Finance Committee

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ON THE QUESTION

Mayor Donchess

Mr. Caggiano?

Mr. Caggiano

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Deputy Buxton

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Alderwoman Lu
Just a couple. Where does he do that, where is the composting done?

Mayor Donchess

| don’t know where he does it’ it’s not at the landfill.

Alderwoman Kelly

He has a third party vendor that he bring it to.

Mayor Donchess

Yes | think he brings it to someone and gives him soil or something.
Alderwoman Lu

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Mayor Donchess

Yes. So sometimes the garden plots are on City land but sometimes not like over at Citizen’s Bank it is on
private property owned by the bank. But they raise money and get grants and the like to help pay for this at
their end. The City then provides land or maybe helps out with some labor.

Alderman O’Brien

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And from what | can see of the pictures it does seem to be a vehicle that does have a quality second life for
such a worthy cause. So thank you for that extra work in doing that.

Mr. Caggiano

Thank you.
Alderwoman Lu

I’ve never heard of this group. | wish that they had been able to come and how many clients do they currently
service, does anyone know?

Mayor Donchess

Not a huge, huge number, do you know?

Mr. Caggiano

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One of the things that he mentioned that | thought was really interested is that not only is he doing this
educating people but also employing people within the community, a lot of times maybe they don’t speak the
language, that kind of thing. This is a really good job for them to be able to do. So | look to that part of his
mission as well.

Alderman Laws

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Ms. Brown

Alright, that’s a good question. There’s a couple things that will impact there. So first we are looking to enter

into a contract with a third party supply. Right now the City supplies with Constellation. If we picked

Constellation again, the contract terms probably would be the same. But if we contracted with a different third

party supply, then it would be a different contract. Yes they are all very similar.

Alderman Klee

Thank you.

MOTION CARRIED

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Alderwoman Lu

Hi. So this is a utility or | can’t thin of the word actually but do the contracts differ much? | just caught on the
idea of presenting the contract afterward? Are there terms that, other than price, that we should be concerned
about?

Ms. Brown

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Mayor Donchess

And | think the gas contract is up in May?

Ms. Brown

The gas contract is up in May, electric is up in November; right now the market is extremely low and I’ve been

itching to buy. We've been at an 8-year low for two weeks and a 9-year low right now, So it is a really good
time to buy natural gas and electricity.

Mayor Donchess
And these contracts would be for what period of time?
Ms. Brown

REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

A meeting of the Finance Committee was held on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 7:00 p.m. at City Hall in
Room 208.

Mayor Jim Donchess, Chairman, presided.

Members of the Committee present: Alderman Patricia Klee, Vice Chair
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderwoman Elizabeth Lu