The OIAT meetings will no longer be livestreamed

The third Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division Outage Improvement Advisory Team Meetings (OIAT) is Friday, May 6 at 9 a.m. in the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library.

Meetings will no longer be streamed live. They will be available on MLGW’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/MLGWWaysToSave and Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MLGW within 48 hours.

MLGW customers are invited to engage in the process through questions/feedback at memphistn.gov/mlgw/ regarding tree trimming, underground lines, response time, overall infrastructure, suggestions for improvement, and more. The site also has a full list of the OIAT members.

Session 1 of the OIAT meetings premiered March 17 and is available to watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=BGvwr-pmYTo.

Session 2 of the OIAT meeting premiered April 14 and is available to watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRaM_scCncE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVjvD22dTMk.

Over the next few weeks, the OIAT will examine power outages and ways to improve the MLGW power restoration process. The 51-member team consists of community stakeholders from MLGW, the City of Memphis, Shelby County government, neighborhood associations, non-profits, and surrounding municipalities representing MLGW’s 439,000 customers.

MLGW is the largest three-service public power utility in the nation, serving more than 437,000 customers in Memphis and Shelby County.