COUNCILMAN FRIEND ATTACKS CITY WATER METER REPAIR REPLACEMENT PLANS

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    Allen,

    During one of our recent City Council meetings, the overtime apparently caused by the methodology Hydromax in the replacement process resulted in major damage to the plumbing both on the city and customer sides. I have had much testimony from utility employees who are eye witnesses to these events.  Last Tuesday evening one employee came up to me and indicated that he was sent back out to a customer’s home just to turn on the water after Hydromax installed the new meter…this was on the Westside of town.

    It is NOT the FAULT of the utility customers that the Johnson Control contract was so poorly drafted. If you recall, the Council was prepared, 0-9 to reject the original contract and the Winnecke Administration supposedly re-negotiated with Johnson Controls.  How the utility overlooked the fact in the replacement process that damage would occur and who was responsible is egregious.  To demand that the utility customer fork out (the estimates given to me between $1,400-$4,300) is preposterous.

    This is NOT an option as for as this council is concerned.  With this said, please be available this coming Monday evening to address plan B.

    Thanks
    John  Friend

    THIS E-MAIL WAS POSTED BY CCO WITHOUT BIAS, OPINON OR EDITING.

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    7 COMMENTS

    1. I fully acknowledge that I am NOT a fan of Councilman Nobody’s Friend, and this email leads me to believe he is again waffling in his loyalties. At the City Council meeting tonight, he revealed that his wife had gotten one of the threatening letters from Mike Duckworthless concerning some property her father owned. He also states above that he has “had much testimony” from Water Department employees concerning problems with the performance of Hydromax. Those things lead me to wonder why it was left to Councilwoman Brinkerhoff-Riley to sound the public alarm about these matters. He apparently knew before she did that there are big problems with all of this, but he remained mute.
      The other thing he did tonight that was indicative of how out of touch with “regular people” he is, was babbling about how people who have gotten the letters should have a “friendly plumber” take a look at their plumbing and act on the advice they get from the “friendly plumber.” In the real world, few people have access to such a person, Councilman, and a lot of them are fair game for scammers. What you should have done is tell people to disregard the Duckworth letters and wait for a second one, and then follow up. You should be assuring people that they will NOT be taken advantage of at the hands of Hydromax, and seeing to it that is true.
      If we have to choose between JNF and Winnie the Poop for Mayor in 2015, we’re in BIG trouble, folks.

      • There is FRAUD in FRAUDVILLE.

        A poster this weekend pointed out that the EWS eliminated 16,000 meters from the plan in order to get the IURC to sign off on the deal. (16,000 = meters less than 5 years old, presumably measuring correctly). That would have taken the residential meters from 60,000 to 44,000, throw in 5,000 commercial meters and the project is less than 50,000 meters. C&P this morning is again saying we have a 65,000 meter project. EWS PUT THE DELETED METERS back in after they had the IURC approval !

        If Council President Friend and others want to get mad . . . this would seem to be a good point to go after.
        Not too late to chop those new meters back again (like EWS said they would in order to make the IURC numbers work). If EWS leaves these 16,000 meters back in, Council should DEMAND that the project be suspended, so that IURC can reevaluate and right-size the project with the correct numbers.

      • Friend is an Ego-driven “Ambulance” chaser looking for an issue(s) to ride into a viable run for the Mayor’s office.
        He really examples Transparency in Evansville’s Government,– I think most people see right thru him, and his motives.

    4. Just because the Johnson Controls contract was poorly drafted doesn’t mean the City Council had to approve it !
      Friend trying to pass-the-buck to Winnecke administration for their supposed poor job of renegotiation/redrafting?
      Council needed to vote it down if Friend really felt that way.

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