FY26 Proposed Budget

Goals, objectives, and performance measures

Climate Action

Strategic Plan Value: Department Goal:

Foster and improve healthy sustainable municipally owned buildings, with a focus on energy savings, healthier environments and best life cycle costs. Decrease the City's carbon emissions, energy and water use in public buildings and infrastructures. To better monitor and improve existing infrastructure systems in Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditions (HVAC), Building Envelopes, Building Automation Systems (BAS), including LED

Department Objective:

Performance Measures: Annual Sustainability Improvements in energy, water and carbon emissions

FY 2022

FY2023

Mercer Natatorium LED Lighting Project

RALRC Meeting room AHU 2 HVAC replacement

City Hall PD RTU 3 HVAC Replacement 14 IEER

Fairmeadows Spashpad feature replacement

Wetherby Spashpad feature replacement unavailable 4

Mercer Natatorium Dehumidification Project*

Project:

14,085** indeterminant 1 no Therms indeterminant 1 $4,499** indeterminant 1

3,206 3

49,158 5

Annual kWh electrical savings

8,000

Annual Therms savings

n/a

no Therms no Therms

60,303

$550 2

unavailable 4

$22,426 5

Annual energy savings in dollars

$328

Energy Incentive Rebate

n/a

pending

pending

no rebate no rebate no rebate/t. gas*

Water reduction/savings

n/a

n/a

n/a

31,800 GPD 18,600 GPD 1 million GPY

Performance Measures: Annual Sustainability Improvements in energy, water and carbon emissions

FY 2026 Estimated

FY 2024

FY 2025 Projected

City Hall 3rd floor remodel LED lighting

Mercer ADA paving & LED lighting project

Fire Station 1 Remodel Lighting

Senior Center HVAC Automation

Project:

Iowa City Poilce LED lighting

Annual kWh electrical savings

2,830 kWh 14,741 kWh TBD

TBD TBD

Annual Therms savings

N/A

N/A

TBD

TBD TBD

Annual energy savings in dollars

$200

$674

$4,778

$1,781

TBD

Energy Incentive Rebate

N/A

N/A

TBD

TBD TBD

Water reduction/savings

N/A

N/A

TBD

TBD TBD

*Electricity rebate only; facilities with transfer gas do not qualify for natural gas savings.

4 2019 Pre-pandemic 2019 utility information for this meter is unavailable 5 Dehumidification unit programmed to meet current building Air Quality Codes. The system start up 04/26/22; Acceptance pending. The energy usage will be compared following a full year of operations. approximate $550/yr in energy consumption. In estimated 20yr lifecycle for unit,approximate $10,000 savings. 3 Splashpads Memorial Day- Labor Day. The energy usage will be compared for current 2023 summer season to full season of pre-pandemic operation in 2019 **Lifecycle cost: Calculation closer to 40% to 50% in actual energy savings & lamp replacement costs (< landfill material), and Cost calculations do not include labor savings of staff time in bulb replacement. Gallons per day ( GPD ); Gallons per Year ( GPY ) 1 Unit qualified for rebate. Options for replacement system limited for tonnage and availability; replaced with AHRI #206717670; energy savings indeterminate. 2 Cooling mode energy efficiency approximately 10 - 20%. With this increased efficiency, will save

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