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r was requested before the Plan is brought to City Council. The organizational structure and operational format would be developed after that in order to pursue the action items. Ms. Eisenwinter advised that the members of the EAG would like it to become a formal committee with regular meetings. Their first priority will be to address the highest priority action items. For each action item, they would develop a scope of work, a schedule, and a budget for the Council's review. The Energy Plan has been reviewed twice by the Economic Vitality Committee; in general, their comments were very positive. The Economic Vitality Committee recommended that the Energy Plan and the Generator Siting Ordinance move through the public review process as a single item. However, the EAG recommends that the Energy Plan move through the process first because it is ready to go, and the Generator Siting Ordinance needs additional work. In addition, the Energy Plan is broader in scope than the Generator Siting Ordinance. Ms. Eisenwinter noted that the EAG recommends that a formal size-limited Energy Committee be created by the City Council. The Economic Vitality Committee thought it might be best that the Committee remain an informal group that anyone could join at any time. --- In response to Commissioner Roberts' inquiry, Mr. Baker replied that locally distributed power is a concept which moved away from a large central power facility in a single location. It would put smaller generators in more opportunistic locations, and would use smaller generators from one to ten megawatts. He noted that when electricity is transmitted over the grid from a central power station, there is a seven percent loss of energy versus locally distributed power. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. Jennifer Hosterman, 2922 Chardonnay Drive, thanked City staff for their hard work and prompt replies during the past eighteen months. She believed the Energy Plan was solid, and hoped that the Planning Commission would support it. She wished to draw the Commission's attention to several letters of support Ms. Hosterman noted that a letter received from Judy Corbett of the Local Government Commission on October 18, 2002, stated that everyone benefited from having a forward-looking government such as Pleasanton, and that the LGC supported the Energy Plan wholeheartedly. The following letter was received from the Kathy M. Pierce, Director ofthe Seattle Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Energy: "Mayor Tom Pico and City Council Members: ,--. Matt Sullivan recently provided my office with a copy of the Pleasanton Energy Plan prepared under the direction of the City of Pleasant on's Energy Advisory Group. The proposed plan is an excellent example of the type of comprehensive community strategy the Department of Energy encourages. By outlining energy and water conservation, along with reliable electric power and renewable power generation, the Plan can be an important step towards creating a more secure energy future for the City of Pleasanton." PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES October 23, 2002 Page 5