AN ORDINANCE related to the City Light Department; authorizing and directing the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of City Light to execute an Interlocal Agreement with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians.
Agenda item 27 Council vote 118880 0 million two. Satellite Department Authorizing and directing. The General Manager and chief executive officer of satellite to execute a interlocal agreement with Kalispell Tribe of Indians. The committee recommends the bill pass. Councilmember worries the Council bill authorizes the Interlocal agreement between City Light and the Kalispell tribe. The tribe is adjacent to an overlap in the Boundary Project, which generates a large portion of electricity. City Lights Sells. This is an innovative aspect to this agreement that I want to highlight for the council I'm channeling. So on here and me, the Kalispell Career Train Center, owned and operated by the tribe, was developed to train members of the tribe in the community, in the fields of mental, mental metal fabrication, welding, carpentry, computer design, production in line assembly, shipping and receiving marketing, job readiness, safety and work ethics. It's basically a workforce center since the Kalispell Career Training Center benefits Seattle City Light in the form of creating skilled, diverse and stable workforce, City Light will continue to pay towards its continued development and the tribal workforce development. Through this program. The City Committee recommends passage or yea passage of this bill. Thank you very much. Are there any further comments? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Suarez O'Brian. Bagshaw Burgess. Gonzalez High Johnson President Harrell High seven in favor not opposed the. Bill passed and chair of the Senate please read agenda items 28 through 31. Agenda Items 28 through 31 appointments of 550 through 533 Appointment of Thomas Buchanan as members. City Light Review Panel for Term two September three, 2018. An appointment of Leon Garnett as members City Review Panel for Term two April 11th, 2018. The committee recommends these appointments be confirmed and appointment of Patrick Linsky as member Seattle City Light Review Panel for Term two September 30th, 2019. The committee recommends this appointment be confirmed with the Divided report, with Councilmembers Juarez and Gonzalez in favor and councilmember somewhat opposed and appointment of John Putz as members of El Satellite Review Panel for Term two September 30th, 2019. The committee recommends this appointment be confirmed. Thank you, Councilmember Suarez. This item in the next three or appointments to the City Light Review Panel. The Review Panel is a volunteer position that reviews City Light, strategic plan, policies and finances. All its members are extremely hardworking, and we appreciate all of their willingness to serve. Each position on the review panel is reserved for different city light interests. Tom Buchanan is nominated to fill the review panel position reserved for residential customers being besides being a residential customer, he's an environmental activist with Physicians for Social Responsibility, who is engaged with Energy, Environment Committee and City Light in the past. The committee recommends confirmation of this appointment. Would you like to read them all? Yeah. Please. Is are any of the people here today? Nope. Okay. Okay. Second is Leon Garnett. Leon Garnett is nominated to fill the review panel position reserved for low income customers representatives. He is the chief operations officer for Center Stone, which provides services and advocacy to low income City Light customers, including with their low income Home Energy Assistance Program. The committee recommends the appointment number 30. Patrick Tobolowsky. Patrick Grabowski is nominated to fill the review panel position reserved for industrial customer representatives. He's a representative of Nucor Steel, which is one of Citylights largest customers and was recommended to this position by the Manufacturing Industrial Council. Again, the committee recommends council confirmed his appointment and last is item number 31. Mr. John Putz. John Putz is nominated to fill the At-Large review panel position. He's from D5. Just want to add that which is not reserved for any interest. He's a research scientist for the Energy Authority and has extensive experience with energy trading markets. The committee recommends council confirmed this appointment and I would like to reiterate that the Energy and Environment Committee appreciates all the members of the City Light Review panel and all the time they volunteer on behalf of City Light customers. That's all. Thank you. Are there any further comments? Councilmember Burgess. I have a question. I note here that there was a no vote on Patrick Tobolowsky. Correct. Was there is a specific reason or issue there? Excuse me. Well, Councilmember Sawant had some issues with Mr. Taberski as well as Mr. Purton, I believe, but on the no vote. I don't know what to share. Except that she. Just opposed his appointment. Did did she in committee, did she articulate what the objection was? Do you remember? She she did articulate what her opposition was in the course of our Energy and Environment Committee. She took issue with Mr. Dombroski environmental record and commitment to the City Lights Department, the city lights, ongoing commitment to climate change efforts based on some information that she found in his background. It's related to an affiliation with a organization whose name escapes me at the moment. But she had she had concerns about his environmental record and in the context of an organizational affiliation and made note of those remarks, made note of of her objections during the course of the committee. But we should add that Nucor, in the chair of the Manufacturer Industrial Council, sent you, Councilmember Bridges in December of 2015, a lengthy letter recommending him in highlighted all his achievements, which I read into the record. Thank you very much. Thank you. We also received a letter from another organization that is I think it's Puget Sound Keepers that sent in a letter of recommendation and endorsement of Mr. Trump, Alaska's nomination to the city review panel as well. Is there anything else, Mr. Burgess? No, thank you. You answered my question. Actually, Councilmember Gonzalez. Yeah, I know that. Thank you, everybody. I've got a real good. I'm younger. Wow. Thank you, Councilmember Gonzalez. Yeah, we do. Confirmed the appointments are not confirm. I did want to just give some context on this particular review panel because some of us were instrumental in setting it up. I think it's critically important that this panel. They are. First of all, we don't we we want diversity of opinion. We want diversity of values. We want those who are advocating for low income customers, high usage customers, environmental advocates, etc.. It's not necessary to have an identical view from every person on the committee. In fact, that sort of defeats the purpose. But most importantly, they should have access to the same information that we have relative to costing and pricing and policies. Because one of the biggest complaints of the customer base, whether it was small, medium or large, was that we weren't sharing the information. We were making costing and pricing decisions and rate decisions sort of in a vacuum. So this review panel becomes critically important because a lot of the organizations they represent and the constituents they serve, they're very livelihood depends on us having a very smart and effective utility. And so I'm glad to see these appointments made. To be candid, these were overdue. We do not want empty seats on this critical panel. So I'm very pleased to see that the committee stepped up and got some folks here that seem to be of high caliber on this review panel. But I do not think this a panel we want to treat lightly at all. I would just add, Councilmember our president, Harold, that all four gentlemen appeared in their confirmation packets were quite complete and very impressive. So and again, it's a volunteer, as you know, because you created it. It's a volunteer panel. And all of these gentlemen are quite, you know, educated in their field. And so we're lucky to have them. Okay. Any further comments? Those in favor of confirming the appointments vote i. I those opposed vote no. The motion carries and the appointments are confirmed. Please read the report of the Sustainability and Transportation Committee. The short titles. Please report to the Sustainability and Transportation Committee. Agenda 32 Constable 1188 780 relating to the Seattle Department of Transportation, the committee recommends to pass.