Share Your Thoughts With The Public Utilities Advisory Board
The city owns and operates three public utilities - electricity (Independence Power and Light), water and stormwater.
To guide those efforts, the city has a seven-member volunteer Public Utilities Advisory Board which meets monthly. The board has extensive authority and a responsibility to provide the City Council advise and recommendations.
The meetings are typically held the third Thursday of the month at 2:30 pm. Meeting agendas are posted on the meeting can be viewed live or later on the city website.
The PUAB Rules of Procedure provide opportunities to provide public comment to the board.
Specifically, the order of business provides for “citizen comment.” Also the PUAB has the authority to hold public hearings on matters of interest.
The PUAB Rules of Procedure specifically state (Article V (3)):
“Utility consumers of the City and others with knowledge on a topic may address the PUAB on any matter concerning the business of the PUAB. In order to speak at a meeting, individuals must make a request to the Secretary by the Friday before the meeting at which he or she wishes to speak. The Chair can approve or deny a request to speak to the PUAB. Speakers shall be limited to five minutes. All remarks shall be made to the PUAB as a body and not to individual members. Personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks and boisterous behavior shall result in removal of the speaker from the room.”
Click here to contact the PUAB Secretary.