Metro councilmembers are calling for Nashville Electric Service CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin to be fired after “systemic leadership failures” related to last month’s historic winter storm and the power outage crisis that followed.
A resolution filed Tuesday by Councilmembers Emily Benedict and Courtney Johnston urges the Electric Power Board, which oversees NES, to make the move and start “a transparent leadership transition process and appoint interim and permanent leadership with demonstrated expertise in grid resilience, emergency preparedness, vegetation management, and public accountability.”
“I’m not seeing the accountability that I need to see, and I don’t want to wait for some review that’s going to come back in 90 or 120 days and may or may not tell us that changes need to be made,” Benedict told the Banner…