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1 Final Boeing Grant Application Organization Name: Seattle 2030 District Mailing address: rd Ave, suite 301 Seattle WA Telephone: Fax None Address website address: 2030district.org/seattle Year established: 2011 Organizational Background The Seattle 2030 District concept was originally conceived by Brian Geller, who pitched the idea of Downtown Seattle working together to meet the goals of the 2030 Challenge for Planning to a small group of Seattle s architects, engineers, and representatives from city government in December Interest in the concept grew quickly, with a significant number of property owners and managers, along with community stakeholders and professional stakeholders joining the conversation in the spring of In the summer of 2010, the City of Seattle applied for a 3-year grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency s Climate Showcase Communities program to put real resources behind this idea of a high-performance building district. Four property owners and a number of professional and community stakeholders sent letters of support to the EPA, promising commitment, involvement, and in-kind donations to support the grant application. The EPA Climate Showcase Communities grant officially funded in April of 2011, giving The Seattle 2030 District two full-time staff people. In September of 2011, the Seattle 2030 District formed a Washington State Nonprofit, elected a board of directors and officially launched with nearly 60 founding members and over 21 million square feet of participating building space. The organization continues to grow, currently holding 30 million square feet of building space and adding new methods of supporting property owners to reach District goals. Organization Mission Statement

2 The Seattle 2030 District is an interdisciplinary public-private collaborative working to create a groundbreaking high-performance building district in downtown Seattle. With the Architecture 2030 Challenge for Planning providing our performance goals, we seek to develop realistic, measurable, and innovative strategies to assist district property owners, managers, and tenants in meeting aggressive goals that reduce environmental impacts of facility construction and operations. Governing Board (Names Only) Brandon Morgan Brett Phillips Brian Geller Cassandra Delaune Catherine Stanford Joshua Curtis Dave Low David Cutler David Easton David Walsh Perry England Jared Silliker Jessica Szelag Joel Sisolak Josh Keene Lyn Krizanich Mark Frankel Kurt Sarchet Joe Sirlin Betsy Southerland Vincent Martinez Top five highest paid staff: Brian Geller Peter Dobrovolny Organization dissolution agreement Upon the dissolution of The Seattle 2030 District (this organization), assets shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future Federal tax code, or shall be distributed to the Federal government, or to a state or local government, for a public purpose. Organization founding documents (attach bylaws, articles, commitment letters separately) Number of part-time staff 4 (Vincent Martinez, Charlie Cunniff, Jess Hariss, Matthew Combe)

3 Number of full-time staff 2 (Brian Geller, Peter Dobrovolny) Number of volunteers 1 (intern Tram Enyeart, starting Monday Sept 10th) Annual Organization funding profile: Top five funders US Environmental Protection agency Kresge Foundation Bullitt Foundation Operating budget $349,175 Fiscal year end date December 31 Financial worksheet (attachment) Audited form 990 (A2030?) Business Reference Perry England MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions, Inc. Phone: I Fax: perry.england@macmiller.com Prior funding reference Neelima Shah Program Officer Bullitt Foundation 1212 Minor Ave. Seattle, WA ext. 101 nshah@bullitt.org Contact information Brian Geller Executive Director

4 rd Avenue Seattle WA brian@2030district.org Project Title Seattle 2030 District Community Power Works Request Amount $75,000 Date Needed (Latest Possible time) January 1st 2013 Project summary and objectives: Community Needs Addressed (What is/are the local community need/s that this project addresses? How and by whom was this determined? Please include supporting data and facts.) The Seattle 2030 District has been collecting performance data on its members for nearly two years. There is a clear difference between the higher performance of large, well-funded buildings and lower performance of smaller buildings, whose owners have less access to capital. We will address several needs in the community to help the Seattle 2030 District achieve its long-term goals: - Strategic Energy Management training for owners and managers - On-bill repayment for owners with limited access to capital - Independent, 3 rd party facilitation and support in the process The Seattle 2030 District Community Power Works project brings new finance and community support tools that are not currently available to property owners and managers. It also brings the requirement for community workforce agreements that ensure projects are executed by local, well-trained contractors that must meet equity and apprenticeship requirements, strengthening all income levels in the community and educating businesses on the benefits of a local, diverse workforce. The Seattle 2030 District is collaborating with a number of key community partners to make this project transition successful: - Architecture 2030, a solutions oriented non-profit organization was established in response to the climate crisis in Architecture 2030 s mission is to rapidly transform the global built environment from the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to a central part of the solution to the climate change, energy consumption, and economic crises. - City of Seattle o Office of Sustainability and Environment o Seattle City Light - Emerald Cities Seattle is a public-private-nonprofit partnership comprised of civic, labor, community and business leaders in Seattle, committed to working together to address the issues of carbon pollution, energy waste in the built environment, job quality, equitable opportunities, and healthy communities.

5 In addition to the grant funds requested, are there other ways (such as employee volunteering, in-kind donations, board participation, training support, if feasible) that Boeing might support this program and your organization? Boeing could potentially participate in the Community Power Works program for efficiency upgrades in office facilities within the City of Seattle. This would lend credibility to the program and make Boeing eligible for all program benefits listed above. Program/Project Description The Seattle 2030 District, under the 501 (c)(3) fiscal sponsorship of Architecture 2030, requests $75,000 in funding from the Boeing Foundation for support of our Community Power Works (CPW) program, specifically the project administration component listed below. Background and Mission: Buildings are responsible for 48% of total U.S. energy consumption and climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions and 77% of U.S. electricity consumption annually. Globally these percentages are similar. To address this, Architecture 2030 issued the 2030 Challenge in 2006, which calls on the international architecture and building community to reduce the fossil-fuel consumption for all new buildings, developments and major renovations by 60% immediately, progressing incrementally toward carbon neutrality by the year The Seattle 2030 District is a public/private project in downtown Seattle organized to meet the targets of the 2030 Challenge for Planning, which includes dramatic reductions in building energy consumption, water consumption, and CO 2 emissions from transportation. The 2030 District will provide members a roadmap to own, manage, and develop high performance buildings by leveraging existing market resources and by creating new tools and partnerships to overcome current market barriers. This type of collaborative action is a strategic undertaking to help the City of Seattle meet its goal of carbon neutrality by the year 2030 and represents a major investment in Seattle s future. Designed for replication, the 2030 District brings together over 61 stakeholders including Architecture 2030, the City of Seattle, King County, building owners and managers, utilities, a major healthcare provider, engineers, architects, design firms, and other civic leaders to create a large scale, high-performance district encompassing over 29 million square feet. The Seattle 2030 District was recognized as an EPA Community Showcase Project and secured a $454,000 Climate Showcase Communities Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has raised well over $225,000 through in-kind member contributions to fund District operations. In June 2011, it was selected to represent the City of Seattle as one of the first three Community Partners in the White House s Better Building Challenge. Designed for replication nationwide, the Seattle 2030 District provides the business model for urban sustainability through collaboration, leveraged financing and shared resources. The success of the Seattle initiative demonstrates that considerable energy, emissions, and water use reductions can be achieved through communications, district-wide heat recovery, distributed generation, building efficiency measures, and other sustainable strategies. The 2030 District model is now being implemented in Cleveland and will be launching in Pittsburgh in August/September More information about the Seattle 2030 District is available at:

6 Community Power Works (CPW) is a program that began within the City of Seattle in 2010, funded by $20 Million from the US Department of Energy (DOE). CPW s mission is to deliver energy efficiency solutions to Seattle s residential and business communities, while working to create economic growth. CPW is active in six different market segments, and its intention is to leverage the $20 million DOE grant and into more than $120 million in local economic activity. The City of Seattle, wanting to ensure continuity of this program, is spinning off the Large Commercial component of CPW to the Seattle 2030 District. This brings a number of valuable resources to the Seattle 2030 District to help members achieve the goals they committed to upon signing up. CPW for Large Commercial is currently exclusive to Seattle Steam customers, and offers commercial and institutional owners an on-bill repayment system to pay for upgrades without debt or capital outlay, and a Carbon reduction incentive covering up to 10% of a project s cost, depending on estimated carbon reduction and entity type (there is a bonus for non-profits). The combination of on-bill repayment and an incentive offers building owners of all types and sizes an affordable way to make energy efficiency upgrades, particularly smaller buildings and building owners with limited access to capital. Components of Seattle 2030 District Program: The Seattle 2030 District CPW program will be made up of the following components, with their budget requirements and remaining needs indicated: Strategic Energy Management: Most building owners in the market have well-established internal methods of setting short and long-term financial goals for a given asset, and building strategies to achieve those goals and make decisions about them over time. However, most building owners and managers have not embarked on the same capacity-building for energy savings. The Seattle 2030 District s Strategic Energy Management service to members will build the internal capacity for setting and attaining both short and long-term energy savings goals, and how to make strategic decisions along the way. Budget: $95,000 Remaining Needs: $0 (Fully funded by Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance) Carbon Reduction Incentive Fund (CRIF): There is currently $500,000 million in the CRIF being made available exclusively to Seattle 2030 District members, which is directed as an incentive for CPW projects and can cover up to 10% of project cost, depending on the project s calculated carbon reduction and nature of the project entity (non-profits are more heavily incentivized). This number may grow in the next 3-6 months if earlier non-seattle 2030 District projects do not meet project start deadlines. The CRIF will remain within the City of Seattle, and the City will administer it to Community Power Works projects until no funds remain. The idea behind the CRIF has been to provide an incentive for early adopters to sign community workforce agreements and use on-bill repayment. Once a critical mass of successful projects has been completed there will be no further need for additional incentive funding. The Seattle 2030 District will actively pursue alternative sources of incentive funding to replenish the CRIF. Project Administration: Part of the DOE Grant supported the hiring of six people with the City of Seattle s Office of Sustainability and Environment (OSE) to administer the Community Power Works program. While the exact future and timeline of most employees is not currently set, the manager of the Large Commercial component is leaving OSE at the

7 end of July. The Seattle 2030 District will assume project management for Large Commercial projects on August 1 st Budget: $150,000 for Executive Director and Program Manager time to administer this project. Remaining Needs: $75,000 (Approximately $75,000 will be funded by OSE for the Seattle 2030 District to assume this role in August. The exact amount and hourly rate is being negotiated, but there is no question that we will reach an agreement and have some funding for this role to begin on August 1 st and continue through the rest of 2012) Financial Services Framework: The Seattle 2030 district seeks to bring a comprehensive suite of low-cost financial services to property owner and property manager members for energy efficiency improvements, particularly those smaller owners who do not have access to low-cost capital for building improvements. This financial services framework has four major components: - Leveraging the following existing components created for the Community Power Works program in 2010: o MacDonald Miller Energy Capital Solutions (MECS): Holding company created to secure lowcost capital for energy efficiency projects. They have secured the Seattle Foundation as their primary lender for initial projects. o Sustainable investment fund: $600,000 of CPW money in MECS to be loaned out at very low interest rate in a revolving manner o Debt Service Reserve: $300,000 of CPW money in MECS that serves as an additional credit enhancement for borrowers to reduce interest rate o Carbon Reduction Incentive Fund (discussed above) o Relationships with existing lenders - Outlining any additional tools needed to maximize these resources for Seattle 2030 District members, including but not limited to: o On-bill repayment option through Seattle City Light o Additional funds to replenish CRIF o Additional mission-based senior lenders - Financial advisory services for initial Seattle 2030 District Community Power Works projects - Fee for service structure to support the Seattle 2030 District financially and make Community Power Works a perpetually sustainable program Budget: $ 2,500 for initial scope described above Remaining needs: $0 (fully funded through 2012 Kresge grant) Timeline for project August-September 2012: - August 1 st : Seattle 2030 District takes over management of new Community Power Works projects - August 15 th : Seattle 2030 District and the City of Seattle issue new joint Request for Proposals for all Seattle 2030 District property owners and property managers to participate in Community Power Works

8 - September 14: Breakfast event at the Washington Athletic Club to introduce property owners and managers to benefits of Seattle 2030 District Community Power Works. Mike McGinn, Norm Rice and Maud Daudon are speaking at the event. October December 2012: - Seattle 2030 District explores on-bill repayment through Seattle City Light - Seattle 2030 District wraps up current role as manager of large commercial projects for Community Power Works - Energy Efficiency Finance Corp (EEFC) delivers framework for a comprehensive financial services package for Seattle 2030 District property owner and manager members January March Seattle 2030 District takes a stronger leadership role in the Community Power Works program - Implementation of EEFC financial services framework begins to support broader upgrades in Seattle 2030 District buildings March May Seattle 2030 District begins pilot project acting as an owner s representative in sourcing and executing energy efficiency upgrades through the CPW program June - July City of Seattle s initial grant for Community Power works expires - Seattle 2030 District is in full control of Community Power Works operations and associated funding Impacts Projected CO 2 Emissions Reductions: CPW for Large Commercial comes to the Seattle 2030 District with a robust pipeline of projects already in place, hence the City s desire to keep the project moving. CPW has assembled the following emission reduction targets based on the current pipeline of projects: 25 projects /6.7 million square feet in pipeline - $24 million in project costs, realizing: o $4.5 million in cost savings per years o 5.33 years simple payback o 21% utility savings a year 12,000 metric ton carbon savings, equivalent to taking 2,215 cars off the road Program/project sustainability The Seattle 2030 District Community Power Works program seeks to sustain itself and the Seattle 2030 District as a whole over the long term through the following fee for service revenue areas: - Fee for securing low cost of capital for building owners

9 - Fee for acting as owner s representative for property owners who need additional guidance in sourcing and executing energy efficiency projects Details on the structure of a fee for service agreement will come from EEFC s financial services for the Seattle 2030 District. Country Served USA Age Group N/A Gender N/A Indicate which specific Boeing focus area your project or program Environment Total Project Budget: $250,000 Organization Operating Budget: $349,175 Requested Amount: $75,000

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07/01/2010 ACTUAL START PAGE, 1/27/21 6:18:42PM Grant Number: SC2224 Activity: Municipal Facility Energy Conservation Program Quarter: 1/1/29-12/31/29 Metric Activity: Building Retrofits Status: Active % of Work Complete: Activity