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CILCO
requesting rate
increase for next year
[DEC. 5, 2002]
CILCO gas customers will see
their monthly bills go up in the winter of 2003-04 if the company is
granted the rate increase it is requesting from the Illinois
Commerce Commission.
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The Central Illinois Light Company
filed a request on Nov. 22 to increase its base rates for natural
gas service by almost 5 percent, according to company spokesman Mark
Martin. If approved, residential customers would see their bill go
up about 12.5 cents per day or between $3.50 and $4 a month.
Currently average yearly residential gas costs are about $897; with
the proposed increase, costs would be $942, Martin said.
Customers will not see a raise in base
rates this winter, because the ICC usually takes about 11 months to
decide to grant an increase. Also, there is "no guarantee" that
CILCO will get the increase it is asking for, according to Martin.
However, customers can expect to see
somewhat higher gas prices this winter because of a raise in the
purchase gas adjustment, or PGA, which is the price utility
companies pay the pipelines for natural gas.
Several months ago, utilities were told
the PGA would be 15 percent to 20 percent more this winter than in
the winter of 2001. The PGA is a charge companies like CILCO do pass
on to their customers. "By federal law, we cannot add charges to
what the pipeline charges us, but we can pass those charges along to
the customers," Martin said.
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[Average annual residential natural gas bill]
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He pointed out that the high gas prices
in the winter of 2000 came from an increase in the PGA, not in the
company’s base rate. "There are only so many gas pipelines that
supply us. If it is costing us 65 cents a therm to buy gas, we pass
that on to you. If it is costing us $1 a therm, as it did in the
winter of 2000, we pass that on as well."
The only charge the company can raise
is the base rate, which has remained the same since 1994, he said.
He cited increases in expenses for operations and maintenance, along
with an investment of over $84 million dollars in the gas
distribution system, as the reasons for the rate increase. It is
only the third such increase in 20 years, he said.
CILCO serves
about 205,000 customers throughout central Illinois, including Logan
County, Peoria and Tazewell counties, and the Springfield area.
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Reorganized county board
performs first orders of business
[DEC. 5, 2002]
The new Logan County Board
gathered Monday evening to set a few things in order. In a
reorganizational meeting the new board members received committee
assignments and their term of office.
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Because of the county going to district
rather than at-large representation, there was something a little
new this time around. Two- and four-year terms were drawn for each
county board member. County Clerk Sally Litterly read off all the
names and new Sheriff Steve Nichols drew the numbers two or four.
For each district, one name got a four-year and the other got a
two-year term. This will protect each district from starting with
all-new representation at each election.
Mitch Brown
Lloyd Hellman
David Hepler
Dick Logan
Gloria Luster
Patrick O’Neill
Robert Farmer
Paul Gleason
Charles Ruben
John Stewart
Dale Voyles
Terry Werth
In his first official act as new county
board chairman, Dale Voyles announced committee assignments.
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Committees
(First person named is
chairman of each committee.)
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Airport/farm: Werth, Ruben, Farmer,
Hellman, Voyles
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Animal: O’Neill, Ruben, Hepler,
Stewart, Werth, Voyles
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Buildings and grounds: Logan, Brown,
Stewart, Werth, Voyles
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Finance: Ruben, Gleason, Hellman,
Logan, Farmer, Voyles
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Health: Luster
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Insurance/legislative: Gleason, Brown,
Ruben, Luster, Stewart, Voyles
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Law enforcement/ESDA: Logan, Farmer,
Brown, Stewart, Hellman, Voyles
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Liquor: Luster, Hepler, Werth, Brown,
Farmer, Voyles
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Road and bridge: Hellman, Werth,
Farmer, O’Neill, Brown, Voyles
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Planning and zoning:
Hepler, Stewart, Luster, Logan, O’Neill, Voyles
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Waste management:
Werth, O’Neill
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Economic development:
Voyles, Logan
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9-1-1 liaison: Hepler
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Work force
investment: Gleason
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Tourism: Gleason
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Chamber of commerce
liaison: Luster
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General Assembly
liaison: Voyles, Logan
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Community Action:
Gleason, Luster
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Personnel: Voyles,
Ruben, Gleason
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Public Aid appeals:
O’Neill
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Parliamentarian and
historian: Gleason
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Government,
education, Main Street Lincoln: Voyles
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Safety: Voyles, Tom
Hickman, Dana Brown, Dennis Reves
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Resource conservation
and development: Luster, Roger Bock (nonmember)
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Logan County Board members
(Effective Dec. 2)
District 1:
District 2:
District 3:
District 4:
District 5:
District 6:
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William "Mitch"
Brown, 1372 1850th St., Lincoln, IL 62656; 732-2268
- Paul E. Gleason, 1621 Rutledge
Drive, Lincoln, IL 62656; 735-9111
[Jan
Youngquist]
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Union filing suit to block lease that
would give college control of Zeller site
[DEC. 5, 2002]
SPRINGFIELD -- The American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees plans to file a
lawsuit that would void a lease just signed by Illinois Central
College in East Peoria, union officials said Monday. The agreement
gives the school a 20-year, $1-a-year lease on the former Zeller
Mental Health Center property.
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"We believe that Central Management
Services did not have the statutory authority to enter into the
lease," said Henry Bayer, AFSCME’s executive director.
The union has been fighting to save
Zeller, which was closed in August as part of Gov. George Ryan’s
sweeping cuts in services.
Bayer said state property may be leased
only after it has been deemed "surplus," and regulatory guidelines
require that the property must have been unused by the state for
three years. He noted the regulations require also that such
property be leased at fair market value.
"A dollar a year is hardly fair market
value for a $20 million facility," Bayer observed. "Virtually giving
away valuable property when the state faces a fiscal crisis makes no
sense, particularly when the giveaway will make it more difficult
for a new administration to restore badly needed mental health
services."
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Peoria is already feeling the effects
of Zeller’s closure, Bayer said, adding that a new governor "should
not have roadblocks put in his way by a lame-duck administration."
AFSCME
attorney Stephen A. Yokich filed the suit this Tuesday in Peoria
County Circuit Court. Yokich said the union would also seek a
temporary restraining order against college officials if they begin
altering the property until the suit can be heard. Dr. John Erwin at
ICC has said he doesn't anticipate making any structural changes to
the property while the suit is pending.
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