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INFORMATION <br />MEMORANDUM <br />~~ <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Rebecca Haug, Environmental Administrator <br />Gary Lore, Building Maintenance Supervisor <br />DATE: November 7, 201 1 <br />SUBJECT: RETAP Audit for City Hall & the Activity Center <br />The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has a program called the Retiree <br />Environmental Technical Assistance Program (RETAP). This program employs skilled <br />retired professionals to provide environmental facility assessments and community <br />sustainabiliry assistance at no cost. T'he assessments look at the facility's energy, waste, and <br />water usage. The assessments involve an on-site visit to the facility from a team of RETAP <br />retirees with emphasis on finding opportunities to reduce waste, increase energy-efficiency, <br />and conservation and reduce operating costs. <br />Staff contacted RETAP to help determine ways to increase the efficiency of the heating and <br />cooling systems at City Hall and the Activity Center. These two facilities were chosen based <br />on their utility usage as they ranked quite high when compared to other cities' facilities that <br />were similar to age and size. <br />Staff including Gary Lore, Butch Pelarski, Dennis Anderson, Steven (Ross) Pomeroy, Vance <br />7ehringer, and I met with L.arry> 1~Iot1 and Norm Ledeboer on July 26, 2011 to tour both <br />facilities. Prior to the tour, staff provided Mr. Ledeboer with a year's worth of electric, <br />natural gas, water, and waste data for both facilities. <br />After the tour, Mr. Ledeboer requested some additional information about both facilities and <br />then prepared. the attached report. The report gives recommendations for ways in which the <br />City can save money at each facility. Because of this report, staff is working on making some <br />of the recommendations as time and money permit. <br />N:\Public Bodies\City Council\Counal RCA\Agenda Packet\11-07-2011\RH Info.docx <br />