Not Just Another Sustainability Plan

1. 2011 SUMMER CONFERENCE Not Just Another Sustainability Plan Loews Ventana Canyon Resort | Tucson, AZ | July 27-29, 2011 City of Tucson Office of Conservation & Sustainable Development Leslie Ethen, Director Irene Ogata, CPM, RLA, ASLA, AzAPA Urban Landscape Manager July 28, 2011

2. Overview • The funding source: DOE Energy Efficiency Community Block Grant (EECBG) • Projects: • Neighborhood Streetlight Conversion Program • City of Tucson Parking Lot Lighting Retrofit • City of Tucson Internal Green Team

3. EnergyEfficiencyCommunity Block Grant (EECBG) • Part of the American Recovery and ReinvestmentAct 2009 • Receivedfunding in November 2009 • Projects to becompleted by November 2012

4. Neighborhood Street Light Conversion Program • Total contract budget: $420,710 • 2 contractorsselected • 850 Residentialstreet light fixtures replaced • Low sodium pressure lamps replaced with LED • 6 neighborhoodsidentified (1 in each of 6 Ward districts)

5. Neighborhood Street Light Conversion Program • $420,710 = Installation & Materials • 850 = lamps replaced (9,000 city-wide) • $48 = per lamp savings /per year • $40,800 = per year electric utility cost savings • LED life span 18 yrs vs 5 yrs LPSL • 10 years = simple payback (does not include expenses avoided or incurred for life of LED) Low Pressure Sodium Lamp Low LED Lamp

6. Neighborhood Street Light Conversion Program • Dark Sky concerns: more difficult for telescopes to filter out the white/blue range of light than orange = request 3600 K or less • Important to have fixtures with light cut-off features – downward focused • Potential to create a revolving loan fund utilizing annual savings Notes Source: Cutoff library.municode

7. City Parking Lot Lighting Retrofit Program • Total contract budget: $202,000 • City’sfleet parking lot at Thomas O. Price Service Center, • majority of City’s 2,500 vehiclefleetparked and servicedhere • 97 fixtures retrofitted

8. City Parking LotLighting RetrofitProgram High Pressure Sodium Lamp Low LED Lamp • $202,000 = Installation & Materials • 97 = lamps retrofitted(106 fixtures in parking lot) • $16,457 = total electric savings / year • 164.6 MWh = savings / yr • 129.9 tons CO2 savings / yr • 12 years = simple payback (does not include expenses avoided or incurred for life of LED) Source: lightingtrendsblog.com

9. City Parking LotLightingRetrofitProgram • Same concerns as Neighborhood Street Light Conversion Program Notes Source: Cutoff library.municode

10. City Green Team Program • Grant description: • Objective: • ImplementMayor & Council policies • Illustrate City is operating facilities as efficiently as possible • Sustainability & Green Practices have tangible results • 1997: Internal Green Team formed as part of SpecialProjects out of the Manager’s Office ‘. . . supportingournascent City green Team as itworks to buildresourceefficiency and sustainabilityinto City operations, purchasing and facilities management.’

11. City Green Team Program • Basic format: • 3 Green Teams: 1) Energy, 2) Water, 3) Waste/ Procurement • Process • Baseline data gathering • Filling in the Gaps • Recommendations & prioritization • Recommendations and metrics • Reporting • The Green Team’srecommendations

12. Conclusion • Jurisdictions are doingsomething – need to bringforward information • Communityiswatching and are a part of solution • Change and improvements are inevitable

13. City of Tucson Contact: Leslie Ethen, OCSD Director: leslie.ethen@tucsonaz.gov Irene Ogata, OCSD Urban Landscape Manager: irene.ogata@tucsonaz.gov OCSD website: http://www.tucsonaz.gov/ocsd/ Office of Conservation & Sustainable Development Leslie Ethen, Director Irene Ogata, CPM, RLA, ASLA, AzAPA Urban Landscape Manager July 28, 2011