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Ithaca City staff: sustainability planner search advancing; NYSEG rate case could shift grid-upgrade costs to municipalities
Summary
City sustainability staff reported progress filling a sustainability planner vacancy, updates on CCA and congressional-directed spending, and warned the NYSEG rate case could require municipalities requesting grid upgrades to bear upgrade costs locally. Staff also flagged cuts to low-income repair-and-replace furnace assistance.
City staff told the sustainability commission that recruitment for a sustainability planner has moved quickly after a job reclassification and that interviews are underway, but any new hire likely will not start until after the new year.
"We went back and revised the sustainability planner position ... and sent it to the civil service commission, which we miraculously were able to turn around in 24 hours," Rebecca (sustainability director) said. She said one…
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