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File #: 1143-2025    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 4/22/2025 In control: Public Utilities & Sustainability Committee
On agenda: 6/2/2025 Final action: 6/4/2025
Title: To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to accept the 2024 EcoSmart Choice Sustainability Grant Award in the amount of $109,891.22 for the Division of Power; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $109,891.22 from the Electricity Grants Fund to support the City’s streetlight conversions; to authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate current and pending Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements, and to authorize the City Auditor to transfer $50,366.00 within the Electricity Grants Fund and $50,366.00 from the Electricity Grants Fund to the Electricity Operating Fund. ($160,257.22)
Attachments: 1. ORD 1143-2025 EcoSmart Choice Sustainability Grant Letter, 2. ORD 1143-2025 EcoSmart Choice Sustainability Grants application approval, 3. ORD 1143-2025 EcoSmart Choice Sustainability Grants application, 4. ORD 1143-2025 EcoSmart Choice Sustainability Grants application approval_2019 award, 5. ORD 1143-2025 Financial Coding - 2024 EcoSmart Choice Grant Award, 6. SOS - American Municipal Power.pdf
Explanation

This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to accept the award for the 2024 EcoSmart Choice Sustainability Grant, G602100, in the amount of $109,891.22 from American Municipal Power, Inc. (AMP), and it authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of the 2024 grant award to accelerate the City’s conversion from high-pressure sodium lights to light-emitting diode (LED) fixtures. The ordinance also authorizes the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the following current and pending Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements listed below for the Division of Power, and lastly, it authorizes the City Auditor to transfer funds in the amount of the 2018 EcoSmart Choice Sustainability Grant from the Electricity Grants Fund to the Electricity Operating Fund. The transfer is necessary because the approved expenditure for the 2019 EcoSmart Choice Sustainability Grant used operating funds and the Electricity Grant Fund maintains the cash from that award.

UNIVERSAL TERM CONTRACT PURCHASE AGREEMENTS:
Lamps (Line #10)
Street Lights (Line #10)

VENDORS:
Crescent Electric Supply Company, vendor #012052, cc exp 3/14/27 majority
Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc., vendor #010270, cc exp 5/4/25, majority
The Loeb Electric Company, vendor #006028, cc exp 8/1/26, majority
PEPCO, vendor #006514, cc exp 2/15/26, majority
W. W. Grainger, Inc., vendor #007170, cc exp 1/17/26, majority

The companies are not debarred according to the Excluded Party Listing System of the Federal Government or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State Unresolved Findings for Recovery Certified Search.

The EcoSmart Choice Sustainability Grant program was instituted by AMP to return unused funds to participating members, recognizing EcoSmart Choice participating communities that demonstrate a commitment to sustainability through the promotion of environmenta...

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