Ann Arbor Emergency Town Hall

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Hybrid: Digital & in Person Before the city can acquire DTE’s local electric grid, it is necessary to place a value on its assets in Ann Arbor. This is best done with a feasibility study conducted by expert consultants. Once that study is complete, the city would make an offer to DTE, largely based on the study findings. DTE will challenge the city’s offer, and a court will ultimately set the acquisition price. At that point, the decision to move forward with the acquisition would go before the voters, with approval requiring a 60% majority.

The City of Ann Arbor has a plan for how to complete a feasibility study, and for what to put on the November 2026 ballot. We have been informed that the City would only move forward with this plan if A2P2 endorses it.

Some members of A2P2 have concerns with the city’s plan, and have developed an alternate plan.

We will be asking our members to decide between these two plans:

• Plan 1: Endorse the feasibility study that is currently on the table. Endorse two ballot questions for Nov. 2026: 1) initiate legal proceedings with DTE and 2) A funding mechanism to pay for the legal proceedings, which may be a millage.
• Plan 2: Reject the feasibility study as designed, and push for a new study with different terms. Run a ballot initiative to put on the Nov. 2026 ballot: to create a municipal governance board for a public electric utility within the city government.

• At this Sunday’s town hall, Mayor Taylor will join us to explain the city’s plan in more detail, and to field questions. Then, A2P2 member Ken Garber will explain the alternate path in more detail, and field questions.

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