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22 <br />expenses, and connect with our students and community more fully while engaging with an emerging <br />technology." <br />Grant Dollars Requested Per Metric Ton of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduced During Project Lifetime: $ <br />4,158.55 <br />HRC Comments: Overall the HRC reviewer felt that there may be a better way of spending this money to <br />support racial equity in County schools.The proposal lacked evidence of the need for these administrative <br />vehicles. <br />If the three proposed cars are indeed needed in the administrative fleet of CHCCS, and leasing them means that <br />gasoline powered cars will not be used for this necessary travel,then when combined with using the cars as a <br />teaching tool this proposal might be worth funding. <br />Ideally, any avoided costs in the completion of this project would be used in the schools for more direct social <br />justice programming or materials. <br />CFE Comments:The CFE recommends not funding this application.While electric vehicles should be added to <br />the CHCCS fleet,the administrative vehicles proposed would be the least impactful to electrify since they are <br />driven so little each year.There were several unresolved questions about how these vehicles would be used by <br />staff and whether they were necessary. <br />Further, a lack of charging infrastructure at the schools where these vehicles would be placed raises additional <br />questions about whether they would be ready for use when needed for the proposed administrative travel. <br />Two of the three proposed electric vehicles,the Tesla Model 3 and Ford Mustang Mach-E are expensive and <br />impractical sports cars.The CFE reviewers questioned whether this choice of vehicle was an effective use of <br />grant funds. <br />The CFE liked the idea of using electric vehicles as teaching tools to make sustainable technologies more exciting <br />and tangible.The idea of exposing a new generation of our community's leaders and thinkers to electric vehicles <br />in our schools was well-supported by reviewers. Unfortunately, the lease arrangement for these vehicles makes <br />it hard to believe that they would be useful teaching tools as they would not be able to be disassembled and <br />reassembled by the students. Electric vehicles that students could simply view up close but not work on could <br />likely be provided for free in other ways by parent volunteers or local non-profits. <br />The CFE understands that this project proposal had to be written very quickly and is impressed by what the <br />brand new CHCCS Sustainability Director was able to pull together in such a short time. <br />For these reasons,the CFE recommends that the applicant address these concerns and for the project to be <br />resubmitted. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: FC54AC26-7897-4270-8EA1-D754CD59EA76