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2 <br />districts. The remaining half ($268,332.50) was to be made available to all other eligible general <br />applicants in this round. <br />Only one project totaling $68,616 has been submitted from either School district, and no funding <br />allocated for the schools has yet been recommended for approval. Attachment 2 provides <br />additional information. In light of the Board's interest in supporting school climate action projects <br />and the special challenges facing schools as they operate during a pandemic, the current grant <br />deadline for school projects will be extended through the end of November. County staff have <br />already begun reaching back out to the schools to offer direct assistance in generating project <br />proposals for this extended FY2021-22 round of funding as well as the FY2022-23 round of <br />funding set to open later this year. <br />The information below describes the scoring, ranking, and reasoning of the review of general <br />applications. <br />The Community Climate Action grant program received seven (7) applications in this round from <br />a variety of general applicants representing non-profit and public organizations whose total <br />requests add up to more than $880,000. While staff fielded some questions from prospective <br />applicants from the private sector, no private sector applications were received. <br />Grant applications were completed over the summer and reviewed and scored by the Commission <br />for the Environment (CFE) and the Human Relations Commission (HRC). On September 13, <br />2021, each of these Commissions voted to forward their final scoring and comments to the BOCC. <br />The following is a rank-order summary table of the combined project scoring and <br />recommendations, and more details on each project are available in Attachment 1: <br />Total Rank* <br />Project Applicant <br />Funding Recommended <br />Running total <br />Score Out of 7 <br />Requested Funding Level Out of applicati <br />25 is ons <br />Low Income HVAC Rebuilding <br />Replacement <br />Together of 113,000 113,000 113,000 22.8 1 <br />the Triangle <br />Neighborhood NC Sustainable <br />Energy Resiliency Energy 115,000 90,000 203,000.00 21.2 2 <br />Project (NERP)Association <br />Food Waste Town of <br />4,000 4,000 207,000.00 20.4 3 <br />Monitor Carrboro <br />Food Waste <br />Eno River <br />Monitor <br />Farmer's 3,765 3,765 210,765.00 19.6 4 <br />Market <br />Sustainability <br />Upgrades (Bike <br />Rack and Charging <br />Carrboro Arts <br />17,000 17,000** 227,765.00 18.4 5 <br />Station element <br />Center <br />only) <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: FC54AC26-7897-4270-8EA1-D754CD59EA76