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Lehi City has hired Travis Ball as its municipal power director. His first day on the job was Monday.
The position is new. Rod Olsen will continue to be power superintendent of Lehi City Power and oversee the day-to-day operations for the company, said city administrator Jamie Davidson. Additionally, Ed Collins will continue as a resource to Lehi City Power in relations to UAMPS.
Davidson introduced Ball at the Tuesday evening City Council work session.
"I am just delighted to have Travis here," Davidson said. "He comes well recommended and will be an asset to the city."
Ball is the last to be hired as part of Davidson's recruitment effort to staff the city's growing administrative needs which included hiring an economic development director and a finance director.
The new Lehi City director comes with 12 years experience working for Provo's municipal power department. He served as acting director for Provo City Power the past two years and as an engineering manager for the previous six years.
Provo has 35,000 power customers and a 170 megawatt system. Lehi City has 12,000 customers with a 60 megawatt system.
Davidson said he promised Ball that would change and someday Lehi would have the larger system.
"Jeff (Provo city special project manager Jeff Wilson) wasn't excited to have you leave Provo," said Lehi Councilman Johnny Revill at the meeting. "When you hear that, that is good for us."
A Driggs, Idaho native, Ball graduated from BYU with his electrical engineering degree.
"I'm excited to be here in Lehi," said Ball. "I was amazed to drive around and realize how big Lehi is."
He said his immediate goal for Lehi City Power is to work on reliability.
"I think it's a reliable system, we're just going to keep track of it," Ball said. "That's our goal, obviously, to keep the lights on at all times." |
