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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 19, 2021 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 6-a <br /> SUBJECT: Community Climate Action Grant (CCAG) — FY 2021-22 Project Selection for <br /> General Applicants <br /> DEPARTMENT: Asset Management Services <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1) CCAG 2021-22 Project Brennan Bouma, (919) 245-2626 <br /> Descriptions, Scoring, and Steven Arndt, (919) 245-2658 <br /> Comments for General Applicants <br /> 2) CCAG 2021-22 Project <br /> Descriptions, Scoring, and <br /> Comments for School Application <br /> PURPOSE: To: <br /> 1) Receive the grant project funding recommendations from the Human Relations <br /> Commission (HRC) and the Commission for the Environment for the FY 2021-22 Orange <br /> County Community Climate Action Grant Program; <br /> 2) Approve funding for the recommended Community Climate Action Grant projects for FY <br /> 2021-22 as outlined in the attached report; and <br /> 3) Receive and approve the request from the HRC to shift one point in the scoring rubric from <br /> "Time to Complete" to "Social Justice/ Racial Equity" in future rounds of grant funding. <br /> BACKGROUND: As part of the FY 2019-20 budget, the Board of Orange County Commissioners <br /> (BOCC) created the Orange County Climate Action Fund dedicated to accelerating climate <br /> change mitigation actions in Orange County. This decision was motivated in part to help the <br /> County meet the climate change mitigation goals set by the Board in recent years: <br /> • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions community-wide by 26 percent by 2025 (from 2005 <br /> levels). <br /> • Transition to a 100% renewable energy based economy by 2050. <br /> For the 2021-22 funding cycle, $536,665 in funding was budgeted to support climate action <br /> projects that will benefit Orange County residents both socially and financially. Following the <br /> direction of the Board of Orange County Commissioners (BOCC), the process for soliciting and <br /> selecting projects to receive funding was conducted through a formal Community Climate Action <br /> Grant (CCAG) program. <br /> For this grant cycle, the BOCC reserved half of the total funding for this grant program <br /> ($268,332.50) to be awarded to projects submitted by either of Orange County's two public school <br />