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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a contract extension with Leonardo Technologies, Inc. (LTI), for an additional program year and accept funds from LTI in the amount of $22,500, to be used for promoting the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities Program (Program) during the extended Program year ending
October 31, 2011, execute all related documents; and increase appropriations in the Fleet Fund (IS 386) in the Department of Public Works (PW) by $22,500. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The City of Long Beach founded the Long Beach Clean Cities Coalition in 1994 under the Department of Long Beach Energy. The Public Works Fleet Service Bureau now manages the Long Beach Clean Cities Coalition. The DOE’s Clean Cities Program is a voluntary, locally-based, government and industry partnership that mobilizes stakeholders to form Clean Cities Coalitions to advance the energy, economic, and environmental security of the United States. These coalitions support local decisions to adopt policies and practices that reduce the use of petroleum in the transportation sector, thereby reducing dependence on imported petroleum. These policies and practices include deployment of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs), hybrid electric vehicles, idle reduction technologies, fuel economy measures, low-level fuel blends and building local AFV refueling infrastructure. The City of Long Beach entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the DOE committing to work toward achieving the Program’s goals and objectives, and was designated a Clean Cities Coalition on August 31, 1994.
Through DOE’s efforts, LTI has allocated funding in the amount of $22,500 to the City of Long Beach, to aid efforts in promoting the DOE’s Clean Cities Program.
SUSTAINABILITY
The Program strives to advance the nation’s economic, environmental and energy security by supporting local governments, private fleets and the general public in their efforts to reduce petroleum consumption and reli...
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