Nelsen Money

1. Nelsen R. Money
NRM-VMS,INC

3. Facts About the Blackout

6. Fines can be a High as a Million
Dollars

7. •Mitigation can be Millions of Dollars

8. Legal DocumentsThat Allow the
Utility to doTheir Work– WhatThey
Really Mean
• Easements—what do they say and not say
• Franchise--- What is maintenance
• Fee Strip ownership—Utility Owned Right of Way
• Special Permits– Federal Forests, Wildlife Areas, National Parks
• Prescriptive

9. NERC Facts
Sag Clearance

12. Inside Utility Stakeholders
Media
Representatives
Governmental
Relations
Environmental
Vegetation
Management
Customer
care

13. • Zero NERC Compliance Issues
• Zero Outages
• Lowest Cost
• We have the Rights….
• We don’t Need to Ask for
Permission
• Why Can’t Everyone in the Utility
Support Us

14. • Zero NOV’s
• Environmental Image • Why Can’t the
Vegetation
ManagersTry to
Get Along
• AllThey do is
Destroy the
Environment

16. Zero Conflicts in the News
Paper
Zero Conflicts on the Local
Channels
Not Good at Creating
“Good News Stories”

19. • No Problems with local,
state and Federal Officials
• No Problems with
Agencies
• NoTownhall Meetings
• Why Can’tVeg Mgt
Get Along with
Communities
• Not in my Backyard

21. Transmission Tree Removal in City
Council Newsletter

24. All Customers are Happy
• Individual Customers
• Business Customers
• Community Customers
• Why Can’tVeg Mgt.
keep my Customers
Happy.
• It is “ALL” about
Customer
Satisfaction.

28. WHAT is theTVMP
• It is not Etched in Stone
• It is Amendable

29. Options for a Cycle Approach ---- 1--- 5 years

30. Mitigations
•Trees, shrubs, landscaping
•Land Exchanges
•Purchase of Mitigation Lands
•Recreation Management

31. Budgets are Annual and Future
Funding is Available

32. Utilities have Non-profit foundations

33. Right of Way Stewardship
Accreditation
• PRINCIPLE #3: COMMUNITY RELATIONS
The IVM program provides for outreach to affected communities and
stakeholders.
• CRITERION 3.1: Public Education
Stakeholders are apprised of the benefits of ROW Stewardship and
IVM.
• CRITERION 3.2: Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholders affected by proposed IVM operations are informed of the
primary goals of reliability, assuring access and safety. The potential
environmental and aesthetic effects of those operations, and potential
stakeholder concerns are considered in management planning and
operations.

37. Look to Leadership Examples

38. Success looks LikeThis
• Know your Rights
• Know the Utility Internal and External Stakeholders
• Have Relationships/Partnership Before Problems Develop
• Have Examples of how Other Utilities Have Negotiated
• If Impacts are Extreme, WorkToward a Cycle Approach
• Recognize the Utilities Efforts in Press Release

39. The Path to Negotiations….
Know the Utilities Inner Circle of Stakeholders
• Customer Care
• Media
• Governmental Relations
• Environmental

40. Remember