Electric Board Regular Meeting of the Electric Board

Agenda — original pdf

Electrical Board March 17, 2021 @10:00 AM Electrical Board to be held March 17, 2021 at 10:00 am with Social Distancing Modifications Public comment will be allowed via telephone; no in-person input will be allowed. All speakers must register in advance (Tuesday March 16, 2021 by noon). All public comment will occur at the beginning of the meeting. To speak remotely at the March 17, Electrical Board Meeting, residents must: •Call or email the board liaison at Rick Arzola at 512-974-2417 no later than noon, (the day before the meeting). The information required is the speaker name, item number(s) they wish to speak on, whether they are for/against/neutral, and a telephone number or email address. •Once a request to speak has been called in or emailed to the board liaison, residents will receive either an email or phone call providing the telephone number to call on the day of the scheduled meeting. •Speakers must call in at least 15 minutes prior to meeting start in order to speak, late callers will not be accepted and will not be able to speak. •Speakers will be placed in a queue until their time to speak. •Handouts or other information may be emailed to rick.arzola@austintexas.gov by Noon the day before the scheduled meeting. This information will be provided to Board and Commission members in advance of the meeting. •If this meeting is broadcast live, residents may watch the meeting here: http://www.austintexas.gov/page/watch- atxn-live Tabla eléctrica 17 de marzo de 2021 a las 10:00 a.m. El tablero eléctrico se llevará a cabo el 17 de marzo de 2020 a las 10:00 a.m. con modificaciones de distanciamiento social Se permitirán comentarios públicos por teléfono; no se permitirá ninguna entrada en persona. Todos los ponentes deben registrarse con anticipación (martes 16 de marzo de 2021 antes del mediodía). Todos los comentarios públicos se producirán al comienzo de la reunión. Para hablar de forma remota en la reunión de la Junta Eléctrica del 17 de marzo, los residentes deben: • Llame o envíe un correo electrónico al enlace de la junta en Rick Arzola al 512-974-2417 a más tardar al mediodía (el día antes de la reunión). La información requerida es el nombre del orador, los números de artículo sobre los que desean hablar, si están a favor / en contra / neutrales, y un número de teléfono o dirección de correo electrónico. Una vez que se haya …

Approved Minutes — original pdf

MARCH 17, 2021 REGULAR CALLED MEETING Electric Board APPROVED MINUTES The Electric Board convened in a Regular Called Board Meeting on March 17, 2021 via Web Ex Video Conference at 10:07 am. Board Members in Attendance: Gabe Flores, Delwin Goss, Mark Weaver, Ben Brenneman, Rogelio Wallace and David Johnson Members Not in Attendance: Nicole Stasek, Derek LaRue, David Adamson, Randy Pomikahl and Michael King Staff in Attendance: Rick Arzola (DSD), Eric Zimmerman (DSD), Mitchell Tolbert (DSD) and Todd Wilcox (DSD), Marty Starrett (DSD) and Jordan Word(DSD) 1. CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: There was no registration of citizens to speak at this Electrical Board. 2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The minutes from the November 17, 2020 regular called meeting was approved as written after modifications were made to Item 4B per Board member Weaver. Board member Johnson made a motion to accept the minutes as written. Board member Goss second the motion, motion passed 6-0. 2 DISCUSSION a. Criteria Manual Update- Commercial Electrical Supervisor Marty Starrett updated board members that DSD Staff met with Austin Energy back on Jan 21st. In that meeting AE discussed some new post design criteria manual changes. Here are some of those changes even though awaiting feedback from DSD:  On underground, would require either rigid or scheduled 80 but added a change where you can use scheduled 40 if it was concreting casing.  Fees for affordable housing waivers- A.E line extension fees.  Conductor clearances on overhead multiplex lines for buildings.  Added code changes to NEC 230.85 and 230.71- Emergency disconnects and 6 handle rule removal but later removed it from the code language and just put references to those codes.  Made edits to their temporary figures to show main breakers in panels based on the NEC article 230.71 but DSD suggested since edits are being made to remove grounding details.  DSD also suggested to add grounding to represent City of Austin electrical code for grounding electrode conductor requirements. AE accepted this.  DSD also requested for removal the previously inspected homebuilders loop being allowed to be connected without a permit or inspections to be removed from the Criteria Manual. AE agreed to that removal.  Discussion on creating a new flowcharts for design and construction for electrical utilities. As far as the point of attachment (service), staff felt that AE was putting this on the back burner for later. b. Inspection Update on …