Dupage Policy Journal

City of Naperville Public Utilities Advisory Board met Feb. 28.

Here are the minutes provided by the board:

A. CALL TO ORDER: 

Chairman Bulley called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. 

Chairman Bulley called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. 

B. ROLL CALL: 

Councilman Nathan Wilson, Philip Schrieber, Chairman Daniel Bulley, Louis   Halkias, Brandon Hoeft, Michelle Ackmann, Rahul Patel, Sahil Bari, DPUE Director Brian Groth and DPUW Director Darrell Blenniss 

Present 6 - Michelle Ackmann, Daniel Bulley, Louis Halkias, Brandon Hoeft, Dan Knotter, and  Philip Schrieber

Absent 2 - Abbas Bhikhapurawala, and Russell Paluch 

Also Present: 

C. PUBLIC FORUM: 

Environment Coal Concern 

Nicholas Mitchell, (NEST), Discussed Issues with coal 

Al Karvelis, (NEST), Discussed carbon capture 

Grant Levitan (NEST), Discussed competitive bidding process 

Cathy Clarkin (NEST), Public meeting on March 18, 2024 at North Central  College 

Nicholas Mitchell-Nest Group: Briefly review Naperville's power generation situation discussing Naperville's power today. (2:09 min.) 

Albert Karvelis-NEST Group: Carbon capture or coal fired power plants.(3:12 min.) 

Grant Levitan-NEST Group: Energy contract. Opposed of Sole Source contract.(3:56 min.) 

Cathy Clarkin-Co-Chairwoman NEST Group: Public involvement in the bidding process and holding public hearings where NEST can help.  

Generate awareness of special event NEST is holding called Naperville's Coal Problem: Seize the Clean Energy Future. (3:20 min.) 

Conclude Public Forum.:Ackmann made a motion, seconded by Hoeft Motion was passed by voice vote. 

D. OLD BUSINESS: 

1. Receive PUAB Meeting Minutes 25-May-23 

PUAB Meeting Minutes 25-May-23 

Ackmann made a motion, seconded by Hoeft to approve the PUAB meeting minutes of May 25, 2024. Motion was passed by voice vote. 

E. NEW BUSINESS: 

1. Receive the presentation on the 2024 Water Rate Study and reach consensus on a recommendation to City Council 

F. REPORTS: 

DPU-Water General Information Sheet 2024 

Presentation 

Legistar Memo - Rate Study Background 

Presentation by Darrell Blenniss-Director of DPUW.  

Challenges operating the utility and talk about framework, capital investments to  take on those challenges. Major bid and its support functions, recent operation trends in the utility, compliance mandate and suggested capital approaches, rate study (3 year opportunity) to align our revenues.

1. Receive PUAB Water 2023 Year End Water Supply Report 

WaterSupplyReports2023 (1) Water_Consumption_2023_PDF 

2. Receive the PUAB Springbrook Water Reclamation Center Plant Flows Report 

2023 PLANT FLOW AND PRECIPITATION Springbrook_Effluent

3. Receive PUAB Water 2023 Year End CIP Report 

DEPARTMENT: Water Utilities 

SUBMITTED BY: Doug Splitt 

Water CIP Report 

Re4. Receive the 2023 Year End Financial Summary 

DEPARTMENT: Water Utilities 

SUBMITTED BY: Doug Splitt 

Department Financial Summary 

Recommendation supporting staff's service level recommendations and associated priorities to inform the 2025-2027 Rate Study. 

Motion to approve by Halkias, seconded by Ackmann. Motion passes by voice vote. 

5. Receive the Electric Utilities Preliminary 2023 Financial Summary 

The Electric Utilities Preliminary 2023 Financial Summary 

Presentation by Brian Groth, Director of DPUE  

Year end financial summary revenues are low due to demand in energy sales and below one million megawatt hours per year sales estimate that we had in the rate study. Expenses are higher in general due to material costs for non-reimbursable projects. Power costs in the industry generally fluctuate and the way we feel the utility and the city prognoses fluctuations in power costs in purchase power adjustments (PPA) which is a small fraction of a penny. It's been plus or minus half a penny over the past year. We collect depending on the power costs from IMEA. So, one month if we have a plant outage the cost will go higher because they will have to purchase on the market. If plants are operating well, as they have been for the past year, then power costs are lower. That GPA base rate is set by the rate consultant based on the 5 years or 3 year projection cost by IMEA. It's a way of making sure that the electric utility capital and maintenance projects don't have to suffer when power costs go high. But on the downside, we could certainly use the cash when power costs are below budget. 

6. Receive the Electric Utilities Preliminary 2023 Financial Details 

The Electric Utilities Preliminary 2023 Financial Details 

7. Receive the Electric Utilities 2023 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) 

Electric Utilities 2023 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) 

8. Receive the Electric Utilities SAIDI 2023 Report 

The Electric Utilities SAIDI 2023 Report 

Motion to approve Electric Utilities report by Ackmann, seconded by Schrieber  

Motion was passed by voice vote 

9. Receive EE & RE Dashboard-12-31-23 

G. ADJOURNMENT: 

Schrieber made a motion, seconded by Ackmann to adjourn the regular PUAB meeting of February 28, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. Motion was passed by voice vote. 

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