Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or his designee, to accept a donation of 350 electric vehicle charging stations from Mercedes Benz USA; execute any and all documents necessary to effectuate the donation; and, direct staff to develop a program to distribute the charging stations free of charge, subject to review and approval by the City Attorney.  (Citywide)
Item 19 Report. From Development Services recommendation to accept a donation of 350 electric vehicle charging stations from Mercedes-Benz and direct staff to develop a program to distribute the charging stations free of charge citywide. Madam Vice Mayor, you'll see a theme here. So not only are we going to be boosting our EV requirements in the triennial building code update, but now we have the benefit of a donation by Mercedes-Benz USA of 350 high speed charging stations. If you accept this donation, we will be working with the Office of Sustainability to create a program to donate these to eligible property owners. They would be these are residential grade EV charging stations. The property owner would have to pay for the electrical permits. Some properties may require upgrades to their electrical panel because these this is to 40, not to 20 and not 110. So we would have to deal with that as well. But the value of this donation is is fairly considerable. And we do want to thank Mercedes Benz for their consideration in allowing us to to bring this opportunity to you. Great. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. Yes. I just am so thankful that Mercedes Benz has continued to be a good community partner since they've moved into the district. They are continually striving to support our neighborhoods, and I think this is just another great example of the work that they're doing. So I look forward to that. I do have a quick question. If someone wants to change their. Electrical, what would it cost of a permit of that magnitude? B It's about a seven $52,000, but it depends on whether you have to change out your electric panel as well. So if it's an older house, you might have to change out your electrical panel as well and upgrade it. Well, I think that considering what a charging station would have cost the homeowner, I still think this is a significant value. So I look forward to hearing the distribution model that will be considered. Thank you. Councilwoman Gonzales. Councilman Price. Councilmember Richardson. This is this. Is a pretty cool program, I think. I just want to say that. I. Would I would hope that when we craft the program to give them away, we do consider and I have to say this, we do consider equity. I mean, this is a huge investment. Somebody might potentially get 20 $500 charging station. So we should think about, you know, making this available to, you know, community, you know, low income communities or communities who may not be able to afford it and afford it otherwise and may consider an electric vehicle because we make this available. I don't know how we do that, but I think we should certainly explore it when we craft this program. Certainly, I think the Office of Sustainability is very good at providing resources throughout the city, so I'm sure that they're going to come up with something creative. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Richardson, for raising that. Would you like those metrics or the program design brought back to the council? Not not formally, but as you know to for from. I think we should when this happens, we should launch this thing. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So Councilman Mongo and Councilwoman Gonzalez, as part of the instruction to staff, would you be okay with asking them to outline what the lottery program. Framework is and and then have the council involved and in being supportive and active in the launch of the program. Okay. Sure. Is that fine, Ms.. Burdick? Absolutely. Thank you. Is there any member of the public that wishes to address Council on Item 19? CNN members cast your vote. Motion carries. Okay. Item 20 Report.