enchantmentThe Voice of New Mexico's Rural Electric Cooperatives

Mora-San MiguelElectric Cooperative

January 2019

Salt and SolitudeThe Salinas Pueblo Missions

Board of TrusteesRobert Quintana President District 2Robert Baca Vice President District 4Virginia Mondragon Secretary-Treasurer District 1Joseph A. C de Baca Trustee District 5James Ortiz Trustee District 3

Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative ConsumersTh e Board of Trustees would like to wish everyone a very prosperous New Year.

MSMEC offi ces and fi eld person-nel continue to work on serving our consumers while insuring the delivery of electric service to company owners/consumers. Th ey would like to wish all the best during the New Year and look forward to serving you in 2019.

Our eff orts next year will focus on improving customer service by updating operating systems and enabling the consumer to conveniently access our offi ces in Pecos and Mora. It will be our goal to implement and utilize these systems to better serve the consumer. Our fi eld crews will continue to be avail-able day and night to perform work required of them during outages. Our system improve-ment plans will focus on vegetation management (clearing of branches), replacement of older overhead and underground distribution lines, and facilities, and installation of cut-outs and OCRs (Recloser). System maintenance, replacement and upgrading of the distribution system will improve upon our delivery of service year-round.

Th e Board and Staff are committed to providing the services our owners deserve. We wish to serve you all with the best of service in 2019.

Sincerely,

Robert Quintana, Board President, and Board Members

Brochures OrderedMora-San Miguel electric recently ordered brochures on 101 Easy Ways to Save Energy and Money, complements of Touchstone Energy. We welcome our Members to visit

our Mora and Pecos offi ces to pick up some of these brochures with valuable information. Th ey are available in English and Spanish. Touchstone Energy Cooperatives represents a nationwide alliance of member-owned electric co-ops, including yours. Log on to its website touchstoneenergy.com and check out the awesome benefi ts it off ers to our members. You can always call our offi ce at 575-387-2205 Ext. 14 to fi nd out more information.

Offi ce ClosureOur offi ces will be closed on Monday, January 21, 2019, in observance of Martin Luther King Day. To report an outage please call 800-421-6773 or 888-783-0011.

Integrated Vegetation Management PlanTh e Board of Trustees approved an Integrated Vegetation Management Plan during its Board Meeting of October 24, 2018.

Th e plan sets forth the manner upon which vegetation management will occur for all prop-erty owned by the Co-op, right of way and ease-ments accommodating facilities and/or distribu-tion lines.

Th e plans call for identifying areas where thinning of vegetation is required and the manner upon how and by whom thinning will be performed.

Co-op staff will identify areas where vegetation management is necessary. Time and cost allow-ances shall be made available to use company and contracted crews to complete this work.

Recording and maintaining work completed will be represented by vegetation management mapping and company records.

Implementation of the plan shall result in decreased outages, reduction in system line loss, and serve to mitigate company liability when incidents related to power lines are involved.