The City of Las Vegas’ Utility Coordination Conference (UCC) occurred in Mesquite, Nevada on April 9th thru April 11th, 2008.  Early in 2007 the City’s Public Works Department met with key executives from all the major utility companies in the Las Vegas valley to determine if there was an interest in having a workshop that would review process enhancements that would be beneficial to both the governing agency and the utility industry.  There was a general belief that there was room for improvement for coordinating between the City, developers, engineering firms, and utilities regarding construction projects.  All the utilities expressed an interest thus giving fuel to the idea of having a utility conference.  The vision was to get the public and private stake holders in the  utility coordination process, form the basis for which a better working relationship could be built upon, and let the participants from respective utilities along with the City and local developers decide what the conference would entail.  The City invited representatives of: the consulting engineering industry, Southern Nevada Home Builders Association, Las Vegas Valley Water District, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Nevada Power (now NVEnergy), Southwest Gas, Cox Communications, and Embarq to participate in the UCC proceedings.  Each entity chose representatives from within their respective organizations to represent their individual interests in utility coordination. 

This case study was submitted to the Alliance for Innovation for consideration at the 2010 Transforming Local Government conference.