KERRVILLE PUBLIC UTILITY BOARD
THE KPUB
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KPUB Community Blood Drive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 Sign up online at kpub.com/ blooddrive to help save a life! This drive will be by appointment only, and walkups are not accepted.
Questions? Contact KPUB’s community relations department at 830.792.8250 or abueche@kpub.com.
PUBLIC POWER WEEK EVENTS October 2-8, 2022, is Public Power Week, a week fully dedicated to celebrating the substantial benefits of having a public power utility in your community! Some of the most notable benefits of public power are local control, reliable service and competitive, low rates.
We invite you to celebrate with us during Public Power Week while we share with you all the ways KPUB is helping power a better community for us all.
Bucket Truck Ride Event OCTOBER 8, 2022
Please mark your calendars for Saturday, October 8, 2022, to join us for a free community event in Louise Hays Park. We will have family-friendly activities that will include taking a ride in one of KPUB’s bucket trucks, arc and spark demos, line worker tool displays, photo ops with our linemen, face painting and more. For more information on Public Power Week and event activities, please visit kpub.com/publicpowerweek. For questions, contact KPUB at 830.257.3050.
The Power of
Local Control When customers deal with a utility company, they are oftentimes dealing with a corporate office somewhere out of state and calling into a large call center—and you may even find it difficult to reach a live human. That’s not the case here at the Kerrville Public Utility Board (KPUB). We pride ourselves in our responsiveness to local issues and prioritizing world-class service for our customers. Our KPUB Board of Trustees are members of our community who are appointed by the Kerrville City Council and serve on the board without compensation. That means decisions about how our not-for-profit utility is operated are made by citizens who live and work here and are customers themselves. Public power utilities aren’t motivated by profits to sell more power, which means we don’t have to answer to shareholders—instead, we answer to our customers. Because we operate with this power in the hands of the people approach, our customers’ voices matter.
Local control is at the heart of what it means to be a community-owned utility company. It allows us to focus on our company’s mission and what matters most: being a responsive and efficient, locally-owned provider of reliable, high-quality utility service at the lowest responsible price.
Mike Wittler
KPUB General Manager & CEO