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Committee recommends confirmation of Louis Ernst to City Light review panel

3181675 · May 2, 2025
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The Seattle City Council Sustainability, City Light, and Arts and Culture Committee voted 5-0 to recommend confirmation of Louis Ernst as the panel’s financial analyst; the committee noted an ongoing City Light investigation and said a further update will be provided later in the year.

The Seattle City Council Sustainability, City Light, and Arts and Culture Committee voted 5-0 on May 2 to recommend confirmation of Louis Ernst to the City Light review panel, the committee’s chair said.

The review panel, created by City of Seattle ordinance in 2010, evaluates Seattle City Light’s biennial strategic plan and rate path and issues an independent opinion when the plan is submitted to the mayor and council. Lee Brecker, interim chief of staff at Seattle City Light, described Ernst as an engineering-trained finance professional…

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