This agreement provides funding under the inflation reduction act (IRA)

The agreement provides funding to the city of sacramento. Specifically, the recipient will pilot a collaborative project initiative focused on urban cooling and resiliency strategies to counter the urban heat island effect and extreme weather events in vulnerable, low-income areas. This project leverages existing community partnerships and neighborhood electrification efforts to target holistic investments in meadowview, stockton blvd, and DEL paso. This assistance agreement provides full federal funding in the amount of $981,042. Activities:the activities include: project administration - the activities required for project administration include executing a grant agreement with the US EPA; preparing and executing subaward partnership agreements with STF, habitat, and scusd; subaward management; invoicing; and biannual grant reporting. Residential resiliency - habitat will work with 40+ low-income homes to install one indoor air filter and provide one portable indoor air filter per home, as well as implement turf conversion, smart irrigation systems and river-friendly landscaping (RFL). STF will plant 2 trees at each of the 40 participating homes. Smud will support outreach and project referrals. Sacramento county will support engagement with the unincorporated stockton blvd area. School greening - scusd will implement outdoor water conservation efforts through turf conversion, smart irrigation systems and RFL at two schools in the district. STF will plant 30+ trees per school, engage 50+ homes near the participating schools to plant new residential trees along major walking routes in areas without a city-owned planting strip, and provide tree education to students and families. DOU will help scusd secure up to $100,000 total in rebates. Neighborhood capacity building - the city's community engagement team (in oied) will facilitate engagement and clean-up events in each community. Cert (in fire department) will lead intro training on disaster preparation in each community. The air district will provide capacity-building and education with the south sacramento/florin AB 617 steering committee. Subrecipient:1.habitat for humanity through this project, habitat will install one air filter per home; provide one portable air purifier per home; convert front yard turf to river-friendly landscaping (RFL); and install smart irrigation systems. The air filters improve indoor air quality and prepare homes to adapt to poor air quality days. The outdoor improvements will use water efficiently to promote the long-term health of newly planted trees (via the STF subaward) and will benefit the neighborhood at large by beautifying the streetscape and investing in community pride. 2. Sacramento tree foundation as a subaward in this pilot project, STF will use the strategies and procedures from their neighborwoods and sacramento shade programs to plant up to 2 trees at each of the 40+ homes receiving investments from habitat, in addition to planting ~30 trees at each of 2 schools, and 12 trees at 50+ residential properties along the walking routes to schools. STF will be able to bring the partnerships and lessons learned from a $800,000 calfire grant for tree planting and community leadership development in north sacramento and a $4,000,000 contract with smud for residential tree planting to shade homes and reduce energy usage. Furthermore, STF will develop and implement an extensive outreach and education program that will combine educational efforts through tree-planting events, partnership with scusd to develop lessons and educational curriculum for teachers for student engagement, as well as more informal door-knocking and community block parties to build trust, community, and investment. 3. Sacramento city unified school district (scusd) IT will collaborate on tree planting, infrastructure investments (i.e., irrigati