City Utilities released a PNC memo this afternoon involving a PNC audit of SpringNet. The release from City Utilities says:
City Utilities of Springfield (CU) today released a statement from General Manager John Twitty regarding the findings in the Missouri Public Service Commission staff’s report on the utility’s telecommunications services. The commission staff reviewed CU’s telecommunications activities and found no violations of either state law or the commission’s order, issued to the utility in 1997. The review was prompted by the state audit of CU in 2007.
“The utility works hard every day to do the right things in the right way for our customers. We are pleased the PSC staff’s review found that CU’s telecommunications operations adhere to commission rules and to state law,” CU General Manager John Twitty said.
The utility does not anticipate changes to its telecommunications services as a result of the PSC staff’s
review.”
Click here to download the memo and read for yourself.
EDIT to add:
In the News-Leader today there was printed some information that Montee sent in a letter:
While researching how CU ran its SpringNet operation, Montee said her staff raised questions about how the PSC conducted compliance reviews.
“We checked into it and discovered we hadn’t done an audit of the PSC since 1991,” Montee said. “The PSC is scheduled to be audited this year. One of the things we’ll look at is how they check compliance of the entities they regulate.”
She emphasized the upcoming PSC audit wasn’t in response the the PSC’s latest report about CU.
“It’s just been a pretty long time since they were reviewed,” she said.
I know there are those trying to maintain that Montee is beyond any political maneuvering and never does things out of political motivations but that just smells bad. PSC says her allegations are unfounded so now they’re getting an audit. Yes, I know it COULD be on the level but this timing really looks bad.
