1. Work to Date Selected team and begun recruiting participants for stakeholder and technical advisory teams Charter Metrics Working with stakeholder team to develop metrics which quantify charter goals – Business – Academic – Advocates Present to council on October 16

2. Work to Date Financial Evaluation Issued RFP for financial advisor specializing in public power financing, expect to make selection in next few weeks Evaluated financial modeling tools and data requirements, moving forward with an Excel spreadsheet based format Will be forming a team of stakeholders to vet model assumptions

3. Work to Date Asset Acquisition and Reliability Forming team of staff and technical experts – Includes engineers, appraisers, GIS data analysts, former utility (including Xcel) experts Held kick-off meeting to vet plan and approach Identified and collecting data for use in valuation, able to leverage off of existing records Issuing Engineering RFP

4. Work to Date Resource Mix Evaluated resource planning and optimization tools, selected one that already has 70% of what we need Forming technical advisory team to help develop electric resource options and cost Recruiting experts in energy efficiency, demand side management, renewables, distributed generation, fossil fuel based generation, and transmission. Most from our local business community and CU.

5. Work to Date Legal Evaluating various legal strategies, but for obvious reasons these have to be kept confidential Looking at options to mitigate litigation Continue to be open to discussions with Xcel

6. Evaluation of Risk & Benefits/Impacts Risk Assessment is part of work plan – critical to understanding impact of various strategies Strategies will be vetted for economic and community benefits/impacts Risks will be identified, as well as ways to mitigate Modeling value and risk with assistance from a top economic expert in this field

7. Reliability Comparison

8. Rate Comparison Colorado Association of Municipal Utilities (CAMU) survey results – Jan. 2012

9. Rate Comparison

10. We Need You How you can participate: Become part of an advisory team Follow us at BoulderEnergyFuture.comBoulderEnergyFuture.com Sign up for E-newsletter on project website Provide feedback at InspireBoulder.comInspireBoulder.com Invite us to your meetings for regular updates Call or email me if you have questions: baileyh@bouldercolorado.gov, 303-441-1923 baileyh@bouldercolorado.gov