The Board of Public Utilities (BPU) held a work session on May 6, 2026, at the Municipal Building, Room 330, starting at 5:30 PM. The meeting included public hearings, consent agenda approvals, a recognition, and discussions on the electric energy coordination budget, fee schedule updates, and board business. Key actions included recommending a gas rate ordinance to Council and approving multiple construction contracts.
An order ticket. So somewhere there's a stop. Okay, I will call to order this May 6th, 2026 meeting of the Board of Public Utilities. Thanks. Thank you everyone for being here this evening. We do apologize for the uh alternate quarters. For voting. So uh right. Appreciate the staff setting this up in a way that I think will actually work out fairly well. I guess we'll find out. First time we've done this arrangement. Um, if there are any issues, we apologize for them. Uh first order business is public comment on any items that are not otherwise on our agenda this evening. Is there any public comment in the room? If not, is there any public comment online? Thank you, Chair Gibson. If you are online tonight on Zoom, when Chair Gibson called for public comment, you can use the raise hand function. And if we're participating by phone, you can press star nine to raise your hand. If you would like to mean public comment right now, please raise your hand on Zoom. No one has their hand raised, Chair Gibson. Okay, thank you very much. That takes us to approval of the agenda. And there was a revised agenda issued that uh you should all have on your uh uh uh place proceeding and it was published in adequate time. Um Saturday morning. And uh however I would like to amend it one step further, and that is item four C to make sure that we get the right motion in place. I'd like to pull that off the consent agenda and then just act on it immediately after the consent agenda was straightforward, but I want to make sure we get the right one. Okay, okay. So is there a motion to approve the revised agenda as amended? Do we okay? Yeah, in other words, and including the action to suspend procedural vote. We'll do that separately. I move that we order you call the approve the revised agenda for tonight's meeting as amended. Second. Okay, move to second. Um all in favor. Okay, motion passes four to zero. Now we need to uh uh a motion to suspend the procedural rules of the work session so that we can take action this evening. I move that the board of public utilities suspend the procedural rules for the May 6, 2026 work session so that formal action may be taken. Second okay, seconded. Um in favor and again Eric Eric votes yes, motion passes four to zero. Thank you. Now the consent agenda minus item four C will be the consent agenda as amended. All right, I move that the board of public utilities approve the items on the consent agenda as amended and that the motions and the staff reports be included in the minutes for the record. In second, okay. Seconded is there any comment or discussion? Shouldn't be on a consent agenda. Okay, seeing none, we will vote on the consent agenda. Uh Abby, are you doing the honors tonight? Or is it Kathy? You're doing the honors.