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Air Quality Management District (AQMD) recommending the Board, acting as the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District (AQMD) Board of Directors:
1) Award Public Works Bid 2025-0130 for the replacement of electric vehicle chargers at County facilities and park and ride locations to Lily Pad EV LLC;
2) Authorize the Chair of the Board to execute Public Works Agreement 10118 in the amount of $208,561 for a two-year term upon execution, pending approval of County Counsel and Risk Management;
3) Establish an initial fee for the use of the new chargers at $0.38 per kilowatt hour; and
4) Direct staff to evaluate the fee each year and recommend updated fees in the proposed fiscal year AQMD budgets starting with the FY2027/28 budget.
FUNDING: California Department of Motor Vehicles AB 2766 Subvention Funds.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
There are a total of fifty-four (54) EV chargers at fifteen (15) County facilities and park and ride locations that are accessible to the public. Since 1999, AQMD has acquired funding for and worked with Facilities staff and private contractors to install these chargers throughout El Dorado County (EDC). To incentivize EV usage in EDC, the electricity costs have been paid by AQMD with AB 2766 motor vehicle emission reduction funding. EV adoption is becoming much more prevalent, as of 12/31/2024 approximately 1.9M electric and plug-in light duty vehicles were registered in California. Several of the EDC EV chargers are now being very heavily used. AQMD staff believes this incentive is no longer necessary and recommend replacing the free for use EV chargers with chargers capable of collecting a fee from the user. It is expected that collecting a fee will increase the availability of the chargers.
The Procurement and Contracts Division issued Invitation to Bid No. 2025-0130, Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Replacement, with four (4) addenda to replace thirty-eight (38) chargers at ten (10) locations. Bids were received from...
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