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PURA scheduling conference highlights dispute over Nutmeg TV petitions, consolidation and business-plan requirements
Summary
At a Public Utilities Regulatory Authority scheduling conference, Nutmeg Public Access Television urged a prompt transfer process while carriers and OCC debated whether to consolidate four dockets, the length of discovery, and whether Nutmeg must file a full business plan and budgets before hearings.
The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority on Monday convened a scheduling conference for dockets 250907–250910, which concern petitions by Nutmeg Public Access Television Inc. to assume community access (PEG) operations in multiple Connecticut areas. Commissioner Holly Cheeseman presided and asked parties to present proposed procedural schedules and any fallback dates.
Nutmeg TV’s executive director, Joni Wedler, urged a relatively quick schedule and said the authority must perform a comparative statutory evaluation of competing plans. "Nothing in the statute grants [incumbent companies] default control," Wedler said, arguing that incumbents must participate as contenders and present evidence on the same criteria Nutmeg will use. Wedler recounted repeated outreach attempts and said Nutmeg filed interrogatories on Feb. 1 and moved to compel responses on Feb. 19 after delayed company…
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