HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - December 19, 2001 E-14cq �vCITY OF LODD17: COUNCIL COMMUNICATION
AGENDA TITLE: Adopt resolution authorizing the City Manager to appropriate Public Benefit Program funds to
extend the Lodi Small Business Energy Services Partnership ($25,000) (EUD)
MEETING DATE: December 19, 2001
PREPARED BY: Electric Utility Director
RECOMMENDED ACTION: That the City Council adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to appropriate
Public Benefit Program funds to extend the Lodi Small Business Energy Services
Partnership ($25,000).
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: In early 1999, the City of Lodi Electric Utility launched the Lodi Small
Business Energy Services Partnership, funded from the Public Benefits Program. This effort was designed to provide
direct energy conservation grants to small business customers (those customers on the commercial G-1 electric utility
rate). To date, 340 customers have participated in the program, installing such energy conservation measures as
additional attic insulation, weather-stripping, window tinting, high efficiency air conditioning systems, and ceiling fans.
By way of this resolution, the Electric Utility is recommending that the Lodi Small Business Energy Services
Partnership be extended, and continue until designated funds are exhausted. Specifically, this energy services
partnership will provide the following:
➢ dollar -for -dollar incentive rebates to G-1 commercial customers in the amount of $350; one grant per twelve
month period per customer service address; and
➢ energy efficiency improvements include: window tinting, ceiling fans, attic ventilators, high efficiency lighting
and related controls, weather-stripping, awning covers, shade screens, attic insulation, and
HVAC/refrigeration service and diagnostic inspections; and
➢ special projects- a 20 percent rebate will be made available to those small commercial customers that install
high efficiency central air conditioning systems (contingent upon the customer removing an aging or
inefficient system).
Depending upon the type or nature of energy efficiency improvement selected by the customer, energy costs can be
reduced from 5 percent to 25 percent on a monthly basis.
FUNDING: 164605 — Public Benefits Program (Category: Demand-side Management)
Funding Available: %j.i dA2 ,.. (1A `U r),,
Vicky McAthie, Finance Director
Alan N. Vallow,
Electric Utility Director
PREPARED BY: Rob Lechner, Manager of Customer Programs
ANV/RUlst
C: City Attorney
APPROVED:
H. Dix n Flynn - alriy Manager
RESOLUTION NO. 2001-293
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZNIG THE
CITY MANAGER TO APPROPRIATE PUBLIC BENEFITS PROGRAM
FUNDS TO EXTEND THE LODI SMALL BUSINESS ENERGY
SERVICES PARTNERSHIP IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,000
WHEREAS, the state has mandated that beginning January 1, 1998, the City of Lodi is
obligated to fund various programs through a Public Benefits Charge (PBC) based on a
historical electric revenue requirement; and
WHEREAS, the requirement amounts to approximately $1M per year that must be
dedicated to qualifying programs such as energy efficiency. A further stipulation is that these
efforts must be done on the customer's side of the meter in order to qualify; and
WHEREAS, the City of Lodi's Public Benefits Program is comprised of four segments
or customer groups: commercial/industrial, residential, community/non-profit, and municipal;
and
WHEREAS, in May 1999, the City Council approved the City of Lodi Small Business
Energy Services Partnership, which provides direct energy conservation grants to small
business customers on the commercial G-1 electric utility rate. To date, 340 customers have
participated in the program, installing such energy conservation measures as additional attic
insulation, weather stripping, window -tinting, high efficiency air conditioning systems, and
ceiling fans; and
WHEREAS, the Electric Utility Department recommends extending the Lodi Small
Business Energy Services Partnership grant and continuing until designated funds are
exhausted. The energy services partnership will provide the following:
➢ dollar -for -dollar incentive rebates to G-1 commercial customers in the amount of
$350; one grant per twelve month period per customer service address; and
energy efficiency improvements include: window tinting, ceiling fans, attic
ventilators, high efficiency lighting and related controls, weather-stripping,
awning covers, shade screens, attic insulation, and HVAC/refrigeration service
and diagnostic inspections; and
➢ special projects — a 20 percent rebate will be made available to those small
commercial customers that install high efficiency central air conditioning systems
(contingent upon the customer removing an aging or inefficient system).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Lodi City Council hereby authorizes
the City Manager to appropriate Public Benefits Program funds to extend the Lodi Small
Business Energy Services Partnership Grant in the amount of $25,000.
Dated: December 19, 2001
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I hereby certify that Resolution No. 2001-293 was passed and adopted by the Lodi City
Council in a regular meeting held December 19, 2001 by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Hitchcock, Howard, Land, Nakanishi,
and Mayor Pennino
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
SUSAN J. BLACKSTON
City Clerk
2001-293