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<br />1936 <br />13. Please describe one or more <br />key partnerships/collaborations <br />that add the most value to the <br />success of the proposed <br />project: <br />1) Burt’s Bees has provided $10,000 in funding to begin the USS <br />program. USS will hire 3 Durham public school teachers - who <br />participated in the program called BETC in Durham, NC <br />(https://www.dconc.gov/county-departments/departments-f-z/soil- <br />water-conservation-district/ag-economic/betc-bionomic-educational- <br />training-center) - to train 7 Orange County public school teachers in <br />the coming school year. The Orange County teachers will learn how <br />to incorporate the stormwater management education curriculum into <br />the classroom and obtain certification in rain-garden design and <br />installation via the NC Cooperative Extension. As part of the program, <br />these teachers commit to teaching the curricula to their students, <br />thereby expanding the program and installing new bmp installations <br />and/or maintaining existing ones in the community. In addition to 1) <br />acknowledging the holistic approaches required to meaningfully and <br />sustainably remediate our increasing stormwater issues and 2) the <br />benefits of connecting youth with native plants and engaging <br />teachers and students in community service, Burt’s Bees’ intimate <br />appreciation of the history of the BETC program, it’s founder (USS <br />Chairman Mike Dupree) and the USS board of directors <br />(https://www.urbanss.org/about) provided the jump start USS <br />needed. Teacher training begins this fall. As an extension of the <br />program started with Burt’s Bees funding, the OCCCA funding we are <br />requesting herein will be used to expand the program in Orange <br />County, by paying stipends to 10 more Orange County public school <br />teachers to be trained to conduct an afterschool program for ~5 <br />students per teacher (50 students total), all of whom will receive <br />stipends via OCCCA funds to complete the program, including at <br />least one stormwater bmp installation (per group) on an underserved <br />property in the community. <br />2) We have been awarded a $120,000 NC DEQ 319 NPS grant from the <br />Environmental Protection Agency to cover 60% of the costs of bmp <br />installations in the Bolin Creek watershed of Orange County. The <br />OCCCA grant funding requested herein covers the remaining 40% <br />that is required for these bmp’s to be installed. Without the OCCCA <br />funds we will not be able to install practices on 10 low-income <br />Orange County properties in Bolin Creek. <br />3) We are partnering with the Carrboro Stormwater Manager of Public <br />Works, who will be assisting us with six Education and Outreach <br />events to contact underserved property owners in Bolin Creek. <br />4) We have received $20,000 from the Triangle Community Foundation <br />to train Wake County public school teachers and students to install <br />stormwater bmp’s in the City of Raleigh, the supplies for which are <br />being funded by the City of Raleigh Stormwater Engineering <br />Services. This is important because Wake, Durham, Orange, and <br />other counties share their waterways, regardless of who drinks from <br />them, so that holistically installing sustainable stormwater best <br />management practices across the Triangle exponentially extends the <br />benefits to all. <br /> <br /> <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 2C2F66C4-424F-4660-AF8A-A623B6D7194E