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the Fleet Carrboro proposed would be the least impactful to electrify since they are driven so City little each year. There were several unresolved questions about how these Schools vehicles would be used by staff and whether they were necessary. Further, a lack of charging infrastructure at the schools where these vehicles would be placed raises additional questions about whether they would be ready for use when needed for the proposed administrative travel. Two of the three proposed electric vehicles,the Tesla Model 3 and Ford Mustang Mach-E are expensive and impractical sports cars. The CFE reviewers questioned whether this choice of vehicle was an effective use of grant funds. The CFE liked the idea of using electric vehicles as teaching tools to make sustainable technologies more exciting and tangible. The idea of exposing a new generation of our community's leaders and thinkers to electric vehicles in our schools was well-supported by reviewers. Unfortunately,the lease arrangement for these vehicles makes it hard to believe that they would be useful teaching tools as they would not be able to be disassembled and reassembled by the students.Electric vehicles that students could simply view up close but not work on could likely be provided for free in other ways by parent volunteers or local non-profits. The CFE understands that this project proposal had to be written very quickly and is impressed by what the brand new CHCCS Sustainability Director was able to pull together in such a short time. For these reasons,the CFE recommends that the applicant address these concerns and for the project to be resubmitted in the next round. While expressing appreciation for the proposed project's focus on supporting additional biking and walking, CFE members gave this project a low ranking based on some widely held questions about the project design and the relatively high requested amount of funding. WayThe CFE's main question about this proposed project was whether the Imple ding Town of existence of wayfinding signage would convince residents to drive less, mplementat Chapel Hill particularly given that the hilly terrain poses an additional challenge to ion walking and biking. The CFE wondered if a less-expensive digital wayfinding map would be as effective and easier to update going forward. Based on an acknowledgement of the high capacity of the applicant, and the potential for an active transportation project to provide quick and long-lasting benefits when it has appropriate guidance from the community,the CFE encourages the applicant to update their proposal Page 5 of 6