Residents urge participation in CenterPoint Energy planning; teacher invites council to speak to Bosse High students; Fifth Ward parks meeting announced

Christopher Noor, a resident who identified himself with an address on Harmony Way, urged Evansville residents to attend a stakeholder meeting on CenterPoint Energy’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) scheduled for this Wednesday. Noor described the IRP meetings as a periodic, public set of sessions that utilities use to plan resources over a 20‑year horizon and said the local session will be held in person and virtually at the company’s nearby headquarters from about 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

“This is the second in the series,” Noor said. “It’s your chance to participate, make comments, talk with folks in the room, make your voice heard.” He told the council the meetings are held every three years and provide a public opportunity to weigh in on utility resource planning.

Teacher Seth Easterday, who said he teaches at Bosse High School, told the council he plans to invite members to speak to his government and ethnic studies classes next fall. “I will be inviting each of you at some point to speak to my government class next fall,” Easterday said. He said he teaches four sections and uses extra credit to encourage student attendance at civic meetings, and he asked the council to consider coordinating meeting schedules because the school board and city meetings currently overlap.

A council member (unnamed in the transcript) announced a Fifth Ward parks meeting for 6 p.m. the following evening at Salem United Methodist Church, 6311 Cratesville Road. The council member said, “Yes, I know it’s a church, but it’s also a public meeting forum for our Fifth Ward parks chat.” The council lodged the announcement during miscellaneous business.

No formal council actions resulted from the public comments recorded in this session.