City Commission Meeting Summary - February 20, 2008
The City Commission met in regular target issue workshop session and took the following action (with Commissioners Lightsey and Mustian absent):
Item 1 - Received a Power Point presentation by Energy Services Director David Byrne, on a proposed Five-Year Demand-Side Management (DSM) Plan, developed with the aide of Navigant Consulting to achieve electric energy and demand reductions that were determined to be the least-cost way of providing electric service to Tallahassee Electric Utility customers, and designed to reduce customers' demand for energy and achieve a reduction of 59 MW of peak demand and 146,000 MW of annual energy by the year 2012.
Discussed various aspects of the plan and the potential for creating a green economy requiring new job skills that could have a positive impact on all segments of the community, encouraged the development of DSM customer choices with price sets, and provided the following suggestions:
- investigate creating a series of property tax rebates as incentives for the owners of green rental housing for low income individuals
- keep the Commissioners apprised on the City's consistency with State energy policies
- present the DSM Plan to the community in a variety of forms
- designate someone to help coordinate the DSM Plan and utilization of all City resources
- develop a process for measuring and evaluating progress achieved with the DSM Plan
- measure the community's carbon footprint and research how it compared with other cities
- move towards regulations that promote a green community
Voted 3-0 (Commissioners Lightsey and Mustian absent) to approve the DSM Plan as presented (Option 1 as recommended by Energy Services)
Mr. Steve Hastie, of Navigant Consulting, appeared before the Commission relative to this item.
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