2014-07-17 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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bring technology and integration to find a single platform to work across all department’s needs are more daunting that one would have thought. · Ms. Kierkiewicz said there is no one size fits all solution. Ms. Kierkiewicz and Ms. Maddox reported the following on increasing energy: · Mr. Lau and Mr. Kurohara talked about having an energy efficient tip sheet that was developed and are hoping to re-visit that making it more visually appealing and stress the importance of shutting down your computers at the end of the day, etc. · There was also a suggestion of doing a County-wide competition to engage departments in being more energy efficient. · Another suggestion was purchasing tracking devises that could be plugged into the different energy sockets to see how much each piece of equipment is using in terms of energy. · Street lights are being transitioned to operate with photovoltaic panels and the goal was 5,000 lights. Ms. Maddox stated they are replacing streetlights with LEDs; there are 10,000 streetlights on the island and they retrofitted 5,000. In doing that, they need to ensure they don’t interfere with the observatories notion of clean light, dark skies. Ms. Kierkiewicz stated the dark sky system requirement must be met and the goal is to install the remaining streetlights by the end of the Mayor’s term. Mr. Espejo asked what the tolerant level for the dark sky requirement is. Ms. Maddox commented that new section of highway in Kona feels like there are hundreds of streetlights and cannot figure out how that meets the dark sky requirements; someone said it’s further away from the observatory so it does not have an impact. Mr. Mitchell commented it should be under lumens. There are lot of codes of federal regulations and state regulations about how many lumens a light can emit. · Currently in the process of doing a cost analysis of all County facilities for retrofitting them for photovoltaics starting with the highest priority which if Fire and Police; part of that study also has to be whether or not those existing structures could handle the photovoltaic system. Ms. Kierkiewicz reported the following on renewable energy projects: · The Lalamilo wind farm is going to be used to serve the Department of Water Supply. Ms. Kierkiewicz reported the following on vehicle policies: · They are replacing gas guzzling vehicles and want to integrate more energy efficient vehicles like the electronic vehicles. Ms. Kelly asked if they have a plan or schedule for the replacement of vehicles. Ms. Kierkiewicz was not sure but will ask as a follow up question. 6