HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 09/06/2011 - RESOLUTION 2011-083 REPLACING THE CITY'S APPOINTEDDATE: September 6, 2011
STAFF: Darin Atteberry
Brian Janonis
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL 36
SUBJECT
Resolution 2011-083 Replacing the City’s Appointed Director on the Platte River Power Authority Board of Directors.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Platte River Power Authority (PRPA) was established by the cities of Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont and Estes Park
to be their wholesale power provider. The contract establishing PRPA requires each municipality to have two members
on the board of directors of PRPA. One is the mayor, and the other is appointed by City Council.
This Resolution replaces the Utilities Executive Director with a member of the City Council.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
Platte River Power Authority (PRPA) was established by the cities of Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont and Estes Park
to be their wholesale power provider. The contract establishing PRPA requires each municipality to have two members
on the board of directors of PRPA. One is the Mayor, and the other is appointed by City Council.
Historically, the Council-appointed Board member has been the Director of Utilities. The Director of Utilities reports
to and receives direction from the City Manager. As the policy making body for the City, City Council believes that its
appointed member of the Board should be a member of the City Council.
This Resolution removes the Utilities Executive Director, Brian Janonis, and fills that vacancy with a member of the
City Council.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution.
RESOLUTION 2011-083
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
REPLACING THE CITY’S APPOINTED DIRECTOR ON THE
PLATTE RIVER POWER AUTHORITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
WHEREAS, the City is one of four municipalities that established the Platte River Power
Authority (“PRPA”) in 1975 to generate and transmit electric energy to the four member
municipalities; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of an Organic Contract establishing PRPA, each member
municipality is represented by two members on the board of directors of PRPA (the “Board”); and
WHEREAS, one of the two members on the Board is the Mayor of each member
municipality or the Mayor’s designee, and the other is a City Council appointee who has judgment,
experience, and expertise which make that person particularly qualified to serve as a director of an
electric utility; and
WHEREAS, on October 21, 2008, the City Council adopted Resolution 2008-103,
appointing Utilities Executive Director Brian Janonis as the City’s appointed representative for a
term to expire on December 31, 2012; and
WHEREAS, the Organic Contract states that “any director appointed by the governing board
of a municipality may be removed at any time by such governing board, with or without cause”; and
WHEREAS, the City Council believes that its appointed member of the Board should be a
member of the City Council.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that Utilities Executive Director Brian Janonis is hereby removed as the City’s appointed
representative to the Board, without cause, and that ___________________________ is hereby
appointed to fill the vacancy created by such removal and to serve as the City’s appointed
representative on the Board for the remainder of the term that expires on December 31, 2012, or
until such appointment is changed by the City Council, whichever first occurs.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Fort Collins this 6th
day of September A.D. 2011.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk