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Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) Grant Committee Meeting

July 22, 2020 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

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Guidelines applied to virtual meeting: Chatbox: open for introductions and

public comment. All other times, host-

• nly chats (PCEF Staff).

Raise Hand: used by Committee

• nly.

Video: on for Committee only. Microphone: public members

muted unless giving public comment

• r for introductions.

Recording: this meeting is being

recorded. Captioning: this meeting is being captioned; settings > show subtitles.

Virtual Participation Check

Guidelines for public participation

• Committee meetings open to

the public

• Public invited to comment at

6:10 p.m.

• Public asked to observe and

listen

• Opportunities for public

engagement in other forums

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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

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Public Comment

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Timeline

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Application & scoring criteria

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Large grant application

• 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

Estimated level of effort

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Large grant application

• 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

Section contributions to total

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Scoring

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

Different possible points for different projects: normalized to 100 point scale for ranking

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Scoring

Impact of each scoring section

Single site $500K+ % of score Single site < $500K % of score No construction % of score

• Org. background &

commitments 15 15% 15 17% 15 24% 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

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Scoring

• 48 points that benefit

applicants that reflect, and have a history of focus on the community they intend to serve and for serving PCEF priority populations.

• Remaining 52 points for

environmental benefit, project description and scope*, and budget

Preference for culturally specific

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Serving priority populations , 37 Project description and scope* , 16 Environmental benefits , 19 Budget , 10 Other (several sections) , 7

100 point total

Single site construction budgets $500K +

* Two points from project description and scope contribute to serving priority population

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Break

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Application & scoring criteria continued

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Next steps

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Committee member comments

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Thank you!

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