FW: Meeting in Houston - October 29th -Forwarded

Beth / Evan

Making sure we are all on the same page re: the resolution, timing, responsibilities.

thanks - Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Gayle W Muench
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 5:22 PM
To: David W Delainey; Jeremy Blachman; Dan Leff
Cc: Evan Hughes; Ben Smith
Subject: FW: Meeting in Houston - October 29th -Forwarded

Dave, Dan and Jeremy:

As you can see from the below "stacked" e-mails we continue to have significant issues in our attempt to bill the Rexam account. Service Management has had weekly meetings with Billing on this account and yet this problem still persists. While I am confident that Ben and Evan are aware of this issue we do not seem to have either the ability or the proper resources to bring it to a sucessful resolution.

In addition to these issues on Rexam we have had a failure to follow through on a bill payment issue on a Tyco account that has caused us to not pay the utility bill for two months at the headquarters site. This has been raised to our counterpart's attention at Tyco and though we have taken steps to resolve this event it has provided another data point in Tyco's mind as to our competency. This is obviously happening at a important time in our negotiations.

Evan has acknowledged his accountability for building the procedures and processes that will allow us to successfully live up to our obligations in our contracts.

Gayle

-----Original Message-----
From: Childers, Craig
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:57 PM
To: Muench, Gayle W.; Hughes, Evan; Denner, Mark
Subject: FW: Meeting in Houston - October 29th -Forwarded

Any suggestions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe SASSO [mailto:joe.sasso@rexambca.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:46 AM
To: cchilde@enron.com
Cc: jparker4@enron.com; Frank.Brown@rexam.com; dean.guzlas@rexambca.com;
jack.bender@rexambca.com
Subject: Meeting in Houston - October 29th -Forwarded

Craig,

This absolutely shocks me. We really focused upon making the process
simple during the renegotiations and at last month's meeting we were
lead to believe that you had your hands around this. For Jack to take this
much time and have so many errors is a totally non-value activity.

It certainly looks like the team from Enron needs more resources. I'd
expect you to be prepared to explain at the monthly meeting in
Winston-Salem on the 8th what issues remain and specific action items
to resolve this problem in 2001. We can not accept this as a go forward
process in 2002. Is this too much to ask?

**********Below is the first e-mail.*************

Becky,

In retrospect, I wanted to comment on a few items from our meeting this
past Monday at your offices. I feel it is necessary to document what I still
perceive to be very poor performance on the invoice and account
management received from Enron.

While I had low expectations for this particular invoice - especially due to
many of the new rules coming into play for the Second Amendment - we
still spent almost 5 hours reviewing, changing and correcting this
document. When you take into account that 2 of the 3 California plants
did not have electric invoices for us to review - and this is not Enron's
fault but PG&E's - the fact that this review took so long is not a good
sign. Ten of the twenty-one individual plant statements had some type of
error - and half of those were serious errors.

I am looking to see vast improvements in the future. I do not see us
stopping this monthly review process in the near future, and days like
Monday reinforce that thinking.

On another note, we spent close to an hour on the Natural Gas slip-up
with our Olive Branch Plant - which was inexcusable. I credit Enron for
doing the firefighting drill to reestablish nominations in time for the
November cutoff; however, the situation should have never been
allowed to spin out of control in the first place. I had to intercede with the
Energy Management representative to keep the nomination open beyond
noon to accommodate this oversight. I am looking to have Barry or Evan
provide me with an action plant to prevent his in the future.

Unfortunately, this allowed us little time to review open issues. I will
recap those we did review on future e-mails. Sometime today or
tomorrow, I will coordinate a time that we can then "resume our meeting"
via phone.

Regards,
Jack Bender