§ 40-163. Findings.

The board makes the following specific findings:

(1)

A program designed to provide residential, commercial and business properties the financial means required to reduce electricity consumption will help reduce the burden of greenhouse gas emissions otherwise created by property in the state and potentially mitigate adverse impacts to the state property and the environment.

(2)

Energy conservation and efficiency and clean energy improvements to residential, commercial, industrial, and other buildings, facilities and improvements can reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the use of improved property. Energy conservation and efficiency and clean energy improvements can protect and preserve state property by diminishing energy demand and environmental burdens.

(3)

The up-front costs of energy conservation and efficiency and clean energy improvements necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions inhibits or prevents many property owners from making such improvements.

(4)

To make energy conservation and efficiency and clean energy improvements more affordable and assist property owners who wish to undertake them, it is necessary to authorize a procedure for enabling property owners, on a voluntary basis, to finance such improvements and make repayments in the form of special assessments collected on their property tax bills.

(5)

The county hereby determines that the actions authorized under this article, including, but not limited to, the establishment of the sustainability district, the financing therein of qualifying improvements through the execution of financing agreements and the related imposition of voluntary special or non-ad valorem assessments, are reasonable and necessary to serve an important public purpose; and are necessary for the prosperity and welfare of the county and its property owners and inhabitants.

(Code 1982, § 1-19-2; Ord. No. 10-025, § 1, 6-15-2010)