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City Commission Special Workshop Presentations Investor Owned Electrical Providers Page 10 HART: I haven't seen that or heard that before, I just wanted a clarification. CLARK: Just a couple of minor things. Insofar as the improvements that you are looking at in the equipment and all the outages that I have at my house, I am just wondering, is that related to the equipment and that the improvements that you are making would do away with some of these outages; in January I had three and they were all very short outages, less than a minute - thirty seconds - fifteen seconds, those kind of things. I had a couple in February, had one today, but they are all relatively short. In years past, I have had them where they were more noticeable and actually affected some of our equipment at my house. I was wondering when you were talking about some of the improvements you are making, would his help some of the situation where the minor brownouts are coming. RALEY: Absolutely Commissioner Clark. One of the things that we have done since Progress Energy acquired Florida Power is we have a very active reliability group, power quality and reliability group, here located in Florida that are looking and evaluating each one of the circuits. We are currently trying to work through those work plans. In addition to that, we have committed more than $115 million dollars in our commitment to excellence program in order to reduce our outages, both extended outages as well as momentary outages. This is funds that we feel are needed to better enhance the facilities and the operation of those facilities. We continue to discover issues everyday and we address those. These folks are responsible for addressing those problems. So the answer to your question is yes, but the efforts that we are making and the dollars that we are spending will in fact improve the already good service in Casselberry, but it will be improved. CLARK: One other question. You are indicating that the Public Service Commission prohibit you from preferential treatment; I know that at one point last year there was some discussion in one of your proposals about some reliability standards and some maintenance type discussion in the proposal itself; was that not possible at that time or is that something that was just aired when it came through. RALEY: That was in a proposal that we submitted back in April Commissioner Clark. Let me address that two different ways (1) Since that time we have entered into an agreement with the Public Service Commission to reduce the overall SAIDI of our system for every customer on now the Progress Energy System. We feel that we have made a commitment that addresses everyone. It applies to everyone equally. (2) In addition to that in talking with our regulatory folks, it became apparent that what we had offered at that time was something that we were not able to offer and consequently we are not able to offer that anymore. What we have said and what we communicated as late as last Tuesday is that we are willing to work with the City on reliability and the reliability concerns of the Commission and the people who live here. We were