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    Database of Community Benefits Frameworks Across the US

    This database includes information pertaining to different types of publicly available community benefits frameworks, including community benefits agreements (CBAs), host community agreements (HCAs), project workforce agreements (PWAs) and community benefit plans (CBPs), amongst others. They can be an important tool to ensure that tangible benefits from development projects are felt locally, enable communities to create or fund programs that matter to them, and help developers develop local relationships and earn community acceptance of a project. This database, therefore, aims to provide information that would be useful to community organizers, policymakers, lawyers, researchers, developers, and other individuals interested in better understanding how agreements between developers and local communities are structured to provide benefits to a local community as part of the development of a specific project.

    Compiled by the World Resources Institute and Data for Progress, this database will regularly be updated as more community benefit frameworks are reviewed and analyzed. If you have access to community benefit frameworks not reflected in this database, please reach out to us here.

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    SugarHouse Casino
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Entertainment
    Project Summary: HSP Gaming LP seeks to construct and operate a casino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    Parties to framework: HSP Gaming LP; Authorized Community Signatories
    State: Pennsylvania
    Year Signed: 2008
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Construction of Phase I will use union labor (p. 9)
    – Attempt in good faith to have a job candidate pool that includes residents of the neighboring community (p. 9)
    – Create an internship program for students in the neighboring community with at least two positions on an annual basis (p. 10)
    – Training program for non-college residents with at least two positions on an annual basis (p. 10)
    – Will create opportunities for qualified residents based in Neighbouring Community in contracting, subcontracting and servicing opportunities (p. 12)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Will provide free parking and free transportation to and from the site for all employees (p. 15)
    Benefits - Health and safety:
    – Will consult with City to minimize impact of increased or modified traffic relating to Casino (p. 15)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Will pay up to $35,000 in legal fees for incurred by the authorized community signators relating to the drafting and execution of the new entity (p. 3)
    – Will pay a pre-opening contribution to the new entity of $175k (p. 5)
    – Financial contribution of $500k per operating year that will increase to $1 million per operating year after phase I for 15 years (p. 5)
    – Provide $5,000 to the newly created Special Services District to offer free/subsidized car washes to neighborhood residents during construction (p. 17)
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    SunQuest Industrial Park
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Industry
    Project Summary: SunQuest Development, LLC seeks to develop an industrial park in Los Angeles, California.
    Parties to framework: Valley Jobs Coalition (represented by Ron Hall, Richard Gallegos; Maria Navarro, Kathy Finns, and Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE); SunQuest Development LLC
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2001
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    Benefits - Education:
    – Make direct expenditures on approved public arts programs at seven local schools (p. 4)
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Make reasonable efforts to maximize the number of Living Wage jobs at the Site and at least 70% of the jobs will be Living Wage jobs. If Developer fails to meet this threshold, this will not be considered a breach or default of the agreement, and will pay $50,000 for job training for community members (p. 5)
    – Hiring preferences for Low-income individuals living within one mile of the site or living in certain zip codes (p. 14)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Provide $150,000 to the City to finance neighborhood improvement projects (p. 4)
    – Provide facilities for a youth center in the Sun Valley Community free of charge; it will include a building shell of at least 4,000 square feet and at least 10,000 square feet of outdoor space (p. 5)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Will require all commercial trucks to avoid residential streets and refrain from idling engines (p. 2)
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    Town of Perinton and Waste Management of New York
    Framework Type: Host Community Agreement
    Sector: Waste/Landfill
    Project Summary: Waste Management of New York LLC seeks to continue operating a solid waste landfill and recycling center in Fairport, New York.
    Parties to framework: Town of Perinton; Waste Management of New York, L.L.C. (WMNY)
    State: New York
    Year Signed: 2021
    Benefits included:
    • Environmental and climate
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Implement litter collection program to mitigate litter or unsightly conditions on the roads resulting from facility operation (p. 8)
    – No regulated quantities of hazardous materials can be disposed of at the landfill and no solid waste incinerators are allowed (p. 4)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Provide compensation for owners of identified residential properties whose residences suffer a decline in value at the time of sale of property (p. 8)
    – Assist the town in its recycling efforts by paying a recycling fee of $25k per month until $300k is paid to town on annual basis (p. 10)
    – Host Community Benefit Payments of $3.20 per ton on all materials to be permanently landfilled and $1.35 per ton for all 'beneficial use materials' paid on a monthly basis (p. 12)
    – Monthly payments to the town ot $83,333 (guaranteed payments) and up to $1 million per year (p. 13)
    Benefits - Other:
    – No disposal fees will be charged to the town for the first 125 tons per month of waste collected (p. 11)
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    Town of Waterloo and Seneca Meadows Inc
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Waste/Landfill
    Project Summary: Seneca Meadows Inc. seeks to expand its landfill in Seneca Falls, New York.
    Parties to framework: Seneca Meadows, Inc.; Town of Waterloo, NY
    State: New York
    Year Signed: 2005
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Environmental and climate
    • Financial support
    Benefits - Education:
    – Provide two annual scholarships for graduating seniors from Waterloo high school, of no less than $1,000 each (p. 8)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Compensate residential property owners whose properties suffer a decline in value attributable to expansion of Landfill (p. 6)
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Pay for the development of potable public water mains, supply lines, water storage tanks, and/or pumping stations in the event that existing public water wells become contaminated (p. 5)
    – Organize bi-annual clean up weeks, annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Days, providing $10,000 of funding (p. 7)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Pay $150,000 community benefits payments annually to Town, increasing in $50,000 increments annually up to maximum of $250,000. Once Landfill Expansion is under operation, the payments due shall be superseded by annual community benefit fee of $500,000 (p. 9-10)
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    Transmission Line from the Québec-Maine Border to Lewiston
    Framework Type: Stipulation
    Sector: Transmission
    Project Summary: Central Maine Power Company seeks to construct an electricity transmission line from Quebec, Canada to New England.
    Parties to framework: Maine Office of the Public Advocate (OPA); Governor’s Energy Office, Industrial Energy Consumer Group (IECG); Conservation Law Foundation (CLF); Acadia Center, Western Mountains & Rivers Corporation (WMRC); City of Lewiston, etc.
    State: Maine
    Year Signed: 2019
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Environmental and climate
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Education:
    – Contribute $1 million to the University of Maine to fund research and development activities associated with marine wind generation technology commercialization (p. 28)
    – Contribute $5 million to fund internship programs and scholarships for Maine students (p. 28)
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Developer and its contractors working on the construction of the NECEC will give preference to hiring Maine workers (p. 36)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – The final design for the transmission lines will include the necessary facilities and equipment to provide additional fiber optic capacity for the benefit of the state and in particular the NECEC Host Communities, with an estimated value of $5,000,000 (p. 23)
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Contribute up to $500,000 to hire a consultant to perform an analysis of how the Northeast Region may achieve economy-wide decarbonization by 2050 (p. 32)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Provide a rate credit for RNS and LNS transmission customers totaling $1.005 million effective with the 2019 rate change for transmission customers (p. 20)
    – Establish a $50 million NECEC Low-Income Customer Benefits Fund (funded with $1.25 million annually over 40 years) to fund one or more programs that benefit low-income energy customers in Maine (p. 21)
    – Establish a $140 million Rate Relief Fund (funded with $1.5 million annually over 40 years) to provide per kilowatt hour rate relief for retail electricity customers within CMP’s service territory (p. 22)
    – Establish a $10 million Broadband Fund to provide grants to support the implementation and maintenance of high speed broadband infrastructure in the host communities (p. 23)
    – Establish a $15 million Heat Pump Fund for the installation in Maine of heat pumps or other future efficient heating technologies (p. 24)
    – Establish two funds totaling $15 million to expand the number of electric vehicles in Maine and maximize access and exposure in Maine to EVs and EV infrastructure (p. 25)
    – Establish a $5 million Franklin County Host Communities Fund for the benefit of communities in Franklin County (p. 27)
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