City of Milwaukee - File #: 240297

• File #: 240297
• Version: 3
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 6/11/2024
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 7/2/2024
• Effective date: 7/20/2024
• Title: A substitute ordinance related to energy benchmarking for commercial and government buildings.
• Sponsors: ALD. BROSTOFF, ALD. ZAMARRIPA, ALD. SPIKER, ALD. STAMPER, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. JACKSON
• Indexes: BUILDING-REGULATION, ENERGY CONSERVATION

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
7/19/2024	3	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
7/9/2024	3	MAYOR	SIGNED
7/2/2024	2	COMMON COUNCIL	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Ald. Brostoff moved substitution of the file with Proposed Substitute C. (Prevailed 14-0)	Pass	14:0
7/2/2024	3	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	14:0
6/25/2024	1	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Appearing: Pamela Ritger de la Rosa, Environmental Collaboration Office Erick Shambarger, Environmental Collaboration Office Ald. Scott Spiker, 13th Ald. Dist. Ms. Ritger de la Rosa and Mr. Shambarger gave a presentation. Ald. Zamarripa, Spiker, Stamper, Bauman, and Jackson added as cosponsors. Public testimony in support: Kat Klawes, Citizen Action Wisconsin Linda Frank, City-County Task Force on Climate and Economic Equity participant Tom Agger, Clean Wisconsin Victor Nino, ASHRAE Korinne Haeffel, U.S. Green Building Council Ald. Bauman moved substitution of the file with Proposed Substitute B. (Prevailed 5-0)	Pass	5:0
6/25/2024	2	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE	Pass	5:0
6/24/2024	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
6/11/2024	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
240297
Version
SUBSTITUTE 3
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. BROSTOFF, ZAMARRIPA, SPIKER, STAMPER, BAUMAN AND JACKSON

Title
A substitute ordinance related to energy benchmarking for commercial and government buildings.
Section
200-09-3 cr
200-19-5 cr
200-62 cr
Analysis
This ordinance requires property owners of commercial buildings that are 50,000 square feet or larger and owners of government buildings 10,000 square feet or larger to annually input their buildings’ energy consumption usage into the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool and share it with the Environmental Collaboration Office staff.

Body
Whereas, On June 20, 2023, the City of Milwaukee Common Council adopted the City of Milwaukee Climate and Equity Plan with goals of reducing community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 45% by 2030 and achieving net-zero GHG emissions by 2050, while creating green jobs that pay at least $40,000 per year; and

Whereas, In 2018, energy use from commercial buildings accounted for 25.5 percent of total GHG emissions created in the city of Milwaukee; and

Whereas, A benchmarking ordinance is one of the “Big Ideas” in the City’s Climate and Equity Plan, with benchmarking accounting for 6% of the total emissions reduction the City aims to achieve by 2030, in addition to being a critical baseline policy necessary for future policies to further reduce GHG emissions; and

Whereas, Energy benchmarking, which has been implemented by dozens of peer cities such as Madison, Minneapolis, Detroit and Chicago, is the practice of requiring building owners to track the annual energy use data of their buildings in the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool and report it to the city; and

Whereas, By bringing awareness to the amount of energy a building uses, the costs of that energy use, and how that energy use compares to similar buildings, benchmarking helps building owners and operators to reduce their electricity, natural gas, and steam usage and thereby reduces loca...