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Carbondale trustees hear Garfield Clean Energy update; staff seek 5% membership increase
Summary
Garfield Clean Energy, operated by CLEAR, briefed the Town of Carbondale trustees on energy-efficiency programs, electric-vehicle and mobility work, and a request that member contributions increase about 5% as part of the town budget process.
At a Carbondale Board of Trustees work session, Garfield Clean Energy (GCE) staff operating under contract with CLEAR gave an update on countywide energy programs and asked the town to consider a roughly 5% increase in its membership contribution as staff draft the 2026 budget.
The presentation, delivered by Morgan Hill, associate director at CLEAR, and Dovah Zilli, CLEAR’s mobility program manager, covered four GCE focus areas: energy efficiency and electrification, locally produced renewable energy, clean transportation and multimodal mobility, and clean-energy workforce development. Hill said GCE is a government collaborative of nine member governments formalized through an intergovernmental agreement and that CLEAR operates several of GCE’s programs under contract.
Hill described Reenergize Garfield County, an income-qualified, one-stop residential efficiency program launched in 2022.…
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