While slow, the city of Fulton is making progress on a multi-year project focused on efficiency.
The city is increasing the number of utility meters that can be read electronically, saving labor.
During Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Chief Financial Officer Kathy Holschlag said someone can read all the electric meters and about half the gas meters electronically, but water meters are the hangup.
The city is upgrading water meters as they fail, which means — unlike for the other two utilities — the meter crews aren’t replacing all the meters in a certain area at the same time.
The city has about 60 routes. City staff read about eight digitally last month. Holschlag said that accounts for around 2,000 meters.
She said there’s two more routes fully equipped with smart meters the city hopes to read.
Fulton installed smart meters for every residential and commercial electric customer within city limits in the early 2010s.
Funds came from a U.S. Department of Energy grant and it cost around $3 million to install approximately 5,500 meters.
The smart meters mean the city doesn’t have to send employees to manually check each meter in town every month.
In 2019, the system crashed, forcing the city to rebuild its servers. The meters still accurately monitored energy consumption, but it did not feed the information back to the billing system.
As a result, employees had to go take manual readings.
Now, while they can read the electric meters, the city is upgrading the other meters to match.
Other business
In other business, the City Council:
• Approved a request by Garnett Garrett, president of the Callaway Cruisers Car Club, for road closures at Ravine Street between First and Second streets for June 4 and Fifth Street from Court to Nichols streets for Aug. 6.
City Council members strongly encouraged Garrett and city staff to look for a location for the car shows that would not require closing a section of road for the 2023 shows.
• Authorized the mayor to apply for the Local Violent Crime Prevention grant issued through the Missouri Department of Public Safety.
• Approved the destruction of city records that have met the state’s retention requirements.
• Authorized the mayor to sign an addendum to the Pole Attachment License Agreement with Callabyte Technologies LLC.
• Authorized the mayor to sign a contract with Fletcher-Reinhardt Company, of Bridgeton, for substation transformer testing. The cost will not exceed $59,117.
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