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ratification of employee appointment to two full-time positions, Sewer Line maintenance <br />Supervisor and Sewer Line Maintenance Worker II, in the Utility Department. <br />(8) CUA/Pego Systems, Inc. Approved selection of sole source for repairs to the <br />Wastewater treatment Plant's three blowers for Plants Nos. 1 and 2 to Pego Systems, Inc., <br />in the amount of $9,514.94. <br />STAFF REPORTS: <br />UTILITY DIRECTOR'S REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: <br />Deregulation <br />Utility Director Clarke provided an update that included a chronology of events and milestones on <br />deregulation: <br />September 1996: Gov. Wilson signed AB1890, expected to cut utility bills by 10% for <br />residential and small businesses. <br />March 1998: Law goes into effect resulting in creation of power exchange (PX) and the <br />independent systems operator (ISO). IOUs ordered to divest themselves of inefficient and <br />uneconomical power plants. Retail prices are frozen to rates charged in 1996. <br />June of 2000: Price fights hit the unregulated market in amounts of upward to $750 per <br />MW or 75 cents per KWH. The Colton utility recovered approximately 10.5 cents on <br />average from all of its retail customers in Colton. <br />December 7, 2000: ISO declared the State's first, stage three alert, when power reserves <br />dropped, and the State prepared for rolling blackouts. <br />December 9,2000: ISO removed price caps and lowered them to 250 from the 750 level to <br />stimulate sales into California; however, prices go even higher. Wall Street downgraded <br />most of the debt for the investor-owned utilities,. The power market declined to sell power <br />stating the California utilities were a credit risk and worried about getting paid for the <br />power they were selling into the market. <br />December 13, 2000: In an unprecedented action and under the power of the Federal Power <br />Act, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson ordered electric suppliers to sell energy into <br />California at what was called a fair price, to be determined later. On December 20, 2000, <br />the executive order was extended for an additional week. <br />December 21, 2000: SCE and PG&E filed for rate relief in the range of 30% with the <br />CPUC. The matter was set for special hearing on December 28 and 29. Utility Director <br />Clarke anticipated that some rate relief would be granted in that order. <br />City Council Mins Jan 2, 2001 <br />