A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, August 6, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza led in the Pledge
to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with 11 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja,
Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Klee and Alderman Schmidt were recorded absent.
President Wilshire recognized those members of the Environment and Energy Committee in attendance
as well as Assistant Fire Chief Walker, Fire Commissioner Paul Garant and Charlie Hall, Conway Ice
Arena Board of Director.
His Honor, Mayor James W. Donchess was also in attendance.
President Wilshire
Thank you Alderman Klee is on vacation; Alderman Melizzi-Golja is on vacation and Alderman Schmidt is not
feeling well and won’t be joining us this evening. Also in attendance from the Environment & Energy Committee,
Doria Brown, Anita Arden Cala, Deb Chisolm, Kerrie Converse, Bob Hayden, Justin Kates, Carrie Lambert, Sarah
Marchant, James Pyle and Sylvie Stewart. Tonight we have a presentation and | will turn it over to the Mayor.
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Lori Wilshire, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting
There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on file.
PRESENTATION
Solar Energy Presentation
Mayor Donchess
Thank you Madam President. What | will do is give you an overview of how we have gotten to where we are
then Ms. Chisolm and/or Ms. Marchant will tell you a little bit about the procurement process, the RFP we put
out for the energy provider that was selected, that being Revision Energy. Then Revision will give you a
presentation regarding what we hope to do with solar on city buildings as well as the Conway Ice Arena. In
addition to some members of our Energy Committee, of course we have representatives of the Fire Department,
Assistant Chief Walker and Commissioner Grant and Charlie Hall, thank you Charlie for coming, is President of
the Board of the Conway Arena. So it is good that we have everyone here.
So some months ago we determined that we would like to undertake to solarize some of our City Buildings. We
put out an RFP asking for energy providers, solar providers to provide a structure as to how they would
undertake to provide solar for these buildings. We asked them to examine various buildings to determine which
are more amenable in the short term to make solar conversation, erect a solar array. And there is some time
pressure here because there is a tax credit associated with the construction of a solar array which declines or is
reduced at the end of 2019 that Revision will explain more about this. But the tax credit still exists in 2020 but it
is lower than it is if the construction is completed in 2019.
