Utility Commission Meeting
Agenda

Tuesday, September 03, 2024 at 2:00 P.m. - 3:00 P.m.

Meeting held electronically and in Committee Room 2

City Hall

We recognize and respect that New Westminster is on the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Halkomelem speaking peoples. We acknowledge that colonialism has made invisible their histories and connections to the land. As a City, we are learning and building relationships with the people whose lands we are on.

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1.

CALL TO ORDER AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Chair will open the meeting and provide a land acknowledgement.

2.

APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA

Additions or deletion of items.

• Recommendation

  THAT the Electric Utility Commission adopt the Regular Meeting agenda of September 3, 2024.

3.

ADOPTION OF MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS

• Recommendation

  THAT the Electric Utility Commission adopt:

  1. Regular Commission Minutes of October 3, 2023;
  2. Regular Commission Minutes of February 20, 2024; and
  3. Regular Commission Minutes of May 22, 2024.

4.

REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS

4.1

Energy and Climate Action Department Organizational Structure

Verbal report by Leya Behra, Deputy Director, Climate Action, and Marc Rutishauser, Deputy Director, Electrical Services.

a.

Attachment

4.2

Deepening partnerships with BC Hydro on Program Delivery

Verbal report by Leya Behra, Deputy Director, Climate Action.

4.3

BC Utilities Commission Decisions and Local Government Interests in the Energy Transition

Correspondence dated July 22, 2024.

• Recommendation

  THAT the Electric Utility Commission receive the correspondence regarding BC Utilities Commission Decisions and Local Government Interests in the Energy Transition, as attached to the agenda package of September 3, 2024, for information.

5.

NEW BUSINESS

6.

CLOSURE OF THE MEETING TO THE PUBLIC & COMPLIANCE WITH THE COMMUNITY CHARTER CLOSED MEETING CRITERIA

• Recommendation

  THAT the Electric Utility Commission move into meeting closed to the public and that the basis of this closure is that the following items on the agenda comply with Section 90 of the Community Charter:

  90(1)(k) negotiations and related discussions respecting the proposed provision of a municipal service that are at their preliminary stages and that, in the view of the council, could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality if they were held in public.

7.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Remaining scheduled meetings for 2024, which take place Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted:

• November 19.