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I give them time to fix it and find a willing buyer.” ! Patrons asked about the pay rtiise given to REC president Cecil Yiverette, and the $37,000 spent on exercise equipment for employees. Viverette said the exercise equipment had helped hold down employee health insurance rates. ; The Oct. 8 meeting at Rappahannock High School began with Frank Andrews, REC’s Culpeper District manager, showing slides with graphs of power outages for the past several years. >' According to Andrews, until 1990 there were not an unusual number of power outages at the Rixley substation. Since then the number of hours each year when power has been out has been increasing, he skid, but most of the problem has been on the Virginia Power lines coming into the substation, not the REC lines going out from the station to subscribers. 1 He went over the series of times power has been lost and explained the cause of each outage, but said one of the most recent, on Oct. 1, has not yet been explained.
Referring to the outages, one customer asked, from the darkened auditorium, “Are these things I as a consumer can expect? Are they industry acceptable? Am I getting what I’m paying for? If not, why pay more?”
Another stated, “What we care about is the terrible service, and now an increase in rates.” ; Viverette said the company is
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