City of Columbia, Missouri
Meeting Minutes
City Council
Conference Room
1A/1B
Monday, May 16, 2022
5:00 PM
Pre-Council
Columbia City Hall
701 E. Broadway
I. CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Buffaloe called the meeting to order at approximately 5:00pm.
7 - Peters, Skala, PItzer, Fowler, Waner, Buffaloe, and Foster
Present:
Integrated Electric Resource and Master Plan and Task Force Report
City Manager De’Carlon Seewood welcomed Director David Sorrell to introduce the topic
and the presenters.
Director Sorrell introduced Power Production Superintendent Christian Johanningmeier
(operations maintenance and operation transmission system) and Eric Worts,engineering
supervisor in electric provision, mainly dealing with transmission systems, substations,
distribution systems, etc.
Director Sorrel then welcomed presenters to present the topic which had two sections:
Completed electric resource planning and electric management planning.
The Power Production Superintendent Christian Johanningmeier started by giving a
background of where the city was, where it is now, and where it is heading regarding
water and light programs. The Water and Light department has done an integrated plan
on resources (IRP) once every 5 years. The last two were in 2008 and 2013. In 2018 we
were due to have another one. At that time it was decided that maybe we ought to do a
master infrastructure planning and at the same time the resource planning. It was a
departure from what the city normally does. It was also decided by the City Council that
more public process should be taken as part of the overall process. In 2018, the City
Council passed a resolution to establish the Task Force for Integrated Electric Resource
&Master Plan (IER & MP) which has eleven voting members (Five from W&L Advisory
Board, and Six from Community), Four Ad-Hoc members (including members from the
climate and environmental control commission, the housing and development
commission, University of Missouri, and Boone Electric), and a Citizen led task force with
open public meetings.
Eric Worts presented on the Master Plan Initiative. Worts shed light on what the Master
Plan meant in terms of Water and Light which are physical assets, transmission and
distribution infrastructure that we own and operate. Part of the Master Plan is to
determine what should be done, and what kind of capital is needed to develop it. Siemens
looked at various plans on what it will take to develop the plan. (See the powerpoint
presentation attached)
Council member Betsy Peters asked if there was a plan in place, how this would be
funded and is there a timeline. Eric indicated there is $8 million budgeted fiscal year