Charles Warren, who was hired almost two month ago, said if all the collections are current, CUC will be better off financially.
He said government agencies remain delinquent with the Public School System having the largest receivable account.
“The regulations do require that we treat government customers as we treat everybody else,” Warren said.
However, CUC will have to give consideration to keep the schools open, he added.
Warren said CUC Executive Director Antonio Muna is working very closely with PSS and the Department of Finance to “as best as we can without disrupting school service.”
These unpaid accounts are giving CUC a hard time meeting its obligations to its vendors, Warren said.
“We’re behind paying some of our vendors because our customers are behind paying us,” he added.
But he said CUC is doing better with residential and business customers “since they have an incentive to pay because if they don’t pay then the disconnection process will be pursued against them.”
Education Commissioner Rita A. Sablan yesterday said PSS will soon pay CUC $1.1 million for the schools’ power bills.
Sablan said PSS recently got an approval from the federal government to use part of the State School Stabilization Fund to pay its electric bills.
But Sablan said the PSS accounts with CUC for 2008 have discrepancies, which they are disputing.
She said PSS and CUC are trying to reconcile these discrepancies even as the schools implement measures to conserve energy.
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