Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, adopt resolution making findings for energy services contracting and authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a Solar Energy Power Purchase Agreement and Easement Agreement, and any necessary documents and amendments, with PFMG Solar Long Beach, LLC, for the purchase of energy produced from solar photovoltaic installations at 11 potential municipal sites within the City of Long Beach, for a period of 25 years, with the option to renew for three additional five-year periods.  (Citywide)
Congratulations and excellent. We're going to go back to the regular agenda now and we have a hearing. So, Madam Court, if we can please read not hearing item number one. Report from Public Works recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing. Adopt a resolution making findings for energy services, contracting and authorizing city manager to execute a solar energy power purchase agreement and easement agreement with FMG Solar Long Beach for the purchase of energy produced from solar. Photo of electric. Installations at 11 potential municipal sites for a period of 25 years. Citywide. Okay, we have a presentation by staff. Want to turn this over to our assistant city manager. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The staff report on this will be given by Craig Beck, our director of Public Works. Good evening, Mayor. Members of the city council. I'm pleased to be for you to be before you here this evening to talk about sustainability and the city's efforts to continue moving forward with its Climate Action Plan and sustainability goals decided before you is something that will have a positive impact reducing the city's carbon footprint and focusing on city parking lots and city parking garages, which will also result in a reduction in the heat island effect that we see in these large surfaced areas. What we have before you here this evening is an item that essentially moves forward a an agreement that the city tried to do in 2014 and 2014. This council took action to enter into an agreement with a company named SunEdison to identify sites and bring solar to the city of Long Beach. Unfortunately, SunEdison was not able to finalize any of those agreements and ultimately declared bankruptcy. We are confident that we are here this evening on the forefront of working with a new company, FMG Solar, and they have the wherewithal and financial backing to be successful in this endeavor. PFG has successfully implemented a roughly 236 sites for 29 different Southern California public agencies in a similar solar PPA agreement. What you have before you here is something that's a little unique and staff is here to provide a little bit of clarity to how this process will move forward. And we're also asking council to consider a slight modification to the recommendation that's before you this evening. So, for example, you have an attachment in the council item that that lists 11 potential sites. We believe these are good sites and sites that provide opportunity to add solar. However, we think that there may be additional sites to consider as well. And I wanted to clarify this evening that we are looking at not just the 11 sites listed, but other potential locations. For example, the Broadway parking garage that many visitors in this chamber here this evening parked in and that city staff park in. We believe that that provides an opportunity to consider for solar, as well as the public safety building. That may be another site to consider. So one change that we would like to make to the recommended action is to provide is to have council, provide staff with the flexibility to negotiate different sites and actually negotiate potentially different terms . I know the recommended action lists a 25 year term, but depending on the site and the site conditions, it may warrant different term a period of time, and that time may be 20 years as an example. We're just worried that we don't want to be locked in to a specific number of years and a specific number of sites this evening. So we're we are asking that this be changed to say up to 25 years and for more than 11 sites. That concludes a staff report. And we're here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. So at this point, that concludes staff comments. Is there any public comment? Please come forward and state your name. Good evening, Vice Mayor and fellow Council members and city staff. My name is Tommy five. I represent IBEW Electrical Workers, Local 11, and I'm here to fully support solar infrastructure on city owned facilities. It's definitely in line with the city's Sustainable City Action Plan. We feel that the city staff has done a great job of moving this item, this solar agenda item forward. And we look to we look forward to more public and private facilities getting on board to help. Reduce the cost of electricity, greenhouse gas emissions. We urge the city council. To move forward with the recommendation. Thank you. Thank you. And further public comment. I see one. Very good. You look as the address, I'd suggest, as I've often done before, considering using also the roof of the Pete Archer Rowing Center. It's certainly not as large as a parking lot, but I think we get there's certainly the twice the square footage of a normal house and we see houses that have it. I think we could get to 120 feet by 120 feet and put the numbers to it and see if the foundation is is all brick. So I think that the excellent stability there, in fact, it could even come out even further across the eastern side. Thanks. As well as as well as the waterfront site. Thank you. Thank you. See no further from the comment. Public comment is closed before we take it back behind the real Mr. City attorney, you have a comment. Yes. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just as a clarification for the additional flexibility requested by staff, the motion would include that you could have a pension potentially up to or not to exceed 15 additional sites instead of the 11 listed. If there are more additional sites to come to through the process, we could certainly come back with a contract amendment and that the terms would be given the flexibility to city staff to up to 25 years. Yes, as staff indicated, if it was less than that, we could certainly negotiate that. We wouldn't go beyond 25 years unless we came back to council. Thanks for the clarification. Taking it back behind the rail, Councilwoman Gonzalez. Thank you. You must have read my mind. City Attorney I was just going to ask that question, so I appreciate the clarification on that. I'm completely good with that, and I think this is wonderful that we're doing this. So I want to thank PFM as well as IBEW Local 11 for being here. I think any time we can add additional solar and sustainability measures is a great thing in the city and it's definitely what we've been heading in the right direction and what we've been about. So thank you both for being here. And I look forward to working with public works and hearing more about the additional sites. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Pearce. Yes. I also want to thank staff for all their hard work on this and definitely support expanding the number of sites and looking at, you know, any parks and rec sites that we have, senior center sites, animal shelter, any opportunities like that. I did want to ask I know that there's some fluttering of conversation around community choice aggregation with these solar panels. Be able to be a part of that portfolio should the city eventually decide to go that route. Councilmember Pearce. I guess my response to that question is it depends on how the city moves forward with a key agreement under what's contemplated before you this evening, the city would essentially be purchasing power from PFG. PFG would own the assets, the solar assets, but we would be purchasing the power. So in a sense, the city would be using green power for its facilities. I think that falls in line with the discussion that at least come forward to date regarding community aggregation program for Long Beach. Okay. Thank you. Great work, guys. Thank you. Councilman Austin. Thank you. And before we vote, if I could just get staff to give us an indication on what how many jobs and what type of jobs will be created through this action. Councilmember Austin apologize. I don't have those numbers before me this evening, but we'll reach out and put that together and get back to you. Okay. Well, will they be good jobs? I think, by the fact that the IBEW is here this evening. Yes, they will be good jobs. Thank you. So seeing no further public comment now, I would say if all that needs to happen is IBEW, show up to make it a good job. Tommy, you should come to every one of our council meetings. Thanks a lot, everybody. Please go ahead and cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. So at this point, we're going to move to public comment and non agenda items. And public comments on their. Way. Okay. We're going to move forward with public comment on non-urgent items. Will the speakers please come forward? Each speaker has up to 3 minutes on the list. Thank you. So we have rich gardener, Larry Goodhue, Morgan Caswell, Kirsten Burge and William J.