(a) The County Executive must establish an Interagency Group on Energy and Utility Management to coordinate County government energy conservation efforts, promote energy efficiency, share information, provide technical assistance, and cooperate on planning and implementing energy conservation measures.
(b) Each County or bicounty agency with substantial utility budgets or energy conservation capital projects, including executive departments and offices, the Board of Education, Montgomery College, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the Housing Opportunities Commission, and the County Council, should designate a liaison to the Group. The Executive must select a senior officer or employee of the executive branch to facilitate the Group's operation.
(c) The Group must meet as frequently as necessary to perform its duties.
(d) The Group has the following duties:
(1) establish uniform utility unit costs for County operating budget purposes;
(2) prepare agency resource conservation plans annually, describing current and anticipated energy conservation programs with actual and projected energy and cost savings;
(3) advise the Executive and Council on energy conservation goals, cost savings, and new technologies. (1995 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 1.)