Board of Aldermen Page 5
June 28, 2016
Mayor Donchess
It does not come from the landfill; the landfill methane gas is burned at the landfill under a contract with a
private supplier to mine the landfill. This is a separate system. We are getting more than 500,000 riders per
year so there is significant use of the system.
Alderman Schoneman
| fully agree that we should have a bus system; my question was just about the value of driving these things via
CNG versus diesel. Maybe next time before it comes to this committee | will ask that question.
Alderman Deane
The question that hasn’t been answered is what is the difference in cost between a CNG bus and a diesel bus
and what’s the difference in contribution between what we are getting now for CNG and what we would be
getting for diesel and what the city s contribution would be outside of the $300,000 that was mentioned? The
trash trucks that are CNG and the price of CNG and the price of diesel, | believe CNG is more and the cost of
the vehicles is a lot more. Then you have to look at the emission output on them. At the end of the day like
the subsidy for the trash trucks is going away and | would imagine from an economic standpoint that we would
go back to diesel.
Alderman Moriarty
| have never been a fan of CNG vehicles for the simple reason that it competes on the market with those who
heat their houses with natural gas. It’s a small competition but nevertheless |, personally, would rather use
diesel vehicles whenever possible.
A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Dowd, 10
Alderman Caron, Alderman Siegel, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja,
Alderman McGuinness, Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez,
Alderman McCarthy
Nay: Alderman Deane, Alderman Cookson, Alderman Schoneman, 5
Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty
MOTION CARRIED
From: John L. Griffin, Chief Financial Officer
Re: City and School Retirement Trust Funds
There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the communication accepted and placed on file
From: Joseph S. Haas
Re: Did You Get This?
There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the communication accepted and placed on file
