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CITY OF AUBURN ELECTRIC BOARD MEETING
February 13, 2002 at 4:00 pm
Attendants: Dave Klimek, Kenneth Lumb, Jim Moore, Bob Smith, Dorothy Blair and
Nancy Quill
Absentees: James Salva
First Item: Interview
Moore The guy out here has an Appliance Installer license and didn
Klimek Is he the only one that didn
Moore No, there are others. I think he was away on vacation and came in a day or two late.
Lumb This isn
Moore No, he tried to get it, but he was too late.
Lumb We did this once before.
Moore Last year.
Lumb There
Moore Yeah, he still has to pay the fifty dollar late fee.
Lumb OK.
(Moore leaves to retrieve applicant from hallway and returns)
Moore Please introduce yourself.
Beniamino Steve Beniamino, owner and general manager of Interstate Heating and Cooling
Lumb This is how I feel. There is the cost of the license and the penalty fee. If you are willing to pay those, it is OK with me.
Klimek That
Moore I don
Beniamino As soon as I noticed that it was not taken care of I came over. Do I go down stairs to take care of this?
Quill Are you prepared to pay the fees right now?
Beniamino Yes. Instead of a check, I have cash.
Quill Either way is fine. I
Beniamino The only other thing I would like to say is that I do work in about eight counties and there are not many municipalities that have licenses. I would like to see it become statewide with one license and all cities enforcing it. It would be easier for all of the profession.
Moore I believe we should plumbing and electric.
Beniamino I know in Ithaca they have plumbing, electric and heating.
Moore We are hoping to license heating the same way we do electric.
Beniamino Can I go down stairs now?
Quill Yes, she is ready for you.
Beniamino Thank you ladies and gentlemen. (leaves the room)
Second Item: Discussion regarding bid on landfill job
Moore Did everybody get Jim
Lumb Yes. Is there anything to talk about on that?
Moore I just wanted to inform everybody that there has not been a full decision on it yet, but Pompo does not have the job. The city has backed the board up that we did everything possible to allow him to obtain a license. The city manager and attorney are comfortable with it. They feel that since it has been brought up, there may have been some advance information given to Pompo because his bid was $20K difference. They are going to rebid the project. They were going to have to run a telephone pole and a transformer and that was the $20K difference. Since that time, gas and electric is running a telephone pole right up to the building so there is no need for the transformer.
Klimek Was that in the bid?
Moore The transformer was in the bid.
Lumb What I heard was that the original print showed you putting a lot of underground out to a pole a long ways away. Some people called and said are you sure this is what gas and electric wants and they said don
Moore Nobody has told me yet. I know Ron Netti
Third Item: Revision of “Application Rules of Procedure”
Moore Do you have a copy for Bob? Last time we discussed changing the application. Nancy is working on the application, but these are the revised Rules of Procedures we came up with. You want to go through this section by section?
Lumb Section 1 looks alright to me.
Moore Dave and I were talking, maybe to even this up we need to change this May and June to June and July, that would be six months between exams.
Lumb I disagree. I hate to tie up two nights in the summer. That
Quill Then Change December and January to November and December or make it November, December, May and June.
Moore That
Lumb I don
Quill Then let
Lumb That
Moore Section 3 looks good. Section 4 looks good too. Nothing by mail.
Quill IMoore Ok. Minimum Qualifications, let
Quill I didn
Lumb Look at (A). It should say “permission to take the exam will be granted” not a license will be granted.
Blair And it doesn
Moore Right. It has to be all three. Maybe we should spell that out like it is in the book, with all the insurances. I don
Quill Are we just looking at the minimum qualifications to take the test?
Moore Yes.
Quill So the passing grade shouldn
Klimek Right.
Quill The title of Section 5 should be “Minimum Qualifications for Exam”?
Moore Right. Move #2 and #3 to the second page. Let
Quill These are required at the time of the interview, correct?
Klimek Yes.
Moore Anything else in here?
Quill Number 3 is defining a term and I think it should be a footnote.
Klimek Yeah, probably.
Moore Section 6 look ok to everyone? (nods of agreement from all)
Smith yes.
Moore How about section 7. We should substitute the word “knowledge” for “fitness”.
Smith That sounds much better.
Blair Section 8 should say a certificate and a license.
Klimek What
Moore It says that you are competent to carry a license.
Quill We have never required to see one before a license is issued.
Moore That
Klimek Do we actually issue a Certificate of Competency?
Blair This is it right here.
Klimek Ok.
Lumb We better leave that section 8 alone then.
Moore Yeah, don
Lumb Unless we require their insurance before we issue the certificate.
Moore Then put that you will be issued a license when you provide the insurance. Section 9 looks ok. Section 10 is ok.
Klimek Where do we say that the applicant needs to get his license within 45 days?
Moore It should be spelled out right here. Also add that we will not issue an inactive license initially after passing the test. They have to get an active license at least for that first year.
Quill Ok.
Moore That wasn
Quill I
+end of meeting 4:55 p.m.
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