2011 ANNUAL REPORT
After the 2010 election swapped
the Minnesota House and Senate
majority party, Fresh Energy and
our allies moved into defense
mode. Protecting existing policy
against efforts to weaken or repeal
it required flexibility, patience, and
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and operation of roadways
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including pedestrians, bicyclists,
and transit users—made roads
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The energy system must change. It’s a big lift, one that requires the foundation of smart public policy. For most policy—especially that regarding a fundamental and pervasive issue like energy—significant change moves slowly, and comes only after years of persistent effort.
2011 was one of those years.
Historic downtown Alexandria, Minnesota is like a lot of other small cities and towns in greater Minnesota: the main street that runs through the heart of the community is also a state highway. This alone makes Broadway a pretty busy thoroughfare. But in Alexandria, the Central Lakes Trail runs a few blocks away from downtown, drawing 150,000 hikers and bicyclists to the area each year. While this amount of foot, pedal, and vehicle traffic is a problem every small town would probably like to have, it’s a challenge in Alexandria because there’s no easy way for bicyclists to get from the trail to downtown businesses. While Broadway has sidewalks for pedestrians, the environment isn’t inviting or safe for bicyclists. In the summer of 2010, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) announced its plan to repave Broadway. Wisely, Alexandria city leaders recognized an opportunity to make it safer to walk and bike in the area, something that would support downtown businesses and encourage active living at the same time. Earlier that year, the Minnesota Legislature passed the state Complete Streets law, a planning and design policy to make Minnesota roads safer for everyone in Minnesota, no matter how they choose to travel. The opportunity to incorporate it in downtown Alexandria came at the perfect time.
City officials held three meetings during the summer of 2010 that focused on Complete Streets and design possibilities for Broadway. The group decided on a compromise design that maintained all existing traffic lanes but narrowed them enough to add a separate bicycle path on one side of the road. Better sidewalks, trees, and plantings would make the street attractive for pedestrians.
Some community members were skeptical. But eventually, public outreach and education turned doubt into strong support, and in September 2010, just four months after the state Complete Streets law passed and city officials pursued the project, an enthusiastic City Council approved the plan. “Now the only concern we hear is that the project won’t happen until 2014 because people want it sooner,” said Alexandria planner Karin Tank. “There is genuine excitement to have an improved Broadway.” Alexandria shows how the ideas behind Complete Streets can work in Minnesota. Mn/DOT was open to the community’s vision to improve the Broadway area and make it safer for all modes of travel, not just driving. In the end, the city of Alexandria only paid $144,000 of the $4.2 million project price tag due to partnerships with Mn/DOT and local utilities. Now, Alexandria may adopt its own Complete Streets policy next year. Fresh Energy has been at the fore of the Complete Streets movement in Minnesota. We worked with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to create a toolkit with helpful tips, message points, and sample language, and we’ve been using it throughout the state to help communities advance Complete Streets policies. To date, 26 Minnesota communities have passed support of Complete Streets, second most in the country. And, the state Complete Streets law that Fresh Energy helped pass and is working with Mn/DOT to implement was recently ranked as the top state law in the country by the National Complete Streets Coalition. Alexandria’s success and a changing mindset at Mn/DOT is encouraging other communities to incorporate Complete Streets into their transportation planning. Nearby Breckenridge and Battle Lake both have key state highways that need repaving, and both passed Complete Streets policies this year, in part to demonstrate to Mn/DOT that they’re committed to providing safe access for all kinds of travel. Discussions in Breckenridge and Battle Lake are going well, and the dialogue bolsters the relationship between Mn/DOT and local partners. That’s good for public safety, good for local business, and good for greater Minnesota. Fresh Energy is committed to an ongoing partnership with Mn/DOT on Complete Streets, so that the examples of Alexandria, Breckenridge, and Battle Lake become the norm. We want everyone to feel safe getting where they need to go, no matter how they get around.
ALEXANDRIA, MINNESOTA DEMONSTRATES THE BEST OF COMPLETE STREETS
Alexandria city leaders recognized an opportunity to make it safer to walk and bike in the area, something that would support downtown businesses and encourage active living at the same time.
Long-time members know that Fresh Energy houses Midwest Energy News, a project of the RE-AMP media center, which provides support to more than 145 nonprofits throughout the region. Midwest Energy News has continued to evolve, grow, and drive the regional energy discussion. Originally conceived as a collection of the day’s best reporting on energy issues, Midwest Energy News has developed into an influential force in regional journalism.
Filling coverage gaps with enterprise journalism. In the last half of FY10-11, we published more than 30 in-depth original stories written by professional freelance reporters, covering everything from the economic impact of renewable energy standards to the disconnect between American and European news coverage of climate change. Our stories were republished by multiple traditional and online news outlets, including the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Reuters, InsideClimate News, Grist, OnEarth Magazine, and the Twin Cities Daily Planet. In addition, we’ve been publishing the Highwire blog since December 2010, featuring daily posts from editor Ken Paulman and, more recently, contributions from some of our top freelance reporters. We also developed content partnerships to expand our multimedia capabilities. In June, we joined forces with The UpTake—a nationally known citizen journalism website based in St. Paul—to provide a live webcast and archived video footage of a pivotal hearing over permits for the Goodhue Wind project, a controversial wind farm in southeast Minnesota. We will now provide similar coverage of key energy and transportation debates in the Minnesota legislature.
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MIDWEST ENERGY NEWS:GROWING, EXPANDING
When the 2010 election changed the majority party in the Minnesota House and Senate, there were clear signals we’d be defending existing policy in 2011. For the most part, we kept core policies in place, primarily because Governor Dayton understands the critical role energy policy will have for generations to come, and his administration worked with us to defeat most of the worst proposed changes.
Attacked: the 2007 Next Generation Energy Act. This law sets science-based carbon pollution reduction goals for the state, and its clean energy provisions have increased renewable energy development. Both the Minnesota House and Senate took dead aim at a key part of that law: the anti-backsliding provision requiring companies investing in new dirty coal to reduce an equal amount of carbon pollution in the electricity system. Bills to repeal that protective provision moved rapidly, despite Minnesotans’ clear support for clean energy. Fresh Energy rallied the public, urging thousands of people from around the state to contact their legislators and arranging for faith leaders and staff from the American Lung Association to testify about the moral and health problems caused by continued dependence on burning coal. On May 27, Governor Mark Dayton supported Minnesota’s continued progress on clean energy by vetoing the bill to repeal.
Attacked: the Renewable Energy Standard. Minnesota’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES) requires all the state’s utilities to gradually increase the amount of renewable energy in their power mix over time. A bill was introduced in 2011 to repeal the RES altogether. Fresh Energy was able to fend off most of the attacks, with one exception. The RES was weakened for cooperative and municipal utilities that purchase old large hydropower. The upshot: those utilities could develop up to 20 percent less new renewable electricity.
Attacked: Energy Efficiency. This was the surprise of the 2011 session. Energy efficiency improvements benefit everyone. Customers’ energy bills are lower, utilities do not have to build or purchase expensive new power supplies, jobs are created, and there is no need for energy subsidies for new electricity. Among the challenges to efficiency were provisions passed in the house that would have reduced the energy savings goals for cooperative and municipal utilities to nearly zero, while maintaining the goals for large regulated utilities. This would mean that customers of cooperative and municipal utilities—ratepayers primarily in rural areas, small- and medium-sized cities, and suburbs—would receive few or none of the benefits of the state’s energy savings goals. Fresh Energy testified many times on this inequity, asserting that farmers and other businesses in these areas should not be placed at a competitive disadvantage. Ultimately, none of the provisions were enacted.
FIGHTING CHALLENGES TO CLEAN ENERGY POLICY
Information based on the certified audit by Mayer Hoffman McCann. Complete audit available upon request.
Statement of Financial PositionAssets
Cash and Cash Equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,021,587 Investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,073 Promises to Give Receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301,997 Accounts Receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – Prepaid Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,733 Long-term investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,366Total Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,442,756
Liabilities and Net Assets
Current Liabilities Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses . . . . . . . . 125,623Net Assets Designated for Operating Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . 441,889 Designated for New Opportunity Fund. . . . . . . . . . 3,006 Designated for Endowment Purposes . . . . . . . . . . 75,000 Undesignated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,680 Total Unrestricted Net Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591,575 Temporarily Restricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725,558 Total Net Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,317,133Total Liabilities and Net Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,442,756
Statement of ActivitiesSupport
Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,962,028 Individuals, Organizations, Companies . . . . . . . . . . 111,597 Earned Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,501Total Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,105,126
Expenses
Media Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590,476 Clean Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563,797 Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362,945 Global Warming Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358,803 Transportation Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255,870 Fundraising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,937Total Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,232,828Increase in Net Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ (127,702)
CURRENT BOARD & STAFF / VOLUNTEERS
2011 AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENT
CURRENT BOARD
Donna W. Allan Director, Office of Transit, Mn/DOT (retired)
Randall Anderson Senior Product Manager, Boston Scientific Corporation
Jim Bernstein, Chair Emeritus Director of Special Projects, Anoka Technical College
Martha Brand Executive Director, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (retired)
Paul Burke, Chair CEO/Owner, Hadley House Company
Sarah Dirksen Strategic Initiative Manager, League of Minnesota Cities
Anita S. Duckor President, Duckor & Associates
Ross Hammond, Chair Emeritus Management Consultant, R.D. Thomas & Associates Inc.
John Kes, Treasurer Vice President, Commercial Banking, Bremer Bank
Chuck Nadler Owner, Ascendant Resources, LLC
Beth Pearlman Senior Producer, Tremendous! Entertainment
Anne Weyandt, Vice Chair Founder/Partner, SheridanStowe, LLC
Elizabeth Wilson Assistant Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
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Sustainable Markets Foundation
Thomson Reuters
The Weidt Group
The Weiser Family Foundation
In Honor of Chuck Nadler
The William B. Wiener
Foundation
WindPartners Finance
TRIBUTE GIFTS IN HONOR OR MEMORYBridget Manahan and Joe
Alexander In Honor of the
Marriage of Emma Nadler
and Chris Thompson
The Weiser Family Foundation
In Honor of Chuck Nadler
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