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7.A. |
| City Council Meeting - FINAL |
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Consideration and Approval of Grant Agreement: Grant agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the City of Flagstaff for the Flagstaff Regional Resilience Project.
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| STAFF RECOMMENDED ACTION: |
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Approve Grant Agreement #98T90401 with the Environmental Protection Agency for the Flagstaff Regional Resilience Project in the amount of $1,000,000.
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| Executive Summary: |
The City of Flagstaff has been awarded $1,000,000 in grant funds from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Grant, funded by Congress in the Inflation Reduction Act, 2022 (PL 116-169).
Staff seeks Council’s acceptance of the grant award to fund three Resilience Hubs pilots in Flagstaff. These hubs will function as neighborhood centers, addressing community-identified needs by providing resources, services, training, and spaces for building connections to enhance local resilience.
The City of Flagstaff staff will manage the program in partnership with 13 community collaborators, including local community-based organizations, a local business, academic institutions, and Coconino County. |
| Financial Impact: |
Project Name: Flagstaff Regional Resilience Project
Cost: $1,000,000
Account Number Budgeted: 214-12-170-6368-0
FY Budgeted Amount: $1,000,000
Grant Funded: Yes, 100%, $0 required matching funds
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Grant
The grant award provides $1,000,000 of Federal funding for the Flagstaff Regional Resilience Project, with no required matching funds from the City.
This is a three-year grant, which must be fully expended by May 2027. Funds will be disbursed during FY2023-24, FY2024-25, FY2025-26, and FY2026-27.
The allocation of full grant funds is as follows:
| Staff/Project Manager |
$200,491 |
| Supplies |
$58,725 |
| Services |
$33,967 |
| Construction |
$223,095 |
| Subawards |
$446,904 |
| Indirect Costs |
$36,818 |
| Total |
$1,000,000 |
In the future, the City may consider supplementing this program to serve more residents. Any additional funding will be requested through the fiscal year budget process. |
| Policy Impact: |
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| Previous Council Decision or Community Discussion: |
No previous council decision has been made regarding the acceptance of this grant award. Staff presented an informational presentation on the Flagstaff Regional Resilience Hub project to the City Council on April 9th, 2024.
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| Options and Alternatives to Recommended Action: |
Option A – Approve the grant agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to fund the Flagstaff Regional Resilience Project.
Option B – Decline the acceptance of the grant. |
| Background and History: |
| The Flagstaff Regional Resilience Project addresses climate change challenges by building upon the community’s resilience and strengths. It seeks to enhance social connections, expand access to services, and foster trust. This grant-funded project will establish three Resilience Hub pilots in Flagstaff. These hubs will function as community spaces offering year-round access to resources, services, training, and support, not limited to crisis periods. Additionally, they will serve as safe spaces, offering heating, cooling, and clean air during emergencies. |
| Connection to PBB Priorities and Objectives: |
- Promote environmental justice and the access to environmental benefits.
- Advance social equity and social justice in Flagstaff by supporting social services.
- Facilitate, develop, and encourage carbon-neutral energy opportunities.
- Create a welcoming community through partnerships, resilient neighborhoods.
- Support the community’s social infrastructure needs; assist those partner organizations that provide services the City does not.
- Implement, maintain, and further the Carbon Neutrality Plan (CNP) with awareness of social inequities.
- Strengthen Flagstaff’s resilience to climate change impacts on built, natural, economic, health, and social systems.
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| Connection to Regional Plan: |
- Goal E&C.2: Achieve carbon neutrality for the Flagstaff community by 2030.
- Policy E&C.2.1. Encourage the reduction of all energy consumption, especially fossil-fuel generated energy, in public, commercial, industrial, and residential sectors.
- Policy E&C.2.2. Promote investments that create a more connected and efficient community, decrease emissions from transportation and building energy, and strengthen climate resiliency.
- Goal E&C.3. Prepare Flagstaff’s community systems and resources to be more resilient to climate change impacts, and address climate change in a manner that prioritizes those most impacted and ensures the costs and benefits of climate adaptation and mitigation are equitably distributed.
- Policy E&C.3.1. Develop and implement a comprehensive and proactive approach to prepare the community for and to minimize the impacts of climate change induced hazards.
- Policy E&C.3.5. Improve the ability of vulnerable community members to adapt and thrive amidst the pressures of climate change.
- Goal E.2. Expand production and use of renewable energy.
- Policy E.2.1. Promote renewable energy sources that reduce demand upon fossil fuels and other forms of generation that produce waste.
- Policy E.2.4. Encourage small-scale renewable energy production and use on the local level on appropriate residential, commercial, and industrial parcels.
- Goal PF.1.Work across all government operations and services to prepare for the impacts of natural and human caused hazards.
- Policy PF.1.5. Support proactive communication and education aimed at both residents and governmental operations as a means to build individual, organizational, and community resiliency to weather-related impacts and climate-caused or natural disasters.
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| Connection to Carbon Neutrality Plan: |
- CR-1: Ensure all mitigation actions improve Flagstaff’s ability to adapt to the future.
- CR-2: Strengthen existing community systems to create resilience to both short-term shocks and long-term change.
- ES-1: Incorporate equity as a foundational element of every climate action the City develops and implements.
- ES-2: Proactively engage community members on an ongoing basis.
- ES-3: Design targeted climate policies and programs to serve vulnerable communities first.
- CE-3: Support solar installations on existing residential and commercial buildings.
- HS-2: Prepare for changing risks to public health due to climate change and increase collaborations across agencies to improve health and climate awareness, preparedness, and resilience.
- HS-4: Improve the resilience of public infrastructure and City facilities.
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| Connection to 10-Year Housing Plan: |
| None |
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