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Cynthia Cannady
Monday, May 11, 2026 2:31 PM
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Consent calendar Item #4--0ppose CONSULTANT BLOAT
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Dear City Council, Mayor and Vice Mayor,
In the consent agenda for today, PWP proposes yet another consultancy that second guesses the policy decisions of the City Council about whether the mandate to achieve 100% carbon free electricity is "in the best interests of the community."
The staff memo preaches to the Council that the goals of the OSP are "ambitious" and "largely unprecedented" and that the plan that the Council approved must be "carefully and responsibly executed".
Please reject this request for another expensive consultancy to evaluate a plan that was created after 3 different consultancies (IRP,OSP and Rate Study) and finally approved by the Council.
Ratepayers are being asked to fund $1 .Smitlion for this consultancy with its black box proprietary software. This is a disgraceful waste of money, the stated purpose of which is to challenge Council's policy.
This is an outrage after PWP has proposed a $650,000 consultancy to assess the "feasibility" of the local solar and storage elements of the OSP.
It is a continuation of the insubordinate behavior demonstrated by PWP in ignoring the priorities established by the Council
This continues the theme that PWP knows policy better than the City Council. This proposed outrageous and unnecessary expense must be discussed fully with a further discussion of why PWP is continually challenging the policies established by the Council.
With the money that PWP wants to allocate to this software program, our city could reduce electric bills orfund community solar.
Cynthia Cannady
Chair, PASADENA 100 Coalition
1 05/11/2026
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