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Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) Grant Committee Meeting July 22, 2020 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 1 Portland Clean Energy 1 Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Virtual Participation Check Guidelines for public participation Guidelines applied to virtual meeting: Committee meetings open to • Chatbox: open for introductions and the public public comment. All other times, host- Public invited to comment at • only chats (PCEF Staff). 6:10 p.m. Raise Hand: used by Committee Public asked to observe and only. • listen Video: on for Committee only. Opportunities for public • Microphone: public members engagement in other forums muted unless giving public comment or for introductions. Recording: this meeting is being recorded. Captioning: this meeting is being captioned; settings > show subtitles. PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 2 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Agenda 6:00 Open 6:10 Public comment 6:25 Timeline 6:35 Large grants - application and scoring criteria 7:30 Break 7:40 Large grants - application and scoring criteria 8:40 Next steps 8:55 Committee member comments 9:00 Meeting adjourned PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 3 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Public Comment PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 4 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Timeline PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 5 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Application & scoring criteria PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 6 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Large grant application Estimated level of effort • Eight to 15 pages narrative responses • Up to nine tables • Note that the milestone/task template and budget template have some additional narrative • Documentation • Financials required • Others optional PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 7 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Large grant application Section contributions to total • Organizational background: 1-2 pages narrative + 2 tables + financial documents • Project description and scope: 4-7 pages narrative + 1 table • Environmental benefits: 1-2 pages narrative • Social benefits: 1-2 pages narrative • Workforce and contractor benefits • 300 to 500 words narrative response for projects that do NOT have a single site with a construction budget $500K + • 400 to 850 words narrative response plus 3 tables for projects that DO have a single site with a construction budget of $500K + • Budget: 50 to 100 words narrative + 3 tables PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 8 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Scoring Different possible points for different projects: normalized to 100 point scale for ranking 1. Projects that include construction with a single site construction budget of $500,000 or greater – 100 possible points 2. Projects that include construction but do NOT have a single site construction budget of $500,000 or greater – 88 possible points 3. Projects that do not include construction – 63 possible points PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 9 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Scoring Impact of each scoring section Single % of Single % of No % of site score site < score construction score $500K+ $500K Org. background & 15 15% 15 17% 15 24% commitments Project description and scope 18 18% 18 20% 16 25% Environmental benefit 19 19% 19 22% 3 5% Social benefit 19 19% 19 22% 19 30% Wkforce & contractor benefit 19 19% 7 8% - - Budget 10 10% 10 11% 10 16% Total possible points 100 88 63 PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 10 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Scoring Preference for Other culturally specific 100 point total (several orgs that reflect, 11 sections) Single site construction budgets , 7 Budget , 10 $500K + • 48 points that benefit applicants that reflect, and have a history of focus on the community Environmental Serving priority they intend to serve and benefits , 19 populations , 37 for serving PCEF priority populations. • Remaining 52 points for environmental benefit, Project description project description and and scope* , 16 scope*, and budget * Two points from project description and scope contribute to serving priority population PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 11 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Break PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 12 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Application & scoring criteria continued PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 13 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Next steps PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 14 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Committee member comments PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 15 Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback

Thank you! http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback CleanEnergyFund@portlandoregon.gov www.portlandoregon.gov/BPS/PCEF 503-823-7713 PCEF Grant Committee Meeting – 07/22/2020 – 16 Portland Clean Energy 16 Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) http://bit.ly/PCEF-feedback