The City is currently pursuing two state grants, one dealing with extreme heat and one for planning community resilience centers. Both grants are still in the very early stages because the state has not set application deadlines or provided final instructions yet. The City is working with California Consulting to prepare the grant applications and to perform as many tasks as possible that are expected to be necessary to apply for these grants. One known requirement is to establish partnerships for the application process and for the implementation of the grant, if awarded. The City was contacted by CORE during the time we were soliciting partnerships. CORE's focus and experience turns out to be a very good fit for the grants we are applying for, so we have been working closely with them and California Consulting in preliminary preparation for applying for the grants.

CORE requested that the City enter into a Pre-teaming Agreement with them, which is attached. This agreement has no cost to the City and merely indicates that should we receive one or both grants, CORE will be our sub-recipient for grant implementation.  The City will be prime recipient. This Pre-teaming Agreement creates the justification for CORE staff to dedicate so much time and effort to pursuing the grants with us. Once the grant guidelines are finalized and we understand the full scope of our partnership, this agreement will be replaced with a Teaming Agreement that will also be presented to the City Council for review and approval.