Board Resolution opposes current proposal

Resolution of the Board 1-22-03
Regent Neighborhood Association | Madison, WI

Whereas the Regent Neighborhood Association's Board of Directors

1. strives to be understanding and supportive of the UW-Madison's legitimate needs for development and expansion of facilities, and

2. expects that the UW-Madison will implement all possible means to conserve energy on the campus and utilize alternative energy sources wherever possible, and

3. acknowledges the need for the UW-Madison to address its future needs forheating and cooling, and electric energy reliability, at a site identified in the 1997 Campus Master Plan for utility services, and

4. recognizes that appropriately scaled cogeneration power plants constitute an efficient technology employed on many college campuses in this county, and

5. created an ad hoc committee of neighbors, including subject matter experts, to review the joint MGE-UW-Madison proposal and report its recommendations to the Board, and

6. the ad hoc committee has presented its conclusions and recommendationson the power plant in a Position Statement dated 1-7-03 and an accompanying FAQ document dated 1-16 03, and

7. the ad hoc committee finds that, as regards the generation of electrical energy, the plant is considerably larger than what would be needed to meet the current and future needs of the campus, and

8. the ad hoc committee finds that the nearby campus and neighborhood community will likely experience detrimental impacts to air, aesthetics, noise and water as a consequence of the proposed plant, and

9. the ad hoc committee believes that such detrimental impacts could be mitigated by a reduction in the scale of the proposed project.

Therefore, the Board of the RNA finds that the scale of the proposed project far exceeds the current and future electrical energy needs of the UW-Campus and, in addition, that the project will likely have deleterious impacts on the local and regional environment.

Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of the RNA opposes the project as currently proposed and authorizes representatives to contact the sponsors of the WCCF to discuss the following issues of importance in the event that a power plant is built on the site: size of the plant, air quality, noise reduction, water use, enforcement and mitigation.

Adopted by the RNA Board, January 22, 2003