The Board of Directors at Jackson Energy Authority approved nine resolutions during their monthly meeting at the Tennergy Center, Thursday.
“The JEA board met today to consider several resolutions across its divisions,” said Monte Jones, chairman of the board of Directors, “All requests were approved along with the operating budget for 2023 that was reviewed in detail at the last meeting.
“JEA continues to operate in a financially sound manner and will do so in 2023 without local rate increases in the electric, water and gas divisions.”
“Overall, management has done a good job during the last year with its operations and the financial condition of the utility continues to be solid.”
The resolutions –
Approved the offering for a commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging rate.
Approved authorization of a Tree Trimming Contract with Delta Tree Service – not to exceed $730,000.
Approved the purchase of 4-inch and 6-inch polyethylene pipe for the Gas Division – Consolidated Pipe & Supply Company, Collierville, submitted the low bid – $97,912.35.
Approved the purchase of residential meters for the Water Division – 6,502 meters in the amount of $663,103.40 from Badger Meter, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 6,504 meters in the amount of $585,360 from United Systems, Benton, Kentucky.
Approved authorization of the purchase of ductile iron pipe for Jackson Energy Authority’s planned FY23 water main rehab and extension projects – low bid of $362,597 was submitted by Core & Main, Memphis.
Approved authorization for the purchase of PVC pipe for the Anderson Branch (AN) wastewater interceptor main rehabilitation project – low bid of $270,039.20 was submitted by C&C, Atwood, TN.
Approved authorization for the purchase of a distribution denial of service (DDoS) detection and mitigation solution from enfoPoint Solutions, who submitted the low bid of $422,399.
Approved authorization for the purchase of IBM Aspera Enterprise 300Mbps Data Transfer License for the Telecom Division – low bid of $92,500 was submitted by PackGenesis, Austin, Texas.
Approved adopting fiscal year 2023 budgets.
(PHOTO: Monte Jones, chairman of the board of directors, Jackson Energy Authority, and Jim Ferrell, CEO, JEA)
