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7 18 11 Sustainable Dubuque Update Slide PresentationSUSTAINABLE DUBUQUE Quarterly Progress Reports July 18, 2011 “Dubuque is a viable, livable, and equitable community. We embrace economic prosperity, social/cultural vibrancy and environmental integrity to create a sustainable legacy for generations to come.” 1.Sustainable Dubuque Update: Social/Cultural Vibrancy 1.Smarter, Sustainable Dubuque 2.Sustainable Dubuque Indicators (SDI) project Tonight’s Agenda Green Buildings: a productive and healthy built environment. Healthy Local Foods: the benefits of wholesome food from local producers, distributors, farms, gardens and hunters. Community Knowledge: education, empowerment and engagement to achieve economic prosperity, environmental integrity and social/cultural vibrancy. Reasonable Mobility: safe, reasonable and equitable choices to access live, work and play opportunities. Green Industry Areas: • Energy efficient building & construction – Energy assessment & technical services – Renewable power & utilities – Students trained to date: 260+ • Completion rate: 98% • NICC Green Jobs Training Program Government, community, & philanthropic • partnership and investment Scalable programs to holistically address multiple • housing deficiencies in low income communities and affordably produce significant public health and energy benefits Remove silo-based housing programs; coordinate a • whole-home approach Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Dubuque Works Update 2011-2012 Sarah Harris, Vice President of Workforce Operations, Greater Dubuque Development Corporation Connecting Talent to Opportunity AccessDubuqueJobs.com Post It! Campaign concluded in June  March 2011-April 2011  1,182 Updated Resumes Posted  1,676 job postings uploaded to the site  Resumes Posted AccessDubuqueJobs.com Investors 2011-2012 A.Y. McDonald Manufacturing Co. EIMCo, Inc. Mercy Medical Center U.S. Bank Advance Pump & Equipment Inc. Engineering Services & Products Co. Mi-T-M Corporation UbersoxAuto Group AFLAC EntegeeEngineering Technical Group Midwest Business Products Unified Therapy Services Alliant Energy Express Employment Professionals Mike FinninMotors United Clinical Labs American Trust & Savings Bank FlexsteelIndustries, Inc. MoloCompanies Universal Tank & Fab Berry Plastics & Subsidiaries Georgia-Pacific Corporation Mystique University of Dubuque Best Western Plus Dubuque Hotel Giese Companies National Mississippi River Museum University of WI-Platteville Bird Chevrolet Grand Harbor Resort & Waterpark Northeast Iowa Community College Vanguard, Inc. Black Hills Energy Grand View United Methodist OhnwardBancshares, Inc. Weber Paper Company BodineElectric Company HartigDrug Physicians Mutual WestmarkEnterp. CartegraphSystems Inc. Hawkeye Truck & Trailer Premier Tooling & Manufacturing, Inc. Woodward Comm CES Computers Hillcrest Family Services Prudential WS, Live LLC City of Dubuque Hills & Dales Quad Graphics Clarke University HirschbachTransportation Services, Inc River Valley Capital Corporation Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque Hodge Company Rousselot, Inc. Conlon Construction Holiday Inn Express & Suites RT&T Enterprises, Inc. Cottingham& Butler Holy Family Catholic Schools Ruhl& RuhlRealtors Crescent Electric Supply Company HonkampKrueger & Co. S4 Carlisle Communications, LTD DDI, Inc. Progressive Processing (Hormel) Sedgwick, CMS Diamond Jo Casino Hotel JulienDubuque Sedona Staffing Services Domino’s Pizza IBM SinsinawaMound Dubuque Bank & Trust J.J. ScheckelCorporation Southwest Health Center Dubuque Community Schools John Deere Dubuque Works Spahn& Rose Lumber Co. Dubuque County Kruse-Warthan State Central Bank Dubuque Data Services Kurtz Communications, Inc. Steel Capital Management, Inc. Dubuque Stamping & Manufacturing Liberty Bank TFM Company DupacoCommunity Credit Union LorasCollege The Finley Hospital DuTracCommunity Credit Union Luther Manor The Friedman Group, Inc. Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa McCoy Group, Inc. The Insurance Center, Inc. Eagle Window & Door, Inc. McKesson Corporation The McGraw-Hill Companies East Central Intergovernmental Assoc. Mediacom TheisenSupply, Inc. East Dubuque Savings Bank Medical Associates Clinic, P.C. Top Block & Brick, Inc. EideBaillyLLP Medline Industries, Inc. CEO Network Dates set for Fall of 2011 LorasCollegeOctober 19, 2011 • Clarke UniversityOctober 21, 2011 • University of DbqNovember 2, 2011 • UW-PlattevilleNovember 8, 2011 • Northeast Iowa CCNovember 16, 2011 • Cleaning up the image of the “Dirty Job” Local manufacturers & Dubuque Community Schools  discuss workforce needs AccessMyFuture.com updates and enhancements  Women in Non-Traditional Careers Program  Receives Grant Battling the Local Brain Drain 18,000 + College Students  Student Engagement  Networking Events on Campus  Internship Opportunities  Future Young Professionals  Leadership Academy  Building Bridges to Employment 93 Greater Dubuque High School Students completed the  NCRC testing with 76% earning a credential. NICC Plans to use the NCRC as part of admission screening &  Graduation for some career and technical programs in Peosta & Calmar. Bridges Initiative • has an overall graduation rate of 73%, which is above the  national average. 21 New Getting Ahead Graduates, 12 of which have found  employment or have been promoted All Graduates took the National Career Readiness Test  One-Stop Concierge Service First point of contact for all new residents and those considering  relocation to Dubuque Trusted, neutral contact to help local employers recruit, relocate and  retain employees Community Tours  Rental Information  Distinctively Dubuque Retention Program  “I was very seriously considering leaving the Dubuque area because I struggled to feel like I fit in. Just one night at this program and that changed. I realized I just need a little help. This program has added to my knowledge and enjoyment of Dubuque. What a great program and yes I am a Dubuquer!” –DD Participant Recruit * Relocate * Retain Stats:  Newcomers Assisted  •375 in 2009 •311 in 2010 •230 YTD in 2011 Employers using Concierge Services  •34 in 2009 •46 in 2010 •52 YTD in 2011 Community Tours conducted  •85 community tours in 2009 •127 community tours in 2010 •90 YTD in 2011 149 newcomers and residents YTD participated in Distinctively Dubuque and left the  program feeling connected to their community. 4 sessions offered per year (25 participants max per session)  Special Thanks to City of Dubuque, Dubuque County & Dubuque Racing Association Update on Smarter Sustainable Dubuque Presentation for Dubuque City Council Monday, July 18, 2011 Water Study Complete – Extension/Expansion Opportunity 77% improved water usage understanding • 61% took specific actions to conserve • 6.6% decrease in utilization: • -What if we apply that to 23,000 households? 8 fold increase in leak detection/response: • -What if we apply new knowledge and tools to the @5,000 additional households where indication of continuous or intermittent leaks exist? Smarter Natural Gas Partnership with Black Hills Energy • Successfully recruited 250 volunteer • households Equipment designed and installed • Pilot will be focus of work this fall (after • Electricity and Travel have progressed further) Smarter Travel Combining efforts of IBM City-In-Motion, Climate • Showcase and State-Of-Good-Repair New technology successfully developed and • deployed: - RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) -SmartPhone(Transit Planner) Actively recruiting volunteers: • - RFID = 158 (and a waiting list) -SmartPhone= 90 (and need a big push for more) Smarter Health Exploring two opportunities as a potentially • cost effective platform to begin building Smarter Health: -Smarter Travel Pilot -Green and Healthy Homes Initiative Smarter Electricity Launch of the Smarter Electricity Portal • What is the Smarter Electricity pilot study? Dubuque’s Smarter Electricity Pilot Project is a partnership • between the City of Dubuque, Alliant Energy-Interstate Power and Light (IPL) Company, and IBM Research. Alliant Energy has installed new AMI (advanced metering • infrastructure) electric meters at nearly 1,000 volunteer Dubuque households and is providing the electricity usage data from those households to the City and IBM for analysis. Intention of project The goal is to allow volunteer participants to • better monitor their electric energy consumption and enable them to make more- informed choices about when to use energy and how much they are using [increase awareness] Implementation Timeline and Activities Pilot study participants have had access to a • secure Energy Profile Builderbeginning in May of 2011. Allows participants to document the types of – appliances in their homes for a better view of how their electricity is being used. Gathers information that will be used by IBM to – help personalize the participants’ portal. Implementation Timeline and Activities June 29, 2011 • 10 Beta-Testers will begin testing the energy portal – All support provided by City of Dubuque and – Dubuque2.0 July 8, 2011 • Portal “Go Live” for 500+ users via e-mail notification – Week of July 11 • Portal “Go Live” for 300+ users via letter notification – Training Opportunities for Participants July12 5:30pm –6:30pm • July 14Noon –1pm • July 19 3pm –4pm • July 23 10am –11am • July 30 10am--11am • All training sessions to be held at Carnegie Stout Public Library, Dubuque, IA Accessing the Energy Portal www.Cityofdubuque.org/smarterelectricity Demonstration of the Portal https://webseal.researchlabs.ibm.com/Dubu que/SmarterCityEnergy/Resident Logging In If Participants Haven’t Completed the Energy Profile – they will be directed to do so as a first step Energy Portal Main Page Menu Area Profile Area Progress Area Daily Usage Area Insight Area Consumption Area Comparison Area Action Area FAQ’s www.cityofdubuque.org/smarterelectricity • Click on the FAQ link • SSD Helpdesk Phone: 563-690-6111 • e-mail ssd@cityofdubuque.org • Hours 8am –5pm M-F • Callers may get voice mail • Dubuque 2.0 One of the unique aspects of Smarter • Sustainable Dubuque has been the combination of new technology with ACTIVE community engagement Dubuque 2.0 has been the partner driving • recruitment and building citizen engagement Now taking citizen engagement to a new level • in helping develop Sustainable Dubuque Indicators (SDI) Sustainable Dubuque Indicators Sustainable Dubuque Indicators (SDI) http://www.streetjaw.com/embeds/sustainable/dubuque/default.aspx Developed for Dubuque, concept was also given to Vision2020 Galena to use and help develop the concept during our beta phase http://vision2020galena.com/getinvolved.cfm Sustainable Dubuque Indicators Sustainable Dubuque Indicators Sustainable Dubuque Indicators Sustainable Dubuque Indicators Sustainable Dubuque Indicators Sustainable Dubuque Indicators Sustainable Dubuque Indicators Sustainable Dubuque Indicators 1.Indicators and indicator measurements for the 11 sustainability principles 2.Renewable energy asset mapping 3.Portrait of poverty in Dubuque 4.Local foods in local institutions 5.Design of Green and Healthy Homes program University of Iowa Sustainable Dubuque Partnership