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Council retroactively authorizes payments and amends maintenance agreement for city smart meters; Green Button Connect clarified
Summary
The council approved staff's recommendation to ratify retroactive maintenance payments and delegate authority for a maintenance amendment with Elster Solutions LLC covering the city's advanced metering infrastructure; staff said the contract does not itself implement Green Button Connect but supports meter communications.
The Santa Clara City Council unanimously approved an item on Aug. 12 delegating authority to the city manager to execute Amendment No. 1 to the system maintenance agreement with Elster Solutions LLC for the city's advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), to negotiate and execute related purchase orders and amendments, and to ratify previous payments that exceeded prior council authorization.
Councilmember Jane pulled the item from the consent calendar to ask about a retroactive payment and whether the meters and supporting software would enable Green Button Connect, a utility data access…
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