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Grant Submittal_EPA Climate Showcase CommunitiesT®: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager FR®IVI: Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager SUBJECT: Approval of Grant Submittals ®ATE: September 16, 2009 Stimulus Coordinator Cori Burbach, Assistant City Manager, Cindy Steinhauser and Assistant City Manager Teri Goodmann are recommending City Council approval of the submission of the following grants: Introduction: The purpose of this memorandum is to inform Council that City Staff continue to pursue funding for Council priorities through myriad grant opportunities, both private and public, from state and federal sources. We would like to inform you that four grants that have been submitted to the federal government this month. Eackground: City staff continues to seek alternative revenues from public and private sector funding sources to address City Council priorities and reduce the tax burden on Dubuque citizens. The establishment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act approved in February of 2009 continues to provide opportunities for the City of Dubuque to competitively seek funds to support these priorities. In addition, the FY09 Omnibus Act established a new competitive grant program -Showcase Communities. ®iacussion: Since February 2009, City staff have studied opportunities for grants submissions that interface with the Council priorities and address community needs. Significant funding has been made available through the ARRA legislation and the three grants submitted for your review today join seven that have already submitted. The Showcase Community grant is a part of a new program established this year. These four grants bring the total number of grants submitted by the City of Dubuque to state or federal stimulus/funding programs to seventeen, lNith fourteen grant applications still in progress. The City cf Dubuque has received $10.6 million in funds to date and the City now has $85.7 million pending in grant requests submitted. Grants Submitted To Amount Showcase Communities US Environmental Protection Agency $ 500,000 Community Renewable Energy US Department of Energy $ 6,000,000 Deployment Industrial Energy Efficiency US Department of Energy $19,854,150 TIGER US Department of Transportation $49,799,979 Sh®wcase C®mmunities - Funds from this grant will support public education and community outreach to engage Dubuque citizens in programs that assist in saving energy and costs through better conservation practices. EPA officials are making their decision end of September with funds available in the first quarter of 2010. C®mmunity Energv Renewable Depl®yment -Funds from this grant would develop a broad based community energy plan focused on job training and green jobs, creation of an energy information center for public education and energy related services such as rebate and credit program assistance. This grant was submitted this month and notification is projected to be in January 2010. Program of work set to begin March 2010. Managing office for grant decisions - US DOE field office in Golden, CO. Industrial Energv Efficiency -This grant would fund the boiler and distribution components of a district wide renewable fuel boiler for the historic millwork district, portions of Downtown and Washington Street Neighborhood. Status of grant per Internet tracking indicates that it is scheduled for decisions in October - NETP energy office in Pittsburgh is the dept making the decision. TIGER -Funds from this grant would complete two lanes of the SW Arterial and interchanges. In addition, funds would rebuild streets and infrastructure in the historic millwork district and create and monitor pilot projects for more customer responsive transit system. TIGER would also provide funding for the Smarter City ITS program. Decision announcements were originally forecast for February 17, 2010 but have been moved to mid January 2010 as a result of the creation of an accelerated review. process. THG:Iw Attachment cc: Darry Lindahl, City Attorney Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager FROM: Cori Burbach, Stimulus Coordinator Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager SUBJECT: Approval of Dubuque EPA Climate Showcase Communities Application DATE: September 14, 2009 INTRODUCTION This purpose of this memorandum is to bring to your attention that the City of Dubuque has submitted a grant application to the newly-created EPA Climate Showcase Communities program in the amount of $500,000. BACKGROUND In June 2009, the United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Climate Showcase Communities programs to assist local governments in achieving climate change initiatives. Goals of the program include the sharing of best practices between communities of a variety of sizes, reduction in greenhouse gas emission and community engagement. DISCUSSION The City of Dubuque submitted a grant application for the maximum allowable amount, $500,000. The proposed program identifies 1,000 Showcase Households and provides them with tools, information and technical assistance designed to help them reduce their carbon footprint. Based on the results of the demonstration project, the City proposes to launch a community-wide public outreach and education campaign designed to engage all Dubuque households in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The demonstration project will address the following priority areas identified in the Showcase Community program: ® Energv performance in municipal operations: the project will reduce energy use in the city water department by utilizing advanced meters to identify leakage and reduce vehicle miles traveled by eliminating the need for meter readers. ® Energv performance in buildings: the project will encourage residents to reduce energy and water use in their homes. ® Reduction of vehicle miles traveled: the project will encourage citizens to use transit, biking and walking as an alternative to driving. ® Removal of barriers for greenhouse gas management: the project seeks to overcome barriers to citizens taking personal actions to reduce their carbon footprint by providing tools and information to encourage reductions. ® Other innovative activities which generate measurable reductions of greenhouse gases: the project aims to use new measurement tools, public outreach and education to mobilize an entire community to reduce their footprint. The City estimates that the demonstration project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2,502 tons in the 1,000 Showcase Households. Once completed, this demonstration project will serve as a national, replicable model for communities fewer than 200,000 who want to implement acommunity-wide effort to engage households in reducing their carbon footprint. An important component of the City's application relies on the Memorandum of Understanding between the City and IBM which defines a particular scope of work and has already been approved by the City Council. Generally, the grant funds would finance a Program Administrator salary, community outreach (staff, programming, and materials) and 500 GPS units to implement the transportation component of the Sustainable City initiative. RECOMMENDATION Staff requests Council approval of the EPA Climate Showcase Communities grant application in the amount of $500,000. Attachment cc: David Lyons, Project Manager Jennifer Larson, Budget Director Sheila Samuelson, Sustainability Coordinator Randy Gehl, Public Information Officer Nancy Van Milligen, President & CEO, Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque SUlVIMAl~Y I~1F0 AT'IO~T PAGE 1) Project title. Smart, Sustainable Dubuque 2) Applicant information. City of Dubuque, Iowa 50 West 13th Street Dubuque, Iowa 52001 Contact person: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager 563-589-4110 telephone 563-589-4149 ctymg~ rtyofdubuque.org 3) Funding requested. Climate Showcase Federal funding requested: $500,000 4) Total project cost. Federal funding requested $ 500,000 Local funding match $ 282,094 5) Project period. Beginning project date: January 2010 Ending project date: December 2012 6) Estimate of potential greenhouse gases reductions or other outputs that demonstrate quantifiable greenhouse gas reductions. Greenhouse gas emissions reductions have been estimated for 1) reduction of water use, 2) reduction in vehicle use and 3) reduction in electricity and gas use. For each of these, we have assumed that participants in the 1,000 Showcase Households will reduce their energy use by a small, moderate, or large amount: 50 percent of the 1,000 households will be low energy reducers, 30% moderate energy reducers, and 20% high energy reducers. In summary, expected C02 reductions as a result of this pilot project of 1,000 homes include: 31.44 tons based on reduced water use; X31 tons based on reduced vehicle trips; and 1,640 tons based on reduced electricity use. This equates to an annual reduction of 2,502.44 tons of CO2 based on pilot project participants. When rolled out to a1160,000 Dubuque residents and 22,800 Dubuque households, this would equate to a reduction of 57,056 tons of CO2 annually in Dubuque, Iowa. 1 Project Summary The City of Dubuque is pleased to submit this proposal for financial assistance to implement the City's Smart, Sustainable Dubuque initiative. Under the project Dubuque will select 1,000 Showcase Households and provide them with tools, information and technical assistance designed to help them reduce their carbon footprint. Based on the results of the demonstration project, the City will launch a community-wide public outreach and education campaign designed to engage all Dubuque households in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The demonstration project will address the following priority areas identified in Section 1B of the EPA Request for Applications: ® Energy performance in municipal operations: the project will reduce energy use in the city water department by utilizing advanced meters to identify leakage and reduce vehicle miles traveled by eliminating the need for meter readers. ® Energy performance in buildings: the project will encourage residents to reduce energy and water use in their homes. ® Reduction of vehicle miles traveled: the project will encourage citizens to use transit, biking and walking as an alternative to driving. ® Removal of barriers for greenhouse gas mana eg ment: the project seeks to overcome barriers to citizens taking personal actions to reduce their carbon footprint by providing tools and information to encourage reductions. ® Other innovative activities which generate measurable reductions of greenhouse gases: the project aims to use new measurement tools, public outreach and education to mobilize an entire community to reduce their footprint. The City estimates that the demonstration project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2,502 tons in the 1,000 Showcase Households. When the city extends the project to the full community, we estimate that it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 57,056 tons. The project will go a long way toward helping Dubuque achieve its goal to reduce the community's carbon emissions by 80% by the year 2050. Once completed, this demonstration project will serve as a national, replicable model for communities fewer than 200,000 who want to implement acommunity-wide effort to engage households in reducing their carbon footprint. Dubuque has entered into a MOU with the IBM outlining broad areas of collaboration with IBM research staff with specific areas of interest in Smart Cities instrumentation, interconnection and intelligence building, research, education and healthcare. Dubuque and IBM anticipate that the results of the Showcase Household Carbon Reduction Demonstration Project will facilitate the development of new technologies that can exponentially impact local government efforts working with citizens to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption in order to achieve ambitious reduction targets. Background on Dubuque hTational Climate Protection Leadership Dubuque, Iowa is a unique river community of 60,000 residents known for its historic architecture, neighborhood character and effective community leadership. Throughout the past 30 years, Dubuque has faced multiple challenges including economic hardship, significant unemployment, and a lost connection to our greatest resource, the Mississippi River. The City has overcome these challenges with an entrepreneurial spirit guided by strong partnerships throughout the community. Dubuque's leaders have identified another challenge on the horizon, the quest for sustainability and to reduce carbon emissions. Dubuque has committed to be a national leader among communities under 200,000 2 population to identify the best practices of sustainability and carbon emission reduction for communities to replicate. Dubuque has effectively made sustainability and climate change a priority since 2006. In order to define what sustainability meant to the citizens of Dubuque and how the community could begin to implement change, the City Council called upon the community at large to participate in a process of research, collaborative goal setting and active involvement. The community defined a sustainability model with three vital components. They are: Ecological Integrity, Economic Viability, and Social and Cultural Vibrancy. Sustainable projects include the ability to create jobs, leverage human and financial capital, promote energy conservation and renewable systems, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, have measurable successes, create partnerships and have positive community impact. Dubuque has provided significant leadership in the national movement towards sustainability and climate protection. ® Founding member of Climate Communities and one of fifty leaders from across the country invited by Climate Communities to draft the Climate Action Blueprint. ® Active participant in ICLEI -Local Governments for sustainability. City staff serve on ICLEI's STAR Technical Advisory Committee. ® Dubuque Mayor Roy Buol was one of the first supporters within the U.S. Conference of Mayors to champion the Kyoto Protocol. ® Dubuque was the first city in Iowa to establish an office of sustainability and hire afull- time director to implement a sustainability strategy that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% emission 2050. ® Dubuque City Manager Mike Van Milligen is the Midwest Vice President for the International City/County Management Association and is a signatory to the ICMA sustainability Pledge. ® Dubuque was a pilot participant in the international Carbon Disclosure Project. ® Dubuque was also one of three cities selected as a Preservation Green Lab by the National Trust for Historic Preservation Dubuque's compelling community story and accomplishments in sustainability form a model for other communities across the nation to learn from in order to affect change. This model can be replicated in any community, particularly communities under 200,000, where 40% of the United States population resides. It is a model that results in community engagement and education, more energy-efficient ways of operating municipal services and buildings, decreased carbon emissions, green job creation, financial savings, and a higher quality of life for the entire community. Project Scope Cities are in search of a bold and transformational agenda and road map that ignite community engagement and create real results in relationship to sustainability and carbon emissions. Dubuque has proven its ability to excite and engage citizens through past projects, including Sustainable Dubuque. Dubuque proposes to build upon its successes in partnering with businesses, non-profits, and residents to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy use and increase quality of life indicators such as air and water quality. 3 The City of Dubuque will utilize its time-tested multi-step process to guide this project. This process is undertaken in every major public and private initiative in the city and includes the following steps: 1) Engage citizens 2) Develop and define vision and goals 3) Identify strategies and methods to implement goals 4) Collect information and create platform of data 5) Targeted community education based on collected data 6) Interface technology in response to data and analysis and optimize outcomes of changed behavior The project will be conducted in two phases. Phase One will involve engaging 1,000 Showcase Households in a communitywide data collection and public education campaign. Those 1,000 pilot participants will track their energy use in terms of water consumption, electricity consumption, and vehicle miles traveled. Phase Two will be based on the results of the 1000 showcase households and involve a targeted community engagement and education campaign to encourage all residents of Dubuque to make educated decisions about their energy use and resulting carbon footprint. Dubuque will conduct the following activities to implement the project. Phase 1: Showcase Demonstration Project ® The City will identify 1,000 Showcase Households who volunteer to participate in the demonstration project. The households will be selected to represent a broad cross-section of the community. ® The City will coordinate with the local electric utility Alliant Energy and the City water department to install advanced electric and water meters to better track and report on electricity and water consumption. The City will also provide Showcase Households with GPS units to track their vehicle miles traveled. ® The City will establish a baseline carbon footprint profile for each Showcase Household and then provide tools and information to encourage carbon reductions. ® The City will track the results and provide weekly reports to the Showcase households on their electricity and water consumption and their vehicle miles traveled. ® The City will provide tools and information to encourage the households to reduce their carbon footprint. ® The City will analyze the results and prepare a report summarizing the resulting emissions reductions and other benefits resulting from the project. Phase Two: Community-wide Public Education & Outreach Campaign By giving citizens the knowledge and tools to make decisions that directly impact climate change, we will create sustainable communities, achieve energy independence, build a vibrant American economy, and protect and preserve our planet for future generations. Information can influence behavior. The Smart Sustainable City program will arm citizens with data about their personal energy use and carbon emissions. An aggressive and comprehensive community education campaign. in partnership with the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, the Chamber of Commerce, Dubuque Community School District, and local colleges will advance the goal of significant carbon emission reductions in Dubuque and will also provide best practices and tool lcit for a replicable model for small to medium cities in the U.S. 4 Key to success will be complete engagement and empowerment of important stakeholders including businesses and residents. The Community Foundation and Chamber of Commerce will lead ashort- term stakeholder engagement campaign and partner in a long-term education campaign. Together with the City, they will build knowledge and green economy capacity in Dubuque, helping to provide the financial and organizational tools necessary to change operations and purchasing practices in businesses and homes. Several ingredients will be critical for success in this effort. They include: ® An organizing framework for collaboration and coordination ® Diverse, sustainable funding to implement recommended energy-saving changes ® Targeted, cost-effective recommendations for behavior change ® Marketing, outreach, and education The community marketing and education model will include a variety of mediums, targeted to address specific populations and specific behaviors identified through the collection of data from our Showcase Citizens. It will include informational seminars, programming for public access television, special events, promotional materials, and educational activities to help familiarize the community with diverse, sustainable approaches that will help promote reduced carbon emissions, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Included in this campaign will be activities, strategies and best management practices that will educate citizens about energy alternatives and practices they can implement in their own homes to save money and energy use while expanding their knowledge about sustainability practices. Showcase Businesses, Schools, and Families will serve as examples for their neighbors. We will build upon existing public education campaigns including the Mayor's Green Pledge and annual Sustainable Communities Conference and rely on the expertise of our committed partners such as ICLEI, National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, Keep Dubuque County Green and Clean and others to assist us in curriculum development. i. Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Dubuque supports national goals to reduce carbon emissions 80% by 2050 and applauds EPA's goal to reduce 160 million metric tons of carbon equivalent of emissions by 2012 through voluntary climate protection programs. The City understands the impact that individuals, businesses, and institutions have on greenhouse gas emissions. Dubuque will educate its population on effective measures that families can take to save energy, conserve water and reduce vehicle miles traveled, and thereby curb greenhouse gas emissions. The Smart, Sustainable Dubuque initiative will measure baseline greenhouse gas emissions from a representative sample of 1,000 Showcase Households in the areas of electricity use, water use and vehicle miles traveled. This baseline will serve as the yardstick upon which the City will generate significant greenhouse gas reductions among the Showcase Households. Dubuque established the following goals for greenhouse gas reductions within the project period: ® 50% of participating households will cut greenhouse gases by 5%; ®30% of participating households will cut greenhouse gases by 10%; and ® 20% of participating households will cut greenhouse gases by 15%. The table below summarizes annual anticipated greenhouse gas reductions based on the Smart, Sustainable Dubuque assumptions: 5 Water Vehicle Miles Traveled Ener /Electricit Av Annual Use Per Household 9,600 cu ft 19,840 miles 10,930 kWh C02 Reduction (in tons) 1,000 Showcase Citizens (2 yr timeframe) 31.44 tons 831 tons 1,640 tons 60,000 Citizens (community rollout) 1,668 tons 49,860 tons 98,400 tons Based on the assumptions listed above, it is estimated that in two vears 1.000 Showcase Citizens will reduce their C02 emissions by 2,502.44 tons. Dubuque's Showcase initiative will also produce ongoing carbon reductions. The results of the pilot with the Showcase Households will also inform City efforts to reduce greenhouse gases community-wide through training and outreach. When carried out in the community of 60,000 citizens and 28,000 households carbon reduction based on changed consumption of water, electricity, and vehicle miles traveled alone will equa157,056 tons. ii. Capacity-Building of Community: The City of Dubuque, its Partners, & Stakeholders In 2005, Mayor Buol was elected on a sustainability platform that pledged to increase awareness and action in community efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and address the impacts of climate change. Since then, sustainability has remained a top priority. The Smart, Sustainable Dubuque initiative will build the City's capacity to achieve climate protection goals. Dedicated EPA funding will enable Dubuque to assign key staff to implement the Showcase initiative within the community. City staff will expertly develop simple tools to capture data from multiple sources to communicate the carbon footprint of individual households. Staff will also gauge the impact of messages and delivery mechanisms that effectively drive behavior changes overall sustainability. The information gleaned throughout the project period will educate elected leaders and City staff on how to reduce their carbon footprints thus influencing informed, effective future decision making. Dubuque will also work with its partners including private sector leaders, utilities, higher education, religious organizations, nonprofit associations and other stakeholders to build capacity to share climate change information with constituencies. Peer-to-peer learning through these various sectors will encourage further greenhouse gas reductions. Information will also drive understanding within community households. Direct exposure to the impacts of rising greenhouse gas emissions and steps to take to reduce carbon footprints will ensure that local households will consistently consider the impact of their own actions. iii. Broader Co-Benefits & Complementary Activities Beyond reporting greenhouse gas emissions, Dubuque's household carbon footprint tool will also track and measure environmental, economic, health, and social co-benefits. The City's outreach campaign will focus on activities that save energy, conserve water and reduce vehicle miles traveled. In local households: Reducing electricity consumption will: ® Improve air quality through reduced fossil fuel-based power generation ® Improve health through air quality ® Save households money Reducing water consumption will: ® Conserve water ® Conserve energy ® Save households money Decreasing vehicle miles traveled will: ® Improve air quality through decreased burning of carbon-based fuels ® Encourage greater use of transit, as well ® Conserve fuel and reduce dependence as walking and biking on foreign oil ® Improve health with increased walking and biking activity Dubuque will create jobs by purchasing locally manufactured advanced water meters that will eliminate the need to send electric utility and water department personnel to homes. This will further reduce vehicle miles traveled, fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The City will leverage existing sustainability initiatives within the community, including efforts with the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program to make funding available for building improvements. Showcase Households accessing EECBG funding to green their homes will be able to use the household carbon footprint tool to measure significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. iv. Timely and Successful Completion of the Project & Replicability Phase 1 of the Smart, Sustainable Dubuque initiative will focus upon recruiting, training and collecting data from 1,000 pilot Showcase Households. The City will demonstrate to volunteer residents how vehicle miles traveled, energy consumption and water use create a personal carbon footprint, and provide tips and education to encourage behavior changes that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and generate other environmental, economic and social benefits. Dubuque will also develop a reward system in Phase 1 that promotes active participation in the program and provides incentives for personal carbon footprint reductions. STF,P 1: PRnGRAM DESIGN Pro'ect Action/Task Method Work Product/Out ut Timeline Form a technical team to Assemble committed private Technical team identified and January 2010 provide guidance to Dubuque sector partners, utilities, higher trained on establishing personal carbon education, government footprints, curriculum representatives and development and data Households with an interest in collection analysis climate change and energy improvements Identify the data required for Coordinate with local utility Process established for the January - the development of household companies, transit system and collection of household carbon February carbon footprints the Dubuque City Water footprint data 2010 Department on the collection of carbon emissions data related to energy consumption, water usage and vehicle miles traveled Develop household carbon Gather relevant sample data Easy-to-read household carbon February - footprint reporting tool and organize in a format that footprint tool Apri12010 allows Showcase Households to easily understand the carbon emissions related to energy consumption, water usage and vehicle miles traveled STEP 2: RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS Pro'ect Action/Task Method Work Product/Out ut Timeline 7 Ensure broad community Determine goals for volunteer Criteria that identifies broad- February - representation among 1,000 selection, including family size, based demographic March 2010 Showcase Households building square footage, representation among the 1,000 economic capacity and education Showcase Households Identify 1,000 Showcase Publicly announce initiative and Selection of 1,000 Showcase March -May Households enlist volunteers; select households that demonstrates 2010 Showcase Households based wide cross-section of the upon predetermined criteria community STEP 3: DEVELOPING A PERSONAL CARBON FOOTPRINT BASELINE Pro'ect Action/Task Method Work Product/Out ut Timeline Distribute and install GPS units Identify Showcase Households to 500 GPS units installed in pilot June 2010 and train Showcase Households participate in vehicle miles participant vehicles in two to use GPS units traveled study; provide training rounds on GPS use Install advanced electric and Local utility companies will NOTE: The installation of the water meters in Showcase install advanced electric meters advanced electric and water households and city will install advanced meters are complementary water meters activities that will be paid for separately and leveraged into this project. Perform baseline greenhouse gas Conduct a baseline greenhouse Initial personal carbon footprint July 2010 inventory for each participant gas inventory (by month) using for each Showcase Household household electricity and water consumption and vehicle miles traveled data to establish an initial household carbon footprint Determine greenhouse gas Aggregate individual household Completed carbon footprint of August 2010 baseline for entire pilot group baseline greenhouse gas Showcase Households as a whole . inventories STEP 4: ESTABLISHING CLEAR CARBON REDUCTION GOALS Pro'ect Action/Task Method Work Product/Out ut Timeline Set greenhouse gas reduction Host series of meetings with Individual greenhouse gas August 2010 goals with Showcase Households Showcase Households to identify reduction goals personal greenhouse gas reduction goals; develop meeting agenda and training materials STEP 5: CREATING TRAINING CURRICULUM AND DELIVERY 1VIECHANISIVIS Pro'ect Action/Task Method Work Product/Out ut Timeline Develop training curriculum Create accessible information for Completed step-by-step February - Showcase Households that instructions and tips for reducing August 2010 demonstrates simple actions that greenhouse gas emissions individuals can take to reduce energy consumption, water usage and vehicle miles traveled Educate Showcase Households Review personal carbon Delivery of customized tips and September on reducing greenhouse gas footprints and distribute step-by- training workshops 2010 -June emissions step instructions and tips via e- 2011 mail and through the Internet based upon areas where Showcase Households can demonstrate improvements; schedule and host frequent workshops to train Showcase Households on opportunities to curb carbon emissions CTF.P ~~ MF.ACTTRTNf ANT) ANAT,V7,TNf RF~TTT,T~ Pro'ect Action/Task Method Work Product/Out ut Timeline Collect and analyze personal Gather personal carbon Demonstrated reductions in July 2010 - carbon footprint reduction footprint data; aggregate greenhouse gas emissions June 2011 results personal and pilot-wide greenhouse gas reductions Determine training messages Compare monthly personal Identification of most effective September and outreach techniques that carbon footprint data to messages and tested delivery 2010 -June generated the most significant determine trends; cross- vehicles 2011 greenhouse gas reductions reference trends with the delivery of training curriculum Phase 2 of the Smart, Sustainable Dubuque initiative will share lessons learned from the 1,000 Showcase Households with the community and other cities nationwide. Dubuque will deliver information on simple measures households can take to reduce their carbon footprint. The results of Phase 1 will also support the development of more robust reporting tools, including real-time online delivery of greenhouse gas emission data. CT>F'P 1 ~ PR(lf RAM PF~T(TN Pro'ect Action/Task Method Work Product/Out ut Timeline Form a community education Assembke members of the Community education and Apri12011 - and engagement team business community, engagement team identified and May 2011 education sector, nonprofit trained associations, and other stakeholders to develop a community awareness campaign Design community education Develop specific tools and Successful marketing tools May 2011 - campaign to create awareness materials such as public completed and specific action June 2011 of how to reduce greenhouse information announcements, plan for delivery gas emissions television ads, community newsletters, public information meetings, newspaper ads, brochures, web pages, etc. Develop curriculum for Collaborate with Dubuque Completed course for May 2011 - schools (IC-12) Community Schools to implementation in the Dubuque June 2011 establish a new program in Community Schools grades K-12 that demonstrates how families can reduce greenhouse gas emissions 9 STEP 2: COMMUNITY OiJTREAC'II Project Action/Task Method Work Product/Out ut Timeline Conduct community-wide Host public meetings and Implementation of education July 2011 - marketing and education deliver key messages through campaign action plan Ongoing campaign public information announcements, television ads, community newsletters, public information meetings, newspaper ads, brochures, web pages, etc. that communicate how residents can reduce greenhouse gas emissions Target outreach to specific Collaborate with business Outreach program tailored to July 2011 - community sectors: business, community, education sector, meet the needs of targeted Ongoing education, health care, nonprofit associations, local sectors nonprofits, religious groups, hospitals, and other etc. stakeholders to deliver training and materials to their constituents STEP 3: NATIONAL MODEL DEVELOPMENT Project Action/Task Method Work Product/Out ut Timeline Package Smart, Sustainable Develop case studies, identify Roadmap for engaging October - Dubuque results into a national lessons learned and document communities in greenhouse gas November model for similar cities process for achieving success reductions 2011 in Dubuque Promote success of Smart, Distribute results through web National promotion of Smart, December Sustainable Dubuque site, national publications, Sustainable Dubuque model 2011 - nationally conferences and workshops, Ongoing etc.; engage Mayor Buol, select Showcase Community Volunteers and other community leaders in delivery ENVIRONMENTAL RESULTS The Smart, Sustainable Dubuque initiative will achieve the following outputs and outcomes: Outputs Outcomes 1. 1,000 Volunteer Households equipped 1. Greenhouse gases reduced with advanced electric and water meters 2. Energy efficiency achieved 2. Training and materials produced for 3. Reduced use of petroleum-based fuels 1,000 Volunteer Households 4. Air quality improved 3. Training and materials produced for 5. Water conserved entire community that can be replicated 6. Money saved in communities of similar size 7. Health improved (e.g., increased 4. Behavior changes which lead to walking/bil~ing) greenhouse gases reduced, energy 8. Local jobs created (e.g., advanced water saved, vehicle miles reduced and water meters manufactured locally) conserved 9. Quality of life strengthened 10 i. Effectiveness of Tracking and Measuring Outputs and Outcomes Related to Greenhouse Gas Reductions Dubuque's household carbon footprint tool will capture information from electric utilities, the water department and GPS units installed on vehicles to help determine a family's baseline greenhouse gas emissions. Advanced electric and water meters installed by the local electric utility and the City water department will enable accurate readings of energy saved and water used. The generated baseline will demonstrate the greenhouse gas impact of 1,000 Showcase Households prior to the targeted outreach efforts that Dubuque is planning. This training and education will provide step-by-step instructions and tips for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Following outreach efforts with the 1,000 Showcase Households, Dubuque will review household carbon footprints to assess which educational messages and delivery techniques are leading to behavior changes. The energy improvements achieved will be translated into greenhouse gas emissions reduced. Showcase Households will receive regular reports on their carbon footprint to encourage further progress and to assist the City in gauging effective educational messages and delivery techniques. ii. Effectiveness of Tracking and Measuring Outputs and Outcomes Related to Co-Benefits Dubuque will track and measure other environmental, economic and social co-benefits through its household carbon footprint tool. ® Energy saved will be reflected in reduced electricity and water bills. ® Fuel conserved will be captured by reductions in vehicles miles traveled as captured by the GPS units, as well as the elimination of the need to send electric utility and water department personnel to households to read meters with the installation of advanced meters. ® Air quality improvements will be measured by reductions in electric use as well as reduced personal vehicle use. ® Water conserved will be reflected in household water bills. ® Money saved will be determined by reduced electricity and water bills, as well as shifts away from personal vehicle use. ® Health benefits will be captured by self-reporting among Showcase Households on shifts away from personal vehicles to increased walking and biking. Reduced use of carbon-based fuels will also create air quality benefits that will improve community health. ® Local jobs created can be created with the purchase of advanced meters produced within the community. ® Quality of life improvements will be measured by surveying Showcase Households at the conclusion of the project. Showcase Households will receive regular reports through the household carbon footprint tool on other co-benefits achieved. PAST PERFORMANCE Dubuque has received national accolades in the past several years for sustainability initiatives and community-wide projects. In 2007 and 2008 Dubuque was named one of the Top 100 Places for Young People by the America's Promise Alliance; Dubuque received the All-America City Award in 2007, the U.S. Conference of Mayors' 2008 Most Livable Small City award, and was ranked 12th in Smarter Cities - a project of the Natural Resources Defense Council. These recognitions affirm that 11 Dubuque has achieved success in managing community projects that have received federal, state and private sector financial support. i. Past Performance Managing Assistance Agreements The City of Dubuque has awell-established record of compliance with the requirements of all state and federal funds received. The City has successfully implemented several EPA Region 7 Brownfield grants, including Phase I and II grants for petroleum remediation at the Port of Dubuque. Dubuque prepared and submitted all reports quarterly to EPA, and provided information on the financial status and progress towards achieving program goals. Dubuque procured all equipment and services in accordance with City and EPA procurement requirements. The Brownfields projects were completed on time, and as a result of the City's efforts, Dubuque received the EPA Region 7 Phoenix Award - Recognition for Excellence in Brownfield Development in 2005. The City's strong fiscal management and compliance is evident in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding, received since 1974. Federal funds are received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with an annual entitlement of over $1.2 million dollars. The City has also been the recipient of several lead protection grants, including the most recent HUD Healthy Home and Lead Hazard Control grants, which totaled over $2.9 million in funding. The city has received awards from HUD for our compliance with these grants. The City prepares appropriate quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports, including the Consolidated Plan, Annual Action Plans, Federal Cash Transaction reports and the year-end Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Reports. The City has received numerous state, regional and federal grants for various projects including: trail development, transient boat slips, public safety equipment and programming, economic development initiatives, historic preservation and public infrastructure. ii. History Meeting Reporting Requirements Under Assistance Agreements Dubuque has a strong record of meeting the reporting requirements for state and federal funding. City staff prepare and submit quarterly reports on time. Staff conduct, as needed, environmental assessments and monitor contractor compliance with Davis-Bacon wage regulations, affirmative action and equal opportunity requirements. Staff also prepare all sub-recipient contracts and disburse CDBG funds. Annual HUD review has determined that program administration has satisfactorily met federal requirements. A performance outcome measurement system which meets HUD requirements is in place to document and report progress towards achieving the expected results as defined in our Annual and Consolidated Plans. The City has received accolades for compliance monitoring of assistance agreements. Because of success with grant compliance, the City has received awards including the 2008 and 2007 Distinguished Budget award from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), the 2006 Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting award from GFOA, and the 2006 Audrey Nelson Community Development Achievement from the National Community Development Association for its exemplary use of CDBG funds. In addition, each year the City of Dubuque undergoes an extensive, regulatory government audit. For years, the City has received an "Unqualified Opinion." An Unqualified Opinion indicates that the Dubuque is in compliance in all areas according to generally accepted accounting principles and has achieved high standards for performance reporting. 12 iii. ®rganizational Experience ~ Plan for Timely and Successfully Achieving ®bjectives The City of Dubuque has a long track record of successfully achieving planned objectives. Key to this effort is the development of a detailed work plan with clear milestones. This will be developed at an initial multi-day meeting including participation from Mayor Buol, members of the City Council, key City staff and project partners. The meeting will identify project goals and strategies, and responsibilities within the work plan will be well-defined and delineated. Performance measures will be established in order to record project progress. To ensure that the project is on schedule, status updates will be incorporated into the City's existing reporting structure. A discussion about the Smart, Sustainable Dubuque initiative will be included in the weekly meeting of 25 City department managers, as well as the monthly full management team meeting. Staff will be required to provide regular updates to the City Council of overall progress via meetings and monthly project reports. In addition, Dubuque staff will meet monthly with key partners, including representatives from Greater Dubuque Development Corporation, Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, East Central Intergovernmental Association, Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce and Dubuque Main Street, to discuss progress on project goals. iv. Staff Expertise/Qualifications & Ability to Successfully Achieve Project Goals The City has the staff and expertise necessary to manage the Smart, Sustainable Dubuque initiative. A project manager will be designated who has substantial experience managing federal funding and who will ensure that all grant requirements are followed. The project manager will lead all project teams and will be invested with the authority necessary to carry out and complete the project. The project manager will have extensive experience working with the City's electric utilities, transit system and water department, as well as familiarity with conducting outreach campaigns within the community. Two project teams will be established to design and implement the Smart, Sustainable Dubuque initiative. A Technical Team will be formed to support Phase 1 of the project, which focuses on the development and use of a household carbon footprint tool. The Technical Team will assemble committed private sector partners, utility managers, higher education leaders, government representatives, citizens and other stakeholders with expertise in energy, transportation, information technology, and outreach. A second Community Engagement and Education Team will be created to design and implement Phase 2 of the initiative, which will share the lessons learned from the 1,000 Showcase Households throughout the entire community and to similar cities across America. The Community Engagement and Education Team will be composed of members of the business community, education sector, nonprofit field, and other stakeholders to develop a community awareness campaign that can be replicated in cities across America. Individuals who have been identified to participate on the teams include: Technical Team Engagement and Education Team Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager, City of Dubuque -Project Manager Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager, City of Dubuque -Project Manager Sheila Samuelson, Sustainable Community Coordinator, City of Dubuque Sheila Samuelson, Sustainable Community Coordinator, City of Dubuque Paul Schultz, Resource Coordinator, City of Dubuque Randy Gehl, Public Information Officer, City of Dubuque Chris Kohlmann, Information Services Dan LoBianco, Executive Director, Dubuque 13 Director, City of Dubuque Main Street Bob Green, Water Department Manager, City Kelley Deutmeyer, Executive Director, East of Dubuque Central Intergovernmental Association Penny Ehlinger, Americorps Director, City of Rick Dickinson, Executive Director and COO, Dubuque Greater Dubuque Development Corporation Chandra Ravada, Transportation/Planning Eric Dregne, Chairman, Dubuque Area Staff, East Central Intergovernmental Chamber of Commerce Association Rick Dickinson, Executive Director and COO, Molly Grover, President and CEO, Dubuque Greater Dubuque Development Corporation Area Chamber of Commerce Dr. Mahmoud Naghshineh, Director of Nancy Van Milligen, President and CEO, Services Delivery Research, IBM Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque Milind Rahpade, Services for a Smarter Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager for Plannet Manager, IBM Strategic Partnerships Resumes of key team leads are included in Appendix B. BUDGET/RESOURCES Total Federal Funding Requested Total Cost Share or Cost Match Grand Total Year 1 Year 2 Year 1 Year 2 (Years 1 and 2) Personnel Salary 50,000 50,000 5,290 5,290 110,580 Fringe Benefits 7,150 7,150 757 757 15,814 Contractual Costs 4,000 4,000 135,000 135,000 278,000 Training Expenses Travel Expenses 2,500 2,500 5,000 Equipment 100,000 100,000 Supplies Other Direct Costs 136,350 136,350 272,700 Indirect Costs TOTAL COSTS (federal and match) 300,000 200,000 141,047 141,047 782,094 Personnel Salary Cost: 1 FTE Project Director (2 years) @ $50,000/yr 0.1 FTE Grant Administrator (2 years) @ 105,800 Total Fringe Benefits Project Director @ 14.3% of salary/yr Grant Administrator @ 14.3% of salary/yr Total EPA Grant Applicant $100,000 $0 $0 $10,580 $100,000 $10,580 $14,300 $0 $0 $1,514 $14,300 $1,514 14 Contractual Costs 20 Americorps GreenCorps workers @ $400/each $8,000 $0 Community Outreach Campaign Contract with Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque $0 $270,000 1.5 FTE (20 hr/wk for Sustainability Specialist, Communications Expert, and Community Organizer) 0.1 FTE President/CEO Total $8,000 $270,000 Travel Expenses: The proposed travel expenses are for the cost of one representative from the city of Dubuque, Iowa to attend the required annual training workshop each year for two years. The anticipated cost to attend this training is $2,500 per year for a total cost of $5,000. Equipment: The proposed supplies are the purchase of 500 portable GPS devices in Year 1 for use in gathering information on decisions, patterns and consumer behavior as it relates to transportation, traffic and vehicle miles traveled. The devices will be handed out to 50% of the pilot households for a period of six months. At the end of the first trial period, the devices will be distributed to the remaining 50% of the households to measure traffic and transit patterns. 500 GPS units @ $200/ea $100,000 $0 Total $100,000 $0 Other Direct Costs: The anticipated City costs for the community engagement and education campaign is $136,350 each year for a total of $272,000. Start-up and periodic training for 1,000 households Development and host of FTP site to exchange information/ideas Showcase Household toolkits & other print materials Annual report of performance measures Website development and maintenance E-blasts/blogs to citizens Design and production of collateral materials Video production on personal carbon dashboard and reducing GHG Support materials and integration into Green Vision school curriculum Design of city-wide deployment of CCP Total EPA Grant Applicant Total Direct Costs $500,000 $282,094 Total Indirect Costs $0 $0 Total budget $500,000 $282,094 $272,000 $0 15 July 17, 2009 Dear Showcase Community Review Committee, CONIMCTI~IITY ~Dt_lf~1DATI(J~ of Gnniler Dubnquc 70o Locust Street, Suite t95 P.O. Bos 9oz Dubuque, I015'a 5200.}-0}02 Phone; 56~.583.z~oo Fax: 563.583.6619 ~u~*nudbgFoundatiati. org I am writing to support the selection of the city of Dubuque, lows as a Climate Showcase Community, As a pioneer among cities, Dubuque has made sustainability and climate change a priority of the Mayor and City Council since 2006. Dubuque was a founding member of Climate Communities, and was the first city in Iowa to establish an office of sustainability and hire afull-time director is to implement our sustainability strategy. Dubuque is also an active participate in 1CLE1-1_acal Governments for sustainability with Mayor Suol participating as an early member and city staff involved with ICL~I's STAR Technical Advisory Committee. The leadership and citizens of Dubuque are actively engaged in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change, As part of this commitment, Dubuque is working with many local private and non- profit partners to become a Showcase Community. This effort includes the transformation of the way communities deliver transportation, water, energy, and other services to their citizens into an energy efficient system that addresses the real time needs of the community. This showcase will be a replicable model far communities of any size under 200,000 to address these needs while reducing emissions. The Community Foundation of greater Dubuque will, in partnership with the Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce, conduct the community engagement/ public education camponent of the project. The Foundation and the Chamber have partnered successfully in the past on community visioninglengagement projects and are excited to tackle this impoiant wark. Cornrriunicai:ion is a vital component of social change work; it increases awareness, generate support and effect change. We look forward to working with all of our community partners to make ®ubuque a Climate Showcase Cammunity. Sincerely, ~ ~~~ Nancy Van Mllligen President and CSC v ~. } _._. ~. ~~. ;4 ' ~. r ~. ~, D U B U Q U E l~l ~ ~~ t O G 9 MAIN S T R E E T DUBUQUE IOWA 5 2 G G 7- 4 7 2 4 j5 63] 550-44G 0 [5 63] 5 6 G •G G4.5-FAX W W W. DU B U Q U E PA AI N STR E ET.O RG July 20, 2009 Showcase Conununity Review Committee, EPA 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20460 Dear Showcase Coumnulity Review Committee, Dubuque Main Street (DMS), a downtown development corporation, salutes and endorses the City of Dubuque's important effort to have our community named a Climate Showcase Community, I am writuig to support this designation. Our community certainly has been leader in the State of Iowa and on a number of local, state and national initiatives in addressing climate change. As a pioneer among cities, Dubuque and its citizens have made sustainability and reducing our impact on climate change a priority. The Mayor and City Council made it an official objective in 2006. We are actively engaged in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to address climate change. Elements of the Dubuque sustainability and Smarter City programs, on which so many of us not-for-profit partners of the City are working, seem to be a great fit for the Showcase. At DMS, we believe our City Center, the focus of our Main Street program, and tints our entire community greatly benefit from Climate Showcase programs including: the hansformation of the way cormnunities deliver transportation, water, energy, and other services to their citizens into an energy efficient system that addresses the real time needs of the community. Reuse of our existing assets will be a major factor as we strive to reduce emissions, and other efforts, which parallel those of the EPA, will provide a replicable model for communities of any size under 200,000 to address these needs. DMS is a member of the Dubuque sustainability Task Force and is committed to being a resource for the City and local businesses. Business owners are looking for ways to use energy more efficiently, save money, and create new jobs. In partnership with the City, we will work with local businesses to analyze their energy use and carbon footpruit and assist in managing programs to help businesses make improvements to thew buildings and operations. We twill continue to be a contributing parhier in this key public engagement and education campaign. I am proud to support and participate in the City of Dubuque's application to become a Climate Showcase Conununity. Should anyone need fiu-ther details of our endorsement of the City's application to be part of the Climate Showcase program, please call Dan at (563) 588-4400. Sinc . t Daniel L. LoBianco Executive Director A MAIN S T R E E T I O W A A F F I L I A T E 4 OF,TyE ~/tda'~~ +~~S~9A ~~ ~\O rG ~ ^ ~ ,~ ~ ~ C R, ~ • p CHESTER J. CULVER ~~~~~~' ®~ ~~ ~~~~.~~~ PATTY JULaGf GOVERNOR LT, GOVERNO July 20, 2009 . Showcase Community Review Committee c/o Jane Kurtz, Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20400 Dear Showcase Community Review Committee: On behalf of the State of Iowa, I am writing to support the selection of the city of Dubuque, Iowa as a Climafie Showcase Community. The City of Dubuque has been a leader in the State and an a number of local, state and national fronts in addressing climate change. As a pioneer among cities, Dubuque has made sustainability and climate change a priority of the Mayor and City Council since 2000, Dubuque was a founding member of Climate Communities, was one of the first signatars to the US Conference of Mayors support of the KYOTO protocol and was the first city in Iowa to establish an office of sustainability and hire afull-time director whose sole responsibility is to implement the city's sustainabifity strategy, Dubuque is also an active participate in lCLE) -Local Governments for Sustainability with Mayor Buol parkicipating as an early member and city staff involved with 1CLE1's STAR Technical Advisory Committee, City leaders and citizens of Dubuque are actively engaged in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. As part of this commitment, Dubuque is working with many local private and non-profit partners to become a Showcase Community. This effort includes the transformation of the way communities deliver transportation, water, energy, and other services to their citizens into an energy efficient system that addresses the real time needs of the community. This showcase will be a replicable model for communities of any size under 200,000 to address these needs while reducing emissions, have met with City representatives and their partners in this project and enthusiastically offier the State's commitment to assist Dubuque as a Showcase Community in the following ways: I will continue to offer State staff resources to Dubuque as they develop this replicable national model. Gity staff have developed a close working relationship with State elected officials and department staff, and we viii continue to address funding and policy challenges with them. STATE CAPITOL DES MOINES, IOWA 54318 515.281.5211 PAX 518,281 .6611 WWW.GOVERNOR,IOWA.GOV We hope to make GreenCorps members available to Dubuque as they move forward with their sustainability pion. These members will be available to assist in the community engagement process and will help residents and businesses mate educated decisions abou# their energy use, As Dubuque develops this mode) for sustainabitity and carbon reducfiion emissions, state government wifJ assist in the deployment of the model in communities across the State, I am encouraged and excited by the desire of Jowa's municipalities to examine the way they provide services to their citizens and their effect on the environment, and will continue to partner with Dubuque to share their knowtedge 'and model across the state and nation. I strongly encourag,~ you to recognize Dubuque for the leadership it has provided and work the city will continue to do in the areas of sus#ainability and climate change and recognize them as an EPA Showcase Community. Sinc ely, ester J. Culver Governor of lows ~ ', y ~ ~ ~ r ~ ~ ~'i ~ ~h~:~t~'r ~., ~~~ti1~X. -~'~"v~f~r~ti~.i iii , l f ~ `'~, ~ _ ~~~~ °~~'ca ~yexrEl~)~, l~lr~c:~ar ~ ,~` Duly ~~, coos Dear Showcase Community Review Committee, On behalf of the State Office of Energy Independence, i am writing to support the selection of the city of Dubuque, Iowa as a Climate Showcase Community. 1'he city of Dubuque has made sustainability and climate change a priority of the Mayor and City Council since 2006. Dubuque was a founding member of Climate Communities, was one of the first supporters of the US Conference of Mayors support of the Kyoto Protocol, and was the first city in lows to establish an office of sustainability and hire afull-time sustainability director, As part of these efforts, Dubuque is working with many local private and non-profit partners to become a Showcase Community. This effort includes the transformation of the way communities deliver transportation, water, energy, and other services to their citizens into an energy efficient system. This showcase will be a replicable model for communities of fewer than 200,000 to address these needs while reducing emissions. I have met with City representatives and their partners in this project and enthusiastically offer the State's support to assist Dubuque as a Showcase Community. We will continue to work with Dubuque as they develop this replicable national model. Dubuque miunicipai offiGiafs have developed a close working relationship with State elected officials and agency staff. The Iowa Office of Energy independence Inoks forward to a continued partnership with the City of Dubuque. I strongly encourage you to recognize Dubuque for their leadership and work they will continue to do regarding sustainability and climate change and recognize them an EPA Showcase Community. Sincerely, ~~ Roya Stanley Director ~Uc:raa tis~CG 5.it'll!~^ ~>i~~~~r31~iC; ~t~ ~~..;z:}~jx rain°'•~R ` x .,x_ .:,~~iY ~. 'k: a~1;.P~ a's73'.r-zi';~s~F'.-~.i3`0 Iowans creating an eeanomi~calty viable and er-rvit'anmentallysound energy firiure. Connecting Peop~.a `t=o Li_~e' s D~st,in~~ions 3uly l7, Z009 Dear ~iiawease Coxnt~xity l~.eview Corznnittee, I a.tn writing to support the selectian of the city of I`~ub~a~ue., Iowa as a Climate showcase Cn~mirtunity. The pity of Dub~.ique leas been a leader in the Mate of Iowa and on a number of lacal, state :and national t'ront5 in addressing clirx~-ate change. As a pioneer amang cities, Dubuque has made sustar~ability ~u.~l : linate :hangs ~. priority o~ the IViayar anti City Cou~scil sitrce 2f?06. I~~.~buque was a founding mcn~ber of +Climate Communities, was arts of the first sig~ators to the U5 Conference cif I°~Iayors support of the I~~'D'I'® prato~:al and was the Iirst city in Iativa tts establish an ace afsustai~~ability and l~:ire a full~tirr~:; directo~• whose sole responsibility fs to implement au~• stastairability strategy. Dt~bt~tlu~ is also az~ active parii~;ipa#e in ~~:I~~I ~ L,€ical~ over~ents for usta;nability witb: T~ayox ~3ua1 participating as ar, eat°1y ~~c~~ber and eity stsff bivalved with ICL~I's ~wTAIZ Teehnical l~dvisory Con~nvttee. The leadersisip and citize.€~s of I~nbuelt~c are actively engaged i~a effc~Yts to redt~e gp;eer~lzouse gas en~ssioxts and address clixilate cl~arage, - part cif ilus cotxunitf~ze~at, I3ubugue is worl~;ing with a~iaay laea~ peivate a~~d ncsr3-paafit patcr~ers to become a showcase Ca~x~.~iznity. This el~art ineh~des the transfor~natian of the way can~.naities deliver trarispa~•tation, water, ene~•gy, and other sez~ices to tI~eir citizens iota an energy e~cie~at systen'- that addresses the real tine ~aee~s of the camnaunity. This sl-rr-wcase vrrall be a replicable riiadel fnr cozrrrn~rniti~s oi' y si ~e uerder ~O~,all~ to address tl~use needs while reducing emissions. The I~.egional Transit ~utliarity (12.T.f~) pa~~urcrs with the City of Dubz~rlue to provide transit serviees within the I)aabce~ue City limits. 't3~`e Iirovide aver ~~,~00 rides per year within.. the City of I3ul?u~ue. additionally, the RTfi provides transit se~~~ices to the rural areas of Dt~bugtae, Delaware and Jacl~san Caunties, aLt saarraunding l7ubu~z~e. ~Ie provide aver 1$p,000 rides per yeas ire the region. The ETA in Ibis bast year has partnered. with the City ofDub~rque to complete a transit study to trarasfor~ the way teansi.t se~~viee is provided iii the City and e reion. Tl~e showcase n~aodel tote City is p~~p€~sn will enhance our transit sorvices within the City a~ Dubuque and else througho~.zt oar region. Citizens will beearme snore aware of ~hei~• enez•,~y and carbc~r~ cansumptiart through this praJeet and will turn to transit as an alterative t~°ansportatian chaic¢. Through tlib data fiom this project, we vv~ll be able to design routes and. service to meet fibs real tine de~aancls of our transit c~astc_smers. Tl~at~k you ~br your tune and consideration sincerely ~~ ~. el ~y Iu ` n eut~.~eyer 11~~~t:~v~ l~ir~~t~r ,~-.. f ~' -! ~. July 1~, 2009 f--..- -f ~,:, ,.. ®ear Showcase Cammunity Review Committee, 7or10 Comrn~~e2 Park am writing to support the selectian of the city of Dubuque, lows as a Clima~~'~'"`~`"~° iA 52QQz Showcase Community. The city of Dubuque has been a leader in the State of Iowa and on a number of local, state and national fronts in addressing climate change. As a pioneer among cities, Dubuque has made sustainability and climate change a priority of the Mayor and City Council since 2005. Dubuque was a founding member of Climate Communities, was ono of the first signators to the US Conference of Mayors support of the KYOTO protocol and was tf ie first city in lows to establish an office of sustainabi[ity and hire a ftall-time director whase sole responsibility is tv implement our sustainabifity strategy. Dubuque is also an active participate in ICLEI ~ Focal Oavernments for Sustainability with Mayor dual participating as an eariy member and city staff involved with ICLEI's STAR Technical Advisory Committee. The leadership and citizens of Dubuque are actively engaged in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. As part of this commitment, ©ubuque is working with many local private and non- profit partners to become a Showcase Cammunity. this effort includes the transformation of the way carr}munities deliver transportation, water, energy, and other services to their citizens into an energy efficient system that addresses the real time needs cif the community, This showcase will be a replioable model for cor~imutiities of any size under 200,000 tv address these needs while reducing emissions. ECIA is the Metropolitan Punning ®rganization (MPO) for the Dubi,g4,e metre area. As the MPO, we are very excited about this transformational model the City is developing to reduce emissions in fine region. As a partner in this project, ECIA will use the data from the carbon dashboard monitors in r~ur long range transportation p}arming process and in our transportation modeling. `This information will be valuable to the future of ourtransportation planning efforts in our entire MPO region and will be a model for other MPg's of our site nationally. Than}c you for your time and consideration, Sincere) t ~. sy Hut on Deutmeyer xecutive Directar 1'F~p,Ff (5b3} 55E~~~16fi k t . ,;~~' (80p) ~4Z-~t648 ~~:; (563) 556-Q3~8 ,,~1_ stirs@ecia.Orc3 '!s_~x ~:~,;: v~rt~uvv,eria.org ~J~s°JCtsv i1~U'ts~~L+~"~Y~ ~'S~'f,n 9tta13~~~tk4€f2$.T[kIi ~~iYJ{st,J ~2aSae.6[2 ~~~d~ ~%dG'S43~33:[i~'3'4t~.E7Yi5[Dla7+dvsi ,. ....~.._... ...--- -- ~~.tif~a4 at arts„„~ ~tQ3zzyi,s ,Y F4fi7;:6y~'r' ss.~b~ ~3 ~ err E cx'Sa"'.iC'a i¢'# dr i=~~xuaa~~ Ak~83~3iiZ~ ~~l#-f!iQa73i~ z ~;~.gd~. E~US[P°:~5~ ~iY~°?~`if~~37 gigs.:. . ~~ijre"tfi ~ ~6"?i~~ivl~ea`acii$ ~Pi~°i ftt"cal4's%i9t~ ' ri~f~4 &.L~~FI4Pt"i?[ l"~c~43i"fC!"t~# d~~1i~'~`bzi ' c~F~E9Yt ~ rz~t?ZL1It~i' ~5c'n4153„' ~tFs~.sr36~+" i f- ~ F - ~'3 f ~i1 ~~ `~~7 -~~ AREA CI TAAIBER OF CObL\9ERCE July 2S, 2009 Dear Showcase Community Review Committee, I am writing to support the selection of the city of Dubuque, Iowa as a Climate Showcase Community. The city of Dubuque has been a leader in the State of Iowa and on a number of local, state and national fronts in addressing climate change. As a pioneer among cities, Dubuque has made sustainability and climate change a priority of the Mayor and City Council since 2006. Dubuque was a founding member of Climate Communities, was one ofthe first slgnators to the US Conference of Mayors support of the KYOTO protocol and was the first city in Iowa to establish an office of sustainability and hire afull-time director whose sole responsibility is to implement our sustainability strategy. Dubuque is also an active participate in ICLEI -Local Governments for sustainability with Mayor Buol participating as an early member and city staff involved with ICLEI's STAR Technical Advisory Committee. The leadership and citizens of Dubuque are actively engaged in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. As part of this commitment, Dubuque is working with many local private and non-profit partners to become a Showcase Community. This effort includes the transformation of the way communities deliver transportation, water, energy, and other services to their citizens into an energy efficient system that addresses the real time needs of the community. This showcase will be a replicabee model for communities of any size under 200,000 to address these needs while reducing emissions, The Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to participate as a partner of the proposed Showcase Community project. The Showcase Community project aligns with the very essence of our organizational mission to sustain the area as the best place to live, work, play and do business. In partnership with our community colleagues the Chamber will assist in engaging the business community in current and future sustainable practices. Promoting and educating best practices and successful green business models will provide the lead by example template for broad-based business community support. As the voice of the business community the Chamber recognizes our imperative leadership role in advancing our community's sustainability goals. The undeniable synergy of public and private partnerships in Dubuque has resulted in extraordinary community accomplishments, We are confident that Dubuque's participation in this project would result in great success and a model that could be replicated throughout the United States. Respectfully, Molly~Grovef~President Dubu ue Ar a Chamber of Commerce s'';'1~;,1 P.O. Box 705, Dubuque, IA 52004-0705 ~ I!i;'fx, 300 Maln Street, Suite 200, Dubuque, IA 52001 • i 563,557.9200 • ~ 563,557,1591 • www,dubuquechambeccom Julti- ? l . ?Ot)9 ~7dfir Si;c~4ueasa C'ommunii5 Ravierti_ t~ommittte; lfF~f ~1~.~, tr'!ih~%!ri ltrsr-sn'r~! f.:-tit=_a f't)%si ~s+J 1 rnn iv~itirtg! to c:unve, It3A•1 Rf:'SEAR('!i's interest ir, s:uilabo.•atin~ i~ith the C'!T't' OF D1:13llC;ttifs iri the area o] "5nutt-ler 5ttstainil?(e CiEies"`. lE3h~1 C~i3SI'..~RCH atiii i9te CIl~Y C7f' f~l IE3k,ltlCfE have eotcrr:d into a ~ietnorzmdum ui~Undi~r-3t~uttlinC,'. (?~~llli) tha! intends tci brin;r, Ca~:ether [hz kt~~ principlzs «4`tha f it}~'s Su~ttrin~bilit~ ~~~crrd~ grid 113\~l's initiative, 1't,r~ a "Smarter C'lanet.^' 1`Ire sl~lC)L? hi~hii;~hts 1:c5~ areas crt' '`SniF~r-ter Sustaiirihle C`ilv`" ressateh vid eh~: intent tt~ rurnuall~~ cu-dcv~e lop lirajcct ideas rrrrd prrpa-rs,~h; ~~ithin the iuuhrc,Ila of "Snitrrter Sustainable C'ite`. 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Funding would enable Dubuque to create a sustainability model which could be replicated across the United States, in communities with populations under 200,000. The goal is to reduce the community's carbon emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050 though two different program. The first is a pilot program to provide one thousand volunteer residents with measurement tools to accurately measure their carbon footprint through water usage, electricity usage, and vehicle miles traveled. This information will provide data to implement consumption changes to reduce a family's carbon footprint. The second program will develop community outreach campaign to educate citizens based on the results of the data collected from the thousand volunteers, with the goal being to change resident's behavior and reduce carbon emissions. I hope you will give every consideration to this project. Please direct any correspondence regarding this matter to my grants office in Cedar Rapids. Thank you for this opportunity to express my views Sincerely, '. `i '~ ". TH/kdt Tom Harkin United States Senator •i l!R ST ,:~.,. ~ ,~k-:: ".I ^t .`~ ~nOu RRADY ETREEi .760 bVE5T 61'N SiREFT 330 fiTH STREET `~ '~ ~ `- '-~ ~ -- ~F 1'.~~! 'r.:, .'a\f~ y; ~t 7f J;'? 115 FE DF.RAL SOILUWf; li0 FEDERAL UIJ I; DING =C:ai !i:; t ~I ~'~F, _. '.;Ci".~ti .. ~syFi~iFD RT ~. -~: Sf! UV 6l:Cl/E, ::95; 06t ~~. r,-r . :f: ~.. _~, ,,.1 ,... .,r3~~ 322 ;: L: ~ UK CI ~. IA :1101 . SG,7: SA2 .'3i'' .712 25. CFO CYN'I'~IIA Ma ~'I'EIN USER 450 Alpine Street Dubuque, Iowa 52001-3249 563.582.6377 (h) / 563.589.4112 (w) Steinhauser2(a~mchsi.com PROFESSIONAL. SI~iLLS ® Strong written and verbal communication skills. Significant experience in meeting facilitation, visioning and goal setting. ® Ability to multi-task and work in dynamic environment. ® Demonstrated leadership and organizational skills. ® Detail-oriented and engaged in the Community. WORK EXPERIENCE Assistant City Manager -Since May 2001 City 1VLanager's Office, City of Dubuque ® Responsible for implementation of Sustainable Dubuque Initiative including facilitation of community task force, vision statement and development of sustainability plan. ® Authored successful awards including 2008 US Conference of Mayors Livability Award; 2007 All-America City Award and 2006 Iowa Great Places Award and Grant. Coordinated efforts to paz-ticipate in pilot Carbon Disclosure Project and National Trust Preservation Green Lab. ® Facilitator for Warehouse District Initiative including: Iowa Power Fund application, Warehouse Master Plan, Historic Tax Credit legislation and New Market Tax Credits. ® Participate and coordinate annual goal setting sessions for city staff and City Council. ® Assist in developing and preparing annual budget documents including Capital Improvement Project (CIP) Budget, Citizen Guide and Policy Guide. ® Assist in planning, supervising, assigning and coordination of work for 523 employees in over 25 departments and divisions. ® Manage implementation of major city projects including: $188 million America's River I project; design and conshuction of Grand River Center; Downtown Master Plan, Warehouse District Revitalization Strategy. ® Monitor State of Iowa Vision Iowa Grant Agreement far America's Rivet• Phase I. ® Participate on numerous RFP committees including: Sustainable Dubuque Plan; Downtown Master Plan; Warehouse District Master Plan; Port of Dubuque Master Site Plan and Design Standards; Brewery Redevelopment and various Public Works projects, ® Monitor Local, State and Federal legislative activity and prepare official position statements for City Manager and City Council. ® Facilitator for many city committees including: Warehouse Revitalization Committee; America's River Board, America's River Marketing Committee; Organizational Structure Committee; and Port of Dubuque Master Site Plan Work Group. ® Assist the City Council and City Manager in responding to Citizens issues. ® Provide technical assistance to and serve as a Liaison between City departments. ® Communicate and interpret City policies and programs to the public. ® Member of internal city committees including: Intercultural Competency Steering Committee; Prescott School Partnership, Management Team and Department Managers committee. Parking System Supervisor -May 1999 - 2001 Parhing Division, City of Dubuque ® Maintained $2 million annual operating budget. ® Supervised 16 employees in maintenance, meter and ramp cashiering departments. ® Analyzed and implemented rates increase in parking system. ® Supervised $3 million expansion of Fifth Street Parking ramp. ® Monitored construction of $6.2 million parking facility including site preparation involving environmental, demolition and utility relocation issues. ® Supervised operation of 3 parking facilities, 8 surface lots totaling 2162 parking spaces. ® Monitored activity of 1800 on-street parking meter spaces. ® Managed parl~ing permit program for 4 residential districts. ® Oversaw Disabled Citizens Review committee. ® Work in collaboration with Dubuque Main Street and downtown businesses on parking issues. Neighborhood Development Specialist -January 1995 to May 1999 Community Development Department, City of Dubuque ® Organized leadership training workshops. ® Successfully wrote State of Iowa IIRDP grant and CLG grant for local preservation study. ® Monitor Urban Revitalization Tax Abatement program. ® Prepared Urban Renewal applications. ® Conducted Section 106 reviews for compliance with Secretary of Interior Standards. ~ Developed marketing materials for department budget presentations. ® Provided technical assistance to and serve as a liaison between neighborhood associations and City departments. ~ Established special neighborhood incentives including: Neighborhood Clean-up program, Neighborhood Communication program and Neighborhood Support grant. ~ Active participant on Community Oriented Policing Committee Taslc Force. ® Staff member to Ilistoric Preservation Commission, Executive Director - 1992 to 1994 Dubuque Ii~iain Street Ltd. ® Monitored annual budget and financial statements. ~ Co-Author and recipient of first ever National Trust GyeatAmer•ican Main Street award. ® Successfully wrote State of Iowa ISTEA grant, Dzrbuque County ISTEA grant, Ioti>>a Community Cultarral grant and National Trust Preservation Se~•vices grant. ® Facilitated Old Main Neighborhood Reinvestment Strategy. ® Served as a liaison between commercial sector and City of Dubuque Housing, Parking, Planning and Zoning, and Community Development deparments. ~ Conducted annual strategic planning sessions. ® Wrote and oversaw development of all marketing materials. ® Monitored downtown economic investment figures fora 70-block district with 660 businesses. ® Responsible to a 21-member board of directors. ® Supervised a staff of three and over 100 annual volunteers. ® Supervised all annual promotions including four jazz festivals. Program Manager - 1990 to 1992 Main Street Clinton, Clinton, Iowa Marketing Representative - 1989 to 1990 Clinco Credit Union, Clinton, Iowa EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts Degree, Cum Laude, May 1989 Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa Economics and Finance Majors; Communications Concentration PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMMI Professional Development Committee, 2002 -present Dubuque Main Street Board, 2001- present Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors .Bureau, 2003 -present America's River Corporation, 2003 -present America's River Marketing, 2003 -present ICMA Awards Committee Member, 2006 - 2008 Women In Management, President 1996 Neighborhood Reinvestment Institute, 1995 Dubuque Area Youth Leadership Council, 1993 - 1995 Community Initiated Development Certification, 1993 Graduate of National Main Street Certification Institute, 1992 ACTIVITIES AND HONORS U.S. Conference of Mayors Livabilits~ Award Recipient 2008 All-American City Finalist 1996 and Recipient 2007 State of Iowa, Iowa Great Places Recipient, 2006 Great American Main Street Award Recipient, 1995 Governor's Volunteer Award Recipient, 1995 & 1994 PUBLICATIONS Julien's Journal, 1996,1997, 1999 and 2006 National Main Street News Periodical, 1995 Featured in Downtown Idea Exchange, July 1995 855 Wilson St ~ Dubuque, IA 52001 = 563-589-4110 ~ ssamuels@cityofdubuque.org Sheila ® Samuels®rt OBJECTIVE To effectively and strategically guide municipalities toward sustainability through working cooperatively within established frameworks and carefully balancing fiscal, social and environmental priorities. EDUCATION Presidio School of Management San Francisco, CA Jan 2007-Dec 2008 MBA in Sustainable Management, expected graduation December 2008 oFocus on environmentally, socially and financially sustainable business models ®Served as elected Student Representative for two semesters The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA Jan 2000-May 2004 Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences; Minor, Psychology SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTING; EXPERIENCE WORK EXPERIENCE SF Department of the Environment, Green Business Certification Program San Francisco, CA Aug 2007-Jan 2008 Consultant ®Created toolkit far achieving Green Business certification in the hotel sector, including industry research, in- person interviews, process flow diagrams, material flows and the economic impact of sustainable business conversions ®Designed and conducted interviews with certified Green Businesses to capture qualitative information and quantitative metrics on environmental savings resulting from the Green Business Certification Program ®Produced business case articulating the benefits to tax payers and businesses in adopting the Green Business practices defined by SF Environment Architecture for Humanity San Francisco, CA Jan 2008-May 2008 Consultant ®Worked with co-founders, board members and staff to produce detailed three-year strategy plan ®Performed extensive market research of several stalcehelder groups and potential funders, resulting in a brand platform, strategic marketing plan and customizable sponsorship packet ®Performed three-year financial analysis of hiring Development and Affiliate Directors ®Facilitated collaborative design meetings with a number of stakeholders Cify of Dubuque Dubuque, IA Jan 2009-Present Sustainable Community Coordinator ®Provides vision and leadership in development of sustainability plan; manages and prioritizes sustainability programs; recommends and implements sustainability programs and initiatives. ®Designs and develops interactive, educational booths for large events. ®Presents to City Council, at conferences, nonprofit and neighborhood association meetings, local schools and colleges and for local media. ®Educates citizens about sustainability and local programs through a website, published writings, presentations, planning and hosting large-scale community events. Green Purchasing Institute Berkeley, CA Jan 2008-Dec 2008 Independent Contractor ®Managed development of new website for nonprofit organization by contracting web developer, coordinating, researching and writing web copy and all aspects of website ®Assisted with organizational development and strategic management by planning and facilitating a series of strategy sessions with advisors, funders and key stakeholders ®Gained extensive working knowledge of policies, specifications and case studies in the areas of environmentally preferable purchasing on city and state contracts, extended producer responsibility, purchasing for zero waste, and toxics reduction ®Member of team granted five-year contract to assist the City of San Francisco Department of the Environment in implementing Toxics Reduction program Sustainable Ventures Berkeley, CA April 2007-Aug 2008 Moderator, sustainability Market Leaders Online Community of Practice ®Managed and moderated online forum of Susfainability Market Leaders Greensburg GreenTown Greensburg, KS June 2007-Aug 2007 In tern ®Founding member of grassroots nonprofit formed to promote sustainable redevelopment of small town entirely destroyed by a tornado ®Met weekly and collaborated with FEMA, EPA, state officials, architects and planners, and local citizens as part of the Green Team ®Advised citizens and City officials on efficient building options on aone-on-one basis ®Secured donation of website development; managed process, wrote and updated all web content ®Participated in community design charrette WRITING EXPERIENCE Century Farm Harvest Heat Iowa City, IA July 2006-Jan 2007 Writer -Independent Contractor ®Helped conceive vision for non-fiction book about biomass as a source of renewable energy ®Designed and conducted interviews with clients and biomass industry professionals ®Independently performed research, organized interviews, data, images, and wrote content of 140-page book, published by [ce Cube Press in 2007 The James Gang Iowa City, IA June 2005-Dec 2006 Founder and Director, Earth Expo ®Conceived vision and directed local environmental festival in September 2005 and July 2006 ®Recruited and booked speakers, exhibitors, volunteers, food vendors and entertainment ®Wrote press documents, coordinated WSUI underwriting, and oversaw all marketing ®Fundraised 100% of event budget Board Member, New Endeavor Director ®Attended weekly board meetings, semi-annual retreats and community events ®Fostered creative and open meeting environment through meeting facilitation ®Guided ideas through protocol for becoming official organization endeavors ®1500 word article on sustainability and Dubuque's model in Julien`s Journal in Dubuque, Apri12009 e750 word article on green development in Greensburg, KS published in January-February 2008 issue of Eco- Structure, green building industry magazine ®Researched and wrote web copy for forthcoming website (GreenPurchasing.org), which will be a resource for large-volume purchasers to procure less toxic and more efficient products ®Authored 140-page nonfiction book on biomass as a renewable energy source, published in 2007 by Ice Cube Press ®Sustainabiliiy-related blogging experience on TriplePundit.com and own website, OneShadeGreener.com PERS®NAL ®High level of personal integrity QUALITIES ®Excellent work ethic ®Rescurceful and creative ®Trustworthy and honest ®Easily manages multiple projects ®Diligent, efficient and effective ®Enthusiastic, motivated and proactive ®Pragmatic and outgoing REFERENCES ~ Available upon request. Chandrasekhar 12avaa T'ransp®rta~i®r~ ireclr®r Experience: Experience in development, including building queries to segregate floodplains, transportation network. Distribution of residential, commercial, recreational, industrial, and community land uses. Design of water supply and sewage disposal maps considering slopes, floodplains, ridges, and the location of waste disposal plants and water treatment plants. Experience in management of staff and department activities. Knowledge of MS-Office, MS-Spreadsheet, MS-Access, Adobe Photoshop, TransCad, SPSS, ArcView 3.2, ArcMap 9.0 and AutoCAD 2000. Employment: East Central Intergovernmental Association, Dubuque, Iowa Transportation Director November 2008 to Present Supervise, coordinate and direct the Transportation and Planning Department staff and their activities. Prepare, monitor and manage annual budget with Federal, State and local funding. Responsible for the preparation and direction of the Dubuque Metropolitan Area Transportation Study (DMATS) Policy and Tech Board meetings, and the Regional Planning Affiliation (RPA) Policy and Tech board meetings. Report to the Executive Director on development and progress of the transportation programs. Transportation Co-Director November 2005 to November 2008 Oversee and direct the transportation planning process. Performs professional transit and transportation planning work for the agency. Assist with the supervision of the activities of the transportation staff. Prepare grant applications on behalf of local governments and transit systems, and assist with grant administration. Develop, maintain and supervise GIS-based projects for Local governments, agency-wide departments and private organizations. Conduct responsible research, coordinate with agency, local, state and federal staffs in the development and implementation of plans, programs, and projects. Transportation Planner October 2002 to November 2005 Build travel demand forecast model using Transcad. Work on transportation improvement programs and work programs for RPA and MPO. Create Decinnial Cohorts model for population projections for City, county and DMATS area. Create methodology for KeyLine to attain goals and objectives for disabled and minority business enterprises. Prepare scope for bus route study for KeyLine. Prepare data for long-range transportation plan. Mid American Regional Council, Kansas City, Kansas May 2002 to August 2002 Intern Worked on Accidents Data for Kansas City MPO. Worked on bicycle path data for Kansas City MPO. Worked on previous funded CMAQ (Congestion Mitigation Air Quality) projects. University of Kansas. Department of Mathematics, Kansas City, Kansas Fa112000 and 2001 -Spring 2002 Graduate Teaching Assistant Taught undergraduate students in calculus and upper-level calculus courses. Lawrence City Plannin Office, Lawrence, Kansas Sept. 2001-May 2002 Intern Worked on bicycle path design for Lawrence; A detailed survey was conducted to locate various signs for bicycle paths in a given area and the database was updated using Arc Info. Based on the survey, different changes were prescribed to the transportation planner. Helped design bike path by considering surrounding landscape and gradient of the site. Analysis for 23rd St Corridor Development: A detailed study was conducted by a private organization and a report was submitted to the Planning Office with design changes for the corridor. Checked whether the report included all present conditions and problems by visiting the site and analyzing whether the recommendations were feasible or not. Designed routes for Lawrence Transit Service in GIS: The Lawrence bus service has a fixed bus route system, but .the public faced problems in locating the maps of the bus routes on the web. Created bus routes on the web by using Arc Info and data provided by the Lawrence Transit Department. Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas Summer 2001 Web Designer Updated the Federal Bureau website based on the data provided by the Kansas Geological Stuvey. Entered water and oil well records into the database. Helped in updating web for Kansas Geological survey using HTML. Bhasker Design Team, Vishakapatnam, India August 1998 to September 1999 Assistant Architect Evahiated projects with the aid of case studies, client interviews, technical reports, and information databases. Based on the above details and the discussions and opinions of those concerned, detailed drawings and different phases of construction were decided and then delegated to the Chief Architect of the group. Assigned work to trainees and draftsmen. Bhasker Desi n Team, Vishakapatnam, India Aug, 1995- June 1998 Intern Provided detailed working drawings, landscape drawings using AutoCAD provided by the Assistant Architect. presentation drawings, structural and based on the information and details Education: University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Graduation: August 2002 MA: Urban Planning A.U College of Engg. Andhra University, India, Graduated: 1998 BA: Architecture References: Available upon request. DR. NIAHMOUD 1~lAGHSHINEH IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Dr. Mahmoud Naghshineh is the director of services delivery research at 1BM Thomas J Watson Research Center with worldwide responsibility for next generation IT services technologies, processes and tools. He leads global research efforts in support of smart city 1T, strategic outsourcing, managed business process services, IT optimization and transformation business. From 2004 to 2005, Mahmoud was a partner at IBM Business Consulting Services, responsible for the federal industry alliances account. Prior to that, he was the director of emerging markets at IBM Systems and Technology Group's CTO office. From 1990 to 2002, he worked at IBM Research in areas of software and services related to Web-based infrastructure, mobile and wireless, secure computing platforms, telecommunications services, and quality-of-service provisioning. He joined IBM Systems Group in 1988. In 2002. Dr, Naghshineh was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2002. He has led industry groups, NSF and government research conferences and workshops. He has served as the editor-in-chief of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, program co-chair of MobiCom 2001, and chairperson for many IEEE/ACM, He was an adjunct professor at the department of electrical engineering, Columbia University from 1997 to 2001. He has published over 100 technical papers and holds a number of IBM outstanding recognition awards and patents. He received his doctoral degree form Columbia University, New York. Curriculum Vitae MILIND R. NAPHADE T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corporation 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 Email: naphade@us.ibm.com Areas of Expertise Analytics and Optimization, Multimedia Informatics and Knowledge Management, Semantics and Machine Learning, Internet Media Technologies, Information Analytics, Global and Collaborative Innovation Process, Ideation and Project Formulation, Technology Forecasting, Information Exploitation for Intelligence Agencies and Public Sector Education ® Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001. ® M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998. ® B.E. Instrumentation and Control, University of Pune, India, 1995. Professional Experience July 2008- Manager, Services for a Smarter Planet Department IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Iawthorne, IVew York Managing a group of experts in Analytics, Optimization, Operations Research and System Management within the Services Research Organization that is creating innovative services for helping our GTS and GBS business grow strategically ® ITS: Working with the Intelligent Transport Solutions team to identify, build and deliver services that help RUC, AFC and TIM leveraging strategic research assets ® Smarter Planet Services: Working with the Cneen initiatives at Research and the Instrumented Planet Technology Team Study on game changing initiatives (MASDAR) Dec 2006-June 2008: Manager, Technology ~i Innovation Programs, Global Innovation ®utlook research Staff Member, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Ilawthorne,l®lew York. April 2001-Dec 2001: Research Staff Member, IBM T. J. ~.~latson Research Center, Iawthorne, I~ew York. Intelligent Information Analysis Group: Research and development in semantic understanding of multimodal content using statistical machine learning and signal processing techniques June 1998-July 1998: Research Engineer, Microcomputer research Laboratory, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California. Media and Graphics Laboratory: Conceived, designed and implemented a novel algorithm for Video Data Matching, l+/Iay 1997-June 1997: Research Engineer, Kodak Research and I)eveloptnent Laboratory, Kodak Corporation, Rochester, I®1Y Visual Inforrnation Management Group: Imaging Science Technology Lab: Developed an algorithm for automatic shot boundary detection for videos. Professional Honors and Awards ® Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers ® Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Award in the Multimedia Category for 2004 for the MARVEL technology developed by our team ® Best Poster Award, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2006, for the paper titled, "Semantic Multimedia Retrieval using Lexical Query Expansion and Model- based Re-ranking" ® IEEE Circuits and Systems Outstanding Young Author Award for the year of 2004 for seminal work, "A Factor Graph Framework for Semantic Video Indexing", published in IEEE Journal of Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2002 ® 1999-2001: Recipient of Department of Computational Sciences and Engineering Fellowship 1995: Runner-up of the PARAM AWARD for B.E. thesis. Regarded as "An excellent contribution to the field of applications of Parallel Super Computers". Professional Activities ® Co-Principal Investigator, IBM VACS Phase III Project, "Analyst-centric workbench for Large-scale Cross-domain Video Intelligence" ® Principal Investigator: ARDA NRRC Challenge Workshop on Large Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia Understanding ® Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2008 ® Technical Program Chair, Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Tempe, AZ, July 2006 ® General Chair: CVPR International Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia, New Yorlc, NY, June 2006 ® Lecturer, Joint DELOS-MUSCLE Summer School on "Multimedia digital libraries: Machine learning and cross-modal technologies for access and retrieval", San Vincenzo, Italy June 12- 17 2006 ® Lecturer, Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, Challudiki, Greece, Sep 2006 ® Technical Program Chair, First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, to be held in Irvine, CA, September 2007 ® Reviewer for several IEEE and ACM transactions and conferences ®ver 100 publications, book chapters and patents pending and granted in the areas of machine learning, image processing and analysis, pattern recognition and intelligent infrastructure. Kelley ~Iuitoo Deuttneye~° Executive Director Professional Experience: East Central Intergovernmental Association, Dubuque, Iowa 2001-Present Executive Director Develop and direct the work program and administrative affairs of the agency; assist in developing and carrying out organizational and policy matters and maintain liaison with member agencies as well as national, state and other Local agencies and officials. Responsible to policy board and representative committees for formulation and execution of agency work program, policy matters, plans and services. Administer the fiscal affairs of the agency and make reports to the policy body and local, state and federal agencies. Coordinate regional economic development and community development work program activities with activities of other agencies. Coordinate and facilitate collaborative regional economic development activities and programs associated with Prosperity Eastern Iowa. Assist member governments and their agencies in economic development projects and programs. Assist with ventiue capital and economic gardening programs. Represent the agency and its policy body in liaison to local, state and national interests. Direct a program of training and development of staff members. Conduct staff meetings to keep work program schedule on target and keep staff informed on personnel and administrative policy changes. 2000-2001 Assistant Director-Housing Rehired after an eight-year absence as the Housing Supervisor, promoted July 1, 2001 to Assistant Director. Responsibilities included supervision of seven (7) full-time housing managers and two (2) full-time maintenance managers. Oversaw the operations and management of EIRHA's satellite office in Manchester. Responsible for all EIRHA personnel issues making recommendations to the Executive Director and EIRHA Board of Directors. Oversaw the management and operation of EIRHA and the following federal housing programs: Section 8 Certificate and Voucher, Public Housing, Capital Fund Program; and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Housing Program. Supervised the Section 8 Existing and Public Housing inspection procedures. Monitored and implement the program regulations established by federal and state housing programs. Acted as a liaison between federal and state housing program budgets; prepared annual reports such as Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS), Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) and the Annual Report to Membership; and developed in- house operational procedures, policies, and documents. Researched and developed proposals for additional affordable housing including market study, cost and feasibility analysis including the preparation and submission of grant and loan applications to HUD, the Farmers Home Administration, and the Iowa Department of Economic Development. Responsible for the internal accounting procedures and audit compliance. Developed marketing tools and strategies and attended city council and county board meetings in the six county region disseminating program information. Oversaw the daily computer operations of EIRHA to include upgrades of hardware and software, training, technical support, troubleshooting, and collaborating with ECIA's network administrator. Designed the EIRHA web page. Responsible for web page upgrades and maintenance. Clarke College, Dubuque, IA 1997-2000 Director of Grant Proposals Member of the Institutional Advancement team reporting to the Vice-President and member of the Major Gifts team reporting to the President. Responsibilities included researching, initiating, writing, and editing proposals for grant funding aimed at securing financial support for the operations, programs, facilities, and endowment areas of the College. Directly responsible for generating all private, corporate and federal foundation support for Clarke College. Collaborated and motivated Clarke faculty and staff to identify, seek, and apply for grant funding. Established both annual and long-range goals and objectives for the Grant Proposals office in conjunction with the overall fund-raising goals of the Institutional Advancement Office. Acted as a liaison by initiating and maintaining personal contact with appropriate foundation and corporate personnel. Researched and maintained data files on private, federal, and state grant programs. Responsible for managing and meeting reporting requirements of grant makers. Community Action, Inc., Delavan, WI 1995-1997 Community Development/Housing Manager Reported to the Executive Director. Primary responsibilities included researching, initiating, and developing affordable housing opportunities for a two county _region ir_ Southeast Wisconsin. Directly responsible for technical grant writing for federal and state grants such as HOME and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG); program development and administration; feasibility studies and analysis; forecasting and budgeting; and program compliance and reporting. Responsibilities included fiscal management of the housing and community development program budgets; developing policies and procedures including operation manuals and documents; as well as acting as a liaison to federal and state housing agencies and personnel. Administered, managed and ensured compliance of federal and state assisted housing programs, the Community Development Block Grant Programs (CDBG), Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program, and the HOME Program. Directed outreach efforts and activities to the municipalities in the two county region including public speaking and presentations. Developed the Community Development/Housing Department initially with one staff person, growing to four full-time staff in a two-year period. Supervised a staff of three housing/community development specialists. Additionally, acted as the Network Administrator for the agency computer operations. East Central Inter overnmental Association, Dubuque, IA 1986-1992 Housing Supervisor Promoted from Housing Manager. Position reported to the Executive Director and the Eastern Iowa Regional Housing Authority (EIRHA) Board of Directors. Responsibilities included supervision of four (4) full-time housing managers, one (1) part-time housing assistant, and ten (10) part-time maintenance people. Managed all personnel issues for EIRHA making recommendations to the Executive Director and the EIRHA Board of Directors. Oversaw the management and operation of the Eastern Iowa Regional Housing Authority (EIRHA) and the following federal housing programs: Section 8 Certificate and Voucher, Public Housing, Public Housing Development; and Farmer's Home Administration (FMHA) new construction. Supervised the Section 8 Existing and Public Housing inspection procedures. Monitored and implemented the federal and state program regulations. Acted as a liaison between federal and state housing agencies and officials. Developed and monitored federal and state program budgets; prepared quarterly and annual reports, and developed in-house operational procedures, policies, and documents. Responsible for the internal accounting procedure, and audit compliance. Developed marketing tools and strategies as well as attended city council and county board meetings in the five county region disseminating program information. Responsible for adding Jones County, as the sixth county, to EIRHA's jurisdiction. Researched and developed proposals for additional affordable housing including market study, cost and feasibility analysis including the preparation and submission of grant and loan applications to HUD, the Farmers Home Administration, and the Iowa Department of Economic Development. Assisted with the preparation and technical grant writing of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) applications for the municipalities of the fve-county region. In addition to the Housing Supervisor responsibilities, acted as network administrator for the ECIA and EIRHA computer system, Directed and integrated the use of technology throughout the agency, coordinated technical support, and oversaw the daily computer operations including hardware, software, training, troubleshooting, and system upgrades. Education: Clarke College, Dubuque, IA 1984 Computer Science and Business Administration (Double Major) NAHRO, Mirmeapolis, MN 1986 National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials Public Housing Management Certification (CPHM) Clarke College, Dubuque, IA 1999 Enrolled in the Master's Technology in Education Program References: Available upon request ^ Organizational Advocacy ^ Relationship Building Strategic Planning ^ Team Building /Leadership ^ Financial Planning ^ Membership Development ^ Community Development ^ Revenue Enhancements ^ Volunteer Management PR®FES~I®NAL PR®FILE PROVEN METHODOLOGY ^ Experienced Chamber President with a passion for success and ability to motivate volunteers to action ^ Creafive thinker and facilitator, able to think outside of the box, take risks and embrace people & ideas ^ Drive business development through innovative initiatives that result in increased membership and revenue growth ^ Balance operations with superior leadership via conceptual thinking and strategic planning ^ Articulately convey intricate professional presentations; match the message to the audience ^ Ensure customer service and satisfaction is afforded highest attention and priority ^ Successfully build and maintain key professional, client, public, and media relationships DEMONSTRATED RESULTS ^ Increased membership by 40% for Rochelle Area Chamber; by 50% Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber ^ Reached financial goal of $1.5M capital campaign 15 months early ^ Increased organizational budget for Cartersville-Bartow Chamber of Commerce by nearly 50%. ^ Implemented first Annual Member Fly-Into Washington DC with 40 volunteers attending ^ Implemented Annual membership Drive resulting in $30,000 in additional revenue ^ Developed and implemented First Community Leadership Program ^ Awarded over $200K in grants for community development ^ Developed and implemented Small Business incubator for Entrepreneurial Development. ^ Implemented and created Awards Recognition Program for business community ® Elected to GACCE Board of Directors ^ Awarded Highest Leadership Distinction by Cartersville-Bartow Chamber of Commerce ^ Highest Class Honors, Georgia Academy for Economic Development ^ Dynamically and successfully interacted with members and other individuals serving the organizational interests E®lJC,4Tl®N EACHELOR OF SCIENCE ~ 1988 Winona State University -Winona, MN NOT FOR PROFIT MANAGEMENT STUDIES -IOM Completion - 2003 US Chamber of Commerce Institute of Organizational Management, University of Notre Dame -South Bend, IN GEORGIA POWER ACADEMY FOR ECONOMIC DEVEI-OPMENT - X006 Georgia Academy for Economic Development -Rome, GA ~.. _. 4/AIREER 1'" A~fl PRESIDENT & CEO Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce 2007-Present ® Qualified for ACCE Chamber of the Year a Collaborated with Public and Private entities to achieve All America City ® Collaborated with Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque on a Community Visioning Process ® Collaborated/Partnered with Greater Dubuque Development Corporation to form Dubuque Works Initiative ® Promoted a positive organizational image ® Developed new programs PRESIDENT ~ CEO Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce 2003-December 2006 ® Tasked with all aspects of management of organization including financial, human resources, marketing operations, and communication ® Promoted a positive organizational image ® Developed new programs ® Initiated partnerships with Joint Development Authority, Downtown Development Authority and Convention and Visitors Bureau ® Created First Health and Wellness Expo Implemented First Annual Drive-ln to State Capitol ® Partnered with county government on first of its kind Environmental Pilot Program ® Partnered with local media to enhance communication efforts using local radio shows, weekly newspaper column area magazine and all other publicity and public relations opportunities a Established tangible member benefits to show a return on investment ® Expanded Chamber services, such as Small Business [ncubator ® Partnered with Department of Economic Development for Still Moving Forward Bartow, Industry Recruitment and Retention EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Rochelle Area Chamber of Commerce 2000-2003 Served as spokesperson for Chamber with public and media. ® In charge of annual budget ® Developed and increased member benefits, maintained and increased non-dues revenue sources H Implemented First Strategic Planning for Chamber Organization, First Community Leadership Program and First Annual Quality of Life Publication ® Implemented First Annual Business Expo ® Developed Policies and Procedures Manual and by-laws for Ambassadors Program ® Secured contract for services with city for tourism services Additional operational duties EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Oregon Area Chamber of Commerce 1996-2000 ® Developed committees, managed budget and other operational duties Initiated hospitality training program a Increased membership and non-dues revenue a Operated seasonal volunteer-staffed Satellite Visitors Center ® Member of ground-floor committee for development of Community Festival ® Developed Ambassadors Program ® Increased organizational effectiveness and operations from part-time services to full-time REFERENCES A1l~41LA~LE UP®N REQUEST Nancy ~1an 1Vlilligen 807 Lacey Court 4 Dubuque, Iowa 52001 9 563-556-7388 Education ® Master of Public Administration, Southern Illinois University, 1989. Concentration in Social Policy and Social Welfare Issues. ® Bachelor of Political Science, Southern Illinois University, 1977. Professional Experience Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, 02/01/2003 - Present. President/CE® ~ Responsible for leading the organization in all matters concerning the business of the Foundation and fulfilling its mission, which is "to work to improve the quality of life in the Dubuque region by evaluating and addressing community issues, building a permanent charitable endowment and connecting donors to the critical needs of the community." Serve in the role as community leader, specifically as a catalyst and a convener. Clarke College 'dice President, 05/2000 ®02/2003 Vice President for Institutional Advancement, 05/2001- present. Vice President for Adult and Continuing Education, 05/2000 - 05/2001. Iowa Citizen Foster Care I~.eview Poard, NE Iowa Adininistrator,1994 -2000. Adjunct Professor of P olidcai ~cierlce,1990 --Present Area of Concentration: Organizational Behavior, Social. Policy and Public Adnnistration. Clarke College, Department of History and Political Science. Loras College, Department of Political Science, Department of Social Work University of Wisconsin Platteville, Department of Political Saence, Governor State University, Department of Political Science, Chicago, II, Columbia College, Department of Political Science, Chicago, IL Northeastern Illinois University, Department of Political Science, Chicago. IL National hoards Funder's Network fox Smart Growth and Livable Communities, Board Member, 2009 Council of Foundations, Public Policy Committee 2009- present fast state of Iowa hoards and. Commissions Iowa Council on Foundations, Immediate Past President Chair, State of Iowa Empowerment Board,1998-2004 Elected chairperson, July 2002. Member, Glant Review Committee; Disburse $119 million in funds. District 1A Judicial Nominating Commission; Term begini»iig February 1998. Iowa Corn nission on Volunteer Service, September 1998 -June 2002. Elected Chairperson, 2000 -- 2002. Member, Planning Cou~nuttee, Governor's Conference on Volunteer Member, Planning Committee, Iowa Summit, 1998. Keynote Speaker: General Colin PoweIl Local hoards and Community Service Current Board Commitments: Every Child/Every Promise 2004 -present Past Board Commitments: Crescent Community Health Center, 2003-present Mercy Hospital, Board of Directors, 2003-present Dubuque County Historical Society, Member, 2001-present Mississippi Valley Promise Board 2004-Present Dubuque County Empowerment Board, Member, 1998 -2004 Dubuque County Decategorization Committee, 1996 - 2001 League of Women Voters, Executive Board, Dubuque 1995 - 2000 Boy Scouts ofAmerica, Executive Board, NE Iotiva Council, 1993-1999 Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Dubuque Board of Managers, 1996 - 2001 Mercy Hospital Committee Member, term beginning 11 /97-12/2002 Public Policy Committee, Organizational Ethics Comt-ruttee YWCA Executive Board Member, October 1996- October 1999 Center. for Business and Social Research, Loras College, "Executive Board-Member, June 1997 -June 2002. Dubuque Chapter of the NAACP, Member,1995 -Present Awards ChLttch Women United, Inc Human Rights A`vard Southern Illinois University Carbondale Distinguished Alumni, 2006 Governor's Above and Beyond Award 2005 Women on the Move Certificate of Leadership 2003 Governor's Volunteer Award 2002 Tanner Legacy Award for Co~`ni~unity Service, 2001. Tanner Company. contributed $5000 to charity of my choice. Women of Achievement Recognition 2001 Dale Cairiegie Highest Achievement Award,1999 2 TI C® NN ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER City of Dubuque, Iowa Teri Goodmann was appointed Assistant City Manager for Intergovernmental Relations in February 2007. Her focus in this part time position is intergovernmental relations, nurturing partnerships, and governmental and foundation grant funding. She is the City's legislative liaison and works with city, county, state and federal elected and appointed government officials in order to maintain effective working relationships and alliances. In addition to working at the City of Dubuque, Teri leads the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium's national development efforts, including the management of government relations and strategic partnerships, as the Director of National Advancement for the NMRMA and National Rivers Hall of Fame. Prior to her work for the City and the museum and aquarium, Teri served as Development Director for the Dubuque County Historical Society/National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium (NMRMA) and the National Rivers Hall of Fame for 11 years. In this capacity, she was the lead campaign coordinator for the nationally recognized and highly successful America's River project, the $188 million phase one riverfront redevelopment initiative in Dubuque, Iowa. Prior to her employment with the Historical Society and Hall of Fame, she worked far sixteen years as a political campaign manager and consultant. In addition, she taught elementary French and Spanish to elementary students at area schools. Teri is past chair of the Dubuque Regional Airport Commission. She is a member of the Hillcrest Family Services Board of Directors, the Mines of Spain Board of Directors, the Clarke College Board of Trustees, and the Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens Board of Directors. Teri is also a Trustee for the Nature Conservancy of Iowa and serves on their five states Upper Mississippi River Board. She is a past board member and now serves on the national advisory committee of Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana. She is a trustee of the National Waterways Foundation Board. She is a past member of the Iowa State Historical Society Board of Trustees and Iowa Infrastructure Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Dubuque County Magistrate Appointing Commission. Dubuque [,, ~~ All-Au~~ricat,it~~ 2007 TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager FROM: Cori Burbach, Stimulus Coordinator Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager SUBJECT: Approval of Dubuque US DOE Community Deployment Application DATE: September 14, 2009 Renewable Energy INTRODUCTION This purpose of this memorandum is to bring to your attention that the City of Dubuque has submitted a grant application to the US DOE's Community Renewable Energy Deployment grant program in the amount of $6,000,000. BACKGROUND As part of the United States American Recovery and Reinvestment Act approved in February 2009, the US Department of Energy issued a request for grant applications that proposed deployment of community renewable energy plans that improved community knowledge and accelerated market adoption of renewable energy technologies. Projects are required to address the technical, economic, and policy barriers to implementing a combination of renewable energy technologies into one integrated solution for a community to reduce its carbon footprint and should support and enable the deployment goals across the DOE's portfolio of renewable energy programs, with the intent of creating examples that can be further replicated by other communities, nationally and internationally. DISCUSSION A comprehensive, broad-based community renewable energy plan is the focus of the City of Dubuque's Community Renewable Energy Deployment grant application. Implementation of renewable energy projects will begin in early 2010 based on the foundation laid by the community's sustainability visioning process and the City's participation in the Preservation Green Lab and ICLEI Carbon Disclosure projects. The comprehensive plan will include integration of Smart Grid strategies with the development of renewable energy, beginning with Alliant Energy and IBM's implementation of smart meter Integrated sustainability Systems in 1,000 volunteer pilot households. The City and its partners in the overall plan will focus on targeted job training in energy audits, energy conservation and renewable energy design, construction and maintenance. This comprehensive plan also includes an energy information center and programs for public education where residents and businesses will learn about sustainable energy strategies, access energy-related services and get assistance with rebate and credit programs. The plan has been aligned with private sector investments and the City's infrastructure improvements as well as its allocation of EECGB funds for energy audits, revolving loan funds and permanent staffing of a Sustainability Coordinator at the City. The final component of the Dubuque Renewable Energy Plan will develop a number of financial models and strategies to leverage this federal grant with other federal programs, state and local incentives, utility programs and investments of private capital. These aspects of the energy plan will coordinate and aggregate state and federal tax credits, carbon credits, and renewable energy credits with long-term state and local funding mechanisms to broadly restructure local energy markets, across multiple sectors, in favor of energy conservation and local distributed sources of renewable energy. Funding secured through this grant would finance the research and implementation of renewable energy systems at the Water Pollution Control Plant, Dubuque Metropolitan Solid Waste Agency, and various City-owned facilities. It would also fund the development of a new Energy Center created by Four Mounds, the implementation of smart meters in Dubuque homes, IBM software development and research, home energy audits, home weatherizations, community outreach, a geothermal heating and cooling system to serve 20 homes along the daylit Bee Branch Creek, and a renewable energy revolving loan fund program developed with local banks. RECOMMENDATION Staff requests Council approval of the Community Renewable Energy Deployment grant application in the amount of $6,000,000. Cc: David Lyons, Project Manager Jennifer Larson, Budget Director Dave Heiar, Economic Development Director Steve Brown, Project Manager Project Summary CITY OF DUBUQUE Community Renewable Energy Deployment Grant The City of Dubuque, Iowa is seeking a 36-month grant of $6 million to implement a broad-based renewable energy plan. Implementation of renewable energy projects will begin in early 2010 based on the foundation laid by a community visioning process which resulted in 11 sustainability principles and the City's participation in the Preservation Green Lab and ICLEI Carbon Disclosure projects. In addition, the City has completed or will complete in the next several months planning studies for: ® Deployment of solar and wind technologies through a third party at several city- owned sites, key buildings downtown and in the historic Millwork District; ® Development of a district energy system in the Millwork and portions of downtown Dubuque in 2010 with targets for future expansion; ® Solar and wind installations and methane gas recapture at closed areas of Dubuque's only sanitary landfill; ® Renewable energy systems and anaerobic digestion of sewage and food waste as part of a $54 million expansion of the municipal water treatment facility in 2010; ® Design and construction of a new municipal parking structure incorporating renewables and recharging capacity for plug-in vehicles in 2010; ® Evaluation of potential biomass fuel supplies in the region from wood wastes and partnerships with the area's agricultural sector and conversion of fossil fuel uses. A unique and innovative feature of the energy plan in Dubuque is integration of Smart Grid strategies with the development of renewable energy, beginning with the local utility's implementation of smart meter "dashboards" in 1,000 volunteer households. The smart meters will be expanded throughout the City and will be combined with state-of- the-art data analysis to identify and target the most cost-effective energy conservation strategies and future expansion of distributed generation from renewable energy systems. Several community partners in the overall plan will be focused on targeted job training in energy audits, energy conservation and renewable energy design, construction and maintenance. This comprehensive plan also includes an energy information center and programs for public education where residents and businesses will learn about sustainable energy strategies, access energy-related services and get assistance with rebate and credit programs. The plan has been aligned with private sector investments and the City's infrastructure improvements as well as its allocation of EECGB funds for energy audits, revolving loan funds and permanent staffing of a sustainability Coordinator at the City. The final component of the Dubuque Renewable Energy Plan is to develop a number of financial models and strategies to leverage this federal grant with other federal programs, state and local incentives, utility programs and investments of private capital. These aspects of the energy plan will coordinate and aggregate state and federal tax credits, carbon credits, and renewable energy credits with long-term state and local funding mechanisms to broadly restructure local energy markets, across multiple sectors, in favor of energy conservation and local distributed sources of renewable energy. I. Project ®bjectives The underlying goals of the Dubuque Energy Plan were set as part of a community-wide visioning and planning process in 2007 and 2008 that resulted in the Sustainable Dubuque Initiative and 11 sustainability principles. Among the principles is Smart Energy Use that reflects the value the community holds in energy conservation as well as the expanded use of renewable energy sources as a means to achieving greater economic and environmental sustainability for generations to come. Dubuque has also created an Office of Sustainability and signed on to the Mayors Climate Action Agreement. The City was selected to participate in ICLEI's Carbon Disclosure Project and the Preservation Green Lab initiative of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. With ICLEI, Dubuque hosted an annual Growing Sustainable Communities Conference last year and brought in Ed Mazria of Architecture 2030 as a keynote speaker. Dubuque has also moved quickly to turn this community consensus on energy into a broad and varied range of projects and activities that are moving the community forward and laying the foundation for the fundamental transformation of how this mid-sized industrial and Farm Belt city generates and uses energy in all forms. Among the major initiatives are feasibility studies of methane gas recapture at the area sanitary landfill and a district energy system for the historic Millwork District and portions of downtown. Discussions are being held with third party providers to install solar energy and urban- scale wind energy systems on 30 or more medium size municipal buildings. The City is partnering with local utility companies on the installation of an initial 1,000 smart meter dashboards in households and a Smarter City partnership with IBM focused on the application of Smart Grid technologies for more energy efficient buildings, best practices in water management, and optimization of city transportation and parking systems. Dubuque has begun to evaluate every investment it makes in buildings and infrastructure for opportunities to integrate energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies, including a $54 million upgrade of its water treatment plant and construction of a new parking facility. As the momentum has been building to make Dubuque a model of sustainability and energy system transformation, private investment decisions are being influenced by the community focus on sustainability, such as IBM's decision to locate a 1,300 employee service center in Dubuque. Educational institutions and community- based organizations have come forward with plans to train residents of the area in emerging green collar jobs and specifically target the benefits of energy conservation and renewable energy for the City's low-income households. Dubuque is committed to an energy strategy that includes amulti-sector approach and a wide range of renewable energy and energy conservation strategies. To be sustainable and truly transformative, the City knows that it must continue to educate its residents about energy issues, translate energy investments into good-paying jobs, and create development tools that can sustain ongoing efforts and be a model for other communities. Specifically, the objectives for Community Renewable Energy grant in Dubuque are to: ® Accelerate the pace of change with energy projects already underway ® Leverage more public and private resources for renewable energy investment ® Initiate new projects at greater levels of scale and impact ® Integrate projects and partners across the public, private and non-profit sectors ® Test development and financial models for renewable energy implementation. II. Merit Review Criteria Discussion Technical approach and workplan. The City of Dubuque will utilize DOE grant funds to catalyze and accelerate its efforts to develop renewable energy systems in ways that will address current barriers in the market and create models for other communities. As an older industrial city in an agricultural region with the full range of seasonal climactic conditions, Dubuque is highly representative of many of the 1,200 communities across the country with populations from 30,000 to 200,000, places where 40 percent of the U.S. population lives. From the depths of a severe economic depression in the early 1980's, Dubuque has used public-private-community partnerships to re-create itself as an economically vibrant, and socially and culturally aware community. This history will ensure that this funding will result not just in short term or temporary benefits but will be part of a widespread and ongoing effort that meets EERE's goals to expand renewable energy supply, increase security and reduce impacts on the environment. The City of Dubuque has already brought together a team of partners from private business, energy utilities, educational institutions, and community groups around a comprehensive energy plan. The plan includes solar, wind, biomass, geo-exchange, methane recovery, and district energy projects in the first year of the plan. These efforts will be fully integrated with energy conservation, applications of advanced Smart Grid technologies, targeted job training and broad-based public education. The plan also includes specific initiatives during the grant period that are designed to create ongoing financing tools for renewable energy development by homeowners, businesses and institutions and systems for measuring carbon reductions from individual strategies. In addition to community residents and the City of Dubuque, project partners include Alliant Energy, Black Hills Energy, Macquoketa Electric Power Cooperative, IBM, Greater Dubuque Development Corporation, Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, Four Mounds Foundation, Gronen Properties, Synergy Viridis LLC, Eco Smart LLC, Northeast Iowa Community College, IX Energy, Kandiyohi Development Partners. Dubuque is a mid-size city where it is relatively easy to collaborate and the community has a successful history of working together on shared goals, such as the ones established around energy. The Sustainable Dubuque Initiative already has an oversight committee, lead by the City Office of Sustainability, that has a coordination and accountability function and this group will be expanded and continue to operate as the primary means for tracking progress on the community's renewable energy goals and addressing barriers should they arise. Renewable energy technologies that have been or will be implemented in Dubuque include photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind energy, geothermal, biomass, district energy, Smart Grid, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion. These technologies will be combined with energy conservation efforts that include energy audits, window replacement and weatherization, energy efficient lighting, appliances and HVAC systems, and assistance with energy rebates and credits. Public education and mal~ing energy use and energy systems more transparent will be a component integrated into most of the plan activities with a focus on an Energy Center in the heart of the Millwork District near downtown and as part of public visits and tours of the water treatment facility. CUT AND PASTE MAP OF PROJECT SITES HERE Additional federal funding support for Dubuque's energy plan will have an immediate stimulus effect on the regional economy and put people to work in design and construction of renewable energy systems in early 2010. The economic and employment benefits of ongoing activities in 2011 and 2012 will be captured at the local level by targeted job training in energy auditing, energy efficiency retrofits, and operation and maintenance of renewable energy systems. A project timeline has been developed for the energy plan that focuses on the 36-month period beginning in March 2010. However, the timeline includes the six-month period preceding that date, to show activities already underway that will lead up to the start of grant-funded projects, and continues after the grant period ends to outline the strategies for renewable energy development and related activities beyond the grant period. Dubuque has consciously chosen energy strategies at a scale that will have minimal impacts on the environment or will be integrated with other projects that have established timelines for permitting and environmental review. The projects that are likely to require the greatest environmental review are construction of a new boiler system for a district energy system, the methane gas recovery project at the regional landfill, and development of an anaerobic digester project at the water treatment facility. The recent district energy feasibility study includes an analysis of permitting requirements with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. A construction permit must be obtained before equipment can be installed for all wood boiler systems greater than 1.0 MMBTU per hour heat input. Facilities with potential emissions greater than 100 tons for any criteria pollutant (nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter less than 10 microns, carbon monoxide) will also require a Title V operating permit from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The Dubuque Solid Waste Agency is expected to authorize permitting and initial design for the methane gas recapture project prior to the start of the grant period, and its expenditure of agency funds for this purpose has been included as part ofnon-federal matching funds for the grant. Final permitting will be determined by the end-uses for the landfill gas, whether it is piped for use at another location or used on its own or as a co- firing agent for the generation of electrical power. Feasibility analysis and initial engineering, including permitting requirements, for an anaerobic digestion system at the water treatment facility are proposed to funded by the grant and will done beginning in September 2010 or sooner. The project team recognizes that federal funding support for some of these projects will likely trigger NEPA requirements, which the City and its partners are prepared to respond to and have had experience working with in the past. Other than these projects, the City is not anticipating any significant barriers, environmentally or in permitting, to the other components of the energy plan. Iowa has been a world leader in the development of wind energy and renewable and has largely addressed policy barriers to its implementation to achieve a renewable portfolio of greater than 20 percent on a voluntary basis. In anticipation of expanded use of wind and solar energy, the City of Dubuque has drafted new ordinance and building code standards that clarify requirements for siting of wind energy systems and solar access rights. To the extent that historic preservation standards may present barriers to renewable energy development in the historic Millwork District area, the City has a commitment as part of its participation in the Preservation Green Lab program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation to reconcile the interests of sustainable development with historic building standards. Dubuque, together with San Francisco and Seattle, is developing standards and strategies for addressing conflicts that may arise from the implementation of aggressive energy conservation and renewable energy efforts on historic buildings and in historic areas such as the Millwork. Project description and implementation plan. The Dubuque energy plan includes 19 activities focused on solar and wind technologies, biomass district energy system, smart meter and smart grid technologies, anaerobic digestion and landfill gas, and job training and public education. In addition, the City is proposing to evaluate next-stage energy projects related to community district energy, conversion of coal-fired boilers and regional biomass fuel supplies. In coordination with grant-funded activities, significant efforts will be made in energy conservation and establishing loan funds and financing tools to sustain community efforts to develop renewable energy. Specific projects are: 1. Solar and wind energy at water treatment facility ($300,000). The City will contract with a third party developer and provide acost-share to implement photovoltaics and wind energy systems as part of the City's $54 million expansion of the water treatment facility beginning in 2010. Eco Smart is athird-party renewable energy developer that will manage project development and financing and share net revenues with the City. 2. Solar and wind at the regional sanitary landfill ($300,000). The Solid Waste Agency of the City will work with a third party developer and provide acost-share to deploy photovoltaics and wind energy on a portion of 30 acres of closed cells at the landfill's 460-acre site. Solar and wind installations will be done in conjunction with a landfill gas recovery project in the Fall of 2010. 3. Solar and wind at other City-owned and private sites ($1,100,000). The financing model that the City is developing for solar and wind development at the water treatment plant and landfill site in Dubuque will also be used at other City-owned sites including City Hall and City Hall Annex as well as on a new city-owned parking structure that will start construction in 2010. Renewable energy at the parking structure will be linked to recharging systems for hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles. The City will also respond to requests for development of solar and wind energy on the Roshek Building which is housing IBM's new 1,300-employee facility in Dubuque and buildings in the historic Millwork District. The Millwork is also where the City recently completed a feasibility study of a district energy system and it includes 30 mid-rise, under-utilized former industrial buildings that are being redeveloped as residential and mixed use space in response to demand for downtown housing and neighborhood retail services. 4. District energy (no grant funds). The City contracted with FVB Energy and Kandiyohi Development in May 2009 to conduct a technical and financial feasibility study of a district energy system in the Millwork District. The draft report recommends that a 40,000-pound biomass-fueled boiler and central cooling plant be developed to provide district energy to up to two million square feet of mixed use space in the Millwork and portions of the downtown business district and process steam for an existing industrial manufacturer. The report also recommends potential ownership structures and provides a risk analysis and risk management strategies for developing the system. A separate federal funding request for $19 million has been submitted to develop the district energy system in 2010 with the first customers coming on-line for the 2010- 2011heating season and this project is included as a coordinated activity and example of grant leverage. The areas of downtown and the historic Millwork District will also be a focus for development of renewables and implementation of smart grid technologies in the energy plan as part of 600 new housing units and downtown offices included the remodeled office building that houses IBM. 5. Anaerobic digestor ($200,000). The City is proposing to develop an anaerobic digester for sewage sludge, food and organic wastes at the site of its water treatment facility. Bio-gas from the digester will be combusted on-site to produce electrical power, compressed for use as a bio-fuel or piped to an industrial user at one of the City's two main industrial parks. Grant funding is allocated for feasibility analysis, permitting and preliminary engineering of the digester beginning in the Fall of 2010 with construction planned for 2011. 6. Landifll gas ($250,000). The Dubuque Solid Waste Agency completed an economic assessment of a landfill gas recapture project at the regional sanitary landfill earlier this year and is expected to authorize further work on design and permitting prior to the grant period beginning in March 2010. Funds for additional planning done this fall have been included as matching amounts and grant funding has been allocated for the City to complete preliminary engineering and begin procurement and construction in Fa112010. 7. Smart meter installations ($1,000,000). Alliant Energy has submitted a separate federal grant request to install smart meter systems in 1,000 volunteer households in Dubuque in the first six months of 2010. Lessons learned from this initial phase will be used by the City to contract for an expansion of the installation of smart meters providing two-way system communication, sub-metering options and demand response capabilities to up to 12,000 customers or one-half of all Dubuque households by the end of the grant period, focusing on the 600 new housing units being developed in 2010-2011 in the Millwork District after the initial 1,000 installations. 8. Smart grid applications ($1,200,000). The City of Dubuque has entered into anon- monetary memorandum of agreement with IBM to cooperate on Smarter City applications of smart grid data analysis and management systems tied to smart meters and improving the efficiency of municipal facilities management, water system infrastructure and city transportation and parking services. The City has allocated a portion of its EECBG funds to this effort and has submitted a request for $1 million to the Iowa Power Fund to expand the scope of IBM's research on smart grid applications in Dubuque. The first 350 of a projected 1,300 employees at the new IBM facility in Dubuque are on the job with the remaining staff scheduled to be hired during 2010 and 2011. The City expects this project to result in model applications that can be used in other small and mid-size urban areas. CUT AND PASTE FRONT PAGE FROM TELEGRAPH HERALD HERE 9. Energy audits and Energy Star improvements (no grant funding). The development of renewable energy in Dubuque will be done in conjunction with major conservation efforts to use all forms of energy in smarter ways. Alliant Energy, Black Hills Energy and Macquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative, the area's electric and gas utilities, have existing programs that support free or low-cost energy audits and incentives to purchase Energy Star appliances and lighting or make other energy efficiency improvements. The City has also allocated a portion of its EECBG funds to conduct energy audits of city- owned buildings, businesses and residential units. No additional federal grant funds are being allocated to this activity but utility company spending to conduct a target of 6,000 energy audits over the three-year grant period, about 25 percent of Dubuque's utility customers, is included as non-federal matching amounts. 10. Weatherization challenge ($75,000). Community volunteers have used a fall weekend over the past several years to assist 100 elderly or low-income residents to improve the energy efficiency of their homes. This program, which engages city residents and targets benefits to low-income households, is proposed to be expanded to up to 300 homes a year by recruiting more volunteers and purchasing more weatherization materials. Matching funds have been included to reflect donated materials. 11. NICC training ($250,000). Northeast Iowa Community College has submitted a proposal for federal funding to implement major new job training curricula in home energy auditing, energy efficiency and renewable energy design, installation and maintenance. NICC has made a commitment to tailor its technical and vocational training to respond to regional market demands for emerging green collar professions. The City is proposing to contract for additional job training services with DOE funding in the third year of the grant. 12. Four Mounds job training ($300,000). Four Mounds is awell-established Dubuque non-profit community organization that has provided a vocational training program for low-income or at-risk youth. Four Mounds has successfully implemented Youthbuild grant-funded programs in the past and is seeking Department of Labor funding to expand its program in 2010 from about 13 youth to 30 students and focus training on deconstruction and materials reuse, weatherization and maintenance of renewable energy systems. The plan also includes training for in-place window weatherization that meets requirements for historic preservation. Based on the Four Mounds model, the City will contract for an expanded training program will be housed as part of a new Energy Center located in the heart of the Millwork District next to downtown. 13. Energy Center ($300,000). The City is also proposing to open and contract for the operation of a new Energy Center in late 2010 that will provide information and referrals on energy efficiency and renewable energy to Dubuque residents and businesses and assist them with monetizing the full value of energy tax credits, rebate programs and aggregated renewable energy or carbon credits. The Energy Center, which would be co- located with the youth job training program, will also develop on-site models of energy efficiency as part of its renovation of 12,000 square feet of street-level space in the Millwork District. 14. Revolving Resources Fund ($175,000). The City of Dubuque is aware that these federal grant dollars cannot be used to provide incentive payments or create revolving loan funds. However, the City is proposing to use a small amount of grant funding to fund the start-up costs and initial administration of a renewable energy and energy conservation loan pool it is seeking to develop as an ongoing tool for funding energy improvements and renewable energy development. Interest in capitalizing such a fund has already been expressed by several local banks as well as a private finance company. The concept is simply to provide financing to projects that have immediate savings on energy bills and recapture a portion of those savings as the repayment stream for financing upfront costs of implementation. In addition to capital formation of the loan fund from area banks, the City may consider other dedicated funds or revenues that will be used to make loans for renewable energy projects. This key piece of project financing will be developed and refined over the grant period as a model for other communities and to sustain Dubuque's energy transformation efforts. 15. Outreach and education ($50,000). The City has dedicated a portion of its EECBG funding to outreach and public education activities associated with renewable energy and energy conservation efforts in Dubuque. That funding would be matched with grant funds to expand the reach of those efforts over the course of the grant period and support the oversight role of the Sustainable Dubuque Initiative advisory committee. Activities include annual conferences on energy and community sustainability issues, an interactive on-line asset map for residents to track and contribute energy and sustainability initiatives in the City, and environmental management forums among facilities managers and environmental officers in Dubuque businesses and industrial companies. 16. Public education at the water treatment facility ($100,000). The water treatment facility is a focal point for public tours and educational efforts, particularly for school groups from the area. The City is proposing to purposefully expand on this educational opportunity with dedicated space and multi-media information at the facility on water treatment, but also the solar, wind and anaerobic digestion systems that will be implemented on-site. 17. Feasibility study: coal-fired boiler conversion ($50,000). Alliant Energy operates a coal-fired power plant near downtown Dubuque that includes three paired boiler-steam turbine systems. A feasibility study will be conducted on the technical, economic and environmental implications of converting or replacing the oldest of the three coal-fired boilers to biomass fuels and capturing some of its thermal energy for an expansion of the first phase of the district energy system. The biomass-conversion option, whether strictly power generation or combined heat and power, will be compared to the option of shifting coal plant operations to serve peak demand periods. 18. Feasibility study: community energy options for Bee Branch Creek ($50,000). The City is proposing to daylight Bee Branch Creels, a below ground stormwater channel that runs through alower-income neighborhood of Dubuque. In the process, the City will acquire 80 parcels of property and will move or deconstruct the structures on those sites. Some sites will be made available for new construction, but other sites will be evaluated for their potential to serve as community energy sites, where a geo-exchange system could be installed to provide heating and cooling for 10-20 adjacent homes. 19. Feasibility study: regional biomass fuel supplies ($25,000). The City is proposing to conduct a study of biomass fuel supplies within a 50-mile radius of Dubuque and determine the potential for biomass energy development in the region. This analysis will include wood wastes from management of the area's forested acres as well as the potential for partnerships with the regions expansive agriculture sector. The availability of biomass feedstocks is a critical factor for several manufacturers in Dubuque, as well as the City's proposals for a district energy system and possible conversion of an existing coal-fired boiler. USDA funds in the 2008 Farm Bill will be used to help fund these studies which have been included as matching amounts for the DOE grant. Grant resources ($300,000) have been allocated to support City staff time to administer grant activities and maintain a high level of coordination and joint problem solving among the project partners. The City has built a strong working relationship with IBM in recent months and will maintain its strong working partnerships with utility companies serving the City. The primary means for directing and tracking progress on the energy plan goals and objectives will be vested in the Sustainable Dubuque Initiative advisory committee which is already in place and lead by City staff but includes representatives from the project's utility, non-profit, and educational institution partners. City staff will be responsible for negotiating and monitoring contractual agreements that are entered into with private companies for their project-related work funded by the grant. Bid solicitation and contracting will be done in accordance with all state and federal requirements for transparency, cost competitiveness and non-discrimination. Sub-award agreements and budgets will be determined upon selection of any contractor receiving over $100,000. Development agreements for the district energy system, landfill gas project and anaerobic digester will include provisions and timelines for meeting all environmental and permitting requirements. While individual wind and solar energy installations of 100 kilowatts or less will not have any appreciable impact on the existing transmission and distribution network in Dubuque, the City recognizes that over time, in the aggregate, distributed renewable generation may run into transmission constraints. Likewise, the larger potential sources of renewable power generation of 10 megawatts or more from biomass, landfill gas or anaerobic digestion may face more immediate transmission constraints. At this time, the scope of the City's energy plan does not include an in-depth analysis of the long-term impacts of significant new sources of renewable energy on the grid. However, the City will look for near-term opportunities to evaluate and address these issues by working with its utility partners, state regulators, and the Midwest Independent Service Operator (MISO). Renewable energy installations and generation potential. Dubuque recognizes that the overall environmental footprint of its residential energy use comes primarily from space heating and domestic hot water, which together often represent more than two- thirds of total energy use. Although bio-fuels are strong in the area, the region's transportation system also has a huge environmental footprint from fossil fuel use. As a general strategy, Dubuque is seeking to convert these heating and transportation uses from fossil fuels to electrical power whenever possible. As an example, the City is pursuing the development of a biomass-based district energy system that will reduce the use of natural gas in favor of slightly greater electrical power use for heat pumps. As another example, the City is encouraging greater use of hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles by accommodating recharging stations as part of municipal parking facilities. The general strategy of conversion to electrical power may not have significant environmental benefits when that power comes from current grid sources, which in Iowa are made up two-thirds from coal generation. As a result, the goals of converting more energy uses from oil and gas to electricity have to be combined with efforts to shift the mix of power supplies to more renewable and more local sources of power. Dubuque is proposing to immediately implement a diverse range of renewable energy technologies in a coordinated effort that will give the community a strong start at realizing its smart energy goals. These implementation steps are part of a comprehensive strategy combined with job training, energy conservation and public education to create an overall project with great impact and the potential to be a model for many other communities, especially throughout the Midwest where wind, solar and biomass resources are abundant. Federal grant funding is important at this time to accelerate these initiatives and to move forward in multiple areas. However, the overall goal is to create development and financing models that are sustainable over the long-term and will fundamentally shift patterns of energy generation and energy consumption to be more secure, and have a greatly diminished environmental footprint. The City is maximizing its potential for energy generation at its water treatment facility with a plan to install up to four anaerobic digester units for untreated sewage sludge and an additional unit for food scraps and organics. The four units, two based on thermophilic detention time and two based on mesophilic time, will have the capacity to treat up to 118,000 gallons per day of sewage sludge and generate about 6,000 megawatt- hours ayear of electrical power if developed as co-generation units. In addition, the City will work with Eco Smart LLC to place 161 200-watt solar modules on the rooftops of buildings and the parl~ing structure at the water treatment plant site, as well as 2,340 solar modules at a 25-degree angle on a one-acre unused area of the site. Based on solar conditions for Dubuque, the combined output of these panels will be an estimated 632 megawatt-hours per year. Based on developing a successful third party financing model, similar extensive solar installations are planned for the sanitary landfill site, City Hall and City Hall Annex, the Roshek Building where IBM's service center is located, a new city parking structure planned for construction in 2010 as part of Millwork and Riverfront redevelopment efforts, and at least four rooftop sites on warehouse buildings in the Millwork. Based on an average of 10 kilowatts per rooftop and nine rooftops, plus an additiona19,360 modules on capped cells at the landfill, Dubuque has a target to install up to 2.4 megawatts of solar electrical capacity in this initial phase of development, producing more than 3,000 megawatt-hours of solar power for the City. Both the water treatment plant and landfill sites will include installations ofurban-scale, vertical wind turbine generators that have the capacity to produce greater than one kilowatt at wind speeds above 11 meters per second, which conforms to the general wind regime in the Dubuque area. The installation of 200 wind generators at the target sites in the City's energy plan will generate more than 600 megawatt-hours of electrical power at a capacity factor of 35 percent. The district energy system is being designed initially to provide only heating and cooling services from high-pressure steam (400 psig) from two, 20,000-pound biomass boilers, without the cogeneration of electrical power. However, for future flexibility, the feasibility study's financial model includes projections for about 7.8 megawatts of baseload power generation with about 20,000 pounds of boiler capacity that would become available if an equivalent amount of steam is no longer needed for industrial processing or additional thermal capacity is added. The grant will fund a year two feasibility study of converting one of the three coal-fired boilers at the Alliant Energy power plant to biomass fuels. This strategy would create the potential for developing an additional 18 megawatts of electrical power based on a 20 percent efficiency improvement over the current coal-fired boiler installed in 1941. The power plant site is within ahalf--mile of the Millwork District and most of downtown such that the boiler conversion could also be done as a combined heat and power system to provide additional district energy capacity to the initial phase of the system. Combined, these two options for generating electrical power from biomass would produce baseload output of 192,000 megawatt-hours of renewable energy. A key issue will be procurement of about 250,000 tons annually of readily available biomass fuel supplies for current and future uses at pricing that makes the power competitive with other sources. The energy plan is proposing to address this issue by conducting a regional biomass fuel study that looks at tree and wood wastes, as well as the potential for partnerships with the region's large agricultural sector and programs that are developing tree plantations on conservation acres in riparian zones. The aggressive deployment of solar and wind technologies, strategic utilization of biomass resources, and optimal use of anaerobic digestion and landfill gas will result in a diverse energy system that meets the goals of SERE as well as the Recovery Act. The coordinated implementation of smart meters and smart grid applications by Alliant Energy and IBM will make overall energy use more efficient and will create a foundation for making the most cost-effective and environmentally beneficial choices about energy system investments. The benefits of these investments and the resulting market transformation will be enhanced within the local and regional economy by focused efforts on job training and energy conservation that include low-income populations and at-risk youth. Dubuque believes this comprehensive, multi-sector plan, built from a carefully nurtured community consensus on energy issues, will be a dynamic model for many other communities. Team expertise and prior experience. The City of Dubuque has an established track record of successfully implementing innovative redevelopment projects such as the ones included in this energy plan. In 1985, Dubuque was one of six pilot Urban Main Street programs and remains the longest-running Main Street program in the U.S. With public and private investments of nearly $300 million, first floor vacancy rates in downtown were reduced from 55 percent to 10 percent and 7,000 people now work in downtown. Dubuque was the first recipient of the Great American Main Street Award in 1995. In the 1990s, Dubuque initiated the Vision 2000 process with over 5,000 residents participating in a community planning process. The result was a shared vision for the tri- state area that serves as a guide to community decision making and long-range planning. The City of Dubuque Comprehensive Plan was built around Vision 2000 with policies and goals for the physical, economic and social well-being of the community. A downtown master plan was adopted in 2004 as a working document for implementing transportation, business recruitment, parks and open space, cultural amenities and housing plans. In 2005, community leaders invited 10,000 to 15,000 members of the public to again create Envision 2010, a list of 10 priority projects from among 2,000 ideas that would engage the community and create unique, well-designed urban infrastructure. Out of that process was born the Historic Millwork District project, modeled after the City's successful downtown redevelopment efforts and workforce recruitment strategies. The City and residents of Dubuque laid the groundwork for the implementation of a district energy project as part of a Warehouse District Revitalization Strategy that was adopted by the Dubuque City Council in August 2007 and again in 2008 through a consultant study and community process that created detailed plans and clear sustainability goals for the City overall and the Millwork District in particular. The City of Dubuque established partnerships with several organizations on the America's River Project, a $188 million development that included the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, Riverwalk, Grand River Conference Center and Grand Harbor Resort and Water Park. America's River Project at the Port of Dubuque is amulti-phase, $400 million initiative on a 90-acre former industrial site that will also include Star Brewery and Stonecliff Winery, Alliant Energy Amphitheater, Diamond Jo Casino and Entertainment Complex, Port Public Parking Facility and new corporate headquarters for McGraw-Hill Higher Education and Durrant Group. A subsequent development phase will include $187 million of mixed use development wrapped around the new city parking structure. Over the past year, the City has retained several experienced consultant teams to assist it in developing more detailed plans for renewable energy projects including an economic assessment of the landfill gas recovery project, development of the downtown and Millwork District district energy system, and plans fora $54 million expansion of the City water treatment facility. The district energy feasibility study has been conducted by FVB Energy, the leading North American firm in district energy engineering and Kandiyohi Development, aMinneapolis-based firm specializing in renewable energy development and green building consulting. Beginning in 2008, the City has been consulting with Eco Smart LLC, a Chicago-based energy consulting firm on a third party financial and turn-key installation model for solar and wind energy technologies. The model would initially support the installation of 200- watt solar modules and vertical wind turbine systems on up to 30 city-owned buildings and sites. The City is proposing to facilitate this renewable energy development by establishing a Power Purchasing Authority within City government that will provide for local empowerment and management of energy use through a dual metering system. Earlier this year, the City contracted David Lyons to serve as the project manager for the relocation and smart grid partnership project with IBM. Mr. Lyons currently serves as Chief Business Development Officer for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and is former director of the Iowa Department of Economic Development. In addition to working with IBM, he is focusing on creating business models and financing tools for smart grid and renewable energy development in Dubuque, including the Resource Revolving Fund that parallels a similar financing tool he developed for rural economic development in Iowa. John Gronen is President and Chief Executive Officer of Gronen Restoration/Properties in Dubuque, Iowa, a company that specializes in historic rehabilitation projects and adaptive re-use of classic buildings. He provides a liaison role with the private development community that is renovating the historic Millwork District. Since 1999, Gronen Restoration has been a leader among developers in Dubuque, restoring nearly 500,000 square feet of commercial and residential space in downtown Dubuque, with development costs in excess of $65,000,000, including the downtown Roshek Building that is now leased by IBM. The firm also manages 70 residential units and 250,000 square feet of commercial space in redeveloped buildings with restaurants, retail and office space, a community health clinic. The company uses an integrated project management approach, a commitment to sustainability and creative financing sources that often include historic tax credits, New Market tax credits, and other private and public incentives. Gronen Restoration/Properties has been the recipient of numerous local, state, and national awards for their projects, and John Gronen is the Founder and President of the Four Mounds Foundation. Four Mounds is awell-established non-profit organization in Dubuque that maintains and operates a conference facility in Dubuque and has a number of programs focused on housing and youth job training. Four Mounds has a goal to use Green Communities standards in renovation of 50 neglected housing units in the Washington Street Neighborhood, alower-income, racially diverse area near downtown and the Millwork District. Four Mounds operates the HEART program, which uses intensive mentoring and structured job sites to teach hands-on construction, deconstruction and energy conservation skills to youth who have not been successful in traditional classroom settings. Four Mounds is proposing to expand its program from 13 youth apprenticeships to 30 and is seeking YouthBuild and Department of Labor funding for the initial phases of its expansion that will provide the model for the City's youth job training. The decision this year by IBM to open a major 1,300-employee service center in Dubuque has brought a global technology innovator to the community and a commitment to develop smart grid applications in a project called Smarter City. IBM and the City have entered into anon-monetary Memorandum of Agreement to cooperate in creating smart grid systems focused on energy and environmental sustainability that will result in more energy efficient buildings, best practices in water management, and optimization of city transportation and parking systems. This smart grid system will be based on real- time collection of rich data sets through smart metering and sensors with analysis and interpretation that targets efficiency goals at the design, implementation and operational stages of systems and infrastructure. Data collection and analysis will also provide the City and the community with a foundation for making the most cost-effective decisions about renewable energy deployment and energy conservation investments. The City and IBM as its technology partner are specifically interested in developing systems and applications for small and mid-size municipalities. III. Project Timetable CUT AND PASTE PROJECT TIMELINE SPREADSHEET HERE IV. Relevance to Outcomes/Impacts Implementation of the Dubuque energy plan is relevant and responsive to all of the elements in the program announcement, the mission of SERE and the goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. By focusing on conservation, job training, public education and smart grid technologies as well as renewable energy development, these coordinated projects will meet the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's goals to enhance the Dubuque region's energy efficiency and productivity. All of the strategies in this plan are designed to bring cleaner and more reliable energy technologies to Dubuque and sustain the transition to new energy systems beyond the grant period. The City is committed to creating development and financial models for renewable energy systems that also make these energy choices competitive in the marketplace and economically sustainable. This plan may be unique in its focus on job training, targeted training for at-risk youth, and its commitment to include low-income households in the benefits of renewable energy and conservation efforts. There is also no single strategy here, but a wide menu of choices and options for residents and businesses in Dubuque that want to play a role in transforming the regional energy economy. Every sector of the community will be impacted by the plan and asked to share in making its projects a success. While no single strategy in this plan is innovative on its own, this proposal does offer a unique opportunity to demonstrate how a comprehensive plan will lead to greater energy independence and choice. Dubuque is representative of many other communities in the U.S. based on its size, climactic conditions and access to potential renewable energy resources such as wind, solar and biomass. Fu11y 40 percent of Americans live in cities like Dubuque with populations between 30,000 and 200,000. Dubuque has already played a leadership role for other cities in Iowa and the Midwest on sustainability issues and this grant will expand on that history of leadership to create more models and lessons learned about renewable energy deployment for others. The importance of integrating smart metering and smart grid applications with this broad program of renewable energy development and energy conservation cannot be over- stated. The proposal not only meets the primary goals of demonstrating the development and deployment of renewable energy systems, it will collect and analyze rich sets of data that will improve EERE's knowledge about how communities can make the transition to a cleaner, more efficient and secure energy system. Because Dubuque has already laid the groundwork by building a community consensus around energy issues, and has done a great deal of preliminary planning and design, this plan will immediately begin to create jobs and stimulate the economy. Dubuque is also poised, through its partnership with the ICLEI Carbon Disclosure Project, to demonstrate how communities can begin to track and measure reductions in their carbon footprint. No other proposal is likely to include so many elements of a comprehensive plan. V. Principal Investigators and IVlanagement Plan Project Coordinator. Steve Sampson Brown, a senior project manager for the City Engineering Division, will serve as the overall coordinator for implementation of the Dubuque energy plan. Mr. Brown has been a prof ect manager in Dubuque since 2006 and previously served as a project engineer for the Connecticut Department of Transportation. He has served as project manager for all aspects of major construction projects totaling more than $82 million in Dubuque, including regulatory and environmental compliance, and has worked with local and state officials on revisions to the state law on public bidding. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Coordination and management plan. Mr. Brown will work with Sheila Samuelson, Sustainability Coordinator for the City, and Assistant City Manager Cindy Steinhauser on implementation of the energy plan, reporting and tracking of project goals and timelines. Additional oversight and coordination will be provided through the Sustainable Dubuque Initiative (SDI) advisory committee made up of representatives from the utility companies, local businesses, non-profit agencies and educational institutions involved in energy activities. Additional representation on the advisory committee is held by the Greater Dubuque Economic Development Commission and Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, which bring a regional perspective to the projects and goals identified in the energy plan. The SDI advisory group is already in operation and has been tracking and coordinating activities across the broader set of 11 sustainability principles established in Dubuque. In addition to coordination, the SDI advisory group will be primarily responsible, along with the City Sustainability Coordinator, for reviewing and implementing the public education and outreach components of the plan. Technical and regulatory issues will be managed by City staff and through contractual relationships with consulting firms and system vendors. On many of the renewable energy systems, the City is likely to pursue a contractual relationship with qualified system developers and operators, with revenue-sharing provisions. These contractual partnerships may be based on leasing of City-owned land and roof space to for-profit entities that can take full advantage of tax credits, carbon credits, renewable energy credits and private financing tools for development of renewable energy. VI. ARRA Information. Because Dubuque has spent the previous 18 months building a community consensus on energy issues and has completed preliminary feasibility and engineering analyses on the major components of the energy plan, final engineering design and construction will begin immediately at the start of the grant period in March 2010. An estimated 250 skilled labor jobs will be required to implement the district energy, solar and wind energy pieces of the plan in 2010, which will be part of additional employment from related activities including City infrastructure investments in the Millwork District, private sector redevelopment efforts, and the start of renovation of the city water treatment facility. Longer-term and permanent employment benefits will result from ongoing solar and wind installations as well as the operation and maintenance of renewable energy systems, including 10 permanent positions at the proposed district energy facility. The water treatment plant project, including design and construction of anaerobic digester systems, will also occur in the second and third years of the plan. City infrastructure investments, continued renovation of the Millwork District, expansion of the district energy system, and the potential for community energy or boiler conversion projects will have significant employment impacts. An expanded network of biomass fuel end-uses in Dubuque will create new permanent jobs in fuel collection, processing and transportation for lower- skilled workers. In addition to creating jobs, these dollars for fuel procurement will remain within the regional economy rather than being exported for purchase of fossil fuels that are not available within Iowa. 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March-10 December-11 City of Dubuque Solid Waste Agency/Eco-Smart Solar and Wind electric generation March-10 December-10 City of Dubuque Solid Waste Agency Methane Recapture and Reuse September-10 March-11 City/Alliant Energy Smart Meter Installs March-10 December-12 IBM/City Smart Grid Applications March-10 December-12 City/Four Mounds Development of a Energy Center June-10 December-12 City/Alliant/Black Hills Energy Audits March-10 December-12 Alliant/Black Hills Energy Star and Business Improvements March-10 December-12 City of Dubuque Weatherization Challenge September-10 September-12 City of Dubuque Outreach and Education of Citizens June-10 December-12 Pr®iect Start C®r~n~leti®n Lead Agency Pr®iect ®escripti®n ®ate ®ate Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy and RESNET job NICC training September-10 December-12 Youth Training in Energy Efficiency and Renewable City/Four Mounds Energy March-10 December-12 Bee Branch Community City/Four Mounds Energy Analysis March-11 December-11 City/Local Banks Revolving Resource Fund March-10 December-12 Alliant Coal Boiler City/Alliant Converstion Study March-11 December-11 Regional Biomass Fuel City/Kandiyohi Study March-10 December-12 City of Dubuque Adminstration of Grant March-10 December-12