The discussion involving the word "monitoring" was entirely unrelated to surveillance or Flock safety cameras. Instead, city officials used the term while explaining that they intend to hire third-party vendors for the daily monitoring, maintenance, and payment tracking of new public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. This contracting strategy ensures the city does not have to manage the everyday operations of the EV pilot program internally.
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City Council Workshops · Apr 06, 2026 · 29:15–29:28 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: monitoring
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28:10 which is a couple blocks north of your main street location. You might consider putting in something there. So if people are coming in, they can plug in and then go to the visitor's center. - Yes. - So we need to get installed. This is a pass through. So really you have a third party vendor that's charging for the electricity that's going in the car. Correct? You have the City of Vancouver that's going to be operating all of these. - So the plan for the pilot for this first set is to help us understand what that combination of factors looks like. There are, we actually just, our work group had a workshop this afternoon with the technical advisor who is kind of educating us on all of the layers and components of those systems. So we are, the city will own the chargers. They'll be on city property. We will contract out maintenance and operations of them to some level. And that's what we're working on sort of defining right now. So that when we go out for procurement,
29:10 we have a clear ask for the different components we need to run this. So that it's not us on a every day monitoring it, that we're trying to sort of leverage multiple types of vendors to do that. But there's a payment system we would be tracking and we will be setting the rates for that. So that is something to highlight is we will be coming back in the fall in order to be able to charge fees for the charging stations, for those charging sessions. We will not need to pass an ordinance to charge those fees. So that's the next time you'll see us really back here talking about the EV charging pilot will be around that next step. - And you have two grants that are paying for these, correct? - Yeah, we have a couple of different grants. Some of them are still in their final contracting phase. So we'll leave it open-ended at the moment until we can make those formal announcements that should be coming soon.
30:07 But yes, we have a few different grants that are paying for them. - That goes directly to my point, I wouldn't be too bent over how much you're gonna cost recover back because this program is essentially paid for and you have a third party pass through. This is not something where the city of Vancouver is really gonna have any money coming out unless something happens to the units themselves. - Exactly. - So I'm just saying,
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nance and operations of them to some level. And that's what we're working on sort of defining right now. So that when we go out for procurement, we have a clear ask for the different components we need to run this. So that it's not us on a every day monitoring it, that we're trying to sort of leverage multiple types of vendors to do that. But there's a payment system we would be tracking and we will be setting the rates for that. So that is something to highlight is we will be coming back in the