2025-219-E-County Mgr-Town of Chapel Hill-EV Garbage Truck

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Docusign Envelope ID: El 96FFB6-481 D-48D1-A670-07B9001 1 COBE Collaborators and Partners In some projects, collaborators and partners provide essential capacity and connections. If collaborators or partners are an essential part of your project whether or not they are receiving grant funds, please use this section to provide more details. If you are not working with collaborators or partners, please feel free to write N/A in this section and move to the Social Justice and Racial Equity section. 13. Please describe one to three key partnerships/collaborations that add the most value to the N/A success of the proposed project: Criterion 1-Social Justice and Racial Equity 14. Who will directly or More than 50% of the greenhouse gas emissions from Town operations come indirectly benefit from from the vehicle fleet,and those emissions are generated in chapel hill your project? Please be neighborhoods and parks. as specific as possible on the characteristics Garbage trucks are used daily to provide their essential service in every of those who will neighborhood across Chapel Hill.These heavy-duty vehicles drive long benefit including, distances each year and burn thousands of gallons of diesel fuel in the gender, race, age, process.Their pattern of stopping and starting during those miles,reduces income level and their efficiency and increases the wear-and-tear on the vehicle's brakes.This geographic location. driving pattern becomes an efficiency bonus when using regenerative braking in an electric vehicle.Garbage trucks also return to the depot each night, Also, what are the which can enable them to be fully recharged for the next day.These factors demographics of the make them an ideal fleet vehicle to electrify to help reduce lifetime costs and area where your neighborhood-based emissions. project takes place? Commercial zero-turn lawnmowers are critical pieces of equipment that Does your project help maintain the functionality of 1,376 acres of parkland and open space.This to address any racial space is distributed across town to bring it close to town residents(an disparities in the interactive map of the Town's parks can be found here: location it is proposed https://www.townofchapelhill.or2/Home/Components/News/News/17866/4048) for? Both of these vehicles also begin their workdays early in the morning and often operate close to residential areas.The large reduction in vehicle noise Please list any data associated with operating the electric versions of these vehicles would improve sources used and show the livability of all Chapel Hill neighborhoods as well as reducing the fumes the steps of any and noise that dozens of front-line Chapel Hill staff face each day when calculations: fueling and operating these vehicles. Based on the most recent census figures,Chapel Hill's racial demographics are as follows: 71.3%white,13.5%Asian,10.2%Black,73.2%Hispanic or Latino,and 3.8% all other categories.These proportions generally align with overall County racial demographics except for the Asian category which is 70% higher than the County's overall proportion.In part this is due to rage 9 of 21