Final paycheck for Paula Gold-Williams topped $1 million, CPS Energy records show
A majority of that money, more than $751,000, came in the form of a โrestoration payment.โ An attorney representing the utility described the payment late Tuesday as a distribution of benefits from a non-qualified retirement plan that is taxable when earned.
Winter storm issues exposed a cascade of scandals at CPS Energy in 2021
While Februaryโs deadly winter storm not only left hundreds of thousands of San Antonio residents without power in subfreezing temperatures, some for days on end, it also exposed a large number of organizational issues within CPS Energy, the largest public power company in the nation.
CPS Energy executiveโs comment about โMexicansโ drew ethics complaint, records show
The ethnically insensitive comment, made in front of four fellow employees, led to a complaint being filed against Bonewell with the utilityโs Ethics and Compliance Hotline a week later, internal CPS records obtained by the KSAT 12 Defenders show.
CPS Energy employees paid hundreds of thousands despite not showing up for work due to call-in blunders
Before Fred Bonewell was promoted in June to be CPS Energyโs new chief operating officer, his signature appeared on a March 2017 agreement that laid out the working conditions for the utilityโs wage-scale employees.