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WHEREAS, to pay for a portion of the Project, the City has received aSelf-Generation Incentive Program SGIP rebate from PG&E in the amount of $255,000; and WHEREAS, the Project will provide a cost effective way for the City to obtain electricity and represents an efficient renewable energy project; and WHEREAS, City staff has calculated that the Project will reduce the cost of electrical energy purchased by the WPCP from PG&E by sixty percent and will reduce the emission of carbon dioxide by three million tons annually; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of San Leandro as follows: 1. That, after holding a noticed public hearing, the City Council finds the foregoing recitals are true and correct and are hereby declared to be findings of the City. 2. That, after holding a noticed public hearing, the City Council finds the award of the Agreement to Siemens is in the best interests of the City on the grounds that it will provide a renewable and reliable energy source that will further the City's waste water treatment activities. 3. That, after holding a noticed public hearing, the City Council finds that the anticipated cost to the City for the energy conservation services provided by the Project will be less than the anticipated marginal cost to the City of electrical energy that would have otherwise been purchased from PG&E or other market generators by the City in the absence of the City's award of an alternate energy service contract. 4. This Project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code Section 21000, "CEQA") pursuant to CEQA guidelines 15329, "Co- generation Projects at Existing Facilities." 5. That an appropriation of funds be made from the Water Pollution Control Plant Fund in the amount of $3,287,124. 6. That the expenditure of $3,287,124 million for the Project is hereby authorized and that the City Manager or his designee, on behalf of the City Council, is further authorized and directed to execute on behalf of the City said Agreement with Siemens. 7. This Resolution shall be effective immediately. 8. The provisions of this Resolution are severable and if any provision, clause, sentence, word or part thereof is held illegal, invalid, unconstitutional, or inapplicable to any person or circumstances, such illegality, invalidity, unconstitutionality, or inapplicability shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, clauses, sentences, sections, words or parts thereof of the ordinance or their applicability to other persons or circumstances. Introduced by Councilmember Grant and passed and adopted this 15th day of September, 2008, by the following called vote: RESOLUTION N0.2008-114 2