Special Board of Aldermen 10-06-2020 Page 5
Chairman Dowd
Ok, thank you Mr. Donovan. Also, before | turn it over to Ms. Brown, | know that this agreement has been
scrutinized in minute detail by Attorney Bolton. | don’t know if he wants to say anything, but | know that he’s
gone through this contract with a fine-tooth comb and it’s solid the way it’s currently stated. Would you
agree with that, Attorney Bolton?
Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel
We certainly looked at it and it meets with our approval.
Chairman Dowd
Thank you. Ms. Brown, would you like to add some comments?
Doria Brown, Energy Director
Sure | would love to. So fortunately | am here, | know | sent out a Memo earlier today saying that | wouldn’t
be here with my thoughts on the project. | promise not to read it verbatim to everybody; | Know that you all
have probably read it. But these projects are extremely important to the City when it comes to meeting our
20% reduction goal by 2025. Just doing these projects alone brings us 62% closer to that 20% reduction.
If you factor in the stuff that we have done with transit with switching out to hybrid electric buses and those
compressed natural gas buses from our 2016 baseline year, we are virtually at our 20% reduction goal
which is amazing by 2021.
So this project is monumental for us as a City and it is also important to me because this week is actually
my one year with the City and this is one of the first things that | started working on. So it would be really
awesome to get this through today.
Chairman Dowd
Ok does anyone from the School Department, just want to introduce, we have people from the company
on-line that could answer questions, if necessary, from any of the Aldermen. But do you just want to
introduce them Shaun.
Mr. Smith
| believe Mike Davey should be on-line he is the lead engineer, perhaps even owner of EEI, I’m not exactly
sure of his titles. But he’s been the one we’ve been dealing with exclusively through this whole process. |
can’t see everybody on the screen. I’m using my cell phone.
Unidentified Speaker
(inaudible) from Control Technologies who does the HVAC Controls and Services, here as well.
Chairman Dowd
Alright. So before | take Public Comment, we have been informed by a former Alderman that this is not the
time to debate the issue, that’s at the Budget Meeting. But if there are any clarifying questions that any of
the Aldermen online would like to have clarified, please raise your hand. Alderman Clemons, then
Alderman Lopez?
