Agenda Item Wording:
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Adjust the Not To Exceed amount on Trillium Contract. Authorize staff to adjust the contract terms from the not to exceed $150,000 annually previously approved by the City Council up to and not to exceed $350,000 annually.
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Deadline for Action: 5/6/2024
Submitting Department: Administration - Transit Division
Contact Name and Phone Number:
Angelina DeRossett, Transit Manager, Angelina.DeRossett@Visalia.City (559) 713-4591
John Lollis, Assistant City Manager, John.Lollis@Visalia.City, (559) 713-4323
Department Recommendation:
Staff requests that City Council authorize the Trillium contract be increased not to exceed $350,000 on an annual basis.
Background Discussion:
The Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) station located at the Transit Operations and Maintenance Facility at 525 North Cain Street in Visalia is owned and maintained by the City's Transit Division. The Transit Division directly operates a fleet of forty-five (45) CNG buses from the Facility. The CNG station includes a public access fueling station which is accessible twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven days per week. Additionally, the fueling station supplies an adjacent slow-fill system for fueling the City's Solid Waste fleet of approximately sixty (60) vehicles.
At its meeting on October 16, 2023, the City Council approved the City Manager to enter into a contract with Trillium for the Management and Maintenance of the CNG station, management of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits, Electric credits, and ensure the supply of CNG to the station for an initial term of three years with the option to renew for two consecutive one-year periods up to a total of five years. Funding for these contracts are pre-existing within the current operational budget.
At the time of award, staff had planned to keep the incoming monies from the LCFS and Energy credits combined with the outgoing cost of the CNG station maintenance as an offset with a contract payout to Tril...
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