COMMITTEE
SUBSTITUTE FOR RESOLUTION NO. 150300
Directing the City Manager to
prepare and submit a report to the Mayor and City Council regarding incentives
for assessing energy usage and making energy efficiency improvements to
buildings in Kansas City.
WHEREAS, the City of
Kansas City, Missouri (City) desires to promote energy efficiency improvements
to buildings in the City; and
WHEREAS, the City has
actively participated in a City Energy Project Advisory Committee (CEPAC)
comprised of more than 20 representatives of a broad range of stakeholders,
including building owners/managers, universities, hospitals, engineering and
construction firms, labor, the business community, the City’s Environmental
Management Commission and Climate Protection Steering Committee, non-profit
organizations, Mid-America Regional Council and the U.S. General Services
Administration; and
WHEREAS, the CEPAC
has been providing feedback regarding energy benchmarking since December 2014;
and
WHEREAS, lack of
access to financial and technical resources to perform energy audits and to
determine cost-effective energy efficiency improvements have been identified as
potential impediments to building owners taking such actions; and
WHEREAS, some of the
CEPAC participants have requested that the City consider incentives to promote
energy efficiency improvements to local buildings; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor
and City Council wish to receive information from City staff regarding current
incentives available to building owners and future incentives that might be
provided to building owners for energy efficiency improvements; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the
City Manager is directed to provide, within 120 days of the effective date of
this resolution, a report to the Mayor and City Council that identifies:
a.
Public and private sources of financial incentives and technical
assistance currently available to commercial, institutional, industrial and
multi-family building owners in Kansas City in order to benchmark energy use,
perform energy audits, practice retro-commissioning and make energy efficiency
improvements to their buildings.
b.
Public and private sources of future financial incentives and technical
assistance that might be provided to commercial, institutional, industrial and
multi-family building owners in Kansas City in order to perform energy audits,
practice retro-commissioning and make energy efficiency improvements to their
buildings.
c.
Possible incentive and assistance programs to make voluntary
benchmarking, reporting and energy efficiency improvements more viable for
building owners who voluntarily benchmark and report.
d.
An outreach plan that identifies for building owners what the City
intends to do to promote energy use benchmarking, reporting and energy
efficiency improvements. Such plan to be first reviewed by the CEPAC.
e.
Recommendations for how to require recipients of tax abatements, tax
increment financing or other financial incentives from the City to benchmark
and report energy and water usage in their buildings.
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