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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: December 12, 2023 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 6-b <br /> SUBJECT: Community Climate Action Grant (CCAG) — FY 2023-24 Project Selection for <br /> General Applicants and Schools <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1) CCAG 2023-24 Project Descriptions, Amy Eckberg, (919) 245-2626 <br /> Scoring, and Comments for General <br /> Applicants and Schools <br /> 2) CCAG Project Status Summary <br /> Including Estimated GHG Reductions <br /> PURPOSE: To: <br /> 1) Receive the grant project funding recommendations from the Commission for the <br /> Environment (CFE) and the Human Relations Commission (HRC) for the FY 2023-24 <br /> Orange County Community Climate Action Grant Program; and <br /> 2) Approve funding for the recommended Community Climate Action Grant projects for FY <br /> 2023-24 as outlined in the attached report. <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 /> • Newly adopted Climate Action Plan (November 2023) <br /> For the 2023-24 funding cycle, $564,085 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 /> ($282,042.50) to be awarded to projects submitted by either of Orange County's two public school <br /> districts. The remaining half ($282,042.50) was to be made available to all other eligible general <br /> applicants in this round. <br />