Monday, July 30, 2018

Electric Utility City Commission Meeting

The City of Lake Worth wants to create a separate commission  meeting for the Electric Utility. A special meeting will be held tomorrow, July 31 at 6pm, for this purpose to approve.

Electric Utility meetings of the City Commission shall be held on the last Tuesday of each month, in the Commission Chambers, at City Hall, 7 North Dixie Highway, Lake Worth, Florida beginning at 6:00 P.M.

From the Resolution 46-2018:

Electric Utility meetings of the City Commission shall be held on the last Tuesday of each month, in the Commission Chambers, at City Hall, 7 North Dixie Highway, Lake Worth, Florida beginning at 6:00 P.M.

If an Electric Utility meeting date falls on a holiday or conflicts with the need for a Regular or special meeting of the City Commission, the Electric Utility meeting may be re-scheduled to another date ideally during the last week of the month or the Electric Utility meeting may be cancelled.

Electric Utility matters may be heard at Regular and special meetings of the City Commission. Except as set forth herein, the Electric Utility meetings shall follow the same format, procedure and have the same rules of procedure as a Regular meeting of the City Commission.

A very important discussion on the agenda is under New business 5F--our 138kv tie line at Hypoluxo. Just this year we had two system failures one causing a fire. According to city manager, Mike Bornstein, he suggested that the failure was because of aging equipment or really bad luck.

There is no doubt that we need a 2nd tie-line.  It's a matter of where it should be and at what cost. Last year, Mr. Bornstein said that he would have a plan and identify a funding source by the end of the 2017 year.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ah oh, i see a whopping assessment down the road

Anonymous said...

Why can't the city sell all of the non-government properties they own and free up millions? If they want to build another tieline, that would be multi-millions wouldn't it?

Anonymous said...

Back in the days of City Attorney Larry Karns,rumor had it that the city had a very large inventory of properties. Did they sell them all to friends for pennies on the dollar or do they still belong to the city?

Lynn Anderson said...

We have a lot of surplus property on the books. The last number I heard last year was 150. Not sure about that number. Someone out here knows and the value.

Anonymous said...

A member of the Finance Advisory Board was looking into city-owned properties last year. She was given 13. All vacant land.
Very interesting...

Anonymous said...

Maxwell knows where a lot of them are he and Rodney voted on the commission to have wendy newmeyer buy them.he will tell you he cant remember