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PSS, govt still talking utility bills
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Posted on Dec 08 2008
The Public School System and central government are still coming to a resolution on PSS’ October 2006 utility bill.
The bill, totally more than $414,000, is part of more than $1 million that the school system owes the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. for past utility usage.
Up until October 2006, the government paid for PSS’s utility usage, so CUC and PSS officials had earlier determined the government would pay for that portion of the debt. But at the October Board of Education meeting, Vice Chair Herman Guerrero said he was told PSS must pay the $414,000.
Guerrero said they would be discussing the issue tomorrow at the Board’s Fiscal, Personnel and Administration committee meeting.
“It is being discussed as it related to the appropriation measure that was recently passed by the Legislature late last week,” Guerrero said in an e-mail.
The Legislature passed a budget of $165.4-million budget for fiscal year 2009. Under the proposal, personnel costs will account for $112.2 million, or about two-thirds, of the budget. The remainder will go to operations, $43.7 million, and utilities, $9.5 million.
