Ordinance 3531-2026 authorizes acceptance of a $75,270 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) to replace lighting at the Kenai Recreation Center with energy-efficient LED fixtures. The City originally applied to use these funds for street light conversions, but an assessment showed most City-owned street lights are already LED, so Public Works received approval to redirect the grant to high-impact interior lighting, focusing on high-bay fixtures in the gym and racquetball courts, which are in poor condition and hard to maintain. The ordinance increases revenues and appropriations in the Kenai Recreation Center Improvements Capital Project Fund, with all $75,270 budgeted under construction. Staff plan to bid the work with alternates to maximize grant use and may seek additional City funding later to expand the scope beyond the grant. This creates an imminent capital project for electrical contractors and energy-efficiency firms to design and install LED lighting and possibly controls in a large multi-use recreation facility.

Scope centers on high-bay fixtures in the gym and racquetball courts but may extend to other areas i...