1001 NW 167th St Shoreline WA 98177 3205 C St NE Auburn WA 98002

319 Nickerson St WA 98109

www.impactbioenergy.com

206.250.3242 July 18, 2019

Honorable Mayor and Council Members Mayor and Council Members Abel Pacheco Sally Bagshaw Mike O’Brien Lorena Gonzalez

SUBJECT: STREET CRIME IS TOO MUCH FOR OUR COMPANY

Dear Mayor and City Council,

We are writing to notify you we are regrettably removing our onsite renewable energy plant from the City of Seattle due to the continuous street vandalism and theft at our machine.

We are a clean technology startup based in King County and have been operating next to Fremont Brewing Company’s main brewery at 4700 9th Ave NW Seattle, between Ballard and Fremont neighborhoods. Our microdigester converts food waste into renewable energy and probiotic plant food onsite with zero waste and zero wastewater. We do this locally to minimize transport, fuel use, and truck traffic; and to support urban agriculture. We were recently named in the top 5 out of 327 smart cities waste management startups on a global basis. We were also recently named by King County in their Local Food Initiative as a promising innovation in their “Keeping King County Green Food Waste Report”.

Over the past three years we have suffered wire theft twice, theft of our electric cargo tricycle for collecting food waste, random vandalism, human fecal waste on the street, trash on the street, and whole bags of drug use needles left at our machine.

We want you to know that not all the transient and homeless population are good people. Some are definitely not good and they are using the lack of accountability to do whatever they wish. Seattle has become uncivilized to the point where we cannot afford to be at this location. Leaders around the country and globe continually seek to partner with innovators in Seattle, but this has become a serious barrier in this lovely city.

We wish you the best in bringing some sense of order to Seattle. We used to be known as a clean and environmentally conscious culture. That is now overshadowed by the street crime, trash, and open defecation and drugs in public places. No rules is not OK from our perspective.

Very truly yours, IMPACT BIOENERGY, INC.

Jan Allen, P. E., CMQ/OE, President