Climate Council Meeting Summary - 6-16-21

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complicated. Perhaps there are ways to work with the private sector outside of the Chamber. IV. Guidance for Communications Committee At the last meeting, the Council approved the request for another round of internships to support this Committee’s work, but had insufficient time to discuss the recent work and provide guidance on next steps. Bouma asked the interns working with the Communications Committee if they needed direction. Rubenstein reported that they’ve been working with the Orange County Human Rights and Relations Director, Annette Moore, trying to operationalize the Yale SASSY survey process. They have developed a list of organization to reach out to based on their work over the Spring. Given that they were following an action plan, they did not require further direction and this time on the agenda was given to continuing the Roles and Functions discussion. V. Announcements and housekeeping Bouma announced that the Orange County Community Climate Action Grants program’s second round of funding is open. The funding structure has changed based on the County’s approved budget for next year which set aside ½ of the total funds for k-12 school projects. These projects still need to fill out an application and would be evaluated in the same way that other projects would be. Bouma said that he is available to assist grant applicants as he is not involved in scoring the applications. Bouma and Bedford clarified that any funds not awarded to the schools in this round would go into the full pot of funds during the next round of the grant. He also reminded the Council that the July meeting will also be at 7pm. VI. Adjournment McCullough asked for a motion to adjourn the meeting and this was provided by Bouma and seconded by Slade. The Council voted unanimously to adjourn the meeting at 8:29pm.