HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - November 4, 2009 D-05AGENDA ITEM 00C4:1
CITY OF LODI
COUNCIL COMMUNICATION
AGENDA TITLE: Adopt Resolution Authorizing the City Managerto Allocate an Additional $75,000
from the Lodi Public Benefits Program Fund for Use by the Lodi G2 Customer
Rebate Program. (EUD)
MEETING DATE: November4,2009
PREPARED BY: Interim Electric Utility Director
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Managerto allocate an
additional $75,000 from the Lodi Public Benefits Program fund for
use by the Lodi G2 Customer Rebate Program.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: In preparing the Fiscal Year 2009/10 budget, utility staff originally
requested $45,000 for the Lodi G2 Customer Rebate Program.
However, with four months of the current fiscal year gone, the
allocation for this program has been spent. In short, the response to this particular program has far
exceeded any previous year's participation rate, with energy efficiency rebates being provided to 14 G2
commercial customers. Thirteen of these projects involved lighting retrofits, while the other involved the
installation of shade screens on west- and south -facing windows. The projected energy savings from
these 14 projects is 280,000 kilowatt-hoursof electricity annually.
Utility staff has identified a minimum of five additional G2 customers eager to pursue energy efficiency
projects. Staff is requestingthat an additional $75,000 in Lodi Public Benefit Program funding be
allocated to the Lodi G2 Customer Rebate Program and be spent to accommodate the increased interest
in this energy efficiency program. Fundswould come from the state -mandated fund in which we set aside
2.85% of operating revenue for Public Benefits Programs. The expansion of the G2 Customer Rebate
Program will use money in that fund that had not yet been designated for any other specific purpose.
FUNDING: 164604 — Lodi Public Benefits Program ($75,000)
Jordan yers
Deputy City Manager/Internal Services Director ,
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Kenneth A. Weisel
Interim Electric Utility Director
Prepared By: Rob Lechner, Manager, Customer Service and Programs
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APPROVED: /2; '� ;,,'�1y
Bla"A , City Manager
RESOLUTION NO. 2009-151
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL
APPROVING THE ALLOCATION OF $75,000 FROM THE
LODI PUBLIC BENEFITS PROGRAM FUND TO CONTINUE
THE LODI G2 CUSTOMER REBATE PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the City of Lodi Electric Utility has offered the Lodi G2 Customer
Rebate Program for several years to commercial utility customers; and
WHEREAS, the program is designed to encourage the installation of various
energy conservation measures to those commercial customers assigned to the
published electric utility G2 rate; and
WHEREAS, the City of Lodi Electric Utility is now seeking to extend the program
by providing an additional $75,000 in rebate funds for G2 commercial customers.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Lodi City Council does hereby
approve the allocation of $75,000 to the Lodi G2 Customer Rebate Program and
authorize the City Manager to allocate said funds for this energy conservation program.
Dated: November 4, 2009
hereby certify that Resolution No. 2009-151 was passed and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Lodi in a regular meeting held November 4, 2009, by the
following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Hitchcock, Johnson, Katzakian, and
Mayor Hansen
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS— None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS— Mounce
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS— None
2009-151
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City Clerk