HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-07-17 City Council Regular MinutesCITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
JULY 17, 2012
The regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Apache Junction, Arizona, was held on July 17, 2012, at the
Apache Junction City Council Chambers pursuant to the notice
required by law.
CALL TO ORDER
Vice Mayor Dietz called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.
INVOCATION
Councilmember Wilson gave the Invocation.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Councilmember Serdy led the Pledge of Allegiance.
ROLL CALL
Councilmembers Present:Vice Mayor Dietz
Councilmember Barker
Councilmember Evans
Councilmember Serdy
Councilmember Waldron
Councilmember Wilson
Staff Present:
(Mayor Insalaco was absent.)
Assistant City Manager Bryant Powell
City Clerk Kathleen Connelly
City Attorney Joel Stern
Development Services Director Brad
Steinke
Assistant to the City Manager Matt
Busby
Others Present:Public Works Manager Shane Kiesow
Captain Arnold Freeman
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ACCEPTANCE OF CONSENT AGENDA
)Councilmember
Waldron MOVED THAT THE CONSENT AGENDA BE ACCEPTED AS PRESENTED.
Councilmember Wilson SECONDED
THE MOTION.
VOTE:Unanimous.
The motion carried.
AWARDS, PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS
Vice Mayor Dietz presented Republic Services with a Community
Partnership Award for sponsoring the fireworks show for the
Fourth of July for the past three years.
Vice Mayor Dietz read a proclamation designating August as
Drowning Impact Awareness Month and presented it to Tina Gerola
of the fire district.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF CURRENT EVENTS
Councilmember Serdy announced he attended the Governor's
Conference on Tourism last week.Gary Mulholland was
posthumously awarded the Spirit of Service Award for his many
years of dedication for promoting Lost Dutchman Days and the
rodeo.He hopes to be able to play the video they showed at the
next council meeting and there is a movement underway to name
the rodeo grounds after him.
Councilmember Wilson thanked everyone involved for the great
fireworks display on the Fourth of July.
Councilmember Barker announced they celebrated the opening of a
new fire station.
CITY MANAGER'S REPORT
Assistant City Manager Bryant Powell commented on the statewide
recognition of Gary Mulholland, the city recycling services,
read two letters on the Fourth of July fireworks, and recognized
public works fleet employees and street crews for their work.
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PUBLIC HEARINGS
BINGO LICENSE FOR BP0 ELKS #2349 )
)City Clerk Kathleen
Connelly briefed the council on the item.
Vice Mayor Dietz requested
the applicant address the council.
Ms. Cindy Pierson,
representing the Elks Lodge, addressed the council to answer any
questions.Bingo will be on Sunday in the afternoon.
Vice Mayor Dietz opened the
public hearing on the item.There being no one wishing to
speak, he closed the public hearing.He reopened the item to
council discussion.There being no further discussion, he
called for a motion.
Councilmember Barker MOVED
THAT THE BINGO APPLICATION FOR BP0 ELKS #2349 BE RECOMMENDED FOR
APPROVAL TO THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, BINGO SECTION.
Councilmember Wilson SECONDED
THE MOTION.
VOTE:Unanimous.
The motion carried.
ORDINANCE NO. 1381, REPEALING,
AMENDING AND READOPTING SECTIONS
1-16-19-C, 1-16-19-D AND 1-16-19-E
ACCESSORY BUILDINGS AND STORAGE
SHEDS REGARDING HEIGHT, SIZE,
LOCATION AND DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
FOR ACCESSORY BUILDINGS
Councilmember Evans stated
she would have to recuse herself.
Development Services Director
Brad Steinke briefed the council on the item.
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Vice Mayor Dietz thanked
Development Services Director Brad Steinke for the work he had
done on this.He added this issue was brought to the council by
the residents.It is something they wanted to do.There were
two sides to this issue.They got together and worked cordially
to come up with a solution.He is proud of the residents of the
community working together to come to a solution.
Development Services Director
Brad Steinke asked for a show of hands from those that worked on
the issue.
Vice Mayor Dietz opened the
public hearing on the item.
Final County Supervisor Clark
Smithson, 1700 S. Weaver Drive, Apache Junction, addressed the
council as a private citizen.He feels the same as Vice Mayor
Dietz.He is pleased that neighbors got together to reach an
agreement.
Vice Mayor Dietz closed the
public hearing with no one else wishing to speak.He reopened
the item to council discussion.
Councilmember Wilson
commented he wanted to say a special thanks to both groups of
individuals who participated on this.It really shows that when
they can sit down and discuss things, come to a mutual
understanding between the differences of opinion, they can reach
that.He is excited they were able to do this instead of
sitting and arguing over one word here or there.They discussed
it and came up with an agreement.
Councilmembers Waldron and
Barker agreed.
Vice Mayor Dietz closed the
discussion with no further comments and called for a motion.
Councilmember Waldron MOVED
THAT ORDINANCE NO. 1381 BE READ BY TITLE ONLY AND THE READING OF
THE ENTIRE ORDINANCE BE WAIVED.
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Councilmember Barker SECONDED
THE MOTION.
VOTE:Unanimous.
The motion carried.
City Clerk Kathleen Connelly
read the ordinance by title only.
Councilmember Waldron MOVED
THAT ORDINANCE NO. 1381, AS READ BY THE CITY CLERK, BE APPROVED.
Councilmember Wilson SECONDED
THE MOTION.
VOTE:Unanimous.
The motion carried.
Councilmember Evans returned
to the chambers and took her seat.
OLD BUSINESS
POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT FOR SOLAR
FACILITIES WITH SIEMENS INDUSTRIES)
Public Works Manager Shane
Kiesow briefed the council on the item.
Councilmember Barker asked if
the two trees at parks and recreation will stay.
Public Works Manager Shane
Kiesow stated he believes they will.The shadow they cast will
not be impacting it at the prime time of the day.
Mr. Grant Wood, project
manager, stated the two large pine trees are about 30 years old.
They are at the end of their life.They need to evaluate
whether they want to keep them or not.There is some shading to
the structures.It is something they will have to decide on the
impact they really do have.They will do some hour by hour
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modeling and by season to see what effect they have.They might
be able to trim them back.
Public Works Manager Shane
Kiesow continued with his briefing.
Vice Mayor Dietz thanked
Siemens for taking the time to come out and explain a lot of
things.They really worked with our staff.He also thanked
staff for their work.He commented the council did not really
have enough time to go through everything to get everything
done.He appreciated their coming out early today to work with
staff.
Councilmember Serdy commented
he wanted to thank Shane for his help in this process.He has a
lot of work to do in the city and this extra work was dumped in
his lap.He thanked him for his guidance and objectivity.
Public Works Manager Shane
Kiesow introduced Sean Navizi, sales manager, Grant Wood, the
project manager, Andy Beggs who works in the background of the
project and Clark Wiedetz from Georgia.He added Siemens has
made some concessions with their draft dated 7/12/12.
Vice Mayor Dietz asked if
they could title the new things that they have given the council
today.
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated there are two.One is dated 7/12/12 which is the
original agreement.There is the new version that has some
changes dated 7/17/12.
Vice Mayor Dietz commented it
could be titled, basically, the changes dated 7/17/12.
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated there are also changes from 7/12/12.
Mr. Clark Wiedetz commented
they would have to agree with the council on city staff.They
have been working with them for months and it has been a
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pleasure putting it together.They are making every effort to
provide the city with the best solar project possible.They are
not building a merchant plant here.It will not be a plant
where once it is built they can change the price of power that
they sell in order to maximize the profit.The plant is being
built for the city and is structured in this way purely for the
sake of taking advantage if the Siemens' tax appetite in order
to monetize the tax credits to minimize the city's price for
kWh.That is the reason for the structure of the deal.To add
additional complexity to it, Salt River Project has done that to
us by the way they have structured it.It has made it even more
complex.It was very difficult for even them to understand.
With all the PPAs they have done across the country, they have
not seen one structured this way.They get the highest
incentive from Salt River Project.When they applied for that
highest incentive it was gone in 20 minutes.They had to have
their act together in order to get that highest incentive.
Councilmember Barker asked if
the drop in kilowatt hours and AC solar photovoltaic in the
current version impacts the tables A and D.
Mr. Clark Wiedetz stated on
pages 30 through 36 there is Schedule 2 which is default
termination value per month for every month of the 24 months.
Councilmember Barker stated
that is correct.She asked if that is impacted by this drop in
numbers.
Mr. Clark Wiedetz stated it
is.They adjusted the project size per Councilmember Evans'
inquiries.They spoke last night about the importance of making
sure that theyk fit within the auspices of Salt River Project's
metering program.The size is in flux right now.Their best
estimation is that the Salt River Project board will vote on a
maximum per net meter size of 200 kilowatt alternating current.
Because of that there have been some changes in the size of the
system.The numbers they see in Schedule 2 today are for the
previous project size.These numbers will come down.They
informed Mr. Stern that they have yet to deliver to him revised
numbers.These numbers will all be revised down.
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Mr. Grant Wood stated they
decided today that the number that was in the original draft of
7/12/12 would not be the number they would be at once Salt River
Project does its review.They want to give the council the
number that is closer to it.They do not know if this will be
the final number either but they feel it is closer to it.They
do not want to mislead anybody.They took a chance on being
more confusing but they do not want to mislead.The termination
schedule will go down commensurate with the reduction of power.
They will have that tomorrow.They could not get that schedule
out today.
Councilmember Barker
commented this is then a plant size thing or the diffusion size.
She is trying to get an idea as to what this is.
Mr. Grant Wood stated it has
to do with the amount of net metering that Salt River Project
will allow them to put on as a system.The amount of metering
maximizes the economics.If it goes above that, it actually
hurts the economics.They are trying to maximize it.They went
to Salt River Project and stated they were going to put this in
their design for July 31 and asked Salt River Project what would
happen if it changes.Salt River Project stated they would just
have to give them an amendment and everything would pass very
quickly.They were concerned about that.It has to do with how
they have structured it.Normally when they are presenting to
council they say here is the final size and here is exactly what
it looks like, but Salt River Project has them under the gun
with the July 31 date.
Councilmember Waldron
commented he had a question on the insurance.He believes the
biggest thing they have had is with the insurance part of it.
He asked if they would mind being named as a primary insurer on
this stuff.They would be primary and the city would be
secondary.
Mr. Grant Wood asked what he
meant by being named as a primary insurer.
Councilmember Waldron asked
the city attorney to explain it a little better.
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City Attorney Joel Stern
stated if there is a catastrophic event, it is basically whose
insurance is going to cover first.That is what they are
getting at.For example, if there is a one million dollar loss,
and say that is theoretically our coverage, he asked who would
cover the rest.If it is a two million dollar loss, and the
city's covered for one million, he asked whose insurance company
would cover that.He asked if they would look at the city if
the city had already paid one million.If there is other
insurance by Siemens, then their Coverage would be secondary.
The question is which insurance provider is maxed out first.
Mr. Grant Wood stated
currently the way it is structured is cross indemnification with
regards to what happens.They made three key changes from
yesterday to today which he is sure they discussed at the
previous meeting.They basically take away the system loss
piece from the city.That eliminated $8,000.The way that it
is structured with cross indemnification, the reason behind that
is that they are unable to, in essence, protect their asset on
city property.If it was a ground -mounted system in a field,
they could put a fence around it and security cameras up.They
could take a larger responsibility.This is on city property
and they obviously cannot put a fence up because it is a parking
lot.Therefore they cannot do that.They are asking the city,
with regards to insurance, to take that risk via the city
property insurance and they keep the cross indemnification.He
does not know how else to structure the insurance provision.
They had a lot of conversations about it today.He does not
know how else to structure it then the way it was presented
tonight.
Councilmember Barker
commented that is the party of the party who goes to the party
who goes to the party who is invited from the party.That is
the language.
Vice Mayor Dietz commented of
a party and there is no cover charge at the party.
Councilmember Barker stated
there is a cover charge.
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Mr. Grant Wood commented it
was that confusing.
Councilmember Barker stated
it was pretty interesting to read.
Councilmember Waldron asked
him to explain this because it is very confusing.He read "In
such events, the nonpurchasing party shall promptly upon demand,
therefore, from other party, reimburse purchasing party for the
full cost and expense of any such insurance that is obtained by
purchasing party".That is 8.2D.
Vice Mayor Dietz commented it
seems as though we have gotten away from seller and customer and
have gone to party.
Mr. Grant Wood commented he
does not know why that happened.That clause was put in there
as protection for both.If either one did not have insurance
for this site, or they did not carry the proper insurance, then
it could cause the city some significant problems if an
occurrence happened.The city would have the right to go out
and purchase in lieu of that in that situation and then charge
Siemens back if they did not have it covered.In the same
manner, they make that reciprocating language.That is what
this is referring to.If the city does not have the insurance,
Siemens would be able to go out and back stop it themselves.
That is why it was added in there and they tried to make it
reciprocal.He asked if that was better.
Councilmember Waldron stated
it was.He added they should have said it that way in the
agreement.
Mr. Grant Wood stated he is
not an attorney so he would look to Mr. Stern for clarification.
He cannot legitimately tell you he knows the definition of this.
His impression of this language and the switch from the words
customer and seller to parties, because it is a term, party can
represent either one.In other words, the use of the word party
in replace of the word customer and in replace of the word
seller is simply to say it could be either.He asked Mr. Stern
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if that was an accurate representation from the legal
terminology standpoint or has he misunderstood it.
City Attorney Joel Stern
commented he did not write this and he is not sure who did.He
thinks one of Siemens' attorneys did.It is legal and he thinks
the general concept of what both of them said is what it does.
If there is not sufficient coverage then the party that needs
the coverage can go buy it and then there can be a charge back
if it is not in the policy for that particular loss.He does
not know how long that would take to figure out whether the
policy covered it; it could take a while.He thinks that is
what it basically says.This is more of a bargaining issue.
Councilmember Barker stated
absolutely.The problem with that is that there are no
guidelines set forth.It just says that if one guy decides that
the other guy does not have the insurance, and he should have to
cover this incident, he can just go out and buy it and then say
he got the insurance and the other has to pay for it.She knows
that is an oversimplification of that particular passage, but it
certainly appears to read that way.
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated the city has Southwest Risk Insurance Company and the
city gets claims.Every city gets claims.When the city gets
claims, what happens is the insurance company gets the claim and
he tells them they need to cover the city as this is what the
contract says.The insurance company gets the claim and goes
through it and says they are not sure it is covered.They will
give us a reservation of rights.They send a letter and maybe
they will pay for the attorney but if the city is hit with
damages the city is not covered.Or the policy says it is
covered at a limited amount.It might happen in this case.If
something happens, the city submits the claim to Southwest Risk,
they say the city is not covered, the city turns to Siemens and
says it is not covered, Siemens says that is not right and they
go and buy insurance for whatever the loss was and charge the
city back.He believes that is the whole point of this.
Mr. Grant Wood commented if
he may test whether he understands the document, acknowledging
that Joel is an attorney and he is not, in the original
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language, the word was in the event of customer is unable to
obtain insurance then the seller, Siemens, could buy it and
basically make the city pay Siemens for the insurance that the
city should have had on its own.The changes that Siemens made
are a concession.The concession Siemens made is now the city
can flip it around on Siemens as well.If Siemens cannot afford
the insurance, then the city could buy it and make Siemens pay.
He asked if that is the case.This paragraph actually
represents Siemens conceding a point to the city's benefit.If
the original language is preferred they can return it.
if he was not an attorney.
an engineer.
commented he is talking like one.
Councilmember Waldron asked
Mr. Grant Wood stated he is
Councilmember Barker
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated it is more of a deal point issue rather than what you
have to have.The gentleman is right.What is stricken says
customer shall promptly upon demand therefore from seller
reimburse seller for the full cost and expense of any insurance
that is obtained by the seller.Notwithstanding the forgoing,
seller shall be responsible for all insurance and shall
reimburse customer for insurance for all periods computed on a
pro rata daily basis for which the system is not in operation in
excess of five days a year in aggregate.There are a lot of
elements here.Basically, he thinks that what he just stated is
correct but, once again, this is a negotiable item.He is not
sure it is a deal killer, but he does not know.He has not
talked to their attorneys about it.It is something the council
can decide if they want it in there or not.It is something
they might want to consider.They did talk about it, they did
concede, but now it is equalized.
Councilmember Wilson asked
who would determine that the other party does not have the
correct coverage.
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-City Attorney Joel Stern
stated for example they get a claim for someone hitting a pillar
and part of the structure falls down.The city is not insured
for that.However, he believes they are covered for that.But
say they send it to Southwest Risk and they say the city is not
covered.It is up to the insurance company to say the city is
not covered.They would then tell Siemens sorry the city does
not have coverage for this and it cannot afford it.Siemens
could say they want that covered.Or it might have not happened
yet and the city goes through an exercise with them and they
decide they want to have that coverage so Siemens would buy it
because the city did not.
Vice Mayor Dietz commented
they would then charge the city for it.
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated that is correct.As far as who will answer, ultimately,
a judge will eventually decide.A judge will decide if there is
a lawsuit.
Mr. Grant Wood commented the
way he is looking at this, he does not believe it is open to
interpretation.He thinks it is a binary; it is either it is or
it is not.He asked Mr. Stern if he interpreted it that way.
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated it depends on what the claim is.That is the problem.
If there is not that type of insurance and our insurance company
says the city is not covered, the question is what the city does
and what Siemens does.Siemens may have coverage for it and
they might want to charge back the cost of the insurance because
the city does not have it.It goes both ways.
Mr. Grant Wood stated they
are bringing this up now and obviously they got this information
late today.If they would like to talk to Siemens' attorney
tomorrow about this issue and add language that clarifies or
brackets it better, this is a clause they could do that with.
They could have that conversation tomorrow.
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated that is up to the council.
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Mr. Grant Wood stated if
council so desires.
Councilmember Serdy commented
they would need a special meeting later.
Councilmember Barker stated
she does not really want to have another special meeting on
this.
Councilmember Serdy commented
if they do not decide tonight then they have to have a special
meeting.
Councilmember Barker stated
absolutely.
Mr. Clark Wiedetz stated they
have to turn in a briefing to Salt River Project on July 31.
They have to have an executed contract for a power purchase
agreement, a site plan showing the engineering plan for these
three installations, and an electrical engineering free line
diagram.They have to deliver all three of those by July 31 to
their acceptance, otherwise the six cents per kilowatt hour,
which is really valued to the city at $1.3 million over the 20
year agreement, goes away.Essentially the project will no
longer function.We have a hard July 31 deadline.He is hoping
they can reach a conclusion.
Councilmember Wilson
commented he mentioned last night they are looking to the future
for the people that sit on the council in the future.One thing
concerns him.For example, if Verizon came out and wanted to
put a relay station on his property, they would have to have his
permission and they would lease the footprint from him, but he
would not have to have insurance on their relay station.He
knows it was mentioned last night about the leasing of a car but
he thinks that is all together apples and oranges.He thinks
this is primarily that it is on city property, the city will
have liability coverage on it, but the insurance on the solar
panels and things like this should be falling back onto Siemens
because it is Siemens' facilities that are being used on city
property with the city's permission.
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- Mr. Clark Wiedetz stated they
heard them, and they heard them last night.They have worked
hard in the last 24 hours to make every conceivable concession.
He thinks they made tremendous concessions.He honestly did not
expect them to make those concessions.He acknowledged that the
analogy he made last night was imperfect.The councilmember's
analogy, if he understands it correctly, is that if Verizon were
to put a relay station for their cell phone is different.The
difference here is that if Verizon were to install a relay on
their building because it happened to be the tallest point in
the city, it would be because they were going to be able to
increase their capacity to provide cell phone service for all of
their customers in the entire area.In this particular example,
the city government is the singular beneficiary of the solar
array, both in context and the shade, which the city staff
directed was highly desirable.That is why they went away from
putting things on the roof or ground -mounted systems.They
specifically wanted to make sure they had structures in the
parking lot to create shade.The shade and the electricity are
for the city's exclusive enjoyment.
Councilmember Serdy commented
Siemens is the bigger beneficiary than the city is.
Mr. Clark Wiedetz stated he
would respectfully challenge that.They are a for profit
company and they hope that if they manage their risks well, they
do an excellent job in construction and if they do an excellent
job of maintenance for 20 years, they hope that they will turn a
profit for their shareholders.But all the benefits that are
being created here, whether it is the performance -based
incentive from Salt River Project or the tax credits they
described earlier, all of these things are going to reduce the
city's price of electricity.He realizes the price they are
providing to the city does not seem like a particularly large
difference from what the city is paying to Salt River Project
today.Without the six cents performance -based incentive,
without the ability for Siemens to take those tax credits, the
price they could sell electricity to the city would not be 10.75
cents, it would be 18 to 20 cents or more.He respectfully
pushed back that they are the only ones benefitting for things
like the performance -based incentive or the tax credits.
Siemens is transitioning this benefit to the city.Without
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those things they would be unable to provide the city with
electricity at 10.75 cents.
Vice Mayor Dietz commented he
believed to a certain extent he is correct.The city will enjoy
shaded parking for our employees and customers.He believes
they were told it could not be put on the roof because there was
no room up there, and that the best way for Siemens to benefit
and for this to work for them was to have the shaded parking
structures for their solar panels.Number two, our average is a
4, 4A per year increase from Salt River Project.We are only
gaining one percent with a 3% increase per year.He asked if it
is a real big advantage to the city.Not as big as he says it .
is.He thinks the bigger advantage is to Siemens or they would
not be here presenting what they are presenting.They would not
put $4 million into a project if they were not going to benefit
and benefit well.Those are his feelings.
Mr. Clark Wiedetz commented
he wanted to make it clear because he has heard this a couple of
times; they can look at the 10.75 cents with a 3% escalator, but
they should not look at it as a power price.This is not a
merchant plan.They are not really selling power.They are
taking the cost of the solar project and adding in incentives,
whether it is tax incentives from the federal government or
whether it is production -based incentive from Salt River
Project, and saying here is the cost, here is the incentive,
they put all that together in a bucket and say for the next 20
years they are going to take this cost and divide it up for the
number that comes out that works best for the city.They picked
10.75 and 3%.It does not have to be that.It could be 13
cents with a 2% escalator.It could be 17 cents with a 1%
escalator.All they are doing is taking the money in a bucket
and chopping it up; what is left over after the tax incentives
over a 20 year period.The vice mayor's point that Siemens is
making a profit on this is right.They look at the solar
projects they do and they have a return they have to make on
their solar projects.It is actually where they are making
their money.They are also very competitive in the solar
industry.He will be passionate about it because it is his
business across the country.He knows how well they are doing
right now.For a solar project they are very cost competitive.
He sees them winning all over the place in great cities like
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this one.They have to look at it as they are chopping up that
money over a 20 year period, not selling it to maximize their
profits.He just wanted to make sure that is clear.
Vice Mayor Dietz asked if it
is true that they are actually selling the power at roughly 16
cents to Salt River Project.
Mr. Clark Wiedetz stated Salt
River Project is providing a pass through function because of
the interesting way that they have developed this solar PPA
program that is unique to this state.That is the only reason
that it looks this way.California offers another production-
based incentive in front of some of the utilities.Other states
have what is called extraction of energy certificates and they
use those.They take the risk and they sell them to offset the
cost of them to reduce the price for kWh for the cities.There
are a lot of different ways to do it.Salt River Project chose
this way.The 6 cents is like he says; they take the bucket of
money, there is the $4 million cost which is the sale price of
the project.Then there is the investment tax credit, the tax
credits from the federal government which is 40% to 45% of the
project, there is a production -based incentive from Salt River
Project that chops that $4 million down.They then have what is
left over.The only thing left is energy payments for 20 years.
No recs.Salt River Project gets the recs.There is nothing
else.They have to chop up what is left over 20 years and that
is where the 10.75 with a 3% escalator comes from.We picked 3%
because they knew Salt River Project was a percentage point and-
a -half higher, but that is what they came up with.They could
have said less than 10.75 with a 4% escalator.By the way,
those total dollars are going to be exactly the same.It is not
that we are maximizing the profit by setting it up that way.
Councilmember Barker
commented that makes perfect sense.She thinks it came through
loud and clear last time.
Vice Mayor Dietz thanked them
for coming out and for the tremendous amount of work they put
into this.He agreed that city staff is awesome and that they
worked very hard, too.
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Mr. Clark Wiedetz stated they
are a real treasure.He hopes they appreciate how wonderful
they are.
Vice Mayor Dietz closed the
discussion with no further comments and called for a motion.
Councilmember Barker MOVED
THAT THE SOLAR ENERGY POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY
AND SIEMENS INDUSTRIES AND THE CORRESPONDING COMMERCIAL SOLAR
ENERGY PROGRAM SUPPLEMENT BETWEEN SALT RIVER PROJECT, SIEMENS
INDUSTRIES AND THE CITY, AND THE SITE LEASE AGREEMENT BETWEEN
THE CITY AND SIEMENS INDUSTRIES AND ANY RELATED DOCUMENTS BE
AUTHORIZED WITH THE FOLLOWING STIPULATION:THAT THE CHANGES IN
THE RED LINE PPA DRAFT PRESENTED BY SIEMENS TO THE COUNCIL ON
JULY 17, 2012, BE ACCEPTED WITH THE FOLLOWING CHANGES:SECTION
8.2 ARTICLE C, FOLLOWING THE 1, 2, 3, 4 LINES OF STRIKEOUT,
RETAIN THE FOLLOWING WORDS:"EACH POLICY SHALL WAIVE THE
INSURER'S RIGHT TO SUBROGATION" PERIOD; STRIKE FROM THE WORD
"ACCEPT" DOWN THROUGH THE WORDS "CUSTOMER'S PROPERTY INSURER"
PERIOD; RETAIN THE WORDS "ANY SUCH POLICY OF INSURANCE SHALL
EXPRESSLY PROVIDE THAT INSURANCE AS TO SELLER SHALL NOT BE
INVALIDATED BY ANY ACT, OMISSION OR NEGLECT OF CUSTOMER AND
CANNOT BE CANCELED WITHOUT AT LEAST" AND REPLACE "FIFTEEN" WITH
THE WORD "THIRTY, PARENTHESES THE NUMBER 30", "DAYS PRIOR TO
WRITTEN NOTICE TO SELLER"; RETAIN THE NEXT SENTENCE THROUGH THE
WORDS "SECTION 8.2" AND STRIKE THE REMAINDER OF THAT ARTICLE;
AND ADD A SECTION 8.2F TO READ "IN ALL INSTANCES THE SELLER
SHALL BE LOOKED TO AS THE PRIMARY INSURING PARTY"; AND STRIKE
ALL OF SECTION 11; AND SECTION 8.1 ARTICLE A, FROM THE ORIGINAL
DOCUMENT DATED 7-12-2012 SHALL BE TAILORED WITH THE INSURANCE
PROVISION STATED ABOVE; AND THAT THE AMENDMENTS NOTED IN THE
SIEMENS' 7-12-2012 VERSION SHALL BE INCORPORATED INTO THE FINAL
VERSION AS WELL AS IN THE REVISED NUMBERS AS PER THE FINAL,
MAXIMIZED AMOUNT OF NET METERING; AND THAT ANY CONFLICTING
PROVISIONS WITH THESE AMENDMENTS SHALL BE TAILORED AT THE
DISCRETION OF THE CITY ATTORNEY INTO THE PPA AS WELL AS THE SITE
LEASE AGREEMENT.
Councilmember Wilson SECONDED
THE MOTION.
VOTE:Unanimous with the changes as noted.
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The motion carried.
ten minute break.
the meeting.
NEW BUSINESS
Vice Mayor Dietz called for a
Vice Mayor Dietz reconvened
APPOINTMENT TO FILL VACANCY ON THE
PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL RETIREMENT
BOARD
)City Clerk Kathleen
Connelly briefed the council on the item.
Vice Mayor Dietz called for
any discussion.There being no discussion, he called for a
motion.
Councilmember Waldron MOVED
THAT TROY MULLENDER BE APPOINTED TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL
RETIREMENT BOARD AS A POLICE DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVE WITH A
TERM TO EXPIRE OCTOBER 31, 2014.
Councilmember Evans SECONDED
THE MOTION.
VOTE:Unanimous.
The motion carried.
ACCEPTANCE OF RESIGNATION OF
CONRAD PISINSKI FROM THE
SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS COMMUNITY
FACILITIES DISTRICT BOARD OF
DIRECTORS, DIRECTION TO STAFF
ON FILLING THE VACANCY
)Councilmember Waldron
declared a conflict of interest and excused himself.
City Clerk Kathleen Connelly
briefed the council on the item.
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Councilmember Barker
commented she thinks they need to discuss their role in the
sewer district before we make a determination on how they want
to fill this seat.She asked that they hold off on this until
September to give them the opportunity to do that.
Vice Mayor Dietz commented
they can put off the direction to staff until September but they
still need to accept the resignation.
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated he believes the code states that they typically appoint
individuals at the first meeting in November.
City Clerk Kathleen Connelly
stated that is for annual appointments and reappointments.This
is out of sequence because it was a resignation in mid-term.
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated he does not know if they want to do it in conjunction
with that or appoint in September as that is what they said.
Councilmember Barker stated
that is what they were looking at.
City Attorney Joel Stern
commented there are some issues as to how the city relates to
the sewer district.Those are a little more in depth questions
that may take a while to get through.
Councilmember Barker
commented she prefers not to do this in conjunction with city
boards.She thinks that becomes a convoluted issue.But she
does not see any problem with putting this off until October.
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated that is what he wanted to clarify, but September is okay.
He just wanted to point out the city's regular board
appointments and he wanted her to know the difference.
City Clerk Kathleen Connelly
stated we will be doing interviews in October.If they hold off
on this until October, they will be mixing them.
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she would rather not.
on the motion.
this is a five member board.
stated it is.
many are currently on the board.
stated there are four.
Councilmember Barker stated
There was general discussion
Vice Mayor Dietz asked if
City Clerk Kathleen Connelly
Vice Mayor Dietz asked how
City Clerk Kathleen Connelly
Assistant City Manager Bryant
Powell commented if they set a specific date they may end up
having more questions and want more dialogue.It may take them
longer.He asked if they would be able to push it out later.
City Attorney Joel Stern
stated there may be legal issues and executive session issues.
They would have to do another motion if they set a date and go
beyond that date.They could keep it flexible.It is up to the
council.It is a discretionary matter; there is no legal limit
on it.
There was general discussion
on what date they should set for the appointment.
Councilmember Serdy asked how
long the terms are for this board.
City Clerk Kathleen Connelly
stated she thought she had attached a copy of the statute to the
item from last night.
Vice Mayor Dietz commented he
thought they were four year terms.
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Councilmember Serdy asked how
far into the term Conrad was.
City Clerk Kathleen Connelly
stated her memo from last night states that his term would
expire on July 7, 2014.These dates were set by statute and the
staggered terms were set by statute based upon when the board
was created.It does not line up with our city code when
everything expires in October.It is a totally different
sequence of events.
City Attorney Joel Stern
commented they were six year terms and that is probably why
there is some bumping back from 1992.
City Clerk Kathleen Connelly
stated if they look at the item from last night, there is a copy
of Arizona Revised Statute § 48-711 attached.It states that
the initial terms were for six years and subsequent terms are
for four years and that they are staggered.
Vice Mayor Dietz closed the
discussion with no further comments and called for a motion.
Councilmember Barker MOVED TO
ACCEPT THE RESIGNATION OF CONRAD PISINSKI, SADLY, FROM THE
SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT BOARD OF
DIRECTORS, AND THAT THE DIRECTION TO STAFF TO FILL THAT VACANCY
BE GIVEN AT A MEETING NO LATER THAN THE SECOND MEETING OF
SEPTEMBER.
Councilmember Wilson SECONDED
THE MOTION.
VOTE:Unanimous.
The motion carried.
Vice Mayor Dietz thanked
Conrad for his time served on the board and what he put into it.
Councilmember Waldron
returned to the council chambers and took his seat.
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COUNCIL DIRECTION TO STAFF
None.
SELECTION OF MEETING DATES, TIMES, LOCATIONS, AND PURPOSES
Councilmember Barker MOVED
THAT AN EXECUTIVE SESSION AT 5:45 P.M. AND A WORK SESSION AT
7:00 P.M. BE HELD ON MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012, IN THE CITY COUNCIL
CONFERENCE ROOM AND CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, RESPECTIVELY; AND
THAT AN EXECUTIVE SESSION AT 5:45 P.M. BE HELD ON TUESDAY,
AUGUST 7, 2012 IN THE CITY COUNCIL CONFERENCE ROOM.
Councilmember Wilson SECONDED
THE MOTION.
VOTE:Unanimous.
The motion carried.
CALL TO THE PUBLIC:
Mr. Dan Austin, 1353 S. Valley Drive, Apache Junction addressed
the council regarding the vacancy on the Superstition Mountains
Community Facilities District board of directors and gave them
some recommendations.
Mr. Todd House, 5027 E. Hidalgo Street, Apache Junction,
addressed the council regarding his support behind the city's
lawsuit against Final County on TIF funds.
ADJOURNMENT
)Vice Mayor Dietz adjourned
the meeting at 8:58 p.m.
Consent Agenda Items are as follows:
1. Acceptance of Agenda.
2. Approval of Minutes of Regular Meeting of July 3, 2012.
3. Approval of Minutes of Special Meeting of July 3, 2012.
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ACCEPTED THIS 7TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2012, BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA.
SIGNED AND ATTESTED TO THIS 7TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2012.
OHN S. INSALACO
Mayor
ATTEST:
KATHLEEN CONNELLY
City Clerk
CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
CERTIFICATION
I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are a true and
correct copy of the minutes of the regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Apache Junction, Arizona, held on the
17th day of July, 2012.I further certify that the meeting was
duly called and held and that a quorum was present.
Dated this 25th day of July, 2012.
KATHLEEN CONNELLY
City Clerk
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