By: Ben Addison
Last Thursday, the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) board of directors held its annual monthly board meeting. The public agenda for the meeting included many items, but the one highlighted the most by the board of directors was the zero carbon footprint initiative known as SD-7.
SD-7: Environmental Stewardship Policy Revisions one of the main points that has a lot of feedback is the zero-carbon emission footprint from any and all work done with OPPD. Secretary Rick Yoder credited this success to more than just the board of directors.
“It’s not just the board by any means, management and staff helped in a great deal in making this happen. So, it shows what the team can do together,” said Yoder.
OPPD Director Eric Williams talked about what each of those sub-teams, like management and staff, had to do to make this policy work.
“The board, through strategic directives, is setting what we are looking for and then management and staff are carrying out how we are going to get there,” Williams said.
Williams also talked on the other major point by explaining how he felt there wasn’t enough time to prepare for SD-13: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement Monitoring Report.
“The timeline for the opportunities for customers to be engaged with this very important decision we will be asked to vote on here in a little while, I feel was not long enough relative to the scale and scope of the decision we are making today,” said Williams
Williams did go on to mention that this was reflected in the comments from the public. Williams did make sure to credit the staff for a great job with the outreach but felt like there was still more that could be done.
To learn more about what happened during the meeting, including questions from the public, OPPD posts the recorded meetings, like this months meeting, to their YouTube channel.
To find out when and where OPPD plans to meet next, you can find out on their website.
