 Your role as a Main Street Manager or volunteer is to introduce the AmericaSaves program to your building and business owners in your Main Street District. Using your network of relationships, we ask that you encourage folks to participate, collect building information, answer questions, and serve as the local ambassador for the program. For more information on the AmericaSaves program itself, please visit the website at www.americasavesenergy.org. One facet of your role is to inform the Main Street business community about the program and to recruit program participants. When talking to your business and building owners, tell them about some of the benefits they will receive, including a free report that will tell them if they're building guzzles energy or if it performs as it should, a calculation of the facility's potential for savings, and information on energy efficiency incentives that can be used to implement building improvements. You'll want to mention how the information provided by the program can help them make decisions that can potentially result in energy and energy bill savings, lower operating and maintenance costs, and improved customer experience. You'll also want to tell them how it's easy to join AmericaSaves, there's no cost to participate, and they're not required to implement any upgrades identified by the program. Finally, and perhaps most important, you'll want to tell them how the program can positively impact the vitality of your Main Street. How long did it take you to go through the process of filling out this data? Really, it didn't take me too long. It took me about 15 minutes, obviously writing it in, and then I filled out the second sheet, which is the building inventory form. And I got that information actually from the Kenosha tax website. They actually tell you what your property identification is, so I just flipped it up, copied it down, and then everything else is on your gas and electric bill. If possible, try to talk about program benefits that match their interest or apply to their business. For example, a grocery store owner may be interested in reducing operating costs. A restaurant manager may want to improve customer comfort in a seating area. A bank may wish to be seen as a community leader. A furniture store may want to build on its reputation for environmental stewardship. Or a realtor may be interested in participating in a community interest program. A second part of your role is to collect information using several easy-to-complete forms or the AmericaSaves web-based engagement tool. You will also get participant signatures on two information releases. You know your Main Street. You can decide the best way to collect information via personal interviews, an event, or meeting, or by exchanging email. For the purpose of this video, we'll focus our discussion on information collection using forms. However, the AmericaSaves website is home to an online data collection system, too. Directions for using that system are covered in another video. The first form is the authorization to share information with AmericaSaves. This form allows AmericaSaves to receive information collected from participants and requires their signature. The next form is the authorization to release utility usage information. This form allows AmericaSaves to collect information on the building's energy use from the participant's energy providers. The building inventory form is used to collect information about the building and how it is used. If there are multiple tenants in a single building who each pay their own utility bills, use the tenant unit form to collect information on the individual tenants. If the participant has access to utility bills for the last 18 months, use the energy use history form to record how much energy they use each month. If they don't have the bills, we can ask their utility for the data per the authorization that they signed. Be sure to follow up with the participants to see how you can help them complete forms and to answer any questions. Lastly, we ask that you return the collected information to the AmericaSaves program using the online engagement tool at the program website. AmericaSaves will use the information that you gathered to generate the building energy use and efficiency reports. When analysis is complete, AmericaSaves will return the reports to you for you to distribute back to the Main Street participants. To wrap up, we need your help to collect information from your Main Street businesses and buildings and to share it with the program. We also ask you to be the local program rep and gatekeeper, forwarding any questions and news on progress to the AmericaSaves program. That's it! We hope you have fun working with your Main Street businesses to collect the information. We look forward to working with you as you grow your Main Street through energy efficiency. Thank you.