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Thunday. luly 23. ini-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALOPag* 7A
Pressure
Put On By
The State
From Pag* 1-A
Grissom said his first
knowledge of the situation came
at a board meeting when the
commissioners received a letter
from the Utilities Commission
“telling us the would have a
board down here and review the
gas line. Then (after the hearing)
we got a notice that said get it
done.
‘They could really take over
the gas system if we don’t get it
done,” Grissom said. ‘They
made the hint that they could
fine us if we didn’t get it done,
but as I remember, they didn’t
say how much they would fine
us.
‘The Utilities Commission has
really gotten strict lately,”
Grissom added. “You can’t let
things go anymore. You can’t
put off until tomorrow what
should have been done two
weeks ago. They just won’t
stand for it. And that’s the way it
ought to be. 1 don’t have any
qualms with it, it just costs a lot
of money.”
Commissioner Jim Dickey
said he had heard of the pro
blems “ever since I’ve been back
on the board (almost four years).
It’s been a lingering thing, and I
really don’t know why.
“The State just doesn’t fool
with you anymore,” he said.
‘They’re pretty strict on these
things. I just thank God we’re
going on with it. These things
are nice but you have to keep
them up.”
Commissioner Corbet
Nicholson said he did not know
about the problem until the last
year to year and a half, and that-
first he knew of any pressure
from the Utilities Commission
was at the same board meeting
Grissom talked about.
“I feel like our gas consultant
didn’t follow up on it like he
should have,” Nicholson said.
‘They were getting on us pretty
hot and it should have been
taken care of much sooner.”
Commissioner Humes
Houston and Commissioner
Norman King could not be
reached for comment.
Mayor Moss said he tried to
delay the new line as long as
possible, because it is costly, and
that he felt the old line was
satisfactory.
‘Their contention was that a
new line would equalize gas
pressure throughout the city,
and in the long run, they’re cor
rect,” Moss said. “But I was not
in a hurry to spend that kind of
money. But when they ordered
us to do it, we complied.”
Moss said the standards for
gas systems are “much more str
ingent than years ago when the
current system was installed (it
was installed in the 19S0’s), and
it means a program of upgrading
lines and monitoring regulator
stations for safety and meters for
accuracy.”
But, most of the gas line pro
blems will soon be behind the ci
ty. Work is scheduled to begin
on the new $222,000, 2.5 mile
line within the next two weeks
and should be completed by
September 30.
It will, as has been noted,
equalize the pressure throughout
town and provide better services
for the customers. But it will
continue to be costly.
The city has already put out
thousands of dollars for safety
protection, and because of
another Utilities Commission
suggestion which has been ap
proved by the board of commis
sioners, it will continue to pay
out thousands through high
salaries.
The Utilities Commission, and
the city’s consulting engineer,
suggested that the gas depart
ment become a separate depart
ment from public works and be
completely re-organized. A
salary scale was also suggested,
and adopted, with salaries rang
ing from $11,500 a year for
linesmen to $19,500 for the
superintendent. The board
budgeted $104,439 for seven
employees. Last year’s estimated
budget was $78,025 and the ac
tual budget for salaries ws
$50,523.
Jimmy Manley, former gas
superintendent for Bessemer Ci
ty, has been hired as the new
superintendent.
Dbcon says low salaries and
lack of equipment were two of
the city's biggest problems in the
gas department over the past 10
years.
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