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APPENDIX C: DETAILS OF THE CITY OF ALBANY EDUCATION AND OUTREACH The goal of the initial CCA Education and Outreach is to ensure that residents in your community understand the CCA process and benefits of the CCA Program with specific focus on their opportunity to opt-out of the CCA Program. The fundamental goal of CCA education and outreach is to enable residents to make informed choices about their energy supply options. A minimum of one informational community meeting is required, this meeting can occur in association with a formal public hearing. In consideration of the different constituencies within the community (e.g. seniors, young families) we plan to undertake the following actions, with the support of MEGA, over a minimum of two months, to raise awareness and educate on CCA: □ Informational Community Meeting (Public Hearing REQUIRED) Date/Time of Meeting Meeting Location Attendance Meeting One January 30th 2020 6:30-8pm First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany 9 Meeting Two February 6th 2020 5:30pm Albany Sustainability Advisory Committee (City Hall) 12 Meeting Three February 6th 2020 6:30-7:30pm Albany Public Library (Washington Ave, Auditorium) 7 Meeting Four February 13th 2020 7pm Delaware Area Neighborhood Association Meeting, 331 Delaware Ave 30 Meeting Five February 19th 2020 7pm Hudson/Park Neighborhood Association, 381 Hamilton St. 14 Meeting Six February 20th 2020 7pm Pine Hills Neighborhood Association Meeting, LaSalle School 16 Meeting Seven February 20th 2020 5:30pm Arbor Hill Neighborhood Association Meeting, 42 N. Swan Street 14 Meeting Eight February 26th 2020 7pm Upper Washington Ave Neighborhood Association, Montessori School Meeting Nine March 18th 2020 7pm Helderberg Neighborhood Association, 405 Quail Street Meeting Ten March 24th 2020 6:30pm Eagle Hill Neighborhood Association, 916 Western Ave Meeting Eleven March 24th 2020 6:30pm Normanskill Neighborhood Association Meeting Twelve March 25th 2020 7pm Park South Neighborhood Association, 139 Knox Street Local Law Vote March 2nd 2020 City Hall ---PAGE BREAK--- □ Printed Materials Date Item Type Notes Item One Jan/Feb 2020 CCA posters displayed at all Albany Public Library branches Arbor Hill/West Hill Branch Bach Branch Delaware Branch Howe Branch North Albany Branch Pine Hills Branch Washington Avenue Branch 16”x16” posters placed on display. Some branches chose to use an 8.5”x11” flier on their information board. Item Two February 2020 “How CCA Works” document provided at all Neighborhood Association Meetings Item Three January 2020 CCA FAQ documents provided to City Hall Item Four February 2020 Community Choice Aggregation in the Capital Region postcard distributed at meetings and left behind for distribution in community spaces □ Web-based Education □ Materials Posted on Municipal and/or Community Websites Date Item Website URL Notes Site One 1/27/20 CCA info on municipal website overnment/Departments/Plan ningandDevelopment/Comm unityChoiceAggregation.aspx Includes CCA Intro YouTube Video Site Two Advertise CCA Sessions on community calendars unity-calendar; http://events.timesunion.com/ home; nts/ WAMC Community Calendar; Times Union Community Calendar, and Albany.com Site Three 1/20/2020 Facebook Event for 1/30/2020 education session + paid promotion vents/2576367095977301/ Site Four 1/29/2020 Facebook Event for 2/6/2020 education session + paid promotion vents/1568920256579031/ Site Five 2/6/2020 Facebook Event for 2/13/2020 education session vents/3055221417823815/ Site Six 2/6/2020 Facebook Event for 2/19/2020 education session + paid promotion vents/185756096195158/ Site Seven Ongoing Sessions posted on MEGA http://megacca.org/events/ ---PAGE BREAK--- CCA education calendar Site Eight Sessions posted on MEGA’s Twitter feed gyNY/status/1225458167485 784074 gyNY/status/1224701824764 170240 gyNY/status/1222889705106 288644 gyNY/status/1221889055199 309825 gyNY/status/1226865581258 944513 □ Press □ Local Newspaper Articles/Press Coverage Date Press Name Topic Notes One Press Conference Considering tri-city Two Times Union Sent press release, have followed up with 4 city desk reporters Three The Collaborative Sent press release Four CivMix (blog) Reached out 2x Five Albany Business Review Sent press release Six CBS/WRGB Sent press release Seven NBC/WNYT Sent press release Eight ABC/WTEN Sent press release Nine Spectrum Sent press release Ten 2/13/2020 WAMC CCA in Albany, including interview with Council member Fahey lbany-common-council- caucus-community-choice- aggregation Eleven 2/10/2020 Public Power Association Three N.Y. cities explore community choice aggregation /periodical/article/three-ny- cities-explore-community- choice-aggregation Twelve 1/22/2020 Hudson Mohawk Magazine (radio program) Katy Vescio interview on CCA in the Capital Region asanctuary/mega-energy-cca- program-012221 Thirteen 2/20/2020 WTEN Energy purchase agreement between ws/energy-purchase- agreement-between- ---PAGE BREAK--- municipalities, residents and small businesses being explored by local governments in the Capital Region municipalities-residents-and- small-businesses-being- explored-by-local- governments-in-the-capital- region/ □ Other Date Description One 1/20-2/14/2020 & 10/30-11/26/2019 Radio advertisements on PYX 106.5 and WRVE 99.5 daily during 6am-10am morning drive for 4 weeks Two 2/7/2020 Channel Albany; Education Session recorded at Public Library on 2/6/2020, aired on Spectrum 1301, 1302 and 1303 Three 11/16/2020 ½ page ad in Renewable Energy & Sustainability Fair Program at Sage College Four January – February 2020 YouTube videos – informational videos on CCA basics, renewables, how CCA and community solar work together – shared via Facebook and Twitter Review of all materials will be the responsibility of our municipal CCA Liaison: Chris Spencer Chief Building Official [PHONE REDACTED] [EMAIL REDACTED]