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Council OKs purchase of AMI meters to finish advanced metering infrastructure; staff addresses privacy questions
Summary
Council approved Resolution 2026-192 to buy the remaining electric meters needed to complete the city's AMI system; staff said about 9,430 of roughly 17,000 meters are installed, the purchase estimate was placed on the record and council discussed privacy and remote-disconnect processes.
The City Council authorized staff to purchase electric meters to complete the city's advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system by approving Resolution 2026-192 8–0. Utility Manager Jeff Shanahan said the city has installed roughly 9,430 of an estimated 17,000 meters and that completing the meter rollout would improve outage management and remote operations.
Shanahan described the AMI meters as the backbone for remote reading and outage detection: "With these meters, that'll fill out all of the electric meters in our system to now be the AMI meters," he said. Council members raised privacy questions; Councilman Von Barron asked what the meters collect and whether they could be used to infer household activity. Shanahan replied the meters measure kilowatts, voltage and amps to calculate consumption and that the system is not intended to record household behavior beyond consumption metrics.
Staff placed a procurement estimate on the record (the speaker referenced an estimated amount in the $713,000 range for the purchase), described expected efficiency and outage-management benefits and noted that remote disconnect/reconnect procedures and associated paperwork will continue to follow the same customer-notice processes. Council moved and seconded the resolution and voted 8–0.
