Baltimore City Council committee to subpoena documents on conduit proposal with BGE: ‘How can we trust what you say?’

A Baltimore City Council committee investigating a proposed management agreement with Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. for the city’s conduit system has agreed to issue several subpoenas after voicing concerns about the proposal. The subpoena vote came at the end of a hearing that lasted more than four hoursThursday night — the first meeting since the committee convened in response to the swiftly moving proposal. Council members lamented about the lack of communication from the administration — many learned of the deal via media — and a lack of analysis about what the proposal would do to customer rates.