[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Busti 12-5-2016 by L.L. No. 4-2016. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Energize NY Benefit Financing Program — See Ch. 242.
A.
Buildings are the single largest user of energy in the State of New
York. The poorest performing buildings typically use several times
the energy of the highest-performing buildings-for the exact same
building use. As such, this chapter will use building energy benchmarking
to promote the public health, safety, and welfare by making available
good, actionable information on municipal building energy use to help
identify opportunities to cut costs and reduce pollution in the Town
of Busti.
B.
Collecting, reporting, and sharing building energy benchmarking data
on a regular basis allows municipal officials and the public to understand
the energy performance of municipal buildings relative to similar
buildings nationwide. Equipped with this information, the Town Board
is able to make smarter, more cost-effective operational and capital
investment decisions, reward efficiency, and drive widespread, continuous
improvement.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Information generated by Portfolio Manager, as herein defined,
including descriptive information about the physical building and
its operational characteristics.
The process of measuring a building's energy use, tracking
that use over time, and comparing performance to similar buildings.
A building or facility that is owned or occupied by the Town
of Busti that is 1,000 square feet or larger in size.
Electricity, natural gas, steam, hot or chilled water, fuel
oil, or other product for use in a building, or renewable on-site
electricity generation, for purposes of providing heating, cooling,
lighting, water heating, or for powering or fueling other end-uses
in the building and related facilities, as reflected in utility bills
or other documentation of actual energy use.
The numeric rating generated by Portfolio Manager that compares
the energy usage of the building to that of similar buildings.
The kBTUs (1,000 British thermal units) used per square foot
of gross floor area.
The total number of enclosed square feet measured between
the exterior surfaces of the fixed walls within any structure used
or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.
ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, the Internet-based tool developed
and maintained by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
to track and assess the relative energy performance of buildings nationwide,
or successor.
An entity that distributes and sells energy to covered municipal
buildings.
The amount of energy that would have been used by a property
under thirty-year average temperatures, accounting for the difference
between average temperatures and yearly fluctuations.
A.
This Local Law is applicable to all covered municipal buildings as defined in § 240-2 of this chapter.
B.
The Town Clerk may exempt a particular covered municipal building
from the benchmarking requirement if the Town Clerk determines that
it has characteristics that make benchmarking impractical.
A.
No later than December 31, 2016, and no later than May 1 every year
thereafter, the Town Clerk or his or her designee shall enter into
Portfolio Manager the total energy consumed by each covered municipal
building, along with all other descriptive information required by
Portfolio Manager for the previous calendar year.
B.
For new covered municipal buildings that have not accumulated 12
months of energy use data by the first applicable date following occupancy
for inputting energy use into Portfolio Manager, the Town Clerk or
his or her designee shall begin inputting data in the following year.
A.
The Town Clerk shall make available to the public on the internet
benchmarking information for the previous calendar year:
(1)
No later than December 31, 2016 and by September 1 of each year thereafter
for covered municipal buildings; and
(2)
The Town Clerk shall make available to the public on the internet
and update at least annually, the following benchmarking information:
(a)
Summary statistics on energy consumption for covered municipal
buildings derived from aggregation of benchmarking information; and
(b)
For each covered municipal building individually:
[1]
The status of compliance with the requirements of this chapter;
and
[2]
The building address, primary use type, and gross floor area;
and
[3]
Annual summary statistics, including site EUI, Weather Normalized
Source EUI, annual GHG emissions, and an Energy Performance Score
where available; and
[4]
A comparison of the annual summary statistics (as required by
the preceding section) across calendar years for all years since annual
reporting under this chapter has been required for said building.
The Town Clerk shall maintain records as necessary for carrying
out the purposes of this chapter, including but not limited to energy
bills and other documents received from tenants and/or utilities.
Such records shall be preserved by the Department for a period of
three years.
A.
The Town Clerk or his or her designee shall be the Chief Enforcement
Officer of this chapter.
B.
The Chief Enforcement Officer of this chapter may promulgate regulations
necessary for the administration of the requirements of this chapter.
C.
Within thirty days after each anniversary date of the effective date
of this chapter, the Chief Enforcement Officer shall submit a report
to the Town Board including but not limited to summary statistics
on energy consumption for covered municipal buildings derived from
aggregation of benchmarking information, a list of all covered municipal
buildings identifying each covered municipal building that the Town
Clerk determined to be exempt from the benchmarking requirement and
the reason for the exemption, and the status of compliance with the
requirements of this chapter.
