AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; amending rates, terms, and conditions for the use and sale of electricity supplied by the City Light Department for 2021 and 2022; amending Sections 21.49.030, 21.49.052, 21.49.055, 21.49.057, 21.49.058, and 21.49.060 of the Seattle Municipal Code; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Motion carries in the appointments are confirmed. Well, the clerk please read the short title of item six into the record. Reporter The Transportation and Utilities Committee Agenda Item six Constable 1200154 way into the city department amending rates, terms and conditions for the use and sale of electricity supplied by the city like departments for 2021 and 2022. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you so much, Casper Peterson. You are chair of the committee. I'm going to hand it over to you for the committee. Thank you, Counsel, President, colleagues at our Transportation and Utilities Committee. On March 17, we unanimously accepted this Council bill 120015 to reaffirm electricity rates for Seattle City Light. Our city has become less affordable and utility bills are essentially regressive. So our goal is to keep costs down so we can keep rates low. Thankfully, during COVID, our city owned utilities both Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities have managed to keep rates steady to increase enrollment in our utility discount program and to waive late fees. With this legislation, I'm pleased that City Light continues to prevent a net increase to electric bills this year. Each customer's bill is composed of various electricity rates, pass through power rates and surcharges, and through a combination of actions. We can continue to prevent an increase in bills this year. In addition, Seattle City Light will be keeping their promise for next year 2022, by sticking with the original rate path agreed to back in 2018 and possibly achieving a smaller increase if passed, the rates from Bonneville Power Administration come in lower. I appreciate both Seattle Satellite and Seattle Public Utilities focusing on affordability for our city residents. I want to thank my vice chair, Dan Strouse, for helping to provide more time for us to consider this bill. Again, this bill was recommended unanimously by committee. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilmember Peterson. Are there any additional comments on the Bill Strauss, please? I think it counts. President Thank you. Chair Peterson I want to also express my gratitude to the citywide team who took over two and a half hours to brief me on a long list of questions going into the strategic plan, understanding that while we are codifying the 2022 rates today, that those are they were already endorsed within the last strategic plan. So these have these were changes made long ago. And I just, again, want to thank City White for their amazing work, to be able to keep rates as low as possible and to actually not increase rates this last year. So thank you so much, council president. Thank you, Chair Peterson. Looking forward to voting yes. Thank you so much. Are there any other comments on the bill? Looks like there's no additional comment. So will the critics call the roll on the passage of the bill? I. I. Yeah. It's just a free for all at this point. Madam Clerk, we are unable to hear you. So perhaps you can come off of me, or somebody can come off a mute and let me. Try this again. I'll be the clerk. I'll just get her. I. Peterson. Yes. So what? Yes. Strauss. Yes. Herbold asks Suarez. Yep. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. President Gonzalez. I resign in favor. None opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Okay. I promise we're going to get through this screen and do it together. So will the clerk please read item seven through 11 into the agenda item seven through 11 appointments 1832 through 1836.