Drafter
Clerk 4/15/2008
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A MOTION approving a report on the efforts of the wastewater treatment division in the department of natural resources and parks to reduce its power consumption at existing facilities, negotiate more favorable terms with its current energy suppliers, and identify a work plan and schedule to ensure cogeneration of power at the West Point Treatment Plant as required in a 2008 adopted budget proviso.
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WHEREAS, King County desires to reduce costs of operating its wastewater treatment plants as low as possible, to minimize costs to ratepayers, and
WHEREAS, King County desires to reduce its power consumption at existing facilities to minimize costs and environmental impacts, and
WHEREAS, King County wishes to maximize turning waste products into resources as much as practically and economically feasible, and
WHEREAS, a proviso in the 2008 adopted budget requires approval by motion of a report addressing the wastewater treatment division's efforts to reduce power consumption, promote better terms with current energy suppliers, and identify a schedule to ensure cogeneration of power at the West Point Treatment Plant;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
1. The report addressing the wastewater treatment division's efforts to reduce power consumption, promote better terms with current energy suppliers, and identify a schedule to ensure cogeneration of power at the West Point Treatment Plant, in the form of Attachment A to this motion, is hereby approved.
2. The executive is requested to provide a status report by September 15, 2008, on the Waste-to Energy Project 423474, replacing the co-generation facility at the West
Point Treatment Plant, including the status of grant funding and efforts to market green energy credits and other factors affecting the lifecycle costs of the project.