August Spotify | Pay for Performance!

We believe there is room for improvement in the process of contracting, especially the strong preference for P4P. While P4P contracts shift risk from the contact holder, the burden and impact are passed on to the program participant, can inhibit innovation, and disproportionally impacts program participants in rural, hard-to-reach, and disadvantaged communities—the very people the SJVCEO is charged to serve.

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Got Grants | August Edition

This month’s #GotGrants is going to look slightly different! ICARP developed a “Resilience Funding and Financing Program Timeline” graphic that tracks a variety of funding programs for jurisdictions and organizations to take advantage of.

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SJVCEOGot Grants
July Spotify | BLOCKBUSTERS is BACK!

Three years in and movies are back, theaters are open, and ComicCon left us deep in our feelings. It’s a far cry from where we started when we put out our first Blockbuster playlist in 2020, and being back in a theater is a gift and the anticipation of settling in and going someplace totally new for a few hours is something we’re so grateful to do again. (Even if it means paying to see a Minion movie three times over.)

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CCEC Program is HERE!

The forum program has just been released. View our lineup of speakers from across various sectors and industries here! More information on registration and lodging is available here. SJVCEO staff with be participating in not one, not two, but three sessions throughout the course of the two-day forum.

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Technology Tuesdays: How to Cool Off with No AC

We all know the scenario: it is the middle of summer and the middle of the hottest temperature streak in recent memory. You hear a strange noise coming from your air conditioning unit just before it starts blowing what feels like warm air. Without a doubt, your AC has decided to take an unscheduled hiatus during the time you need it the most! Not to mention the other compounding issues with getting it repaired.

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Technology Tuesdays: Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)

A DER can be made up of many things but the overall purpose of it is to “help support the delivery of clean, reliable power to additional customers and reduce electricity losses along transmission and distribution lines.” Distributed energy resources are small scale electricity resources that help to meet supply and demand by using their interconnectivity to the grid

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