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4 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> NORTH CAROLINA <br /> Date: February 2"d, 2021 <br /> To: Board of Orange County Commissioners <br /> From: Brennan Bouma, Sustainability Coordinator <br /> Steven Arndt, Director Asset Management Services <br /> RE: Orange County Community Climate Action Grant- Project Descriptions,Scoring, and Comments <br /> For the 2020-21 funding cycle of the Orange County Community Climate Action Grant program, $478,657 in <br /> funding was budgeted to support climate action projects that will benefit Orange County residents both socially <br /> and financially. <br /> The Community Climate Action grant program received 7 applications in this round from a variety of non-profit <br /> and public organizations whose total requests add up to more than $1.2 million. While staff fielded some <br /> questions from prospective applicants from the private sector, no private sector applications were received. <br /> Following the scoring and eligibility guidelines of the Board of Orange County Commissioners (BOCC),the <br /> applications were reviewed and scored by the Commission for the Environment(CFE) and the Human Relations <br /> Commission (HRC). The BOCC asked the Human Relations Commission to score the applications on the Social <br /> Justice and Racial Equity criterion, as this pertains to their expertise and because the racial representation of the <br /> CFE as a whole does not reflect the racial diversity of Orange County.The HRC and the CFE discussed the scoring <br /> process, reviewed application materials, and shared thoughts on each application over the course of three <br /> monthly meetings and on December 14th each of these Commissions voted to pass their final scoring and <br /> comments on each application along to the BOCC. <br /> The following is a rank-order summary table of the combined project scoring and recommendations. A full table <br /> showing the scores for each project on each of the 7 scoring elements is included in the Appendix. <br /> Total Rank <br /> Fundin Recommended Score <br /> Project _Applicant (Collaborators) Requested Funding Level Out of Out of 7 <br /> applications) <br /> 25is <br /> Solar Panels on <br /> Affordable Habitat Habitat for Humanity of $95,000 $95,000 21.7 1 <br /> Homes Orange County <br /> NAACP of Chapel Hill and <br /> Water Heater Carrboro (Rebuilding <br /> Replacement Together of the Triangle $122,100 $122,100 21.2 2 <br /> and Habitat for Humanity of <br /> Orange County) <br /> P.O. Box 8181 * Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 <br /> Telephone: (919)245-2625 <br />