CPU’s fuel and transmission bills have increased the past year and those charges are being passed on to the customers.
Boschert is looking into whether or not those charges are accurate. He addressed the Clarksdale Board of Mayor and Commissioners at Monday’s meeting.
He talked about some of the steps he was taking at the CPU meeting Tuesday.
“We’re working on these costs that we’re getting and taking them seriously,” Boschert said. “We talked and we’re working with some other (utility) entities.”
Boschert did not want to name the utility entities at this point.
“We’ve had discussion with our attorneys that are power-based attorneys about working with others and getting that set up to join,” Boschert said.
More lights for Madison
Clarksdale city attorney Melvin Miller addressed the Clarksdale Public Utilities board Tuesday asking for pole lights to be installed on Madison Avenue.
“The city has already put the decorative lights and sidewalks on one side (of Madison Avenue),” Miller said. “We were asking CPU to provide regular lights, nothing decorative, nothing fancy, but regular pole lights on the other side to complete the lighting down Madison where it’s not lopsided.”
He talked about the population decline in Clarksdale, but said investing in the community could bring people who moved away back.
“This is the second largest city in the Delta. The first is Greenville, but we can’t say we’re the best looking city in the Delta,” Miller said. “I believe that with more lighting we’ll get a chance to say we’re the best looking city in the Delta as well as the second largest city.”
After the meeting, CPU general manager Curtis Boschert said he planned to work with the city of Clarksdale to install more pole lights.
“We always work with the city when they have requests for specific lights,” Boschert said.
“We’ll work with them on putting some lights up.”
