“The city of Roseville is giving a local nonprofit first crack at 20 acres north of the city’s new power plant to build a research center within two years to develop clean and renewable-energy technologies.
City officials have promoted the Renewable Energy Research Center project as an opportunity to put Roseville at the center of worldwide research efforts, provide opportunities for collaboration with the city's electric utility and promote economic development."
This type of public private partnership is vital to government and the development and retention of needed public service in an era of downsizing of public revenue and taxpayer reluctance to approve new taxes.It is also the type of governance partnership we hope to see for the Parkway, with a nonprofit providing daily management through a contract with local government, ideally a Joint Powers Authority of the local governments adjacent to the Parkway.
