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AGENDA TITLE: Adopt Resolution Approving the Purchase of Encoder Receiver Transmitter
Equipped Itron Solid-state Metersfrom General Pacificof Portland, OR ($295,000)
MEETING DATE: November23,2010
PREPARED BY: Electric Utility Director
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt a resolution approving the purchase of encoder receiver
transmitter equipped Itron solid-state meters from General Pacific of
Portland, OR in the amount of $295,000.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: In Resolution No. 2005-64, dated April 6, 2005, the City Council
approved the standardization of solid-state meters for residential
and small commercial customers with Itron. General Pacific is the
exclusive supplier of these meters.
The Electric Utility Department (EUD) has been installing automated meter reading (AMR) Itron solid-
state electric meters equipped with encoder receiver transmitters (ERT) since 2006 as part of an AMR
project. Currently EUD is nearing completion of the residential installation of ERT -equipped solid-state
meters and is beginning commercial installation. Six hundred meters have been budgeted in fiscal year
2011 for phase one of this project.
Staff hereby recommends the City Council approve the purchase of 600 ERT -equipped Itron solid-state
meters from General Pacific.
FISCAL IMPACT: Procurement cost is $295,000.
FUNDING: Included in FY2010/11 CIP BudgetAccount No. 161000.
Jordan Ayers
Deputy City Manager/Internal Services Director
PREPARED BY: Kevin Bell, Electric Utility Rate Analyst
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ElKzabefh A. Kirkley
Electric Utility Director
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K radt Bartlam, Interim City Manager
RESOLUTION NO. 2010-203
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL
APPROVING THE PURCHASE OF ENCODER
RECEIVER TRANSMITTER EQUIPPED ITRON SOLID-
STATE METERS FROM GENERAL PACIFIC, OF
PORTLAND, OR
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2005-64 on April 6, 2005,
standardizing the use of solid-state meters for residential and small commercial
customers with Itron; and
WHEREAS, the Electric Utility Department (EUD) has been installing automated
meter reading (AMR) Itron solid-state electric meters equipped with encoder receiver
transmitters (ERT) since 2006 as part of an AMR meter project; and
WHEREAS, EUD is nearing completion of the residential installation of ERT -
equipped solid-state meters and is beginning commercial installation; and
WHEREAS, six hundred meters have been budgeted in fiscal year 2011 for
phase one of this project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Lodi City Council does hereby
approve the purchase of 600 Itron ERT -equipped solid-state meters from General
Pacific, of Portland, OR, in an amount not to exceed $295,000.
Dated: November 23, 2010
hereby certify that Resolution No. 2010-203 was passed and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Lodi in a special meeting held November 23, 2010, by the
following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Hansen, Johnson, Mounce, and
Mayor Katzakian
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Hitchcock
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
2010-203