Date:	October 28, 2020

Place:	Enterprise City Council Chambers

Time:	7:00 PM

Present: Mayor Brandon Humphries; Council Members Jared Moody, Ronald Lehm, Jed Gardner, and Roy Adams and; City Administrator Adam Bowler, City Recorder Wendy Paine, Brenden Moody, Francisco Chavez, Konstance Shock, Adam Holt, Breckon Nelson, Belinda Hall, Dallas Hall, Emily Shurtliff, Jeri Lehm, Evan Johnson, Mark Stauffer, Margaret Barlocker, Denise Jones, Rick Jones, Kim McLaughlin, Joe McLaughlin, Juel Moody, Reid Cope, Kea Christiansen, Haunani Garcia, Ashton Gardner.

Absent: Council Member Jared Bollinger

Welcome: Mayor Brandon Humphries Opening Comments: Council Member Jared Moody Pledge: Council Member Roy Adams

Approve Agenda: The Council was presented with the agenda. After review a motion was made by Council Member Ron Lehm to approve the agenda as presented, the motion was seconded by Council Member Jed Gardner and unanimously approved.

Approve Minutes: The minutes from the October 14, 2020 City Council Meeting were reviewed. A motion to accept the minutes as presented was made by Council Member Roy Adams, seconded by Council Member Jared Moody and unanimously approved.

Accounts Payable: The accounts payable for the dates through October 27, 2020 for the amount of $34,464.43 was reviewed by the Council. A motion to approve the accounts payables was made by Council Member Ron Lehm, seconded by Council Member Roy Adams and unanimously approved.

Open Forum: Mayor Humphries opened the meeting to the public for remarks, limiting the time to 3 minutes for each person. Lee Bracken is the City’s designee on IPA Power Board. The City is a participant in the IPP project and owns a small interest in that plant. The City’s portion of power is currently laid off and being used by California. We do not make or lose and money on it. The power at the plant is coal generated and has been running at about 50% capacity, but with the recent increase in demand from California it has been ramped up to run at 100% capacity right now. Cost to generate power there is running at about $65.00 per megawatt hour. The coal fired plant will be retired in 2025 and we will be participating in replacing that with a natural gas fired plant. The energy capacity of which will reduce from 1800 megawatts down to 840 megawatts. That will reduce our access to the produced power by about 50%. The California participants want to place conditions on the re-firing of the plant to include using hydrogen as a fuel source. Currently no power plant exists like the one they are proposing on the planet. The technology does not currently exist. Using hydrogen would raise the base price of power generated to $78 - $80 per megawatt hour. The debt on the plant retires in 2024. There will be 2 years where the cost of the power will drop to $45.00 per hour which would be a good time for the Council to look at calling some of that power back. The decommissioning cost for the plant is projected at $280 million. They are debating who should have to pay that cost. The City is still committed to participating in the renewal project. Mayor Humphries thanked Mr. Bracken for his continued service on that board and said that he brings with him a lot of knowledge and wisdom. As there were no additional remarks made, the Council continued on to the next item on the agenda.

Emergency Services – Council Member Jared Bollinger

Update on County Surge Equipment Purchases – Chief Brenden Moody

Washington County has been given another $2.8 million to purchase medical equipment needed for the pandemic. They are buying 5 fully stocked ambulances, 4 trailers with medical tents with cots and monitors, some light towers, and some portable hand washing stations. Enterprise will have access to any of these items for use at big events or emergencies. The County is also giving one of the fully stocked ambulances to Enterprise. It will belong to the City and we will have to maintain it after the 5 year warranty expires. These county purchases do not affect the items that we have already purchased for the City’s needs. There was some discussion on what to do with the oldest ambulance. The county has already ordered these products, there are time limits for spending the money and for taking delivery of the supplies. Fire Chief Brenden Moody will be asking the County for 3 load systems for our ambulances.

Power – Council Member Jed Gardner

Consideration of Enterprise Continuing in the UAMPS Carbon Free Power Project

It is now time for what UAMPS is calling the off ramp for the Carbon Free Power Project or CFPP. It is City’s chance to get out of the project or to choose to remain a participant. There would be no additional costs to get out, but we will not be reimbursed for the approximately $18,000.00 that has been paid in to date. If we stay in the project the costs going forward can be rolled into the energy cost per kilowatt hour and be part of the bonding process. If we get to a point in the future where we want to get out of the project, there will be a cost. We will be responsible for those participation costs up to that point with a twelve month payback period. We have a credit amount at UAMPS of at least $78,000.00 that would cover our projected costs up to the next off ramp in January of 2022.

Several cities have pulled out recently so the project has a high likelihood of going away. If it does go away, we will need to find a different power source to meet our needs as other plants are taken offline.

We would like to set a cap on what we are willing to commit to at about $80,000.00. All of which could be covered by our UAMPS credit. Mark Stauffer asked if we get money back if the company fails on their part of the contract. The answer is yes, as long as no one goes bankrupt. That is why there is a certain level of risk. That is why we are comfortable only to a certain capping point.

Different power source options and political policies were discussed by the Council, Power Supervisor Isaac Jones and the public.

A motion was made by Council Member Jared Moody to approve Res. 2019-008 Clean Entitlement Share Adjustment with the original allocation 600 kWh or a percentage cost share cap of 0.39% which would put the dollar amount cap at about $80,000.00. The motion was seconded by Council Member Roy Adams and a voice vote showed all in favor.

We will know by next week whether or not the project will go forward.

Other Business: The Mayor was asked by the Mayor of another city if Enterprise was allowing its residents to go trick or treating. The Mayor told him that our citizens are free to act as they see fit and feel comfortable acting.

Next scheduled City Council Meeting November 18, 2020 at 7:00 PM

As there were no other items on the agenda, the meeting was adjourned at 8:27 PM

Respectfully Submitted:

Wendy L. Paine/Enterprise City Recorder