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36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes of April 14, 2003 - Special Meeting/Workshop VERBAT1M TRANSCRIPT Page 3 of 79 things like customer billing and, and customer service issues, and Joe Hostetler, our Vice President of Finance and Risk Management will touch on some of the cost matters that we've sent in our proposal. We do have a lot of people here, but we promise not to drag this out a long time. We're hoping to keep it about to twenty minutes and feel free to have, to ask any questions as we go through the presentation. First of all, I'd like to kind of state why we are here. We first, due to a response to a letter that we received from the City Manager's office with a letter of interest, which we responded to, and, and since that time been invited to come in for the presentation. Of course, we are a municipal utility and we believe a municipal utility can be very good for the local community, however, we're not here to try to say Casselberry should go one way or the other. That's certainly not our, our job to do because its maybe not the right thing for every community. But we're here to tell you that we're willing to help support Casselberry in this effort in whichever way we can. We're not, we've never been a utility that goes out marketing our services to any other city or utility. We've never tried to market distribution services or engineering services. And if we were to enter into some kind of agreement with Casselberry, rest assured we're not out trying to make a big profit off of those services. We're just, you know, try to make enough to cover our direct costs and, and a little bit of our overheads. A little about KUA, we've been in the electric business for about a hundred years now. Started off as a department within the City of Kissimmee. In 1985, after a referendum in Kissimmee, it was decided to separate the governance of the electric utility out from the City Commission, and a separate authority was established with a separate governing board. We now have a five member board, and the Mayor is an ex-officio member of that board and they set all policy and direction for the utility. We currently provide service to about 52,000 customers, electric customers in the Kissimmee area, and we also, through a contract arrangement, provide meter reading and billing services for the Water and Sewer Department of Kissimmee, which serves the majority of Kissimmee and outside in Osceola County. We have built and operated generation facilities for a group of fifteen municipal utilities, including KUA, and that, that was done in conjunction with the Florida Municipal Power Agency or FMPA, that you'll hear mentioned a little bit later in the presentation. We are a full internet service provider. Just if, if that were any interest to the City, we do provide intemet service to both dial up and high speed internet to customers both within Kissimmee and some in different counties around, all the way to Volusia County we have a few customers. Right now, we're a little over three hundred employees and we're the sixth largest municipal utility in the state. I wanted to start off and just touch on a few areas that we saw that might be areas that you might need services from if you were, if you were getting distribution services and all of these particular areas fall under my supervision, so I can answer any questions as we go along; feel free to ask them as we go. Of course, distribution