A city that owns its power company, on a shrinking aquifer
Lubbock runs a municipal electric utility and sits on the Ogallala. Industrial load growth — including data-centre-scale load — lands on ratepayers through the utility rather than through the tax roll, which means the decision that raises a household bill is made in a utility board packet, not in a budget hearing.
Lubbock Power & Light board agendas and rate ordinances, and the City's water supply and wholesale-power contracts.
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City Desk
10 verified links to Lubbock, Lubbock County and Texas government — agendas, budgets, records portals and oversight bodies. Every one was fetched and checked on 2026-07-26, not copied from a search result.
File under the Texas Public Information Act
Tex. Gov't Code ch. 552. The city has ten (10) business days to respond. We generate the letter, send it, and track the clock.
Watch the meetings
Lubbock publishes its meetings through CivicPlus AgendaCenter. We index them so “what happened on the 6th” is one click rather than a scroll through an unlabelled playlist.
What is stale
A public dashboard of when each automated pull last succeeded. If the archive is behind, this page says so rather than letting the site quietly rot.
Why Lubbock
Lubbock runs a municipal electric utility and sits on the Ogallala. Industrial load growth — including data-centre-scale load — lands on ratepayers through the utility rather than through the tax roll, which means the decision that raises a household bill is made in a utility board packet, not in a budget hearing.
The Move Weight Foundation's first chapter is a town of thirteen thousand people in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, and it now holds 522 archived meetings with machine transcripts. The second is San Angelo, Texas. The third is Southaven, Mississippi, where the City's own released documents show an ad valorem agreement abating two thirds of property tax on a recital of twenty new jobs. None of those started with a tip. They started with somebody reading the agenda.
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