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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - SUMMARY AGENDA - 10/11/2011 - SUMMARY AGENDA (ADJOURNED MEETING)CITY COUNCIL AGENDA Karen Weitkunat, Mayor Council Chambers Kelly Ohlson, District 5, Mayor Pro Tem City Hall West Ben Manvel, District 1 300 LaPorte Avenue Lisa Poppaw, District 2 Fort Collins, Colorado Aislinn Kottwitz, District 3 Wade Troxell, District 4 Cablecast on City Cable Channel 14 Gerry Horak, District 6 on the Comcast cable system Darin Atteberry, City Manager Steve Roy, City Attorney Wanda Krajicek, City Clerk The City of Fort Collins will make reasonable accommodations for access to City services, programs, and activities and will make special communication arrangements for persons with disabilities. Please call 221-6515 (TDD 224- 6001) for assistance. ADJOURNED MEETING October 11, 2011 6 p.m. 1. Call Meeting to Order. 2. Roll Call. 3. Executive Session Authorized. The meeting of October 4, 2011, was adjourned to this date and time to allow the Council to consider adjourning into Executive Session for the purpose of meeting with the City Attorney regarding legal issues, as permitted under Section 2-31(a)(2) of the City Code. 4. Pineridge Natural Area Transmission Line Construction Alternatives Study. (staff: Steve Catanach, John Stokes, Ginger Purvis; 1 hour discussion) Staff will be presenting a draft study which examines alternative construction methodologies. The study examines the environmental, economic, aesthetic, reliability and schedule impacts of the potential alternatives. Staff is seeking Council direction on what alternative, if any, it wishes to pursue. Key to the discussion of potential alternatives is Western Area Power Administration’s (Western) adamant position denying consideration of undergrounding its existing and future transmission facilities. Western has also indicated that, within a decade, it plans to upgrade the overhead transmission line crossing Pineridge Natural Area. This position significantly limits options available to address view shed impacts. An underground option is examined and the probable Western line across Pineridge is illustrated, but ultimately due to Western’s position, the majority of options examined are related to alternate overhead construction methods. Options examined include: • Relocate the proposed line to one of three alternate routes in order to lessen visual impacts. • Change the appearance of the proposed line through the use of either galvanized (silver) or other color treatment. • In place of the proposed tall single poles, use shorter double pole construction similar to the existing line. • Decrease the number of poles in the Pineridge area by extending the distance between poles. This will require taller poles. • Rather than building a double circuit line, upgrade just the existing. This would require additional substation equipment. • Underground the new line and leave the existing Western line in place. In addition to the transmission line alternatives, staff and SAIC have also prepared a report that examines potentially available Distributed Generation (DG) technologies that might be available. While City staff recognizes an immediate need to provide additional electric requirements to the Loveland and south Fort Collins areas, integration of DG technologies are also being studied to augment our future electrical demand. Fort Collins cannot dictate what the City of Loveland does and does not do on its system; however the hope is that the information will be of value as the City looks at the integration of DG on its systems. 5. Other Business. 6. Adjournment. Karen Weitkunat, Mayor Council Information Center Kelly Ohlson, District 5, Mayor Pro Tem City Hall West Ben Manvel, District 1 300 LaPorte Avenue Lisa Poppaw, District 2 Fort Collins, Colorado Aislinn Kottwitz, District 3 Wade Troxell, District 4 Cablecast on City Cable Channel 14 Gerry Horak, District 6 on the Comcast cable system Darin Atteberry, City Manager Steve Roy, City Attorney Wanda Krajicek, City Clerk The City of Fort Collins will make reasonable accommodations for access to City services, programs, and activities and will make special communication arrangements for persons with disabilities. Please call 221-6515 (TDD 224- 6001) for assistance. WORK SESSION October 11, 2011 after the Adjourned Meeting 1. Call Meeting to Order. 2. Residential Electric Rate Options, Efficiency and Conservation. (staff: Brian Janonis, Patty Bigner, John Phelan, Laurie D’Audney, Bill Switzer, Steve Catanach; 90 minute discussion) In two previous City Council work sessions, May 10 and September 13, 2011, staff presented electric rate design principles, four residential rate options, a change to the residential demand rate and a pilot Time of Use rate for electric vehicles. At the September 13 Work Session, Council also discussed a change to the General Service (GS) or commercial rate proposed by staff that will result in two rate classes, a GS (up to 25 kW) and GS 25 (25 – 50 kW). The September 13 Work Session resulted in two areas of follow-up: (1) further review of the four residential electric rate options with answers to five specific questions as noted in the work session summary; and (2) scheduling of a work session discussion on energy efficiency and water conservation. Staff and SAIC consultant Joe Mancinelli will provide additional information to answer questions from Council regarding the four residential energy rate options. Also, for this follow-up work session, staff will present a review of the City’s efficiency and conservation programs. Ordinances for General Service (GS or commercial) rate changes and the Residential Demand (RD) rate will be considered on October 18, 2011 and November 1, 2011. These Ordinances do not include proposed changes to the Residential (R) energy rate. Public outreach for these draft ordinances began on September 29 with a post card mailed to out-of-city limits customers and a public notice published in the Coloradoan on October 2, 2011. Once the Ordinances are adopted, additional public outreach will take place, beginning with a bill insert mailed throughout late November and December. Feedback from this work session will be used in drafting rate ordinances for public comment and Council consideration and implementation early in 2012. The tentative schedule for implementing changes to the Residential (R) rate include beginning public notification on November 6, followed by First Reading of the Residential rate Ordinance on November 15 and Second Reading on December 6, 2011. If this tentative schedule is finalized, the rate change will be effective February 1, 2012. Public outreach will begin January 1, 2012. Additional outreach will occur throughout the spring and early summer as needed to support customer understanding. 3. Presentation of the City Manager's Recommended 2012 Budget Revision Requests. (staff: Darin Atteberry, Mike Beckstead; 90 minute discussion) The purpose of this work session is to review the 2012 Budget Revision Requests to be considered for inclusion in the 2012 Annual Appropriation Ordinance. The Ordinance will be considered on First Reading on October 18, 2011. 4. Other Business. 5. Adjournment.