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P a g e 9 o f 1 4 <br />Criterion 2 - Emissions Reduced <br />16. Please describe any potential <br />negative side effects of the <br />project and describe the steps <br />you are taking/will take to <br />eliminate or minimize these <br />impacts to any low-income or <br />marginalized <br />communities/households: <br />N/A <br />17. Are the impacted residents <br />already aware of the potential <br />positive and negative impacts <br />of your project and the steps <br />you are taking? If not, please <br />describe your plan to engage <br />with them and how you will act <br />based on their input: <br />Club Nova members and staff are working together as colleagues <br />on all facets of our project. Club Nova members are engaged in our <br />garden/horticulture working group and our Culinary Unit planning, <br />preparing, and serving affordable, nutritious meals. We continue <br />our meetings and discussion around what we are doing to mitigate <br />the negative impacts of climate change. <br />18. During and after the project, <br />what will your continued <br />engagement with the <br />community be? <br />We are building on existing relationships and partnerships and will <br />be developing new partnerships as we move forward with our <br />project. We see our project as an ongoing effort. <br />19. Please describe any other <br />aspect of your project that is <br />relevant to Social Justice and <br />Racial Equity: <br />Our project clearly offers greater protections to individuals who are most at risk to the impacts of climate change. <br />Our project impacts individuals living with serious mental illness who already have a 25-year shorter life expectancy. Many of our members live with co-occuring health condition such as diabetes and cardiac and <br />pulmonary conditions. Increased days of poor air quality increase the health risks for our members. Additionally, <br />the majority of our members are low income. Access to affordable, healthy foods makes a difference. <br /> <br /> <br />20. How many tons of greenhouse <br />gas emissions will your project <br />reduce/avoid each year? Please <br />list any data sources used and <br />show the steps of any <br />calculations. Feel free to submit <br />in a separate document if <br />clearly labelled: <br />Please refer to attachment title "Item 20 GHG" <br />21. For how many years will this <br />emissions reduction take place <br />as a result of your project? <br />Please consider the expected <br />lifetime of the <br />technology/program/impact <br />etc. <br />The emission reduction from all facets of the proposed project, will be in effect for as many years as Club Nova <br />continues to operate and serve our members. Therefore, the reduction in emissions will be ongoing as long as <br />Club Nova remains a clubhouse. As mentioned in #20, Club Nova is currently at a average daily attendance of <br />20 members per day, with projections of increasing this number to up to 100 individuals. Therefore, not only <br />will the emissions reduction be ongoing, but it will also increase overtime per capita. The items identified <br />within our budget have been carefully selected with the values of being locally-sourced and <br />environmentally-sustainable while being of materials that are durable and long-lasting. Therefore, we expect <br />that the technology, equipment and materials in our project proposal will last for the duration of this clubhouse <br />for the foreseeable future. Lastly, in ways that we may not know how to quantify, we believe that the <br />emissions reduction, as our members-served increases, may be as cumulative as it is constant. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: A9B18E2F-7835-4086-B808-E21D1F44AE18