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Police Department are getting about 1-2 mph bette r than the Ford Crown Victoria’s did. Gas <br />mileage depends on the use of the vehicle t hough – district cars get better mileage. <br /> <br />The Street Division fuel usage is down in pa rt due to contracting seal coat operations. <br /> <br />We have purchased about 90% of our commitment under the current futures fuel contract – since <br />city consumption is down we had to put a ta nker load back on th e open market and it was <br />immediately taken by another ag ency. We only have a 6,000 gallon gasoline tank – we need <br />more flexibility in our fuel purchases and c ould benefit by replacing the 6000 gallon tank with a <br />larger tank (at least 10,000 gallons). We have done very well with the fuel contract overall. <br />Public Works stated fuel efficiency is a consideration in all fleet purchases. <br /> <br />Public Works staff also mentioned possible effort s to retrofit streetlight s and parking lot lights <br />will begin in 2013 if funding is approved as requ ested in the capital improvement program. Also <br />once the new Fire Station is online with the geot hermal system they will be evaluating whether <br />enough excess heat will be st ill available to consider connecti ng all or part of the maintenance <br />facility to the system. <br /> <br /> <br />Information Technology <br />They have been using new server banks that are much more energy efficient. The question came <br />up if the usage on the servers was separated in th e Xcel billing statements. The usage is not <br />broken out – it would be difficult to break out due to separate cooling systems and we are not <br />planning on doing this anytime soon. <br /> <br />Beginning in 2010 the city IT staff began virtualizi ng the server infrastruc ture and also started <br />purchasing lower power demand computers and netw ork switches. Server virtualization is a <br />computing process where multiple server instances share a single hardware host server. The <br />server room is powered on dedi cated circuits that pass through a large in-line UPS (battery <br />backup) system. The UPS provides a power me ter. We previously were passing 13.5 kVA <br />through the UPS. This has been reduced to 9kVA through our virtua lization project and <br />deployment of lower powered switches in the da ta center. This is a reduction of 4.5kVA or <br />roughly 3,200 KWh per month. This number does not include the corresponding cooling energy <br />consumed. It takes roughly the same amount of energy to cool a server as it does to power a <br />server so the actual power savi ng is closer to 6,000 KWh/month. <br /> <br /> <br />Fire Department <br />2013 – Replacing utility pickup with a 1-ton multi- purpose with utility bed. Ladder truck is <br />being updated to save money vs. replacement. They are also retro-fitting a rescue truck. <br />The new Fire Station is moving along – they are taking advantage of many energy-savings <br />opportunities such as day lighting. The lobby and most offices will not have to turn lights on <br />during the day due to larger, ener gy efficient windows. Also, th ey are using LED lights in the <br />parking lot. The new building meets LEED Silv er Standard, but we are not going to pay to <br />receive the certificate to get re cognition – we will have the same energy savings with our without <br />the certificate. We are also getting an energy rebate from Xcel Energy.