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“The purpose of the inspection program is to make sure that if there are poles that are deteriorating, we go out, identify them and make sure the ones that are tending toward failure are braced or replaced.”
Bill Swank
“The primary cause of the pole failure was not deterioration of the poles, it was the wind loading on the poles and the wires. It wasn't a deterioration issue.”
“What we don't have is a record.”
“We're dealing with a new era of higher hurricane activity and we realized we need to harden our system to deal with it here in Florida.”
“There was no intent to confuse or mislead anybody.”
“We're confident that, when they see it spelled out in detail, that they will find that these were prudently incurred costs and related to storm restoration.”
“Since we have not had an opportunity to fully evaluate the impact of these staff recommendations, it would be premature to comment on specifics at this time.”
“Unfortunately, hurricanes are a way of life here in Florida, and restoration is a cost of doing business.”
“Our customers are out of service less time — only half as much as the national average — so if we had bad maintenance we wouldn't have that kind of reliability.”
“Someone is going to have to determine whose engineer is correct. That's part of the process. They try to reduce the number and we try to account for the dollars we spent.”
