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Public Service Commission approves minutes, procedural notices and conditional waivers; meets in closed session on potential litigation
Summary
At its March 20, 2025 open meeting the Public Service Commission approved minutes and multiple notices of investigation/proceeding, conditionally approved waiver requests in three dockets as described by staff, and entered a closed session under Wisconsin Statute 19.85(1)(g) to discuss a potential litigation matter.
The Public Service Commission on March 20 approved the minutes of its March 13, 2025 open meeting, approved several notices of investigation and proceeding, and conditionally approved waiver requests in three dockets as described by commission staff. The commission then went into a closed session under Wisconsin Statute Section 19.85(1)(g) to discuss a potential litigation matter and, after reconvening, said it had provided direction to the Delegated Commissioner.
The actions taken at the open meeting included a motion to approve the minutes of March 13, approval of notices of investigation associated with agenda items 2–4 and notices of proceeding associated with agenda items 5–8, and the conditional approval of waiver requests described by the commission secretary for three separate dockets. The commission recorded that some waiver requests were approved only for specified instances and denied for other instances, and that approvals were subject to the conditions recommended by commission staff. Specific instance counts mentioned by staff during the meeting included four instances for one waiver request, nine instances for another, and eight instances for a third waiver request.
Commissioner 3 moved the motions to approve the minutes and to approve the notices and conditional waivers; each motion was seconded and approved by voice vote with “Aye.” The motions approving waiver requests were described on the record as being granted only for the instances identified by staff and subject to the staff-recommended conditions; the commission denied the remaining instances in at least one of the waiver requests. Docket identifiers were read on the record in the form presented by staff (transcript: “32 70 PL 20 24,” “6,650 PL 20 24,” “66 90 PL 20 24”) and the commission’s approvals referenced the waiver descriptions provided verbally by the commission secretary.
After completing those items, the commission voted to go into closed session under Wisconsin Statute Section 19.85(1)(g) to discuss the potential litigation matter listed as agenda item 12. When the open meeting reconvened, Commissioner 3 said, “We are back from our closed session where we provided direction to the Delegated Commissioner regarding this issue and that does conclude our official business for today.” The commission then adjourned and scheduled its next open meeting for Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 10:30 a.m.
The meeting record shows that approvals of waiver requests were made “as described by the commission secretary” and that the approvals were expressly subject to conditions recommended by commission staff; the meeting transcript does not record the staff conditions in full nor an itemized roll-call vote for each motion. Where the transcript lists instance counts or docket identifiers only verbally, those items are reported here as stated on the record.
