May 22, 2013
The Austin City Council meets this Thursday, May 23rd when more is expected to be revealed about the elected representatives' plans for either approving, qualifying or denying a plan that would create an independent oversight board that controls decisions implemented by the city-owned Austin Energy utility corporation. A recent op-ed article co-written by Mayor Lee Leffingwell and Councilman Bill Spelman argued that City Council members not be expected to constantly plan electric rates of the taxpayer-funded utility provider "with nearly a million people coming to town in the next 20 years." While Mayor Lee Leffingwell at first supported the plan to have a consultant board of energy experts appointed to make all rate decisions of the utility, he now says that "we would be better off just withdrawing this whole proposition." The plan received fierce opposition from citizens of Austin who last year suffered a nearly 10 percent increase on the average cost of their monthly electric bills.
You can contact each Council member's office at the Austin City Council by calling the Austin City Clerk at (512) 974-2210.
http://www.kutnews.org/post/council-tables-independent-oversight-austin-energy-0
http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/may/21/mayor-warns-1-million-people-coming-town/
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