Charles Canida Said/Russellville Citizens Said

 

Charles Canida is head of the Russellville Electric Board. Canida recently asked the city for a 3.1% rate increase, which the council granted. Then the citizens of Russellville received their January utility bills. When residents complained to the city council, Canida offered some interesting explanations.

Canida said the January temps were 25 degrees lower than normal. Official sources stated if that were true, the daytime temp would have averaged 23 degrees and the nighttime temp would have been a chilling 8 degrees. Perhaps Canida is mathematically challenged?

Canida then went on to claim that he's streamlined the budget. He cited hiring a new janitorial service to reduce the $40k yearly fee of the previous one. Both financial records and the former service have established that it was actually less than $9K. We have no idea how Canida could have been so mistaken in his calculations.

As we've previously mentioned, a city council member is conducting a person audit of the board's finances. It should be interesting.

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Rain and fog are God's ways of showing you how many IDIOTS have Drivers' Licenses:

* Driver's DON'T have headlights ON when STATE LAW requires them to be ON
* Driver's use their Auto ON' headlight feature and are TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS to the fact that their TAIL LIGHTS aren't ON
* Driver's think(?) that 'parking lights' are 'good enough.'