somewhat follow along on um your booklet. So for the month of March, we have the MIAG versus the actuals. We are 1.1% over budget for our total project and 20 almost 23 percent under budget for our supplementals for our total power. Um that puts us at just 4.5% over budget. Year to date, we are one percent under budget for uh total prop uh total project expected revenues and I'm sorry, total costs and our supplementals we are 12 percent under compared to me ag budget. Taking a taking a look at the MEE BLW versus our internal budget, we are two percent under for a project and 30 percent 36 percent under for supplemental for the month of March, however, year to date we are um on target um almost exactly for total project and supplemental, we are up slightly um by 8.4 percent, and that goes back to that February um event that had us a little bit higher in our supplementals than anticipated. Taking a look at the 2025 gas price comparison, the month of March pretty much uh stagnant with February right at four dollars per megawatt mmBTU. We are projected to be above budget for the remainder of the year, and we will continue to look at those on a monthly basis. Uh very similar um with spot market, we dipped below the budget in the month of February. We are back above the budget for the month of March, coming in at about 3.75 um mm BTU uh megawatt hour, I'm sorry, and then we are above budget for the remainder of the year for the projection. Taking a look at the um plant operations. We are at the middle of the month, we were running about 46.99 cents for this particular hour. Um, and this was on April 9th. Operations uh were pretty stagnant, no major um events happened over the month. For the unit operations, however, we did have an outage for Wandsley 9. It was a forced outage due to a gas leak. It was for a short period of time because it's during our slow season, there wasn't much impact on the power costs. Yeah. Please. Um I noticed the use of the coal plant there. Was that because of the outage for Wandsley 9 that they went into the coal unit for that month? Yes. So there were they had a commitment. We had a couple of I think three times during the month where we had a large request for load, and that forced us into the coal plant, and you're correct. In this particular instance, it had to do with the fact that Wandsley 9 was out. Okay. During During April, we didn't have too much use of the coal plant, hopefully. No. Okay.