Cookeville City Council will consider the purchase this week of more automated meters for the city’s Energy and Water departments.
Energy Director Carl Haney told council during a Monday work session said this batch of meters will mark a significant milestone. The city trying to automate all of its meters.
“This will complete our electric division meters that we need,” Haney said. “So we already, the last time I got it approved was for gas, it completed the gas meters that we are gonna need. So this is gonna complete the electric, so both of these will have 100 percent of our electric and gas meters on order.”
The quote for the meters is an estimated $940,200. Haney said the energy division has over 9,900 electric and over 5,700 gas automated meters installed at this time. Haney said that both divisions are around 50 percent complete with the transition.
“Our original timeline on this was about three years, but it looks like we are gonna be able to get it done as far as 100 percent of them installed,” Haney said.
The council will also consider an estimated $265,200 for more automated water meters.
“We are still moving forward on that,” Water and Sewer Director Barry Turner said. “We are not near the pace that Carl is at, but we envision about five years once we started with this, and we hope to make that. But anyway, this is just to keep us rolling.”
City Manager James Mills said the project is a big deal and the automated meters will make a big difference for the city.
The council will meet Thursday at 5:30pm.