Item A: Joint Meeting with EWEB Board

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portions of the McKenzie River and the Smith and Carmen bypass reaches above Trail Bridge Reservoir, greatly improve fisheries spawning and rearing habitat throughout the project area, rebuild and improve the three campgrounds in the area, construct new day-use sites at all three reservoirs, and protect important cultural and historical resources. EWEB’s current operating license expires this month. As FERC is likely to take up to 18 months to issue the new license, the project will operate under a temporary license. More details of the agreement are available at: www.eweb.org/news/carmensmith/index.htm. Roosevelt Operations Center Status EWEB is proceeding with construction of the new Roosevelt Operations Center, which is located at Roosevelt Boulevard and Beltline Road. The facility will house EWEB’s water and electric utility construction, operations and engineering departments. In February 2008, the EWEB Board and the City Council authorized issuance of $83.5 million in project bonds for development of this new facility. The Board approved a $61.4 million contract with Lease Crutcher Lewis, LLC, for construction of the project in May. In June, the bid package for completion of site work was awarded. That work, which included site preparation, removal of the old log pond berm, wetlands restoration, installation of rock base for all buildings, yard and drive areas, and installation of utility conduit and vault systems, has proceeded on schedule and is substantially complete as of this month. Additional bids are still to be awarded for foundations and structures (award in February 2009), interior finishes, plumbing, electrical and mechanical systems (award by June 2009) and furniture and equipment (award by early 2010). Project completion is expected to be on schedule (late fall 2010) and within budget. Sustainable building practices continue to be a key goal of the Roosevelt project: ? The project is currently expected to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification. ? The project will include solar hot water equipment (solar thermal) and solar PVs and will comply with Oregon HB 2620 which requires at least 1.5% of the building construction costs be allocated to solar technology. ? The project also includes an “ecomachine” which will treat wastewater from the facility on site, avoiding the need to connect to the public sanitary sewer system. ? The public parking and fleet areas will have charging facilities for electric vehicles. For more information, contact Project Manager Ken Beeson at 341-3772. New Renewable Energy Projects EWEB has entered into a Joint Ownership Agreement with Cowlitz (WA) PUD, Lakeview (WA) Light and Power, and Peninsula (WA) Light to develop a 100 Megawatt (MW) wind project in Klickitat County, Washington. The Harvest Wind project is expected to come on-line in late 2009 at an overall cost of about $240 million. EWEB's share of the project is 20 MW capacity and about 6 MW average energy generation. This represents about six percent of the renewable energy needed to meet a 25 percent renewable power supply by 2025 target. Harvest Wind will be EWEB’s fourth wind energy project (Foote Creek I, Stateline, and Klondike 3 are the other projects). 2