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Home My WebLink About670 RESOLUTION NO. 670 RESOLUTION authorizing the execution and delivery of a contract with Puget Sound Power and Light Company for furnishing Municipal Pumping Service. WHEREAS, Puget Sound Power and Light Company has offered to furnish for a period of five years, upon the terms set forth in the following proposed form of contract, to-wit: MUNICIPAL WATER PUMPING CONTRACT Puget Sound Power & Light Company, herein called "Company", and the City of Bremerton, a municipal corporation of the State of Washington, herein called "City", agree as follows: FIRST: This contract only covers power used i~ connection with the operation of water distribution systems. SECOND: DELIVERY -- In consideration of the payments, and submect to the limitations, herein stipulated, the Company agrees for a period of five consecutive years, beginning Nov. 1, ~1948 to ~eserve for and furnish to the City, and City agrees during said period to buy ex- clusively from the ~ompany, at the rates herein fixed, all electric power required to operate the City's water pumping plant or plants located and described as follows: Callahan and Cherry - Sheridan Park. Losses added on account of secondary metering 1095 KT~ - t.5 KW. ............. Said electric power shall be three-phase, sixty cycle, alternating current at approximate- ly 12,500 volts. Company agrees to furnish not exceeding 100 horsepower but will furnish any additional amount required by the City if it has the power available. The point of eellvery sahll be THIRD: RATES -- The City agrees to pay the following rates, same being Schedule No. 40 or the CompanyTs Electric Tariff No. 1, filed with the Department of Public Service of the Stat~ of Washington: Deman'd Charge -- $1.50 per month per kilowatt,~or major portion~the~eOf, of maximum memand. Energy Charge -- ~0.006 per kilowatt hour for the first 25,000 kilowatt hours used per month. $0.005 per kilowatt hour for i%he next 25,000 kilowatt hours used per month. $0.004 per kilowatt hour for the next 50,000 kilowatt hours used per month. $0.0035 per kilowat hour for all over lO0,O00 kilowatt hours used per month. Said rates are submJect to change in accordance with the laws or the State of Washington and whenever a new schedule of rates for the same service is made effective the City shall thereafter pay the new rates; provided, if the new rates are higher than those herein fixed, the City shall be entitled to cancel this contract. All bills shall be payable within ten mays from their date. FOURTH: ~ASUREMENT -- Maximum demand, consumption and power factor shall be measured by commercially accurate maximum demand, watt hour andpower factor meters furnished and installed by Company, suitable space for which shall be furnished by the City; provided, maximum ~emand and power factor may at Company's option be determined either by meters or by check of service. The maximum demand for any month is understood to be the average kilowatt demand, or aver- age rate of use measured in kilowatts, during the fifteen minute interval in which the consum- ption of electric.energy is greater than during any other fifteen minute interval in the month. FIFTH: USE OF EQUiPM~,~T -- The City agrees to install and maintain in good condition proper equipment for the use of such power and to save the Company harmless from all liability for any loss or damage caused by such equipment to either party hereto or to any person whom- soever; not to sell to others any electric power furnished hereunder, nor use or permit others to use any of such power in any ot~ r place or for any other purpose than to operate said plant. City agrees to notify the Company before making any increase in the connected load and to operate its electric equipment so as not to impair the general service rendered by Company to its other customers. If the City's use shall impair such service to other customers, the City will,'~upon demand, install the proper apparatus to prevent City's power factor from falling below 85 per cent, anm Company shall have the right to discontinue service to the City until such apparatus is installed. The City agrees to use reasonable diligence to protect the Company's property from injury and Company shall have free access to all parts of the premises where its electricity is used, to inspect, repair, remove and replace its property. SIXTH: SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS -- Company shall use reasonable diligence to furnish unin- terrupted service but shall not be liable for any interruptions caused by strikes and/ or other labor disputes, accidents or acts of God, or by any cause beyond the control of the Com- pany, or by the necessity for making repairs or changes in the Company's equipment and facil- ities, and the City waives and shall not assert any claims against the Company for damages to Resolution 670 (Con't) the City caused by muy suspension, interruption, failure or curtailment of service by the Com- pany in any method of operation or in any program recommended or requested by civil or military authorities. No temporary interruption shall cancel this contract.~ SEVEI~H: The Company shall have the right to cancel this contract if any part of the Company's property used for the rendition oL this service is taken by eminent domain, or if suck service can no longer be rendered by reason of frauchise expiration and the inability of the Company to secure a renewal thereof. Dated this 2?th Gay of October, 1948. Attest: ..................................... /s/ Fred C. Wyckoff /s/ L. "Hum" Kean City clerk· Witness: Puget Sound Power and Light Company ~ By This Agreement Witnesseth:: That Puget Sound Power and Light Company, as Lessor, has rented to City of Bremerton as Lessee, upon the terms hereinafter stated, the following electrical equipment; to-wit: 3 - 25 KVA 7200 V Transformers and cut-outs. 1. Said equipment shall be installed by the Lessor upon the said premises of the LeSsee described in that certain Municipal Pumping Power Contract between the parties hereto effective Nov4 l, 1948 and shall at all times be and remain the property of the Lessor and shall not ~ removed from said premises without the Lessor's written consent an~ the Lessee agrees to use reasonable care to protect said equipment from injury while in its possession. 2. The Lessee agrees to pay to Lessor upon demand the sum of $ - to cover costs of in- stallation and Lurther agrees to pay to the Lessor as consideration for the use of said equip- ment the sum of $13.62 per month on the Billing day of each month. 3. This rental contract shall run for the same time as, and terminate with, the power contract above mentioned; provided a breach by the Lessee of any of the terms hereof will en- title the Lessor to terminate this rental contract upon five (5) days' written notice to the Lessee. At the expiration or termination hereof Lessor may remove its equipment from the premises° Dated this 27th day of October, 1948, · ...................... .... ...., Lessee Puget Sound Power and Light Company By · NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton that a contract be entered into with Puget Sound Power & Light Company for the furnishing of Municipal Pumping service at the City p~nping plant, Callahan and Cherry, Sheridan Park upon the terms above propose~, anG that the Mayor be and he hereby is authorized and directed to execute and deliver such contract on behalf and in the name of the Oity and the Clerk be and he hereby is authorized and directed to attest such contract and to affix thereto the seal of the City of Bremerton. Duly amopted this 27th day of October, 1948. City C~/erk/~/~