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	<title>Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell</title>
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		<title>Stop Spending Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We can’t read the news without reading about our federal budget deficit, state deficit, County’s deficit, and, of course, Seattle’s.
It is my responsibility to demonstrate clear leadership to a Utility that has a budget roughly the size of the entire City – Seattle City Light.  Based on the snowcap and the amount of water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bruceharrell.org/2010/03/stop-spending-money/</link>
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		<title>How City Light Can Address Wholesale Revenue Volatility: Creation of City Light Rate Stabilization Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Chair of the Energy, Technology, and Civil Rights Committee (ETC), one area of concern that I have raised is how to deal with the volatility of wholesale power revenue.  This is trading activity that of course, comes with some degree of risk.  Given the fortunate economies that surrounded City Light’s trading activity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bruceharrell.org/2010/02/rate-stabilization-fund/</link>
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		<title>News Release: City Light Review Panel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is the press release I issued today (2/17/2010) concerning a new Seattle City Light Review Panel.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE &#8211; February 17, 2010
Seattle City Council to Build New City Light Review PanelGroup will help guide strategic planning, financial policies and rate reviews
Seattle – Today Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell announced the City Council is seeking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bruceharrell.org/2010/02/news-release-city-light-review-panel/</link>
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		<title>Councilmember Harrell Limits City Light’s Use of Overtime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am always concerned about saving taxpayer and ratepayer money.  Based on my concern relative to City Light’s Operations and Maintenance (O&#038;M) expenditures, I sponsored a proviso in the 2009 budget which limited their Distribution Services overtime expenditure to $3,000,000.  The proviso further stated that authorization to exceed this limit will not be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bruceharrell.org/2010/01/city-light-overtime/</link>
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		<title>Harrell and Secretary Locke Support a Smart Grid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 26, 2010 I wrote a letter to United States Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke explaining my directive to City light to produce a Smart Grid plan for the Council.  This plan will be used to help the Council determine the best course for a Smart Grid implementation.  
As you may know, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bruceharrell.org/2010/01/smart-grid-secretary-locke/</link>
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		<title>Mentoring Month</title>
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Today, during Full Council, this year’s first joint Mayoral and Council Proclamation was presented recognizing January as Mentoring Month.  I sponsored this proclamation and asked Mayor Mike McGinn and Councilmember Licata to join me.  The proclamation calls upon public officials, businesses, public and private agencies, religious and community leaders, educators, and all Seattleites [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bruceharrell.org/2010/01/mentoring-month/</link>
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		<title>City Light and Waste Management: Turning Waste into Electricity</title>
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You may recall in April of 2009 I presented legislation to the Full Council that passed which allowed City Light to enter into a 20 year power purchase agreement with Waste Management Inc.   This agreement allows Seattle to receive electrical output and renewable energy credits from the Columbia Ridge Land Fill Gas (LFG) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bruceharrell.org/2010/01/turning-waste-into-electricity/</link>
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		<title>Seattle’s Top Cop: Selection Committee Begins Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Selection of Seattle’s Police Chief will be one of the most important appointments made by Mayor Mike McGinn during his first term.  Several months ago, Mayor McGinn’s transition team took the first steps by contacting the same people that former Mayor Nickels had chosen to serve on the Police Chief Selection Committee in September [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bruceharrell.org/2010/01/police-chief-selection-committee-begins-work/</link>
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		<title>My Goal: Improving Financial Policies for City Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Establishing financial policies for a billion dollar organization such as City Light cannot be taken lightly.  Following the energy crisis of 2001, the Utility, the Council, the Mayor and the City Light Advisory Committee took great strides to ensure that the Utility continued to deliver reliable, low-cost and environmentally responsible power.   Part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bruceharrell.org/2010/01/financial-policies-for-city-light/</link>
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		<title>Taller Buildings for a Portion of South Lake Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, January 11, 2010, the Council voted 7-1 to permit taller buildings in a small portion of the South Lake Union neighborhood.  I abstained from the Council vote because of the potential that an “appearance” of a conflict of interest could have been suggested had I participated.  My wife Joanne Harrell was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bruceharrell.org/2010/01/taller-buildings-for-a-portion-of-south-lake-union/</link>
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