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The TMEPA 49th Annual Meeting of the Members was July 13-15 in Pigeon Forge, TN. It was an outstanding meeting with dynamic speakers, events and ceremonies. The annual Awards Banquet on Tuesday saw three municipal systems and two remarkable individuals receive awards for their service to their municipalities, to Public Power and TMEPA.

Plans are already in place to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of TMEPA. More to come.....

For electric distributors, a website should serve as a branch office that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your customers should be able to find the information they need as well as perform most of the functions they could if they were standing in front of a customer service representative. This means paying their bill, applying for service and more.

Marvin Fertel, president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute, recently offered his thoughts on a range of issues related to the nuclear power industry including the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) treatment of new nuclear power under the EPA's Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. He made his remarks in an exclusive interview with the American Public Power Association.

One of my fondest memories as a child was lying on the living room rug with my dad while listening to music on his brand new state-of-the-art high fidelity rig. There was no stereo yet, just hi-fi. Back in those days, a Scott amplifier, Dual 1019 turntable, and Acoustic Research AR-3 speakers made the music sound like you were right there in the studio. Daddy introduced me to Ravel, Stravinsky, Lily Pons, Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, Les and Larry Elgart, Tex Ritter, Frank Sinatra, Les Paul, and Tennessee Ernie Ford, just to name a few. This time, however, it wasn’t music we were hearing. It was the voice of a young comic from Mt. Airy, North Carolina, named Andy Griffith. The album entitled What It Was, Was Football featured a description of a football game, as seen by a naive country preacher who, looking for some food, gets herded into a college football game by mistake.

Weakley County Municipal Electric System (WCMES) was created under the Municipal Plant Act on September 27, 1938. The public referendum to create the System received 2,188 votes with only 144 opposed. In October of the same year, WCMES purchased the power system of Kentucky-Tennessee Light and Power in Weakley County and the northeast portion of Gibson County and began operation with 2,131 customers. By 1947, 29 employees were serving 7,433 customers.

Stay up to date with various meetings and events for TMEPA Municipal system.

Tennessee’s municipal electric systems are entities owned by local governments, where local citizens and ratepayers govern how the system operates. Like the local governments that own them, the business and records of municipal electric systems are open to the public. It’s often referred to as "transparency," meaning nothing is hidden from view. They follow the same state laws as other state, county, and city governments that require them to conduct business in such a manner that the public has access to certain actions, records, etc. Municipal electric systems do not have an issue with the public’s right regarding open records.

JT&S has a new source of safety training available for your employees from the Tennessee Job Training & Safety Program (TN JT&S). TN JT&S would like to announce that the program will offer selected online safety training courses starting in August 2015. These courses can be used to fulfill annual OSHA requirements and are provided in partnership with TCAT Murfreesboro and the Tennessee Board of Regents. The new courses are an effort to improve the quality and effectiveness of the training and services that JT&S provides to our member utilities. Please know that this training is intended as a beneficial alternative that can be used, but we will continue to offer these course topics and others as monthly, face-to-face, safety meetings if preferred.