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Authorizing the City of Saint Paul to enter into a vehicle lease agreement with National Cooperative Leasing for the carshare service component of the Twin Cities Electric Vehicle Mobility Network.
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WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul (“City”) is leading the Twin Cities Electric Vehicle Mobility Network (TCEVMN) project which will deliver 70 electric vehicle (EV) charging hubs across Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and each hub will provide both public EV charging and EV charging dedicated to use by an 150-electric vehicle carshare service that will be operated by HOURCAR; and
WHEREAS, the City is planning to deploy the Twin Cities Electric Vehicle Mobility Network in 2021, including the first phase of the carshare service; and
WHEREAS, the TCEVMN will provide EV carshare as an additional transportation option in the Twin Cities to complement transit, biking, and walking, and in particular in ten ACP50 neighborhoods across the two cities where carshare is not currently an option; and
WHEREAS, the TCEVMN will produce no local emissions, supporting improved air quality in our neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, the TCEVMN will enable more residents to think about transitioning to electric vehicles; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul has been awarded a federal Congestion Mitigation Air Quality (CMAQ) grant of $4 million for the Twin Cities Electric Vehicle Mobility Network through the Metropolitan Council’s Transportation Advisory Board (TAB) regional solicitation in the 2021-2024 Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul - via the Lung Association as the lead applicant - is a subrecipient of $3,650,237 in Department of Energy funding to support deployment of the project; and
WHEREAS, the City committed to completion of the Twin Cities Electric Vehicle Mobility Network under Council Resolution 20-1370; and
WHEREAS, Federal Funding stipulations require that vehicles be leased rather than purchase; and
WHEREAS, after a yea...
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