Telecom Resolutions Predicted for Next NARUC
The lack of telecom resolutions at the 2016 NARUC Summer Meetings is an anomaly, state commissioners told us this week in Nashville. At its Tuesday business meeting, the Committee on Telecommunications considered only two honorary resolutions for retiring staff subcommittee…
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members Gene Hand of the Nebraska Public Service Commission and Lenora Best of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. There were no substantive resolutions about policy issues. "Let me assure you, that is rare,” said NARUC President Travis Kavulla of the Montana PSC. The Committee on Telecommunications is usually the most active NARUC group and where states tend to find the most common ground, he said. Committee Chair Chris Nelson of the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission agreed it’s "highly unusual." Telecom usually has the most, he said. "I don't try to put my thumb on the scale on any of those, nor do I try to go out and stir up any resolutions. If the membership wants to organically bring them up, great." There will likely be substantive resolutions at the annual meeting Nov. 13-16 in La Quinta, California, predicted Nelson: "Not that I know of anything bubbling out there, but just based on our history, I would think so."