MAINTENANCE
VVEC Board of Trustees District 1 - Jim Brackett, 720-4531 District 2 - Jack Bogart, 371-9587 District 3 - Vernon Lewis, 341-5225 District 4 - John Hibdon, 847-2320 District 5 - Jimmy Lambert, 760-7029 District 6 - Dennis Lenox, 396-1574 District 7 - Charles Huerter, 333-3107 District 8 - Ken Howard, 371-4833 District 9 - Buddy McCarty, 272-5134 or 272-5364
General Manager - Alice Houston
VVEC Headquarters 8901 E. 146th Street N., Collinsville
Mailing address P.O. Box 219, Collinsville, OK 74021 Phone number
(918) 371-2584 or 1-800-870-5948
Office hours 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday
Editor - Kay Rabbitt-Brower
VVEC offices will be closed Wednesday, July 4 for the Inde- pendence Day holiday. Please call (918) 371-2584 to report an outage.
Summer Residential Rates
April through September usage, May through October billing
Customer Charge Energy Charge
1st 2,000 kWh Over 2,000 kWh
$20.00
$0.0801/kWh $0.0851/kWh
A power cost adjustment (PCA) will be applied to all bills when the actual cost of power purchased exceeds or is less than 55.993 mills per kWh.
In addition, a gross receipts tax of 2% of revenue will be included, plus ad- ditional taxes if applicable.
2 June 2012 VVEC Power Circuit
Power Circuit is published monthly by Verdigris Valley Electric Cooperative, Collinsville, Oklahoma (ISSN 10884378) for its members in Tulsa, Rogers, Washington, Nowata and Osage counties. Periodical postage paid at Tulsa, Oklahoma and other additional mailing offices. Subscription price is $0.19 per month. POSTMASTER - send address changes to Power Circuit, P.O. Box 219, Collinsville, OK 74021.
What to do if Your Power Goes Off
1. Check your fuses or circuit breakers. Every service is different. You may have fuses or circuit breakers in your house, on the side of your house, under your meter, or all three places. Check to see if your neighbors have electricity.
2. Call the Co-op at 371-2584, or 1-800-870- 5948 if the call is long distance for you. Have your account number, name as it appears on the account, and address handy to give to the dispatcher. If you should get a recording, please don’t hang up; leave your information. It will be retrieved and given to the correct department. Every message is answered.
Time to Mow the Yard and Maintain the Right-of-Way
If you are already mowing your yard, then you know foliage is grow- ing.
The foliage growing in our rights-of-way can cause problems for members and the co-op. This is the time of year when we focus on maintaining our right-of-way; when foliage is at the proper stage for us to begin our herbicide spraying pro- gram.
continuing for the next five to six weeks, contract crews will be spray- way on lines coming out of seven Childers, Skiatook, Tallant, Prue, Verdigris and part of Sequoyah. “They will be spraying low-vol- ume herbicide,” explains Lambert. “They will be wearing back-pack sprayers, administering a light coat-
ing on small brush. It is very con- trolled.”
He says the men will walk the rights-of-way, and can spray several miles quickly. “We won’t spray any trees such shrubs.”
“Maintaining our right-of-way saves the co-op millions of dollars,” says VVEC General Manager Al- ice Houston. “Foliage grows back herbicide on that foliage slows that growth, keeping us from having to return as soon.
“The real value of clear, main- tained right-of-way is evident when severe weather strikes and our mem- bers don’t lose electric service due to trees and brush in the lines.” If you have questions about this program call Lambert at (918) 371-
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