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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 <br />Rank <br />Fundin Recommended Score <br />Project Applicant (Collaborators) <br />Requested Funding Level Out of <br />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 <br />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 />DocuSign Envelope ID: 74B52019-280F-41A8-B673-D36C5D62642B