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BLW reports outage trends, IT upgrades and allocates $578,225 GPW distribution to three projects
Summary
At a Marietta City Council work session, BLW staff reported rising tree-related power outages, proposed IT upgrades, summarized year-end financials and moved a $578,225.82 distribution from GPW toward IT, weekend lineman coverage and a water sewer relocation; council advanced a budget amendment to Wednesday for final approval.
The Board of Lights and Water (BLW) updated the Marietta City Council on outages, information-technology projects and finances and asked the council to advance a $578,225.82 distribution into the city budget for approval.
BLW presenter Miss Richardson summarized a November–December outage review, saying tree failures have become a larger share of interruptions even as outages caused by limbs have fallen. "The total number of outage minutes per home average was 2 hours and 8 minutes," she told the council, and said crews were responding quickly to restore service.
Why it matters: the presentation framed where BLW staff plan to focus vegetation management and capital maintenance to reduce future customer outage minutes and to target costs in the utility budget.
IT and operations: Ronnie, an IT staff…
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