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File #: 17-0524    Version: 1
Type: Consent - Staff Report Status: Agenda Ready
In control: City Council Regular Meeting
On agenda: 12/19/2017 Final action:
Title: Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 17-0022 Authorizing the Implementation of a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Program in the City; Appointment of Second Alternate Director (Community Development Director McIntosh). ADOPT ORDINANCE NO. 17-0022 AND APPOINT SECOND ALTERNATE DIRECTOR
Attachments: 1. Ordinance No. 17-0022
TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council

THROUGH:
Mark Danaj, City Manager

FROM:
Anne McIntosh, Director of Community Development
Dana Murray, Environmental Programs Manager

SUBJECT:Title
Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 17-0022 Authorizing the Implementation of a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Program in the City; Appointment of Second Alternate Director (Community Development Director McIntosh).
ADOPT ORDINANCE NO. 17-0022 AND APPOINT SECOND ALTERNATE DIRECTOR
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Adopt Ordinance No. 17-0022
2. Appoint City's Environmental Manager to serve as second alternate to take the place of the primary appointment and first alternate when they are unavailable.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
No fiscal implications associated with the recommended action.

BACKGROUND:
On December 5, 2017, the City Council introduced an enabling ordinance to implement a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) and authorized the Mayor to execute a Joint Powers Agreement to join the Los Angeles Community Choice Energy Authority (LACCE). Later that evening, the Mayor, with the concurrence of the City Council, appointed Mayor Amy Howorth as board director and Mayor Pro Tem Steve Napolitano as the Alternate. Staff now recommends that the City Council appoints Environmental Manager Dana Murray as second alternate.

DISCUSSION:
According to the terms of the LACCE JPA: "The governing body of each Party shall appoint and designate in writing one regular Director who shall be authorized to act for and on behalf of the Party on matters within the powers of the Authority. The governing body of each Party shall appoint and designate in writing up to two alternate Directors who may vote on matters when the regular Director is absent from a Board meeting. The person appointed and designated as the regular Director shall be an elected or appointed member of the governing body of the...

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