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2025 Green Neighborhoods Grant Program Update
PURPOSE: This agenda item provides an update on the 2025 funding cycle of the Green Neighborhoods Grant Program.
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Department
DEPARTMENT: Town Manager's Office
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Council Direction
COUNCIL DIRECTION:
__X_ Race/Equity _X___ Climate __X__ Comprehensive Plan ____Other
Council Direction Statement
Recognizing that climate harm disproportionately affects low-income and Black and Brown communities, the Green Neighborhood Grants program focuses on race and equity, community engagement, and impact.
The Green Neighborhoods Grant aligns with several of the Town Council's strategic objectives. Staff utilized a racial equity lens when developing the program and worked to ensure that the scoring criteria awarded more points to projects which engaged and benefitted low-income and communities of color. The program supports the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan as well as the Community Climate Action Plan. The Carrboro Connects Comprehensive Plan (Carrboro Connects Comprehensive Plan | Carrboro, NC - Official Website) was developed with the foundational themes of race and equity and climate action. Chapter 4: Climate Action and Environment recommends expanding equitable and inclusive community participation in the decision-making and implementation of climate change goals and policies. Chapter 10: Public Services and Communications calls for the development of a Green Neighborhoods participatory budgeting program.
This program also supports the implementation of the Community Climate Action Plan (Community-Climate-Action-Plan---Updated-Oct-2020). The Community Integration recommendations include: Create grassroots partnerships to engage community, expand capacity to pursue community sustainability initiatives, and create participatory green neighborhood budgeting program to reduce carbon emissions, build community, save money and reallocate savings to new green project initiatives.
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