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Chief Administrative Office, on behalf of the Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC), is interested in partnering with the County of El Dorado to support a Lake Tahoe Green Energy District, the benefits include a reduction in energy consumption, operating costs, and improving the environment of the Lake Tahoe Basin; and recommending the Chairman be authorized to sign a letter of support for Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC), The Lake Tahoe Green Energy District, and the ARRA Geothermal Technology Ground Source Heat Pump Grant Program.
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Background:
Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) is coordinating an inter-agency effort at South Lake Tahoe to reduce operating costs and reduce fossil fuel emissions through the use of green energy technologies. In response to the current economic environment and reduced operating budgets, it is important for all publicly funded organizations to identify and implement operational efficiencies, but to do so in the most responsible and visionary manner.
The increasing cost of fossil fuels (which supply the energy for heating and electricity) as well as the impending change in our regional public utility create a significant risk of sharply increased energy costs in a period when our budgets are already under duress in the fulfillment of our publicly mandated missions. The Lake Tahoe Basin faces an ongoing threat to its environment from the ever increasing consumption of fossil fuel energy in the Basin.
LTCC is working with the following partners in reviewing opportunities to reduce our energy-related operating costs, reduce the carbon emissions in the Basin and implement green technology in South Lake Tahoe:
· City of South Lake Tahoe
· Lake Tahoe Unified School District
· Barton Healthcare
· South Tahoe Public Utility District
· US Forest Service (US Dept of Agriculture)
· California Tahoe Conservancy (State of CA)
Lake Tahoe Community College is requesting that the County of El Dorado join the coalition and support a...
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