Long Beach could look again at combining its utility service

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Chris Garner, the general manager of the Long Beach Water Department and Bob Dowel, the city’s director of Energy Resources, which oversees consumer natural gas delivery, sent a memo to city officials last month expressing interest in taking another look at consolidation.
The purpose of consolidation would be to create a single business entity under one governing body that would have utility-focused governance to help set policy and rates, the memo said. Currently, Garner is hired by and reports to the Board of Water Commissioners, while Dowell reports to the city manager.
A ballot measure that would have created a Utilities Commission to oversee both water and energy was presented in 2018 before the City Council and the Charter Amendment Committee, which voted to abandon it in August of that year by opting to leave it off that year’s November ballot.

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