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Resolution to Enter into Contract with Washtenaw County to Accept and Appropriate Funds from HUD Sustainable Community Challenge Cooperative Agreement (CCPMI0057-11) $256,000.00 (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
The attached resolution authorizes a contract with Washtenaw County to accept grant funds as part of the Washtenaw County Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Sustainable Community Challenge Cooperative Agreement. The City of Ann Arbor will receive $256,000.00 to create a community-scale energy strategy to increase energy efficiency improvements in rental housing.
Washtenaw County applied for, and received, $3,000,000.00 in United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Challenge Planning Grant (CCPG) funds in collaboration with the City of Ann Arbor, several other municipalities, the State of Michigan, non-profit agencies, private businesses and educational institutions. The goal of the Washtenaw County grant is to expand existing affordable and energy efficient housing options and connect them to job centers and healthy food through an enhanced multi-modal transportation corridor.
This grant will establish a partnership to address barriers to energy efficiency in rental properties. This partnership will involve Washtenaw County, City of Ypsilanti, University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University and community stakeholders.
The project funded by the grant extends over a period of time through December of 2014. $210,000.00 is budgeted for labor to hire a project manager and $46,000.00 is budgeted for marketing and outreach.
$370,000.00 in matching funds have been pledged and will be provided from the following sources: $50,000.00 MDEQ P2 grant supporting Michigan Green Communities; $60,000.00 Home Depot Foundation Sustainability Framework; $260,000.00 PACE/A2energy.org energy efficiency financing and community outreach efforts. Each of these projects is underway, fully funded, and no general fund monies are pled...
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