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Special Meeting
May 27, 2015
The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on this date in the Council
Chambers at 6:37 P.M.
Present: Berman arrived at 7:12 P.M., Burt, DuBois arrived at 8:17 P.M.,
Filseth, Holman, Scharff arrived at 7:57 P.M., Schmid, Wolbach
Absent: Kniss
Palo Alto Youth Council:
Present: Aspegren, Cheng, Chiu, Hristov, Ji, Kemp, Ben Owens, Bryant
Owens, Pujji, Saini, Sales, Sharma, Xie, Yu, Bahl, Keyani,
Olmstead, Phan, Wang
Absent: Krawczyk
Public Art Commission:
Present: Beard Ross, Gordon, Migdal, Miyaji, Taylor, Zelkha
Absent: Olmsted Silverstein
Study Session
1. Joint Study Session with the Palo Alto Youth Council.
2. Joint Study Session with the Public Art Commission.
Special Orders of the Day
3. Appointment of Candidates to the Human Relations Commission.
First Round of voting for three positions on the Human Relations Commission
with terms ending April 30, 2018:
Voting For Theresa Chen: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Holman, Scharff,
Schmid, Wolbach
Voting For Anita Gat: Burt
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Voting For Shelly Gordon Gray: DuBois, Holman
Voting For Diane Morin: Berman, Scharff, Wolbach
Voting For Sea Reddy:
Voting For Valerie Stinger: Berman, Burt, Filseth, Holman, Scharff,
Schmid, Wolbach
Voting For Mark Weiss: DuBois, Schmid
Beth Minor, City Clerk announced that Theresa Chen with seven votes and
Valerie Stinger with seven votes have both been appointed to the Human
Relations Commission.
Second Round of voting for one position on the Human Relations
Commission with a term ending April 30, 2018:
Council Member Filseth abstained.
Voting For Shelly Gordon Gray: Burt, DuBois, Holman, Schmid
Voting For Diane Morin: Berman, Scharff, Wolbach
Ms. Minor advised that no candidate received the required five votes.
Third Round of voting for one position on the Human Relations Commission
with a term ending April 30, 2018:
Council Member Filseth abstained.
Voting For Shelly Gordon Gray: Burt, DuBois, Holman, Schmid, Wolbach
Voting For Diane Morin: Berman, Scharff
Ms. Minor announced that Shelley Gordon Gray with five votes has been
appointed to the Human Relations Commission.
Action Items
4. Resolution 9512 Entitled, “Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo
Alto for the Finance Committee Recommendation that Council: (1) Add
a 25-Year Contract Term Option in Addition to the Palo Alto Clean
Local Energy Accessible Now (CLEAN) Program’s Existing 20-Year
Contract Term Option; (2) Continue the CLEAN Program for Solar
Resources at a Contract Price Reduced from 16.5¢/kWh to the Avoided
Cost of the Solar Energy Generated (10.3 ¢/kWh to 10.4 ¢/kWh) with
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a Program Cap of 3 Megawatts; and (3) Expand the CLEAN Program's
Eligibility to Non-Solar Renewable Energy Resources with a Program
Cap of 3 Megawatts at a Contract Price Equal to the Avoided Cost of
the Non-Solar Energy Generated (9.3 ¢/kWh to 9.4 ¢/kWh)
(Continued from May 18, 2015).”
MOTION: Council Member Burt moved, seconded by Council Member
DuBois to:
A. Adopt a Resolution to make the following changes and amend the
CLEAN Program Eligibility Rules and Regulations accordingly:
i. Add a 25-Year Contract Term Option in Addition to the CLEAN
Program’s Existing 20-Year Contract Term Option; and
ii. Continue the program for solar at the cost of 16.5 ¢/kWh for 3
MW as previously approved by the Council; and
iii. Expand the CLEAN Program to allow non-solar eligible renewable energy resources to participate, and offer such resources as
contract price equal to their avoided cost of 9.3 cents per
kilowatt-hour (¢/kWh) for a 20-year contract, and 9.4 ¢/kWh for
a 25-year contract term, with a program limit of 3 MW; and
iv. Council will review a gradual reduction in the future rates of the
CLEAN program; Staff will return to the Finance Committee with
a recommended, graduated rate reduction plan for subsequent
tranches; and
B. To direct lease income on City owned garages from the CLEAN
program to Utilities to offset costs of the program to electric rate
payers.
AMENDMENT: Council Member Scharff moved, seconded by Vice Mayor
Schmid to replace in the Motion Part A Subsections (ii) and (iii), “3 MW” with
“2 MW.”
AMENDMENT FAILED: 4-4 Filseth, Holman, Scharff, Schmid yes, Kniss
absent
MOTION PASSED: 6-2 Filseth, Scharff no, Kniss absent
MOTION: Council Member Burt moved, seconded by Council Member
Wolbach to approve the amended CLEAN Program Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to implement the recommended changes to the CLEAN
Program and delegate authority to the City Manager to make any such
additional changes as are approved by the City Attorney’s Office, and are
otherwise necessary to implement any of the recommended changes
identified in this Staff Report that are approved by Council or are otherwise necessary to implement Council’s action on this item.
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MOTION PASSED: 8-0 Kniss absent
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 10:48 P.M.