I personally have no problem with you making the offer, provided Jay says it's a reasonable commitment financially.
Ron On 2012-08-24 14:24, Justin Lacko wrote: > This is an important follow-up to earlier discussions involving the > cost of electrical on our floor. > > As you may know, Mike Legary and myself are meeting with Marvin, our > landlord on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the electrical bills. Today I > received the most recent electrical bill (we are billed monthly) which > came in at around $1100. This bill includes cre8ery's usage, plus > public building usage (garage lights, etc). Today Mike Legary also had > an electrician come and accurately measure our power usage on the > floor. The results are that with AW running its lights always and > regular use of their equipment, they are consuming roughly the same > amount of electricity as SkullSpace is, which is 36A per group (36A > SkSp, 36A AW). Our rough estimated electrical bills has been > calculated at $800-$850/mo. at peak use. > > What all of this means in the simplest terms is that the landlord is > losing money on our lease, which is not good. This would very easily > be a good reason to terminate our lease. Mike Legary estimated the > landlord currently making $0.50/sq. ft. on the space, and with taxes > at $0.70/sq. ft., which results in negative profit. In the upcoming > meeting, the landlord will almost certainly be asking for a reduction > of our usage. > > The suggestion that we will be making on Tuesday's meeting is that > SkSp & AW will pay for a certain portion of the electrical in order to > alleviate the problem of the landlord losing money. Don't forget that > our lease has a 6-month clause which means that the landlord could > terminate on us at any time. Our max offered contribution towards the > electrical bill will be $250/mo. per group, meaning a $500 > contribution from the floor. Again, we are doing this so that we > appear as the "good guys" who are recognising that the landlord is not > making money on us, and primarily we are doing this so that we don't > lose our lease. AssentWorks has already agreed to this amount, and we > need SkullSpace to be on board by Monday so that we can take this > offer to the meeting on Tuesday. If SkullSpace does not agree to this > and AssentWorks does, not only will it look bad on our part when > talking to the landlord, but it will almost certainly result in the > loss of our lease. The other added part to this agreement is for both > sides to reduce electrical consumption by 1/3 (the amount we will > bring to the table). This isn't as hard as it sounds; we have old > lighting taking up double the power of new lights; and lighting could > be put on motion sensors as AssentWorks will be doing. We could also > properly ventilate our server room which will result in reduced > workload on the machines and save us money. > > Unfortunately this issue is not one that can wait for a formal meeting > vote by members; Mike Legary and I need to go into this as being on > the same page in order to present a concerted response. Part of our > discussions will also focus on increased electrical due to the > landlord's decision to install space heaters, bad windows, etc. etc. > Mike and I will work hard for SkSp and AW to bargain as best as we can > in this process and also ensure that our upcoming electrical plans do > not render these discussions moot. > > I will try my best to answer all questions pertaining to this as best as I > can. > > Thanks, > Justin > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
