Thank You!

Thank you! Thank you to all who donated time, money, and prizes to the Annual Halloween Carnival. This was our big fundraiser for the year and a POC tradition. We couldn’t have done it with out the help of so many people and businesses and everyone who came out to support us. Thank you again from the POC PTO.

To the Editor:

I would like to thank all of you who supported me on the POCID ballot election. I thank you for considering that my past 27 years experience in installing water and sewer systems would have helped in fixing our problems with our systems.
I would ask that the new board strongly consider installing the proposed electronic water meters, for they have many good attributes. I realize they will cost about $1,000,000, but that includes installation.

Advantages:

1. Better accuracy in reading monthly usage.

2. Allows the 3 employees to use these three days they spend reading these meters now to do other maintenance on our existing systems plus save about $100,000 per year we now pay them for this job.

3. These meters work under water when the meter boxes get under water during heavy rains.

4. Wear and tear on the vehicles they use to read meters, not to mention the gasoline usage and maintenance on them.

5. Can be shut off when residents leave town for long periods of time.

These are just a few of the advantages of these electronic meters. Once again, I suggest the board consider the meters. We have plenty money for that project. Use some of the other bond money to remedy our sewer system upgrades and relief lines and plant work.

Once again, thanks for all that supported me and may God bless you and the new board.

Sincerely, Ricki McKinney

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