DWP's Nahai defends utility performance, calls for rate hike
Old, bloated and inefficient are not a way to run a business, let alone a public utility. Yet those are the conditions that face Los Angeles Water and Power Board President H. David Nahai and city officials.
Nahai takes his case for reform, and a rate hike, to the pages of the Los Angeles Times. One can't argue with the premise that upgrading the infrastructure of the cities utility, is a priority.
Yet city residents should be front and center in demanding that any source of new "revenue streams" should stay in the DWP for upgrade. Not transfer to the city general fund for dubious spending.
As Los Angeles Times scribe Steve Lopez will attest to, being in the dark on the hottest day of the year will not gain you any support for a rate hike. Also one must consider that this is the same agency that paid a cool "Ben Franklin" per tree planted. Or negotiated a M.O.U. with the IBEW that brought scorn from the cities other unions. Anybody remember the reaction of EAA's Aquino ?
So to Nahai, you have a hard sell job ahead and be ready for the "storm of comments" heading your way. BTW, Thanks for the wattage for this post.
DWP's lessons from the heat wave - Los Angeles Times
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 9/17/2007 11:42:00 AM
17 Comments:
Excellent post, Red Spot.
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Good start Red Spot. Keep reading. Maybe even add these to your piece?
http://www.citywatchla.com/content/view/690/
http://www.citywatchla.com/content/view/672/
The Rate Payers Advocate: Just like the Inspector General that Villaraigosa and Weiss proposed in 2004. Independent of DWP, the politically appointed Board of Directors, the City Council and other elected officials who are constantly raiding DWP's coffers. And DWP needs more independent oversight.
1:35, thanks for the heads up.
Mr. Foster, thanks for the kudos.
Still waiting for DWP or AV or Council to acknowledge that DWP was using "voltage reduction" (aka brownouts) to control grid pressure in the SFV.
Voltage reduction is invisible to most customers, but hits some very hard. Poor and elderly who rely on window-unit air conditioners sometimes just get fried: the units won't work with a 5% reduction in voltage.
Nahai is one of the good guys. Don't get too excited.
If Nahai is such a good guy, why does he choose to hide his first name with the initial H?
Maybe we could have a contest! What is Nahai's first name?
Possible answers:
Harry
Henry
Horatio
Herbert
Howard
Hussein
Hornblower
Honkie
Hallibut
Huckleberry
Harriet (nahhh!)
Any others?
It's really telling that Mayor Sam purges naughty words sometimes -- but leaves up a link to a Nazi website.
Is Mayor Sam a white supremacist?
4:51, actually, it's "Hootie.
You might remember his band.
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Racism (1:27 on Monday) + Slander (Today 11:40 Am) = Bad Combination
there is an abundance of managers at DWP, however,there are not enough employees that do actually work... DWP is extremely administratively top heavy and their only duties are to drive company cars, attend utility conferences around the country at vacation resorts and make sure that their offices are kept like museums with only family pictures and souvenirs from their utility conference trips. You will never see any work in their offices because it would cause clutter. Question these managers as to what are their exact duties and they only answer in corporate double talk because they have no actually work duties that benefit DWP only themselves.
Lotsa mgrs making the Neighborhood Council circuit to drum up support for big rate increases. Seems the talks falling on deaf ears. Looks like taxpayers are having enough. Did Howard Jarvis come back to life?
Did someone mention my name?
We need you Howard!!
I was setting at my computer screen today and suddenly the screen went to blank and the lights went off I thought a stormy Saturday power outage.
Linda my wife suddenly entered my office with a shocked look telling me that the power
Pole transformer had fallen of the top of the power pole in our back yard.
After the arrival of the DWP who quickly and professionally restored our power I
Asked one of the crew if this was common he stated that this was the first time that
He had a power transformer fall compliantly from a pole.
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