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<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 /> <br />SUBJECT: Community Climate Action Grant (CCAG) – FY 2023-24 Project Selection for <br />General Applicants and Schools <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) CCAG 2023-24 Project Descriptions, <br />Scoring, and Comments for General <br />Applicants and Schools <br />2) CCAG Project Status Summary <br />Including Estimated GHG Reductions <br /> <br /> <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Amy Eckberg, (919) 245-2626 <br /> <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 /> <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 /> <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 /> <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 /> <br />1 <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: EB7B9CC8-B910-4965-AF93-0969E3E03E78