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Docusign Envelope ID: E196FFB6-481D-48D1-A670-07B90011COBE <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: January 17, 2023 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 6-b <br /> SUBJECT: Community Climate Action Grant (CCAG) — FY 2022-23 Project Selection for <br /> General Applicants and Schools <br /> DEPARTMENT: Asset Management Services <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1) CCAG 2022-23 Project Descriptions, Amy Eckberg, (919) 245-2626 <br /> Scoring, and Comments for General Steven Arndt, (919) 245-2658 <br /> Applicants and Schools <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 2022-23 <br /> Orange County Community Climate Action Grant Program; and <br /> 2) Approve funding for the recommended Community Climate Action Grant projects for FY <br /> 2022-23 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 /> For the 2022-23 funding cycle, $550,150 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 /> ($275,075) to be awarded to projects submitted by either of Orange County's two public school <br /> districts. The remaining half ($275,075) was to be made available to all other eligible general <br /> applicants in this round. <br /> The Community Climate Action grant program received seven (7) applications in this round from <br /> a variety of general applicants representing non-profit and public organizations whose total <br /> requests add up to $585,873. No private sector applications were received. One (1) project, <br /> totaling $368,000 was submitted from the Chapel Hill Carrboro City School district. <br />