The agreement provides funding to resilient homes and communities

Specifically, the recipient will use the finding for climate resiliency and adaptation planning, community engagement, project scoping and design, and development. This project will engage two environmental justice communities on brooklyn's industrial waterfront - the sunset park and red hook neighborhoods - in a climate resiliency and adaption planning, engagement, design, and implementation process that will identify critical environmental and climate-based issues and potential solutions. Planning approaches are tailored to best utilize the knowledge and skills of each CBO, with the shared objective of being better prepared to competitively apply for implementation funding. To achieve the goals of this program, RHC will contract with two community based organizations - sbidc and uprose. Each partner CBO will lead efforts within their respective neighborhood. This project has two distinct components. The first component will engage three environmental justice communities on brooklyn's industrial waterfront - sunset park, red hook, and gowanus - in a climate resiliency and adaptation planning, engagement, design, and implementation process that includes investment in zero-emission technologies and workforce development to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other air pollutants. Each community will convene a resiliency oversight committee under the stewardship of RHC and a community based organization (CBO). Committee members will include partners from other environmental justice focused cbos, residents, business owners, and government and non-governmental organizations. RHC will procure the services of a professional planning/engineering design firm to support planning, engagement, and design work.activities:the activities being performed includes: project activities - red hook, NY 1) as part of this project, RHC will enter into a subrecipient agreement with sbidc that outlines anticipated roles and responsibilities, project deliverables, and financial support. The primary role of sbidc will be to lead community engagement by overseeing the creation of a planning committee that is representative of the community at large. 2) to meet this deliverable, they will involve a minimum of three neighborhood-focused community organizations, to ensure diverse participation on the committee. Each organization will assign 1-2 representatives to participate in planning committee sessions. Partners may include technical experts from the neighborhood and community organizations like resilient red hook, red hook initiative (RHI), red hook justice center, red hook art project, and/or red hook business alliance. Additionally, and resident leaders, including from the new york city housing authority tenant associations. 3) sbidc plans to engage the services of a planning or aande firm that can assist with facilitating a community planning process, reviewing resiliency projects for feasibility, and designing one or two identified projects. 4) the community committee will meet quarterly and will engage their membership and their larger community base around proposed project ideas culled from existing plans and studies as identified by the full committee, reporting back on their membership's priorities. In keeping with the tenets of environmental justice, this inclusive process will ensure that both the CBO and their membership remain vested in the process as projects are further evaluated and selected to advance. Sbidc will also engage its' base of industrial and manufacturing business owners to generate additional project ideas for the committee to review. At the conclusion of the planning and engagement phase, the committee will have identified up to ten priority resiliency projects for the neighborhood. These projects will be implementation focused. 5) during phase II, RHC, working alongside SBI