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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - SUMMARY AGENDA - 03/09/2021 - WORK SESSION City of Fort Collins Page 1 Wade Troxell, Mayor City Council Chambers Ross Cunniff, District 5, Mayor Pro Tem City Hall West Susan Gutowsky, District 1 300 LaPorte Avenue Julie Pignataro, District 2 Fort Collins, Colorado Ken Summers, District 3 Cablecast on FCTV Melanie Potyondy, District 4 Channel 14 on Connexion Emily Gorgol, District 6 Channel 14 and 881 on Comcast Carrie Daggett Darin Atteberry Delynn Coldiron City Attorney City Manager City Clerk Upon request, the City of Fort Collins will provide language access services for individuals who have limited English proficiency, or auxiliary aids and services for individuals with disabilities, to access City services, programs and activities. Contact 221-6515 (V/TDD: Dial 711 for Relay Colorado) for assistance. Please provide 48 hours advance notice when possible. A petición, la Ciudad de Fort Collins proporcionará servicios de acceso a idiomas para personas que no dominan el idioma inglés, o ayudas y servicios auxiliares para personas con discapacidad, para que puedan acceder a los servicios, programas y actividades de la Ciudad. Para asistencia, llame al 221-6515 (V/TDD: Marque 711 para Relay Colorado). Por favor proporcione 48 horas de aviso previo cuando sea posible. City Council Work Session March 9, 2021 6:00 PM  CALL TO ORDER. 1. Residential Time-of-Day Review and Potential Next Steps. (staff: Lance Smith, Gretchen Stanford; 15 minute presentation; 30 minute discussion) The purpose of this item is to review the residential Time-of-Use rate structures and to discuss what Council may want to either change or study further. In October 2018, all residential electric customers were transitioned to a Time-of-Day (TOD) rate structure after an extensive pilot study. The pilot study indicated that residential customers were expected to reduce their energy consumption as well as their contribution to the coincident peak and in doing so realize some reduction in their electric bill relative to the previous three-tiered rate structure. After the first year of the TOD rates being in place for all residential customers, a review was done to ensure that the expected benefits seen in the pilot study were still being realized. This was confirmed and presented to the City Council at the February 11, 2020 Council Work Session. The second year of the TOD rate structure saw a significant load shift from commercial, and to a lesser degree industrial consumption, to the residential rate class due to COVID-19, and the associated economic slowdown, making it very difficult to assess the impact of the rate structure on customers in 2020. Higher summer temperatures and smoke from the Cameron Peak Fire also contributed to the complexity. City of Fort Collins Page 2 While the challenges of 2020 make it difficult to analyze the results in the second year, there is an opportunity to consider if any adjustments may be appropriate. A subsidy within the TOD with a tier rate, which applies to 90% of residential customers, has created an unintended price differential between the two residential rate classes. This adversely impacts the portion of the 10% of residential customers in all-electric residences primarily in manufactured park and multifamily housing and use much less energy than all-electric customers in single family housing. With all residential customers already being billed on a TOD rate, and large commercial and industrial customers already being billed on a time-based rate, which includes a coincident peak demand charge, only small commercial customers remain on a rate which does not reflect the time varying cost of generation and transmission. 2. East Mulberry Planning. (staff: Caryn Champine, Travis Storin, Silvia Tatman-Burruss; 15 minute presentation; 45 minute discussion) The purpose of this item is to provide Council with an overview of the process to update the community’s vision for the future of the East Mulberry area. Staff will share a public engagement plan and the steps to update the area’s long-range plan in 2021. Project outcomes also include a fiscal impact analysis that will inform the Plan’s recommendations and provide options for a potential, multi- phased annexation for those portions of the area presently in the County’s jurisdiction. 3. E-Scooter Share Program Review & Future E-Scooter/Bike Share Program Proposal. (staff: Amanda Mansfield; 15 minute presentation; 15 minute discussion) The purpose of this work session item is to inform City Council on the electric scooter (e-scooter) share pilot program and upcoming changes to both e-scooter share and bike share programs moving forward. Due to impacts from COVID-19 related shutdowns, the City and CSU extended the e-scooter share pilot program through March 31, 2021 for the purpose of gathering additional data and to allow the system to mature. The City in partnership with CSU selected Spin as its vendor in February 2021 to manage a combined e-bike share/e-scooter share program. In addition to presenting on key takeaways from the previous e-scooter share program and focus areas of the upcoming e-scooter share/bike share program, City staff will be seeking Council input on select focus areas of the upcoming program.  ANNOUNCEMENTS.  ADJOURNMENT.