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New online City Hub feature to help city residents keep an eye on utility bill are exceeded because that might meant that you may a leak somewhere or maybe you forgot your water hose on if you are watering your grass and so it's a good way to monitor your usage throughout the month also a good way to get alerted if you exceed the preset thresholds that you the customer would set up," said Sourdellia.
By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera (Seguin) -- You know longer have to wonder if you are using too much water or electricity. That's because the city of Seguin is keeping usage of utilities at the fingertips of its customers. J e n n i f e r Sourdellia, the public information officer for the city of Seguin, says utility customers who currently utilize the City of Seguin's online billing portal will now notice some new ways they can view their usage and receive notifications. She says the City Hub Customer Portal is a mobilefriendly, online utility portal that helps customers better manage their utility billing. She says using the online portal, customers can pay utility bills, manage multiple accounts, schedule payments, view account information and transaction history, monitor
water/electric consumption, and gain a better insight on how and when their utilities are being used. "So now, if you are utility customer and you've got electric or you've got water service with us or you have got both, you can monitor usage online throughout the month and then you can also set thresholds so if you want to set up for budgeting purposes -- if you want set up a certain threshold during the month, you can receive notification if those thresholds
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SHS band director to retire By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera (Seguin) -- After four years of leading the Seguin High School Mighty Matador Band, Director Stan Mauldin is saying good-bye. That good-bye; however, will come at the end of the school year when Mauldin will officially retire from the marching field, and will leave to pick up the baton as the new executive director of the Phantom Regiment. The Phantom Regiment is a world class drum and bugle corps, headquartered in Rockford, Illinois.
Mauldin, who currently serves on the advisory board for the prestigious Midwest Clinic -- an international band, orchestra and music conference in Chicago -- says it was Sourdellia says this new during a recent visit up north, when online feature allows cus- he was approached about the opportomers to have a better handle tunity with Phantom. on what's going on in their home and eliminate folks from "So what happened with this is I'm being surprised when that util- walking down the exhibit hall at ity bill hits the mail. Midwest and one of my former students is the first woman conductor "It's really a cool feature where of the Marine Drum and Bugle you can manage your electric Corps -- and think about what I just and your water account, you said. One of my former students is can schedule your payment in the first lady conductor of the addition to monitoring your consumption and also get a Marine Drum Corps. She is also a better understanding of how Phantom Regiment alumni and we and when customers are using were just chatting and she said, 'hey, their utilities," said Sourdellia. that ED job is still open at Regiment' and I'm like 'well what do you think?' She says 'well, you See UTILITIES, page 3 ought to apply' and honestly, I just
Director Stan Mauldin sent a text and then it happened real fast. The stuff that we have done here in Seguin -- the ability to raise money, the ability to organize events is what they are looking for so it's an administrative position -- I think which helps my end of it and my age and all that and the energy level and all that kind of stuff but yes, it's a world class drum and bugle corps and they hired me for the ability to raise money and organize events," said Mauldin. Now prior to entertaining the idea, Mauldin says the discussion of retirement was already on the table.
"Seguin is a special place. The facilities are fabulous. The people are extremely kind and sweet. We love these kids like they are our kids so thinking of that, then what do you say as you are leaving? You know seniors are going to leave anyway so that's a good 40 kids who are leaving out of the program as it is and I'm just graduating from the program as they are. Everybody at one point or another changes a job and we tend not to look as these things as jobs but we tend to look at them as opportunities to influence the future," said Mauldin. See MAULDIN, page 3
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