From: "Ami Desai" <[email-masked]>
To: "Bruce Lindsey" <[email-masked]>, "Laura Graham" <[email-masked]>, "Doug Band" <[email-masked]>, "Justin Cooper" <[email-masked]>, "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Terry Krinvic" <[email-masked]>, "Andrew Kessel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:02:38 +0000

Jay Carson called. He said we should be receiving about $2.2 million for the first half of 2011. 

He also said he is close to a new partnership with Rick Fedrizzi, who now runs the WORLD Green Building Council. He said he'll keep us updated as the negotiations continue. It would be to help cities around the world adopt climate action plans/policies. 

He also said he thinks we need to do an event in the Spring with WJC and Bloomberg, before the April/May anniversary of our expanded alliance, to show we have been making progress and pre-empt any anniversary/retrospective criticisms that not enough has happened over this last year. I said that makes sense and that if we do an event, it should enumerate some tangible/specific achievements, so that it's not just an event to discuss the formation of new partnerships. (He began by saying the event could be an announcement of a partnership with GBC, and I explained we already worked with them, so folks might rightfully wonder why we are announcing collaboration with an existing ally.)

Finally, he said he's going to identify a single point of contact who we can deal with for briefings, talking points, etc, so that we don't always have to reach out separately to the building, lighting, waste, transport, etc experts whenever we need info for WJC.  

Hope this helps, and I'd welcome your feedback on the event idea. I think it does make sense to do something in Feb/March to demonstrate progress - as long as there is REAL progress to show. 

I didn't mention the concerned calls that I've gotten from CCI finance, transport, and waste teams - I'd like to get your guidance on if/how we raise these concerns with Jay, before doing so. 

Sincerely,
Ami