Parks and City Light Committee advances utility and property bills
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The committee unanimously recommended three City bills for Council approval, including a change to Seattle City Light rate rules, a ten-year transportation electrification agreement option, and transferring Lake City Garage and Plaza to Seattle Parks and Recreation.
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What this means
The committee moved three measures forward without opposition. One would transfer control of Lake City Garage and Plaza to Seattle Parks and Recreation. Another would change Seattle City Light’s retail rate rules, including new terms for large data centers and some customer assistance provisions. A third would let Seattle City Light make ten-year agreements with customers in transportation electrification programs.
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- Recommended passage of CB 121250, transferring jurisdiction and management of Lake City Garage and Plaza from the Department of Finance and Administrative Services to Seattle Parks and Recreation.
- Recommended passage as amended of CB 121231, establishing new Seattle City Light retail rate schedules and related service rules.
- Heard information item Inf 2921 on the Seattle City Light 2025 Baker Tilly Independent Audit.
- Recommended passage of CB 121249, authorizing ten-year agreements with customers eligible for transportation electrification programs.
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Parks and City Light Committee
Agenda
- This meeting also constitutes a meeting of the City Council, provided that the meeting shall be conducted as a committee meeting under the Council Rules and Procedures, and Council action shall be limited to committee business.
- Please Note: Times listed are estimated
- Call To Order
- Approval of the Agenda
- Public Comment
- Items of Business
- An ordinance relating to City-owned real property known as Lake City Garage and Plaza; transferring jurisdiction and management authority from the Department of Finance and Administrative Services to Seattle Parks and Recreation for municipal purposes; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
- An ordinance relating to the City Light Department; establishing new retail rate schedules; establishing a new customer class and conditions of service for data centers whose electricity demand constitutes a new large load; modifying customer charges for service connections; modifying customer eligibility for residential rate assistance; augmenting the rate stabilization account mechanism; amending Sections 21.49.020, 21.49.030, 21.49.040, 21.49.052, 21.49.055, 21.49.057, 21.49.058, 21.49.060, 21.49.065, 21.49.083, 21.49.086, 21.49.110, and 21.49.130 of the Seattle Municipal Code; adding a new Section 21.49.059 to the Seattle Municipal Code; and repealing Section 21.49.081 of the Seattle Municipal Code.
- Seattle City Light (SCL) 2025 Baker Tilly Independent Audit
- An ordinance relating to the City Light Department; authorizing ten-year agreements with customers eligible for transportation electrification programs.
- Adjournment
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