Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Denton Municipal Electric
CM/ ACM: Todd Hileman
Date: April 24, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider recommending that the City Council approve an ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas, authorizing a waiver for the Texas Municipal Power Agency's (TMPA) decommissioning plan deadline for the Gibbons Creek power plant, and authorizing TMPA to develop a decommissioning plan within a reasonable time if its efforts to sell the plant are abandoned; and providing an effective date.
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BACKGROUND
The City of Denton is a member of the Texas Municipal Power Agency that owns transmission, generation, and related assets that deliver electric power to TMPA member cities (City of Denton, City of Bryan, City of Garland, City of Greenville). On June 28, 2016 the City Council of Denton, as a member city of the TMPA, authorized adoption of a Joint Operations Agreement (JOA) with the other TMPA member cities. This agreement sets forth the governance rules for how the member cities wish TMPA to run its operation. Section 5.3.1 of the JOA requires TMPA to develop a decommissioning plan for its Gibbons Creek power plant within 12 months of the adoption of the agreement. Based on the effective date of the JOA, that deadline is on or about September 1, 2017.
Due to the ongoing negotiations between TMPA and a potential buyer of the Gibbons Creek plant, the decommissioning plan development may not be necessary. Therefore, the deadline for decommissioning should be delayed via waiver authorized by the TMPA member cities. A deadline waiver would constitute a modification of the JOA. The agreement states that such a modification may be accomplished only upon the mutual consent of all of the member cities, in writing.
TMPA is requesting that all member TMPA cities authorize a waiver of the power plant decommissioning deadline pending its ongoing efforts to sell the power plant.
OPTIONS
1. Recommend that the City of Denton authorize an ordinance...
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