Title:
Title
(City Council) Transformative Climate Communities Grant Memorandum of Understanding Amendments
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FileID
File ID: 2020-00125
Location
Location: Citywide
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Adopt a City Council Resolution authorizing the City Manager or City Manager's designee to execute an amended Memorandum of Understanding between the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency and its project leads for the Transformative Climate Communities Grant.
Contact: Tyrone Roderick Williams, Director of Development, (916) 440-1319; Jo Anna Davis, Management Analyst, (916) 440-1309; Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency
Body
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Resolution
3-Exhibit A Revised Memorandum of Understanding
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: On December 20, 2018, the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA) was awarded $23 million for the Sacramento Integrated Multimodal Placed-based Living (SIMPL) Project through the Strategic Growth Council's (SGC) Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Program. The TCC program goals are to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while investing in local economic, environmental and public health benefits in targeted disadvantaged communities.
SHRA is responsible for overseeing the implementation of five funded projects and seven leverage projects along with transformation projects that will support GHG reduction through community engagement, workforce development and displacement avoidance within the River District and surrounding downtown neighborhoods. Funding over a five-year grant term includes the construction of new affordable homes at Mirasol Village, the creation of a new transit station, solar installation, an urban forest, and a community garden. Additionally, the SGC requires SHRA to complete program evaluation activities with an approved Program Evaluation Technical Assistance Provider, who has been identified as Sacramento State's Institu...
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