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HomeMy WebLinkAbout6 Conservation committee Agenda Item # 6 .4� TRUCKEE DONNER Public Utility District ACTION To: Board of Directors From: Doug Grandy Date: August 20, 2008 Subject: Receive the Conservation Committee Report 1. WHY THIS MATTER IS BEFORE THE BOARD The Board requested that the Conservation Committee develop a Water and Power Conservation Plan. The Committee has completed the task and tonight presents their final product for the Board to receive. 2. HISTORY The Board appointed the Committee in June of 2007 to produce a Water and Power Conservation Plan. The Committee worked for over a year to produce the Water and Power Conservation Plan. 3. NEW INFORMATION The work of the Committee has reached its conclusion, and is now ready to be formally presented to the Board. The action item is not to Approve or Disapprove the Plan, but rather to accept the finished Committee product for further review. 4. FISCAL IMPACT There is no fiscal impact on this matter. 5. RECOMMENDATION Receive the report and provide comments. Michael D. Holley General Manager TDPUD Conservation Committee 6:00- 9:OOpm, Tuesday July 1,2008 TDPUD Conference Room 11570 Donner Pass Rd. I. Call to Order Doug Grandy calls meeting to order at 6:07pm. II. Roll Call Doug Grandy, Steven Poncelet, Gerald Herrick, Ronnie Colby, John Hillstrom, Anna Demm, Rolf Godon, and Betony Jones. III. Approval of minutes from June 19, 2008 meeting Motion by Gerald, second by Ronnie, minutes pass unanimously. IV. Public Input There was no member of the general public present. This time slot was used to introduce Steven Poncelet to the Committee. Steven gave an overview of his view of the job from this point forward, and how it related to the work of the Committee. His comments were well received by the Committee. At this point Steven excused himself, as one of his roles will be to critique the Plan for the benefit of the Board, and he felt it would be more objective if he did not participate in edits and revisions, which will the substance of most of the rest of the meeting. There was a motion, second, and unanimous agreement to send flowers to Director Sutton, recovering in Renown Hospital. The hat was passed, and Doug accepted responsibility to get it done. V. Draft Energy and Water Conservation Plan—Final edits on whole plan. The latest version 4.4 was discussed. Various minor edits and clarifications were discussed and agreed upon. Of greatest significance was the discussion about the cost per kWh of the 2007 and 2008 programs, in Chapter 8. The next revision will have new language to clarify the point about the cost of energy versus the cost of capacity. On the acknowledgements page, the Committee agreed to change the language before the Committee's own names to indicate that they wrote this Plan and approved it, as opposed to the existing language thanking ourselves. The discussion went further to establish that all the people listed would be asked to affirmatively indicate their approval of the Plan, which will be done via e-mail. VI. Post-Committee festivities The schedule for the remainder of the Committee's work will be as follows: July 15th: last meeting to work on the Plan; and August 201h, presentation of the Plan to the Board. After that, barring any changes, the Committee will dissolve. There was a discussion about the possibility of a dinner meeting of all Committee members after Aug 20 to commemorate. No date was set,but the idea met with general acceptance. VII. Adjournment Adjournment was at 9:00 p.m.