The Bryan Texas Utilities board of directors will meet Monday to discuss the city's request for detailed financial information.
BTU General Manager Dan Wilkerson and board Chairman Hank McQuaide said Friday afternoon that they had received a letter from the mayor requesting the information but had not had time to look it over at length. The Bryan City Council voted this week to order BTU to hand over specific financial information to City Manager David Watkins by July 30.
Two BTU board members resigned this week, apparently in response to the city's directive.
Bill Atkinson and Gene Kornegay could not be reached for comment Friday, but Mayor Jason Bienski confirmed both had resigned effective immediately.
Kornegay said in his resignation letter that he had been planning to resign for some time, but leaving now was best because the BTU board "appears to no longer enjoy the confidence and respect of the Bryan city council."
Kornegay, who is also a member of the Texas Municipal Power Agency, said he would be resigning from that seat as well.
Bienski said he sent to the letter to McQuaide and Wilkerson requesting the city-owned utility's budget information Friday morning.
City officials refused to provide The Eagle with a copy of the letter because, they said, the legal department had not reviewed it to determine if it contained "competitive" information.
"We're asking for salaries, expenses," Bienski said.
"We're being very specific in how they will format it," he said, adding that the utility uses different accounting software than the other city departments. "Bryan staff will work with BTU staff to reformat it."
Bienski said he had spoken with McQuaide and was optimistic that BTU board members would cooperate with the request.
"[McQuaide] assured me he'd be working with the city to try and get this resolved," Bienski said. "He was very positive."
Board members will do their best to provide whatever information the city feels it needs, McQuaide said Friday afternoon.
"We've already done everything, the numbers have always been there," McQuaide said. "After Monday, I would think that everything that has been asked for will be delivered."
McQuaide said he wasn't surprised that Atkinson and Kornegay had resigned, but he didn't expect it to happen so soon.
"I know both were very disappointed and tired of some of the things that have been incorrectly reported and some of the attitudes," McQuaide said. "They have both been fantastic board members."
Wilkerson declined to comment on the resignations.
Bienski said the process of appointing new members to the seven-member board will begin immediately.
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