General Manager Kevin Frizzell officially announced the partial closure of Owensboro Municipal Utilities’ Plant A on Thursday during the commission meeting. The plant was removed from services at 8:10 a.m. on July 6.
This was the first time the plant was intentionally completely shut down since its startup more than 100 years ago. The plant was shut down while expanding the Cavin Plant, which has been providing all of the water supply since.
“Right now we have left Plant A in a temporarily laid-up state until we make sure we’ve got all the bugs worked out of Cavin,” Frizzell said.
Once Cavin has successfully run alone for a significant amount of time, Plant A will go into a permanent shutdown.
In other business, Frizzell also announced that they were above the monthly budget in billed retail sales, metered usage and water sales for the month of June.
Frizzell said the organization is up against some supply chain issues that they rely on piping commodities.
“It’s really not an issue of availability, it’s an issue of the vendors to quote us a price and hold that price for a length of time,” Frizzell said.
Laura Chapman, manager of planning within the finance and accounting department, gave a report on the year-end financial reports saying many expense sections were below budget planned.
OMU promoted Letina Warren to Chapman’s previous position of Financial Budgeting Accountant position effective July 17.
