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P.O. Box 751 Seminole, Okla. 74818 Serving Hughes, Lincoln, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Pottawatomie, Seminole and portions of Oklahoma, Cleveland and Creek counties


ELECTRALITE President’s report


Main Office and Headquarters Interstate 40 at the Prague/Seminole Exit


Area Office


35 W JC Watts Street, Eufaula Office Hours


8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday -Friday Board of Trustees


President— Matt Goodson, Tecumseh ......................District 5 Vice President — Robert Schoenecke, Meeker .........District 2 Secretary-Tres.—Steve Marak, Meeker ....................District 1 Asst. Sec/Treas. — Joe Semtner, Konawa ................District 6 ..............................................District 8


Yates Adcock, Dustin


Gary Crain, Prague.....................................................District 3 Clayton Eads, Shawnee .............................................District 4 J.P, Duvall, Seminole .................................................District 7 George E Hand .....................................................Manager J. Roger Henson ....................................................Attorney Ann Weaver ...........................................................Editor


Telephone Numbers


Seminole .........................................................(405) 382-3680 Shawnee, Tecumseh, Earlsboro ......................(405) 273-4680 Toll free.............................................................(877)382-3680 Eufaula ........................................................... (918) 689-3232


Read


Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Cycle 3


26th-31st 6th-11th 16th-21st


In Case of Trouble


1. Check for blown fuse or tripped circuit breakers. 2. Check with your neighbors. Ask if their electricity is off and if they have reported it.


3. If not call the office and report the trouble.


Operating Statistics for June 2011


Operating Revenues .......................... $5,780,219 Wholesale Cost of Power .................. $3,988,260 Percentage WPC is of Revenue .................. 69.00 Revenue Per Mi of Line: MTD ............$1,119.33 Consumers per mile of line:MTD ..................4.57 KWPeak Demand -This Month ................152,600 Billing KW Demand ..................................110,748 KW Peak Demand: YTD .......................... 162,960 KWH Purchased - This Month .............73,672,430 Taxes Paid ............................................... $109,024 Interest on Long Term Debt ................... $186,156 System Load Factor ......................................


67.1 2012


$5,184,767 $3,667,675 70.74


$1,001.11 4.60


151,622 115,112 160,468


68,414,750 $100,425 $181,410 62.7


New Services Staked in July During the month of July 149 new services were staked.


The total new services staked in 2012 is 716. This compares to 536 for the same period in 2011. 1302455201


Billing date 5th


15th 25th


1-1/2% penalty is applied 20


after billing date Matt Goodson


Walt Disney said: “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” Todd Beamer’s last known words from the ill-fated Flight 97 were: “Lets Roll.” Even Larry the Cable Guy is famous for saying: “Git- R-Done.” I like to think of these sayings as expressions of the American spirit. As I began to write this report I struggled with what I wished to discuss. Then something occurred that helped me see what IS most important at and about CVEC. Recently, at about 11:00 one night I was staring at a blank page


when the telephone rang. My brother-in-law was reporting a neighbor from a few miles over had called saying his son had called him and thought he could see a fire on the back side of our farm. He couldn’t be sure because the country was too rough from his side to get close to where he thought it was. Mind you he was doing this as he was fighting a fire on his own place. The man who called said his dozer was already loaded and, if needed, he would be on his way. Sure enough, there was a fire, apparently started by an airborne ember, on us. And, it was in some of the roughest and brushiest terrain we have. We immediately knew we would need help and called the Pink Fire Department and the neighbor with the dozer to ask for assistance. Soon, I was leading a 2-man brush rig into the area where the fire was located. As the terrain got rough, I stopped and told them that this was probably as far as they could safely go until the dozer got here. As they drove off into the smoke and brush they said: “Thanks, but we will do what we can until he gets here.” Before long, Tony and his dozer were clearing a fire line in some very dense brush and smoke. Then, another volunteer firefighter appeared out of the smoke and flames running a leaf blower to clear a rapid fire line. He had walked in from the other side of the fire. He asked for a drink and rested just a moment. Before long he shouldered his leaf blower asked if I would mind starting the motor, and then he walked off into the smoke. After a couple of flare-ups the fire was finally on its last gasp about 5:00 the next morning. Soon everyone was on their way, graciously accepting thanks with: “You would do it for us.”


About now you are probably wondering what this has to do with CVEC and the electric business. Well, you see, most of those volun- teers are CVEC members. Their parents and grandparents helped start CVEC. Back then cooperative’s where told the electrification of rural America couldn’t be done. They did it anyway. When I joined the CVEC board in 1997 politicians (not to be confused with Statesmen) were trying to deregulate the electric busi- ness and create opportunities for their cronies. We are still here and they are not. Currently, some politicians are trying to change the way electricity is made at the expense of one industry and to the favor of another. I am not entirely sure who is right and what the outcome will be.


And, I am definitely in the dark, pun intended, to what the next batch of politicians will think up. But, I do know that we will still be here when they are gone. And, to the best of our abilities, the lights will reliably come on at the most affordable rate. That’s what we do! CVEC has experienced a lot of change in our three quarters of a century existence. We have survived and prospered more than once when the experts and pundits looked for failure. We let our actions


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The ElectraLite


SEPTEMBER 2012


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