Finance Committee - 05/05/2021 Page 16
Mayor Donchess
Alright. Well | would like to say before we get questions that Doria has done a really good job, has worked
very hard on this whole issue and has become one of the leaders in the State on Community Power. It is very
promising but has turned out to be more difficult and complicated than maybe we anticipated at the beginning.
OK. Questions/comments from members of the Committee or the Board? Alderwoman Klee.
Alderman Klee
Thank you Mr. Mayor and thank you Alderwoman Gathright. | don’t really have so much a question as | wanted
to comment. | met Doria at an event, a training session before she was hired. | was so impressed with her that
when | knew she was being hired | was so thrilled and so happy because | could just see her work ethic and so
on. She just continues to prove it over and over again with this type of endeavor and her detail wnen she gives
us reports and so on. So Doria, | just wanted to say thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Thank you. Anyone else? | am trying to see if anyone has their hand raised which | don’t see. Alright well if
there are no other questions, could the Clerk please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright,
Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 7
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Mayor Donchess
So the motion passes but | just wanted to have one more question for Doria before she leaves. So if the Board
of Aldermen acts favorably on this Resolution, will then the Aggregation Committee be in a position to meet
and begin discussing the aggregation plan?
Ms. Brown
Yes. This is what | have been waiting for, for months is to be able to work on this aggregation plan. | didn’t see
the point of having meetings with the Aggregation Committee if there was nothing for them to do. But this is
that first piece and then after negotiating the aggregation plan and if that passes through the Board of
Aldermen and Public Hearing, then it is time to talk about what kind of services we want from the Community
Power Coalition; how much money we are willing to put out for kilowatt hour for our residents. And that will be
the biggest endeavor that the Aggregation Committee has to recommend that to the Board of Aldermen. Also,
the Committee will have to put up somebody to join the Coalition’s Board. So that’s also a big deal as well. It is
finally time to start working and | am really excited about it.
Mayor Donchess
That’s good. Alright, thank you very much. Motion passes so that is recommended for final passage and that
will be taken up, | presume at next Tuesday’s meeting of the Board of Aldermen. Thank you Doria.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Wilshire’s hand is up.
