This meeting covered a range of topics including utility operations and financials, the SPLOST project list, several zoning and variance cases, a historic demolition issue, a judicial update, and personnel matters. Council members heard reports from staff and discussed options for balancing the SPLOST budget, while also addressing a proposed digital billboard conversion and a controversial demolition that occurred without proper approval.
I think that's for the city council and it's not for the data work session. I'll make there any changes to the data work sessions right now. So would you like a motion, sir? Make a motion to approve second. Okay, but you can't report yes. To kind of summarize what we talked about outages, considering how they handle uh software, I guess it's been implemented called FDIR which rolled out uh stated that we had about 50 uh start receiving grant for two funds in July to start approximately one smart switch per week to this program completion operation of targeted by 2028 uh to track uh installations and report progress these these are uh funded by a grant uh City Six Talk in the two strong labor cut the hybrids of customer experiences one point four or five outages per year and customers were plus or minus one outside this two point four uh the targeted service availability is many point one percent uh pretty close to the unit based and focused on security cloud downs AI palette's call since sediment grid uh S upgrades out it's SMS capability and six days and monitor also by the IT uh uh department uh it's I guess budget is two point nine percent of the operating expense, which is uh I guess uh we took four one percent. Doing the the storm uh there were several uh I guess the people from the groups from as far as Florida getting pay help basically the uh it's necessary as protect protected when we have people from uh tallahas also from uh scale. Uh these crowds uh would be a four emergency emergency preparedness price was falling the crew's inspected all equipment and drugs to ensure that they went out to work the condition in order to assess the conditions after the start the crew conducted assessments to evaluate the condition of one and through a line's check in the new blockages all the floors and stores that responded to the markets responding to customer reports and collaboration, and also rescue issues right now. So if you use two centers or replacement markets and placement of thirty-seven room feeding sewer money alone, all goodly well street and one uh checkboard the charity street using plate percent in concrete some sections would even see replaced in some areas with some around confined by your lines would also put it to pay for when these money was often good. The pipeline was actually worth it to the house toward the other way in case ten thousand dollars. Very good uh the uh data centers water usage and electrical usage and they also had a representative from the RC so it was it was very good meeting. Uh report ending in December 31st this year. Um after this because this is just taken at that day. So water sales for the month averages sixty-nine million gallons a day compared with the budget of seventy million gallons a day. Water sales would be a total big five seven point eight million. Operating income for the month uh totaled 1.7 million and fell short of the budget expectation by six hundred and thirty six thousand. Um I'm just gonna highlight the thing. Uh year-to-day uh spending on capital projects totaled 79.6 million due to um uh as of the date of the financial report, which many more coming in. So uh with the remaining CIP budget commitment of twelve point five million cash reserve for CIP spending totaled fifty-nine point eight million dollars at the end of December. Um recorded at the water authority totaled forty-one point five inches at the end of November. And compared with an average of fifty-two for the same period last year, which is about twenty percent decrease year over year. That costs you to have a lot more water sales, which is some reason we're not getting these water still. Um we had um three linear projects, the uh Marshall project widening from 241 to Palmy County, and the project on the national park over by the National Park Service, which is an imposter there. The contractor on that was unity construction, which is pretty well, they're they're a well-known entity. But they subbed out the paving to another company to a PC for paving or something. And it looks like they're it's gonna be a fight because water only started only took up payment on one lane, and the DOT is requiring them to repave both lanes and to do the curbing on both sides. So this this should be a very interesting deal here coming on. So they're supposed to start on that uh this Friday. So we'll see what happens. We had also three facilities and two design projects, and they're all on schedule. Any other questions? So I start off. Um this evening I'll be doing the supplementals as well as the financials. Um I'll try to um identify the pages as I go along. So some of the um trucks found in the presentation may not necessarily be um in the um books, but then we'll um take it to the same information. So look at page one, uh looking at the Miag monthly uh versus year to date, separate 2025. I think costs were five percent over MIAG's projected budget, and the supplementals were fifty percent under budget, and full year the costs were under budget by one million dollars despite the supplemental by almost 17%. On phase two, looking at our internal budget, the total cost for December exceeded projections by 9.37%. Fiscal year to date, the total power costs are over budget by four million dollars. 1.1 million of that is supplemental shortfall. And even though the cost um, even with the cost increase overall financials are still favorable, I'll talk to that um later on when we get into our finances. So if you take a look at page two, I'm sorry, if you look at page three, the December pricing, looking at the gas price comparison for 2025 and 2026. The actuals for 2025 ended with um close to uh right at $4 per MMBTU. And they're starting off is um the updated projection costs are at $4.75 per MMBTU, which is almost five percent higher than it was budgeted, which we're anticipating that the gas prices um, especially for the month of January, which I'll get into momentarily um to be higher, and that's primarily due to the weather. So we got saw an increase there, and that's not necessarily gonna um spread throughout the rest of the year because you see it fall and kind of level out, and then um as the winter comes back in for the month of December start to kind of hike back up at the end of the year, we'll get monthly updates on that uh um as we go throughout the year for PA. So then moving on to the spot market comparison. These prices average about a dollar um for M BTU higher, 426 and um 427 uh per on each month, and so taking a look at where we are this morning, it was approximately um three dollars and twenty cents per mm BTU. Um this morning for today's project projected costs. And looking at page five, um as you know, uh most of Georgia and um country experienced um two consecutive weekends of um stream implement weather, and this chart just gives a um a um hourly projection of what the hourly um forecast of what those costs would have been um at each hour. The red dots indicate the night hour, so it shows a range from about 30 low 30s to um upwards of 780 dollars.