.PAYMENTS– After a number of months of difficulties along with its own power payment program, the area of Billings has hired an independent agency to audit the metropolitan area’s energy payment system.Minneapolis, Minnesota-based service provider SL-serco Inc. will reach function upcoming week examining household meters. The objective is actually to make sure that residential utility costs are actually accurate.The business focuses on energy consulting as well as has actually been providing services such as this for 60 years.Billings City Administrator Chris Kukulski said the audit must take approximately 90 times and also are going to cost about $75,000 with funds coming from the city’s utility financial resources.Alina Hauter/MTN News.Urban Area of Payments Metropolitan Area Administrator Chris Kukulski.SL-serco Inc.
are going to pick profiles at random to audit as well as will evaluate every aspect of the billing method.” Our team fit that any type of consumer inaccuracies our team found have actually been definitely related to software application miscalculations,” stated Kukulski Sunday. “This will offer our team that possibility, if there is actually anything inappropriate in the device, that it can be identified, and also it could be repaired, and also if there isn’t, they’ll supply that individual study.” The metropolitan area’s contract with the firm will certainly run through January 31. The results will certainly be actually shown at a public meeting.Kukulski said that if the review shows that another facility is responsible for any type of inaccuracies, the metropolitan area is going to seek a remedy.