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o~p - aol0-oq3 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 6, 2010 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~{-- - h <br />SUBJECT: Acceptance of a $193,100 Energy Efficiency Community Block Grant Program <br />Transportation Grant and Approval of Budget Amendment #4-A <br />DEPARTMENT: Asset Management, Economic PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Development, & Financial <br />Services <br />ATTACHMENT (S): <br />Grant Award Letter, Grant Agreement <br />Form <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, Asset Management, 245- <br />2652 <br />Michael Talbert, Financial Services, 245- <br />2153 <br />Jeff Thompson, Asset Management, <br />245-2658 <br />PURPOSE: To formally accept a $193,100 Energy Efficiency Community Block Grant <br />("EECBG") Program Transportation Grant to purchase food processing equipment for the <br />Piedmont Food & Agricultural Processing Center and approve Budget Amendment #4-A. <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County applied for this grant in August of 2010 as a potential source <br />of funds for food processing equipment at the Piedmont Food & Agricultural Processing center <br />now being constructed on Valley Forge Road. The grant program is designed to promote <br />innovation in energy efficient transportation (as measured by the removal of carbon dioxide <br />from the atmosphere). Orange County is one of only six successful grant recipients. <br />Many of the foods expected to be processed at the new Center are historically trucked in from <br />distant corporate processing centers across North America. Orange County's successful <br />proposal argued that the availability of a local, well-equipped food processing facility would <br />significantly reduce the transportation energy required to bring this food to market, thereby <br />significantly reducing the associated carbon footprint. Using conservative displaced market <br />share assumptions for locally produced and processed foods, this investment is estimated to <br />eliminate 112,147 truck miles, 553,261 pounds of carbon dioxide and their respective energy <br />cost savings annually. <br />