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Oshkosh advisory board approves Comprehensive Energy Plan and forwards it to City Council
Summary
The Oshkosh City Sustainability Advisory Board voted unanimously to approve the city’s Comprehensive Energy Plan, updating building priority rankings after consultant corrections and authorizing staff to forward the plan to City Council for consideration.
The Oshkosh City Sustainability Advisory Board on Monday, Oct. 6 voted 7-0 to approve the city’s Comprehensive Energy Plan and forward it to the Oshkosh City Council for review and action.
Board members said the version presented incorporated numeric corrections from the consultant that changed some building-priority rankings. Staff told the board they had drafted a memo and expected the plan to be considered by City Council the following week.
The action followed a brief review of edits the consultant supplied after the board’s last meeting. Board members and staff said the primary changes were corrections to calculations used in return-on-investment (ROI) and annual energy-use estimates for priority buildings; those corrections shifted some facilities between higher and lower retrofit priorities.
Emma (Staff member) told the board that the consultant’s revisions chiefly adjusted numbers and priorities rather than changing policy recommendations. “After, hopefully, you all approve it tonight, I believe next week it’ll be going to Council and I did draft a memo for this for the Board tonight,” Emma said, describing the next steps and the memo staff prepared for Council.
Board members moved and seconded approval without extended discussion. The board then held a roll-call vote: Margie Davie — yes; Vic (Mc)Oliver — yes; Jacob Claymyer — yes; Alyssa Reinke — yes; Jaden Zurn — yes; Brad Spanbauer — aye; Amy Schueller — yes. The motion carried 7-0.
The board noted that the consultant had discovered a calculation error that affected ROI and priority categorizations; staff said those corrected figures were reflected in the version approved and that no additional substantive policy language had been changed. The board’s approval submits the plan to City Council for its consideration and possible adoption.
The board did not set an implementation schedule at the meeting; staff said Council consideration would be the next formal step and that any subsequent implementation decisions (for example, specific building-level solar projects or funding allocations) would follow separate City Council actions.
The board’s approval does not itself authorize construction or funding; it authorizes forwarding the plan to the City Council for recommendation and approval.
No further formal actions were taken on the Comprehensive Energy Plan during the meeting.
