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General Manager’s Report -
2012 Strategic Directions
In The U.S. Electric Utility
Industry
4 Board Report -
July 12, 2012
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From the Board Chair -
Seven Hats And
Other Awards
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Legislative Update:
2nd Session Of
Oklahoma’ s
53rd Legislature
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Lineman’s Corner -
Pole Inspections
AUGUST 2012
VOL. 28 NO. 8
participating cities. These members serve
staggered three-year terms with one third
coming up for election each year.
Charles Lamb (Chair), Homer Nicholson,
Walter Allen and John Ramey, whose terms
expire in September 2012, have all indicated
a willingness to continue serving on the board.
Elizabeth Gray, who replaced Dan Scott as
the elector from Altus, has agreed to serve
the remainder of Scott’s term on the board
which will expire in September 2013.
Those attending the meeting also will hear
reports from Board Chair Charles Lamb and
General Manager Cindy L. Holman. Lamb
will discuss OMPA governance and board
accomplishments during the past year.
Holman’s remarks will center on services
to the member cities, the status of current
generation projects and future power supply
needs.
More information on the election of board
members will be in the September Outlet.
Mark you calendars to attend the annual
electors’ meeting on September 13th.
OMPA MEMBER CITIES:
Altus, Blackwell, Comanche, Copan, Duncan, Edmond,
Eldorado, Fairview, Frederick, Geary, Goltry, Granite,
Hominy, Kingfisher, Laverne, Lexington, Mangum,
Manitou, Marlow, Newkirk, Okeene, Olustee, Orlando,
Pawhuska, Perry, Ponca City, Pond Creek, Prague,
Purcell, Ryan, Spiro, Tecumseh, Tonkawa, Walters,
Watonga, Waynoka, Wetumka, Wynnewood, Yale
A member of the American Public Power Association,
Municipal Electric Systems of Oklahoma, and
Southwestern Power Resources Association
OUTLET is published by OMPA for our Members
2701 West I-35 Frontage Road
Post Office Box 1960
Edmond, Oklahoma 73083-1960
Phone: 405/340-5047
FAX: 405/359-1071
www.ompa.com
OMPA is an agency of the State of Oklahoma and
is fully supported by customer revenues instead
of taxes. 425 copies printed at a cost of $1,044.00.
Bruce Ackerman, Editor
Annual Electors’ Meeting to be held
All-Employee Training - See page 2 for schedule.
The 2012 Annual Electors’ meeting will be
held on Thursday, September 13th at 1 pm
at the Roland H. Dawson OMPA Headquarters
Building, 2701 West I-35 Frontage Road,
in Edmond.
The theme this year is Powering Forward and
relates to ongoing generation projects, including
AEP’s Southwestern Electric Power Company
(SWEPCO) baseload power plant, the John W.
Turk Jr. Power Plant, in Hempstead County,
Arkansas and the Canadian Hills Wind Farm
near El Reno, Oklahoma.
OMPA’s annual meeting will honor Shane
Woolbright, MESO Executive Director,
who will be retiring this year after 30 years
of service to MESO and Public Power in
Oklahoma. MESO was formed in 1971 and
hired full time staff in 1978. Woolbright is
the third director of the organization following
Mike McDowell and Chuck Smith.
The focus of the annual meeting will be the
election of the board of directors’ members.
The board consists of an 11-member board
elected by representatives (electors) of the
OMPA’s new generating plant named
“Charles D. Lamb Energy Center”
development of the Authority’s Competitive
Utility Program (CUP). CUP, started in 1995,
is a voluntary program that provides OMPA
members with a way to evaluate and improve
the operation of their electric utilities, and
make them better able to compete in the
electric utility industry.
In addition, he instituted the use and evolution
of an OMPA Board self evaluation to improve
board governance and continues to be a major
supporter of the development and use
of a strategic plan for OMPA.
He also serves on the APPA
Policy Makers Committee.
The OMPA Board of Directors approved
designating the name of the new generating
plant to be built near Ponca City as the
“Charles D. Lamb Energy Center” in honor
of OMPA’s Board Chair and Edmond Mayor
during its monthly business meeting on July
12th. Preliminary plans are underway on a site
for the natural gas combustion turbine facility
that will be built near Ponca City. The new
plant is scheduled for operation in 2015.
Mayor Lamb has served on the OMPA Board
since 1993. Since 2001, he has served
as the Board Chair and he is the longest
tenured elected official to serve as the chair.
He was instrumental in the innovation and
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