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[COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR] RESOLUTION NO. 240497
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Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley and Mayor Quinton Lucas
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
RESOLUTION - Expressing the City Council's support for the City's grant application for the Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program through the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); and directing the City manager to submit the grant application to the EPA.
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WHEREAS, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has grant funding available through the Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (Community Change Program); and
WHEREAS, the Community Change Program offers an unprecedented opportunity to transform disadvantaged communities across the United States into healthy, climate resilient, and thriving communities for their current and future residents; and
WHEREAS, the Community Change Program grants will fund community-driven projects that address climate change and reduce pollution while strengthening communities through thoughtful implementation, focused on multi-faceted applications to meaningfully improve the environmental, climate, and resilience conditions affecting disadvantaged communities; and
WHEREAS, the Community Change Program requires applicants to propose projects that address six specific requirements and that align with at least one of EPA's Climate Action Strategies and at least one of EPA's Pollution Reduction Strategies; and
WHEREAS, the Community Change Program intends to award grants ranging from $10 million to $20 million for a period of performance that by statute cannot exceed three years; and
WHEREAS, the Community Change Program requires municipal applicants to enter into a stated partnership between the City and a community-based non-profit organization; and
WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City is committed to equitably investing in projects that addr...
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