NOT ENOUGH MEMBERS ON GWP PANEL COMMISSION RESIGNATIONS CUT DEEPLY.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer GLENDALE -- The group entrusted to oversee the city's Water and Power Department now has no power of its own. With the resignation of two of its members earlier this month, the Glendale Water and Power Commission has just two left, meaning it is legally barred from meeting because it can't form a quorum A majority of an entire body; e.g., a quorum of a legislative assembly. A quorum is the minimum number of people who must be present to pass a law, make a judgment, or conduct business. . The commission will miss its monthly meeting in June and possibly its July session as the City Council scrambles Scrambles is a game often played in British schools. Someone shouts "Scrambles!" and throws something (like sweets or money) into a crowd. The first person to retrieve the item wins it. to fill the vacancies. ``The City Council might have to institute a draft to get any volunteers now,'' said Gary Cornell Cornell named after New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University, NY, USA. Cornell alternative-month accelerated lambing system enables each ewe to lamb three times in every 2 years. , immediate past president of the Glendale Homeowners Coordinating Council. Still, Cornell plans to put in his name, and he would like the commission to meet soon. ``Just before the budget goes into effect for the new fiscal year, I think it's critical (the commission meet),'' he said. The May 1 resignations of commissioners Albert Gosselin Jr. and Ruben Rubi came after the council in October removed Lenore Solis Solis Diazepam, see there from the five-person commission after she led a community protest against a planned railroad railroad or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more. crossing closure. The council had yet to find a replacement for Solis when Gosselin and Rubi quit. ``We just were late on that, no real excuse,'' Councilman Ara Najarian said. ``But now we have two more to do ... so now this has taken on a new urgency to fill the commission so they can start meeting.'' The commission mainly acts as an advisory panel to the council, but its public meetings also give residents a chance to comment on how the utilities are operating. Changes in the way Glendale Water and Power runs itself are always brought before the City Council. On May 30, the council is expected to consider the proposed rate increase Gosselin and Rubi opposed. When he resigned from the commission, Rubi said Glendale's electric rates were already higher than what neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. cities charge. But City Manager Jim Starbird said the rate hike is needed to help pay for GWP GWP Global Warming Potential GWP Global Water Partnership GWP Gift With Purchase GWP Guinea-Bissau Peso (currency code: now GNF) GWP German Wirehaired Pointer (dog breed) GWP Gross World Product infrastructure improvements to an agency that has experienced an inordinate number of power outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
The two-year rate increase would hike customers' bills twice -- once on July 1 and again the following year. Residential customer bills would increase by about 14 percent, while commercial businesses would see a 20 percent jump. Now, a GWP residential customer who uses 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity in a month pays $66.34. alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 |
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