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Council establishes permanent Energy Advisory Committee, sunsets archival task force
Summary
Council voted to make the Energy Advisory Committee permanent after a public hearing that highlighted the panel—9s work on community power and municipal solar; the council also voted to sunset a Blue Ribbon task force that has formed a new public-private archival partnership.
The City Council voted Dec. 8 to amend the administrative code to establish a permanent Energy Advisory Committee following a public hearing and requests from council members who said the committee has provided critical expertise on community power, municipal solar feasibility and implementation of the Climate Action Plan.
Councilors and committee members described work including a feasibility report for a municipal solar array on Jones Avenue, workshops on residential and municipal solar, and collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Lab on sewer-plant evaluations. Councilors praised members for their technical expertise and voted to forward third and final reading the same evening.
Separately, councilors voted to sunset the Mayor—9s Blue Ribbon Task Force that studied a public-private archival partnership after task-force members helped form a new nonprofit collaboration among the Portsmouth Athenaeum, the Historical Society, Strawberry Bank Museum and the City to provide a shared archival facility and services.
