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Resolution to Approve Contract with the Clean Energy Coalition for Community Climate and Energy Programs ($85,000.00)
Memorandum
Beginning with the City's first Energy Plan in 1981, the City of Ann Arbor has made major strides over the last thirty years to advance energy efficiency and related issues. More recently, the emergence of climate change as a generational issue of international importance and urgency has placed further attention on the need to advance energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy sources while also recognizing the inherent economic development value of the many approaches available to communities to address these matters. Many of these approaches have been included among the strategies in the Ann Arbor Climate Action Plan (CAP).
City Council recognized the importance and the opportunity for greater community-scale energy efficiency and climate readiness action through its support of the CAP in Resolution R-12-572 approved on December 17, 2012. The attached resolution authorizes consultant support to continue progress on projects that were initiated with the support of federal funds that have since expired, as well as on other emerging initiatives that will keep the City of Ann Arbor at the forefront of innovation in sustainability at the municipal and community levels. Among the activities included in this work are: the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program and other revolving loan and incentive programs that double as economic development strategies; community solar initiatives; community engagement with and by the Ann Arbor Climate Partnership (www.a2energy.org/climate) to involve the public and promote efforts with a common brand; energy benchmarking for buildings; and, other activities included in the Climate Action Plan. Greenhouse gas (GHG) savings estimates will also be included across all activities to measure progress towards CAP reduction targets.
The work performed under this contrac...
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