Minutes; Evansville Energy Independence Team: August 2009

Evansville Energy Independence Team

Regular Meeting
Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 7:00 a.m.
City Hall, 3rd floor, 31 S. Madison Street, Evansville, WI

MINUTES


1. Call to order. The meeting was called to order at 7:04 am by Mayor Sandy Decker.

2. Roll call. Heidi Carvin, Sandy Decker, Scott George, Fred Juergens, John Morning, Alicia Rankin, John Rasmussen, Jodi Sam, and Kendall Wethal. Absent: Dane Albright, Butch Beedle, Steve Carlson, Georgia Duerst-Lahti, Janis Ringhand, and Dave Wartenweiler.

3. Motion to waive the reading of the minutes of the July 7, 2009 regular meeting and to approve them as presented. Approved.

4. Energy updates

a. Submission of U.S. EPA grant application for Climate Showcase Communities program for 100kW wind turbine at WWTP site. The WWTP project is projected to cost $660,000 and we have requested $440,000 from stimulus funds. The pilot communities were encouraged to submit applications for this grant.
b. Update on DNR Clean Water Fund stimulus monies for WWTP upgrade. Evansville received $4 million in stimulus money for the WWTP upgrade.
c. Review LED street light plan for possible Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant application. LED Block Grant Application $220,000 per community, but unsure if a match is going to be required by the communities receiving funds.
d. Update on APPA Community Connections Conference. WPPI has given the City of Evansville the grant funds to be able to send Mayor Decker to Colorado to speak about our energy fair at their conference in October.

5. Request made for detail of total energy savings for WWTP upgrade (does it include new pumps for lifts stations?). It was requested that Dave Sauer provide us with the savings numbers to report. We will hopefully have solid numbers by our next meeting.

6. Further refinement of priority list. We reduced our priorities list to five:

a. WWTP
b. Street light upgrades
c. Pumps at the lift stations
d. Public Works building improvements
e. Vehicles – flexible fuel standards on police vehicles now

7. Next steps. We need to obtain the police building numbers and the WWTP numbers.

8. Adjourn. 7:50 am

Next meeting: September 1, 2009 at 7:00 a.m., City Hall.