Finance Committee - 08/14/2019 Page 11
So as the Mayor had mentioned, the efficiencies of having a big building, a large roof, really came to us, | don’t
know it just sort of appeared, like “Why don’t we use Conway”. | mean here we are standing, looking at the
street’s department garage and gong “Oh wait look at this”.
So it really — ReVision has been great with working with us to maintain what they had originally offered us
which was an excellent electricity rate of 8.8 cents per kilowatt hour. So they again, ReVision Energy has done
a great job of actually going through — part of the process is to, you can’t just put solar on any roof and so they
have gone through and done extensive evaluations of both the transit garage and the fire station on Lake
Street. They’ve looked at a couple of other roof tops but at this point what we are really trying to and why | am
here tonight for Finance after just getting a first reading last night, is there are some tax credits that will
become, that will go away, that will be reduced actually at the end of December. So we are trying to move this
through and RevVision is very hot to get solar on rooftops for municipal buildings in Nashua, to add that to their,
of course, cadre of other stuff that they do. And we are very excited about it as well, for the first time to have
solar on municipal buildings. So if there are questions about details, | can try to answer them. Dan Weeks is
typically the go-to person for details but I’ve heard it a few times so | might be able to help.
Alderwoman Kelly
| just have a comment; Kudos first of all to ReVision, | think they did an incredible job with the details when the
presented to us, was it last week. You can tell that they are very passionate about it and know so much so |
think we are in good hands there. | also just, my own personal excitement for this, being on the Energy &
Environment Committee we really are pushing for us to be less reliant on things that are not renewable. And
so this is one big step. When | sat down with Alderman McCarthy he asked me “what do you want to do” and |
said, “I want solar in the City’ and that was the very first thing | said to him so he would be proud and | am
pretty proud.
Alderman Klee
| was not here for that meeting | was sick, but | was watching it, | watched it live. The excitement from Mr.
Weeks and his partner was, well he was quite excited about it. | agree with you, he gave quite a bit of detail. |
think the citizens that were watching it, much like | did, learned a lot. And it was quite interesting to learn about
the purchasing it later on and so on. And having them do this roof with Conway shows a real private/public, we
needed the space, they needed it and we worked in cooperation. | think the fact that ReVision has gone
through so much to help and to make that happen. | think this is a great contract. Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED
RECORD OF EXPENDITURES
MOTION BY ALDERMAN KELLY THAT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS COMPLIED WITH THE CITY
CHARTER AND ORDINANCES PERTAINING TO THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE PERIOD
FROM JULY 1, 2019 TO JULY 11, 2019, AND FROM JULY 12, 2019 TO AUGUST 1, 2019
MOTION CARRIED
GENERAL DISCUSSION
Alderman Laws
| was just going to say, it is another public service, I’m not sure how many people who are watching this at
home like go on the GIS application on the City Web Site. It’s a good way to kill a few hours of your life. You
will be very impressed at all the things you can learn about the City, your neighbors.
PUBLIC COMMENT — None
