- and not part of the DCSEU contract. Ms. Berliner inquired about the financial statements for audits. Mr. Karim said the funds must first go into the District's SETF then it would be cycled out to the DCSEU after authorization via a contract amendment to do so. Chairman Kane said that the DCSEU should do an analysis concerning participation. The Board agreed that for the purpose of the Board's report , a narrative of an update on DCSEU's participation in P JM market is sufficient. Director Wells asked Dr. Loncke and Mr. Trabue to provide an analysis for the annual report. Director Wells asked if there was a ballpark amount. Mr. Trabue stated that last year the DC SEU received $144,000 and will receive around $180,000 this year after fees have been paid to the third-party vendor. Chairman Kane stated that the information on the PJM account needs to be transparent; what has been done and what the DC SEU earned.
- Bicky Corman - SEUAB Public Meeting and Outreach Strategy ( 1:07:23 - 1:29:48 Discussion)
- Ms. Corman mentioned the discussion during the last meeting about the need to identify challenges DCSEU is facing and to provide an opportunity for stakeholders to provide potential resolutions of those challenges. Director Wells asked what these challenges are and Ms. Berliner responded that Ms. Corman has been struggling with getting to understand policy implications and operational difficulties DCSEU might be encountering. Ms. Corman added that there has been apparent confusion as to whether the outreach serves as a public relations arm of the DCSEU or receiver of suggestions on ways the Board could assist DCSEU in accomplishing its mission. Director Wells asked whether Ms. Corman is referring to outreach of the board where the board is getting more community involvement. Ms. Corman clarified that she is referring to community outreach where the Board solicits input from community members on how to resolve DC SEU's issues, taking into consideration that the Board has a vision of community involvement but DCSEU has its own marketing contractor and publicity tools. Ms. Corman also mentioned that DCSEU itself would identify those obstacles.
- Director Wells raised questions about 1) how to define obstacles considering DCSEU is meeting all of its goals, and 2) whether the Board is interacting with the community in receiving information that could help inform the Board to give him more advice on how to be more directive or how to make SEU more effective. Ms. Mattavous-Frye also inquired about who the stakeholders informing the Board of the obstacles would be given the diversity of the group, and stated that there still may be impediments and challenges that could be addressed to make DCSEU more effective even though it has met its goal. Director Wells pointed out that the Board may have higher expectations of getting more savings in commercial buildings. Ms. Berliner emphasized that Mr. Trabue has to tell the Board what his difficulties are particularly as he has strategies related to having more commercial, industrial large-scale clientele including even including multi families. Ms. Berliner stated that Mr. Trabue has resolved issues on a case-by-case basis, but there may be a legal, regulatory or policy changes that would make it easier to expand his work. Director Wells asked if identifying these issues is segmented from communicating success and value of DCSEU that Ms. Corman mentioned earlier. Ms. Berliner responded that they are distinct, and the Board cannot provide any advice if it does not know what the issues are. Ms. Mattavous- Frye stated by both identifying these issues and communicating success and value of DCSEU, DCSEU may market itself while the Advisory Board may provide more objective, educational component. (1:16:00 brief discussion on identifying problems)
- Director Wells stated that the agenda item of public meeting and outreach is different from what the Board had been discussing - identifying policy issues. Ms. Berliner stated that it might be helpful to make a report to Council if the Board could have an executive summary where policy issues are identified and asked Mr. Trabue if he could provide his narrative out of his experience on what he perceives as challenges and share with the Board on a timely basis. Mr. Trabue agreed to do so. Director Wells suggested having two more reports on the green building code and the report DOEE recently submitted to Council on the Renewable Energy Development Fund (REDF).

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