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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jay Stowe officially began the job Monday as managing director and CEO of JEA.
JEA has had a troubled year stemming from the attempted sale of the utility last year and then the firing of former CEO Aaron Zahn and the entire executive staff. There’s also a federal and local investigation.
News4Jax spoke with Stowe on Monday, and one of the first questions that News4Jax asked is how will he gain back trust?
“That’s the starting point -- start with employees, treat them with courtesy and respect and then we will start to rebuild, quite frankly, trust internally. And I think the idea of it being my very first day of telling you how hard it’s going to be or not be for building trust is something we really need to talk about,” Stowe said. “We can have another meeting in a few months and we will start seeing progress overtime will judge whether or not the team that we work with has improved the trust of the community. But I hope so because there are lots of good people here doing lots of good work every single day.”
Stowe will have a lot of issues to deal with. Not only is there an investigation, but he will work to appoint a new management team and work with a gradually changing JEA board. There is also the issue of Plant Vogtle, and the idea it could lead to rate increases.
The idea of when or whether we need a rate increase starts with managing the systems really well. I need to understand how the systems are managed and what are the revenue sources that we have across-the-board,” Stowe said. “But I take it very seriously if we’re going to have to have any sort of rate changes, then it’s going to be public and transparent, and we will have lots of discussion about that.”
A City Council committee investigating what took place with the attempted sale and the changes the city will need to make also met Monday and said it should have a full report at the end of the month.
The committee said it has more interviews and said one person subpoenaed, political consultant Tim Baker, is not cooperating. Baker has told News4Jax it would be unlawful for him to do so because of work he did with his client, Florida Power & Light.
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