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EUC votes: commission approves emailing rule recommendation, schedules meeting flexibility and recommends public forum for Austin Energy GM finalists

3731026 · June 9, 2025
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Summary

The Electricity Utility Commission voted to request that City Council allow commissioners to be copied at personal email addresses, approved flexibility on July meeting scheduling, and approved a recommendation that the Austin Energy general manager hiring process include decarbonization criteria and at least one public forum for finalists.

The Electricity Utility Commission took three formal actions during its June 9 meeting.

First, the commission voted to send Recommendation 20250609‑003 to the Austin City Council asking that volunteer commissioners be allowed to be copied at a combination of official city and personal email addresses for commission business. The recommendation asks council to amend city code to allow staff and commissioners to explicitly copy personal email addresses when emailing commissioners’ official commission addresses while keeping the official commission email on all communications. Commissioners argued the change would reduce missed communications by volunteers who check personal accounts…

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