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Hartford closes public hearing on 20-year solar lease authorizing mayor to negotiate with CTEC Solar
Summary
At a July 21 public hearing, the Hartford City Council heard a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter a 20-year lease and easement for a solar power facility with CTEC Solar; no public speakers registered and no vote was recorded at the hearing.
Councilman TJ Clark, assistant majority leader for the Hartford City Council, opened a public hearing July 21 on a resolution authorizing the mayor of Hartford to enter into a solar power facility site lease and easement agreement that would provide a 20-year lease to CTEC Solar.
The nut of the item, as read by Councilman Clark, was a proposed resolution empowering the mayor to execute a 20-year lease and easement for a solar facility with CTEC Solar. Councilman Clark also read the city’s public-hearing procedures, including a five-minute limit for individual speakers and a request that remarks be addressed to the council as a body.
No members of the public registered to speak either in favor of or in opposition to the item. After confirming there were no public comments, Councilman Clark closed the public hearing and adjourned the meeting. The council did not take a recorded vote on the resolution during the hearing and no formal action was entered on the record at that time.
The hearing was broadcast live on HPA TV (hpatv.org), Comcast Xfinity channel 96, Frontier channel 6032, and streamed via Roku TV, Apple TV and Facebook Live, according to the council’s opening remarks.
Because the transcript records only the opening and closing of the hearing and no formal vote, it does not show whether the council later adopted the resolution or any revisions to the lease. Future council records or subsequent meetings would be the sources for any final vote or contract language.
Notes: the transcript alternately references the item as "2.2" and "2.1" when the agenda item was read aloud; the record here follows the council member’s final read of the item as 2.1. The mayor is referenced in the item text as the official empowered to execute the lease; no mayoral remarks appear in the hearing transcript.
