The Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, in a Zoom meeting.
On the agenda for the meeting is a visitors’ time, a 2020 revenue bond resolution; a COVID-19 update; economic development update; electric supply update, general manager’s comments and board comments.
According to agenda information, the revenue bond resolution will ask the Unified Government to issue bonds for improvements for a maximum of about $10 million. According to the resolution, these projects include the Rosedale substations, the Barber substation and transmission system improvements.
In addition, the resolution will ask the UG to refinance existing utility revenue bonds totaling $222.2 million.
Agenda information is online at https://www.bpu.com/Portals/0/pdf/board-information-packet-6-17-20.pdf.
Because of the risk of COVID-19, the BPU board meeting will be conducted through telephone and the internet, according to officials.
The public may access the meeting through the telephone to listen in and if they have access to the Internet, they can also click on Zoom Meeting.
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Members of the community who wish to speak to the Board must be logged in to the Zoom meeting via the internet using their browser or the Zoom application. Members of the public will be asked to raise their hand to signal they wish to address the board.
During the public comment section of the agenda, community members will be asked to provide their name and address and will then have 5 minutes to speak.
The zoom application is free and can be downloaded from zoom for the following platforms
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The public may also join from any web browser https://zoom.us/j/474681940
To raise your hand, click on the “Raise Hand” feature at the bottom of the application or window or press *9 if connected by phone only.