The Arbyrd City Council recently sent a letter of invitation to a representative from Pemiscot-Dunklin Electric Cooperative to attend the city council meeting on Monday. The electric cooperative has yet to respond to the invitation and did not have representation at the Monday meeting.
According to City Clerk Erma Branum, the council has received voiced concerns from community members about the billing cycles and rates with the city's new electric company. The invitation to the meeting was delivered so the council could discuss these issues and receive more information from the cooperative, Branum noted.
The council meeting was hosted on Monday without the presence of Mayor Lonnie Gibson, Jr., or Police Chief Mitch Skelton. The council continued......
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A discrepancy in the date listed on an invitation letter sent to Pemiscot-Dunklin Electric Cooperative requesting its presence at a recent council meeting in Arbyrd resulted in the company being absent from the meeting.
According to Pemiscot-Dunklin Electric Cooperative 's General Manager, Charles Crawford, his organization was under the impression, based on the letter, that Arbyrd's council meeting would be held on Tuesday, rather than Monday, June 8, which is why a representative did not show up as planned.
Arbyrd's City Clerk, Erma Branum, said she was initially unaware that the letter mailed to the cooperative showed the wrong date, but has since spoken to Crawford, who informed Branum of the error. Crawford also explained ...........
