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3 June 91
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Steven Michelson Productions
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Tom Jennings
666 Illinois
San Francisco CA 94107
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re: phone call this AM regarding our utility usage

We have in fact paid utilities for every month that we've been here. I
have copies of the bills back to June 90 (I am missing Jul-Aug, 
Sep-Oct, Oct-Nov 90 PG\&E bills); all were paid.

Regarding the most recently-received copies of PG\&E bills from you,
the Feb-Mar 91 bill was for \$162.21, and was paid March 27th, in a
check for \$288.78, which covered Jan-Feb and Feb-Mar 91. 

As far as bills being paid late --

I have to take time out of my business to calculate the bills. I was
told that SMP ``couldn't be bothered'' to calculate or determine
actual usage. We have been wrongly accused of using more power than we
are paying for, because ``the bill increased when we moved in''. We
are not a creditor, but co-tenants, and expect a little more slack,
especially since I must do all the work of calculations. It's not like
we're going anywhere. 

I think SMP will find that it's bill has been increasing all along;
after all, SMP was forced to relocated to a larger building due to
increased business, and its work is so heavily reliant on electronics.

An informal accounting of our has prompted us to document our actual
power consumption, by actual current measurement at our fusebox. (I
believe we have only two 2-bulb 40W fluorescent lights not powered out
of our fusebox.) It will take a month or so to determine the actual
numbers. We will then calculate our share from this, and spot-check it
monthly. Our equipment and usage is pretty constant.

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Regarding the currently-due bill: the process I was using to calculate
our power usage, which I now believe to have been incorrect all along,
was to assume SMPs power usage was constant from 1989 to 1990, a very
conservative (for SMP) assumption, and that the difference (eg.~Aug 89
vs.~Aug 90) was ``our'' power consumption.

The process totally failed in Mar-Apr 91 -- the total power
consumption went {\it down} when SMP moved out, and by previous
calculations SMP would owe {\it us} for that period. (This process was
laid out in a letter to SMP last year; I will send another copy upon
request.)

We can, if you want, go into your electrical room with an 
``amp-clamp'' and help you locate the source of the power drain. It
won't be an exact determination, but it will tell you which breaker or
room.

I would appreciate it, and we all would benefit, if SMP would rethink
its attitude toward us and the problems involved in determining
utility sharing. No hard feelings, let's just solve the problems at
hand.


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