Resolution approving Department of the Environment Funding Recommendation for Brownfields Community Outreach Grant Award.

[Brownfields Community Outreach Grant Award]

Resolution approving Department of the Environment Funding Recommendation for Brownfields Community Outreach Grant Award.
 

WHEREAS, The United States Department of Environmental Protection (EPA) awarded a federal grant to the City and County of San Francisco, Department of the Environment (SF Environment) to conduct a Brownfields Communitywide Assessment project;
 

WHEREAS, The brownfields sites selected for assessment  will be potentially contaminated properties that can be cleaned up for reuse as recreational open spaces and green space linkages, in support of the Blue Greenway project, an open space waterfront corridor that extends the region’s Bay Trail along the Southeast shoreline of San Francisco; and,
 

WHEREAS, The Brownfields Communitywide Assessment project will build on the planning and development activities conducted by the Port of San Francisco, and other organizations, to promote an open space waterfront corridor along the Southeast shoreline and increase recreational opportunities for residents of the Bayview Hunters Point community and surrounding neighborhoods, and promote active healthy exercise and activities such as biking, walking and gardening; and,
 

WHEREAS, A portion of the federal funding from the U.S. EPA grant is budgeted to support public outreach services to promote the involvement of local residents in the planning and development of the Blue Greenway and identification and cleanup of brownfield sites; and
 

WHEREAS, The Environmental Justice (EJ) program of SF Environment issued a Grant Solicitation on July 8, 2013, and received written proposals which were reviewed and scored, and oral interviews conducted with proposers that submitted the strongest applications; now, therefore, be it
 

RESOLVED, The San Francisco Commission on the Environment approves a grant award in the amount of Thirty Thousand Seven Hundred Twenty ($30,720) to be disbursed using funding provided by EPA, to conduct brownfields community outreach services for a period of 24 months, from September 2013 to September 2015, to the following organization:
 

Black Coalition on AIDS 

I hereby certify that this Resolution was adopted at the Commission on the Environment’s

Meeting on September 24, 2013.
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Monica Fish, Commission Secretary

VOTE:   6-0 Approved; 1 Absent

AYES:  Commissioners Arce, Josefowitz, King, Stephenson, Wald, and Wan

NOES:  None

ABSENT:  Commissioner Gravanis