City of Gainesville - File #: 060397.

• File #: 060397.
• Version: 0
• Name: Advanced Utility Services Gainesville Greens Project (B)
• Type: Staff Recommendation
• Status: Passed
• File created: 8/28/2006
• In control: General Manager for Utilities
• Final action: 8/28/2006
• Title: Advanced Utility Services Gainesville Greens Project (B) Staff is proposing to provide chilled water, emergency electrical generation, and communications services including Internet, high speed data, telephone, and possibly video to Gainesville Greens on a contractual basis. The terms and conditions for these services have been broadly defined in a Memorandum of Understanding and staff needs authorization to negotiate the required final agreement(s).

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/28/2006	0	City Commission	Approved as Recommended	Pass

Title
Advanced Utility Services Gainesville Greens Project (B)

Staff is proposing to provide chilled water, emergency electrical generation, and communications services including Internet, high speed data, telephone, and possibly video to Gainesville Greens on a contractual basis. The terms and conditions for these services have been broadly defined in a Memorandum of Understanding and staff needs authorization to negotiate the required final agreement(s).
Explanation
Since the summer of 2005 staff and the developers of the Gainesville Greens project have been exploring ways to make it a model of energy efficiency and advanced utility services. The attached Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is the result of those discussions to date, and provides a framework to provide Gainesville Greens with chilled water for air conditioning, emergency generation, and a communications network for the delivery and installation of advanced communication services such as Internet access, private line data, telephone, and video. It is very similar to the existing MOU for these services between University Corners and the City of Gainesville.

Chilled water for air conditioning can be very energy efficient but is only cost-effective for large installations. Two municipal utilities in Florida, JEA and the Orlando Utilities Commission, provide chilled water as a utility service to their downtown areas as a way to make these systems more cost-effective and available. Staff is proposing to provide similar services to the Gainesville Greens development, with a long-range intent to potentially offer these services to other projects in an interconnected network. Compared to a conventional direct expansion air conditioning system (similar to most apartment buildings in Gainesville), chilled water can reduce energy consumption for air conditioning by as much as half. Space for the chilled water plant has been reserved by the developer within the project limits of the Gainesvi...