Updated 5/18/20

The Pulaski Electric System Board of Directors met in May to review a preliminary budget proposal for 2020-21 fiscal year.
CEO Richard Kelley told the Board that PES had implemented a temporary suspension of non-pay disconnections of service in April and May.
He added that payments had begun to improve over the past week, but the number of delinquent accounts is still significant and these accounts will continue to be monitored closely.
This year’s budget is under assumption of PES operating with a full staff of 64 full-time employees.
The budget includes to provide employees a cost-of-living adjustment effective January 1st, 2021.
The likely revenue for the FY21 budget in the electric division is estimated at $44,049,216, a dip of just over $2 million from FY20’s budget of $46,291,977.
A video rate increase of 8 percent is factored into the budget effective Jan. 1, 2021, due to an assumed programming fee increase. No rate increase is expected for data or phone.
Operating and maintenance costs are basically the same for the electric division, while the broadband division saw a decrease of nearly $100,000.
Among the major capital projects for the upcoming fiscal year are the primary substation, replacement of the four 13Kv breakers in the Elkton substation, and a transformer at the Walter Anderson Substation.