Wapa

WAPA Struggling With Cashflow as Cost of Fuel Continues to Increase

As the Bryan administration challenges in court a recently enacted law which made sweeping changes to the membership of the WAPA governing board, the board has scheduled a meeting for Thursday under the new structure. The meeting agenda is chock-full of issues relating to the authority’s operations and its finances. An agenda published late Wednesday afternoon lists electric system budgets, contracts, change orders, underground project price increases and employee benefits renewal among the items up for consideration. The meeting, announced with less than 24 hours’ notice and termed an “emergency meeting,” comes as the administration awaits the Superior Court’s take on the governor’s objections to Senate passage of legislation which reduced the number of cabinet appointees to the board and made specific educational or experience requirements for membership on the board. The Senate enacted the measure, the governor vetoed it and the Senate later unanimously overrode the veto making t...