Granbury approves GIS inventory of municipal electric distribution system, including $20,000 franchise-audit component

The Granbury City Council approved an engineering-services proposal from Synergy/SE Energy LLC on Dec. 16 to perform a GIS-level inventory of the city's electric distribution system. City staff described the project as a comprehensive asset inventory that will locate each city-owned pole, quantify equipment condition, and support a five-year capital improvement plan.

Kaufman told the council the city's existing inventory was out of date and that an updated GIS layer would allow staff to identify dilapidated poles, plan replacements, and anticipate transformer and material needs. Kenneth Kazi, the city's utilities/electric staff member, said the inventory will "help upgrade the electric system" and called it "a good project" because the inventory had never been done before at that detail.

The proposed scope also includes an audit to count franchise attachments and bill users who attach equipment to city poles; Kaufman said that piece of the work is a $20,000 component and that the audit historically helped the city collect additional revenues from attachments.

The council moved and seconded approval and the presiding official announced the motion passed unanimously. Staff said the deliverables will include geolocated poles, condition scoring and photographs to populate ArcGIS layers for operations and capital planning.