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Form #: B-52 <br />7/18/91 <br />DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />DEPARTMENT: Environmental Management DATE: <br />STAFF CONTACT: Craig Kawaguchi PHONE: <br />A. REQUEST: <br />09/26/2023 <br />808-961-8549 <br />A resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the United States Environmental <br />Protection Agency (EPA) to accept grant funds. And an ordinance amending Ordinance No. 23-50, the <br />operating budget for the County of Hawaii for FY23-24 to appropriate the following revenues: <br />085.NEW Federal - EPA Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants for Communities $1,522,130.00 <br />And to appropriate the following expenditures: <br />085.601.5607.NEW Federal - EPA Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants for Communities <br />$1,522,130.00 <br />B. BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION (USE ADDITIONAL SHEETS AS NEEDED): <br />The Department has been selected for potential funding from the EPA Solid Waste Infrastructure for <br />Recycling Grants for politcal subdivisions (funding opportunity number EPA-I-OLEM-ORCR-23-03), now <br />referred to as SWIFR Communities Grants. The grant will be used to design and implement a city -scale <br />reusable foodware and refillable bottle system in Hilo, Hawai'i that is designed by and for the whole <br />community. This proposal requests funding for reuse collection bins, transport vehicles and crates/totes, a <br />dishwashing machine, QR code scanners, and a technology platform to support asset tracking and <br />management, as well as funding to install or equip the infrastructure to be ready to use.. <br />This request is to accept the funds and to amend the operating budget for FY23-24 in order to receive and <br />expend these grant funds upon award. <br />SIGNED: IM&LQ DATE: <br />D artment Head �� <br />