Comments on: Century Considers Company To Replace 400 Gas Meters, Postpones Over Bid Law Concerns

By: jason

jason — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:49:37 +0000

Let new the people running the gas department have a chance. Seems to me things are headed in the right direction. Didnt the gas department almost turn a profet for the first time in years

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 02:05:52 +0000

@Donald Duck, PMR was the low bidder out of 3 bids. Read the article.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 23:49:59 +0000

Is it possible for the city public works dept to schedule gas meter re-installs for when resident is home? That would eliminate doubling back to re-check and re-light appliances.

By: Get some insight

Get some insight — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:49:57 +0000

Look, the town only bills for about 300 or so gas customers, right? Then tell us why there is an urgent need to replace 400 more meters if 200 are already done? You can’t make this stuff up. Century is so out of whack it’d be like electing Bernie Sanders as president just to see who can give away the most stuff.

By: Donald Duck

Donald Duck — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:47:32 +0000

“Interim City Administrator Vernon Prather recommended that the town hire Precision Meter Repair (PMR) of Plant City to replace 400 residential meters at $160 each.”

This was the guy that talked the council into hiring an interim administrator who then turned around and talked them into hiring this guy. Now he has a particular vendor that he’s recomending … so his expensive advice is to pay somebody else more money that we don’t have. He doesn’t own stock in this company, does he?

By: L. B.

L. B. — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 19:53:46 +0000

When a Gas Meter is replaced, someone needs to be home, because the Gas has to be shut off. After installment, all appliances, Water Heaters have to be Re-lit.
If the meter is changed with no one home, someone has to go back to the home when a Re-light has been called in because the person came home, found a note on the door and no Gas on.
This is not a job for the Mayor to get a shovel (retired on March 3rd), and to (chris)
this would require those Two employees to be on stand-by 24-7 to receive those call when they come in, and go back to the location a second time.
Let’s be realistic, let the City handle the mess that they inherited.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 19:04:55 +0000

“The town does not have a sufficient balance in its gas fund to pay an outside company to replace the meters, ” But hey, let’s have a council meeting and talk about it anyway. Century talks an awful lot about spending money they will never have.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:16:50 +0000

What exactly do Century employees do all day? You feel the need to hire an outside contractor to do what should have been taking place for months now?

By: John Reading

John Reading — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:26:51 +0000

How long can this has never business continue?

By: retired

retired — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 14:32:48 +0000

reassign two currant gas employees to do the replacement.
IF THEY DO 2 A DAY
WILL TAKE THEM ABOUT ONE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BETTER YET TEACH THE MAYOR TO USE A SHOVEL