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CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes of April 14, 2003 - Special Meeting/Workshop VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT Page 4 of 79 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 8O 81 82 83 84 85 86 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 engineering, we do ail of our distribution engineering in-house. Engineers do all designs for new installations, for new businesses, residences and subdivisions. So, we're, we're certain there would be a certain amount of engineering work would be required with that. System Operations is our dispatchers and basically they're the ones that handle all customer calls that come in related to outages and dispatch crews out to respond to those outages, so we can see that as a, as a bid of some things that you might need with the distribution services. Our mapping people are the ones that keep our GIS system up and essentially do the drawings that are required for any new construction or maintenance jobs that are larger than just a service repair. We have our own substation maintenance crews, of course that maintain our substations. I'm not sure t~ow many substations Casselberry would have and what parts would be Florida Power Corp.'s and what would belong to the City, but we do have substation electricians capable of maintaining substation equipment. Our materials management of course manages all of our inventory and the majority of our inventory is for our distribution and transmission work, of course. So, they have people there that are familiar with the distribution materials that are required and they do get involved some in the bidding and purchasing of those materials. Fleet Services we have are fleet services within our department, also in engineering operations. They, they maintain all of our vehicles. Right now, I think we're right around a hundred and eighty different vehicles including the bucket trucks and, and hydraulic type equipment that we have. The line operations, of course, is the main area that would be doing the type of work that would be required in distribution services repair and installation. Right now we have our particular utility divided up into six major crews that do the major maintenance jobs and installation of new facilities and then we have a number of smaller two-men crews that respond to doing just individual services and, and respond to trouble calls and outages during the day. We believe we have an outstanding outage management system and that system we utilize to try to track and improve on reliability where we can. And our system is, is pretty much automated, but its down to the point where each individual customer that does have a power outage that calls in, we track down to the individual meter how long they were out and that all goes in to what we use to calculate reliability and try to improve reliability on our system. I'm sure you've seen the response that we've provided in writing to you and one of the things that we did in our response is we said that we were prepared to try to work with Casselberry in a cost plus basis. We haven't come up and tried to evaluate your system and know what's here to really get a reai firm handle on what type of personnel you would need. We think that would come through additional discussions with the City and discussions about the level of service that you might require. We're not sure about the amount of new construction you have going on here, certainly that would impact the amount of personnel that would be needed for that new construction. We're not, not really sure of the