Bend City Council - Electrification Round Table

we are all here.
We will get started.
Ashley will start the meeting.
She needs to make sure both systems are going.
We have to be quiet while she is
doing that so we don't overlap. Good to go?
Great.
Welcome everybody here today to
our really important roundtable discussion. Thank
thank you all for coming.
Grad you could make it to the beautiful public works building.
I want to go around the table to
see who we are and our association so we know everyone
that is here and get into the
objectives for the meeting and
presentations. >> I never get to be first. City attorney for the city of
bend.
Ian lighthouser.
scott jones, human rights and
equity commission chair.
franzosa city councilor.
mike rhymely bend city councillor.
David burger local 290 and also
state building trades knowledge steve platt city council.
Nor guise bend.
chair of the environment and climate committee.
megan perkins bend city council lower.
Mayor of bend. >> CHAIRMAN Of bend economic
development board. Allen spector cascade natural
gas.
Alisa dunlap specific power. Arielle mendez.
Chair of affordable housing
advisory committee. Central oregon builders
association. cassie lacey city manager's
office.
Eric king, city manager.
thanks everyone for being here. How this will work.
This is a round table discussion.
This is to bring different stakeholders to the table to
listen to presentations and get
your feedback and ideas.
For council this is a listening mode mostly today.
If we have clarifying or
informational questions jump in. We want to hear from the folks
at the table.
We have an opportunity for utility providers to share
information with us so they have presentations.
They will have unput on the two
questions we are talking about today.
Those are input on exemptions to the fee and implementation
timeline and approach.
We will have the presentations first.
Each utility provider will give the presentation and hold
questions until the end. We will take questions focusing
on information and clarity from utility providers.
We will get into the individual
stakeholders your ideas and thoughts on these topics.
We will discuss that after the presentations are done.
There are a lot of us.
If you want to respond or ask a question or give input please
stand up your card so I can see you.
I will make sure we get to everybody.
I will call on folks if we need to draw that information out.
Not a time council will deliberate or decide anything today.
We are gathering information to feed into a work session on APRIL 22.
Council will have time to deliberate, make decisions about
the future of this policy.
A lot of it is based on information we are given today.
That is what we are doing today.
I will throw it back to cassie for background how we got here
and then presentations from utilities.
thank you. Information I will share is
background information.
Essentially information that I shared in memo last week.
I will be brief so we can move to discussion. Background.
City has been working on broader program to encourage
electrification of buildings in
bend to achieve climate action
goals over last year and-a-half. Climate fee today we have been
focusing on for the last few
months is part of the
disincentive and incentive
component of rural work plan.
We will create incentives using
to encourage the electrification
using proceeds of fee and
exploring additional monetary incentives.
The city is expanding more robust program to share
information about electrifying
buildings or upcoming work a
workshop series is coming up APRIL 29.
We have consequent ones for the next three months.
In the last part of the plan
monitoring landscape for policy
levers for reducing gas use as
well in the future. background.
Key steps so far.
Policy development process.
Council direction to pursue fee incentive program in APRIL last year.
Work sessions with the council
in AUGUST, OCTOBER and DECEMBER focusing on potential fee,
analysis on costs impacts of
electrifying homes.
Engagement options for incentives and fees.
In DECEMBER and FEBRUARY we shared calculation and approach
to fee design. FEBRUARY council gave staff
direction to pursue fee as proposed.
They set fee level at reduced rate which we will talk about in
a minute.
At that meeting they directed
staff to convene this roundtable
to focus on fee exemptions and timeline for file major policy
decisions we need council to
give direction on to get the fee policy complete.
I will share a quick overview of
the proposed fee structure.
Social cost of carbon multiplied
by net lifetime by gas appliance
correlated to said of house.
Damages from carbon dioxide.
It takes into account the amount
of carbon gas appliance produces
over lifetime of apappliance
minus carbon alternative electric appliance would emit
that is the net carbon impact of gas appliance.
Tier is multiplier to acts for lower or higher energy use
carbon emissions from smaller or larger houses.
We established three tiers.
Lowest is homes 1600 square feet
or less.
That

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