Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract and all necessary amendments, with Southern California Edison, to participate in the Charge Ready Program, which will provide the electric infrastructure required to install 90 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, and up to an additional 210 for a total of 300, if the Charge Ready Program is expanded and the City is awarded additional incentives; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all required documents and easements pursuant to the requirements of the Charge Ready Program with the right to quit claim; Adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and all necessary amendments, with ChargePoint, of Campbell, CA, to provide, install, and maintain up to 300 (EV) charging stations, on the same terms and conditions afforded to the City of Santa Monica, CA, in an amount not to exceed $4,200,000; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $2,622,220, offset by a $622,220 transfer of Mobile Source Air Pollutio
Next remove item 24, please excuse me. Report from Public Works, Energy Resources and my recommendation to authorize a city manager to execute a contract with Southern California Edison to participate in the Charge Ready Program. Authorize the city manager to execute all required documents and easements pursuant to the Charge Ready Program and adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a contract with Chargepoint for 300 electric vehicle charging stations in an amount not to exceed 4,000,200. Citywide staff reporting. Now we have Craig back to answer your questions. Craig, can you do a quick staff report? And we have Southern California Edison representative here as well. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Manager. Councilmembers. I did want to highlight this item for you this evening. I know it's. Late, but just real quickly. This item will allow for the installation of 300 EV charging units providing greater public access and supporting. Expansion of the city's electric. Vehicle fleet. We'll continue the partnership that we. Have with Edison to implement. Important. Projects that align with the city's sustainable. Efforts, including LED streetlight conversion, battery, store storage and this charge ready program. If you recall, last year Council approved us moving forward the Charger Ready program that installed about 13 electric vehicle chargers in our downtown garage. See, it's been a great success. We've seen over 3800 different charging instances at that location and we anticipate we'll see even more at the locations that would be installed under this program. And I want to remind you that it helps for a cleaner city by reducing greenhouse gas. Emissions. And concludes our staff report. Thank you. Thank you very much. Councilman Ayariga. I'm going to public. Thank you, sir. Good evening. And I'll make it quick and sweet. My name is David Hannam and I work for Southern California Edison. I'm a senior advisor for key accounts. I work with other municipalities, but specifically with the city of Long Beach, our Working Energy Leadership Partnership. I lead that effort for Southern California Edison and I lead the effort for the Charge Ready Program. You guys been part of a pilot? The power has been successful. You guys have implemented just one of the first applications to participate and be implemented. Craig mentioned that already, but we have additional funding coming in from the CPSC, additional authorized funding. It's a proposed decision has been approved to extend the pilot until we get our actual formal program. When we get our formal program, which will kind of call the charge ready to program. We're looking at we're looking to install 48,000 charging units across our service territory. So by you by the city taking advantage of this. You guys are definitely setting a tone leading and leading the other municipalities that we work with in the area. But you guys are leading the way and helping the communities adopt zero emission electric vehicles. And we commend you on this effort and hope that you vote in the affirmative. Thank you. Thank you very much. So just real quick, I saw the news this morning that our our president is looking at incentivizing electrical users. So I think we're going to be out there, going to be some challenges ahead. Fine. And you want response from that or just. You want to take it? I was watching CNN this morning and there was a marker set in there that President Trump is looking to reduce or remove the incentives for electric vehicles. I think he is threatening and I believe he's threatening certain manufacturers and some of the incentives that are happening there. But there's so many other manufacturers are coming along, we're going to see a massive change in the future. California is definitely leading the way. The PUC has directed the utilities, not only Southern California Edison, but PGA, to move forward in transportation electrification to try to enable these efforts. The model that we have that we're working with our customers is this charge ready model where we do a lot of the work and cover the cost for the upfront installation of these units. And then the vehicles and the consumers, the vehicles buy hopefully will still see some tax credits. We also have other incentives that are through our utility to to offset the upfront costs for the vehicles, for the consumers. They can all be found at etsy.com. But the intent is here is that, you know, California is definitely leading the way. And the only way for California that we feel California to meet its emission reductions goals is to put about 7 million vehicles, electric vehicles on the road by 2030. And we're all for it and we're pushing however we can to get that done. So even though the federal level might see a little bit of hold up, I still think the states really pushing forward and we're going to be there to help out. And like I said before, you guys are definitely leading the way. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Council members. Committee vote. Please call for the vote. Councilmember Pierce. Councilwoman Pryce? Yes. Councilmember Supernova. Hi. Vice Mayor Andrews. Councilmember Younger Councilman Austin. Hi. Councilmember Richardson.