SAN ANTONIO -- CPS Energy got approval last year to begin raising your rates after complaining it was strapped for cash. What the city-owned utility failed to mention at the time is that it uses some of your hard earned money to pay for lavish meals and parties.
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“I can't see a one-time expense for $7,000 for a party. When you know sometimes I’m eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at night,” complained Johnson.
They certainly weren't eating peanut butter at the going away party for board member Steve Hennigan last February. The bill at Bohanan's included $991 for snapper and $743 for ribeye steaks. And the alcohol was flowing - Gray Goose, Crown, Freemark and champagne - the bar tab was more than $2,000. Also, more than $1,100 was charged to CPS Energy for people who didn't show up after the utility told the restaurant how many they expected to attend, and valet parking was $160. The grand total to the ratepayers came out to $7,074.
But it's not only board members who get a pricey send off. Last February, a vice president retired and his last supper included five other top execs and their wives at Bistro Vatel in Olmos Park. You paid for everything, from steak to duck, and $540 for four bottles of fine wine. Total tab wound up being $1,659.
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Non issue.
In San Antonio it is.
CPS Energy is basically a monopoly here.
its a natural monopoly
Shocking news! More power to them. It should be lights out for them.
Not when they are owned by the city...
CPS. Where you get paid to take a nap on the job.
What is white, weighs 6 tons, costs $90,000 and sleeps 4?
A CPS truck.
all you want it's still cheaper than some energy corp grabbing a strangle hold of our city
Remember when they were being investigated for having breakfast tacos at some dive every morning, while on the job?
CPS...........home of the eight hour loaf.
I thought that was SAPD???
No, it was CPS, saw the uniforms.I thought that was SAPD???
Thought that was SAWS workers?
fify
damn i need to work for CPS
I could have sworn it was CPS. But yeah, SAWS workers aren't any better.
Big wigs get expensive . Otherwise there's no reason to be a big wig.
Aren't San Antonio's rates cheaper than all the other major cities in Texas?
And ing about a particular company's service technicians ing off is hilarious as if its peculiar.
Rates being cheaper than anyone else is irrelevant. This isn't a privately owned company and there are no competing companies to sign up with.
CPS is actually owned by the city. Wiki says 14% of the revenue from this utility company makes up 20% of the city's general budget.
It's the closest thing to be a city department without actually being a department. Since they just raised our rates claiming budget shortfall, I'd say a bit of outrage is justified.
Show me any large en y that doesn't reward it's leaders. Even priests get their altar boys.
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