Fiscal Note
The Common Council previously approved a Resolution (Enactment # RES-10-00460, Legistar #18366) which recognized the $7.2 million in additional DOE grant revenues and commensurate expenditures and amended the 2010 CDD Adopted Operating Budget accordingly. Adoption of this “comfort” resolution has no additional direct budgetary impact, other than the commitment of CDD staff resources to negotiate agreements necessary to implement the program(s) described herein.
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SECOND SUBSTITUTE - Providing additional detail in describing the EECBG-funded programs to be administered by City CD Division staff, and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute the requisite agreements necessary to implement the goals and objectives of these programs.
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BACKGROUND
As part of the Federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has made competitive grant awards of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funds available to qualifying cities through the “BetterBuildings” (formerly “Retrofit Ramp-Up”) Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program initially known as the “Better Building Grant” formerly known as the “Retrofit Ramp Up Grant” stimulus grant program. In April 2010, the City of Madison staff submitted a joint grant application to DOE, along with its partners Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (WECC) and the cities of Milwaukee and Racine, on April 2010 requesting jointly submitted a “BetterBuildings” grant application for $60,000,000 of EECBG funds to design and implement an energy market transformation program. This Wisconsin Partnership (WECC and the Cities of Madison, Milwaukee and Racine), was one of only twenty-five “BetterBuildings” grant award recipients nationwide, and was awarded a $20,000,000 grant. ; of this figure, Madison received $7,200,000 for its program design and implementation. DOE’s competitive grants were awarded to twenty-five applicants ...
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