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Sumner County committee urges charter change, local asset accounting and empowers mayor to explore power alternatives in NES resolution
Summary
The committee narrowly reframed and unanimously approved a resolution asking for reconstitution of the NES board via charter change, a Sumner County asset breakdown, and authorization for the county mayor to explore alternative local power providers if NES resists change.
The Sumner County Commission committee unanimously approved a resolution asking state and other authorities to pursue structural changes at NES and to give Sumner County greater local input on electricity governance.
The resolution, amended on the floor, asks the Tennessee General Assembly and other relevant authorities to consider reconstituting the NES board so that members representing NES customers who live outside Davidson County would be appointed by their local representatives rather than by the Nashville mayor. The committee also added a request that NES provide a breakdown of its assets located in Sumner County and empowered the county mayor to explore…
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