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Committee approves city logo use for Grow Solar Milwaukee–Waukesha partnership
Summary
The Community Affairs Committee approved allowing the City of Wauwatosa’s logo to be used in the Grow Solar Milwaukee–Waukesha group-purchasing program communications; the partnership requires no city funding and aims to support resident access to bulk solar purchasing.
The Community Affairs Committee approved a request to permit use of the City of Wauwatosa logo by the Midwest Renewable Energy Association’s Grow Solar Milwaukee–Waukesha group-purchasing program for 2025.
Megan Conway, the city’s sustainability manager, described the Grow Solar program as a nonprofit-run group-purchasing initiative that runs a competitive RFP to select a vetted local installer and offers free, no-obligation site visits, design guidance and community information sessions called Solar Power Hours. Conway said the program is already open to Milwaukee and Waukesha County residents even if their municipality does not formally partner.
Conway told the committee that partnership duties for Wauwatosa would be limited to promoting the program through city communications, allowing the logo to appear in MREA materials and helping find a location for a local Solar Power Hour. Conway said there are no costs associated with formal municipal partnership.
A motion to approve the logo-use agreement was made by Alder Brannon and seconded by Alder Wilkie. The committee approved the motion on a voice vote, 6-0.
Committee members asked staff to help promote scheduled Solar Power Hours and noted the partnership could complement the recently approved permit-fee waiver.
