2024-07-31 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission July 31, 2024 That one has been approved and the funds should be coming in, actually, in the next week—we just got updates on that. Clean Heavy -Duty Vehicles Replacement I mentioned that one that's looking at—this is really a pilot program to begin that conversation with fleet conversion for our County. So that I think that was replacement of three heavy-duty vehicles including the charging infrastructure and our workforce development—that proposal has been submitted—about a week -and -a -half ago that was submitted. And then, finally a Coastal Zone Management Habitat Restoration Project on a site that was acquired through PONC lands, working with the community to look at habitat restoration that is deeply connected to the historic site reservation on that site. So (inaudible), a really good opportunity to connect with our community and support their efforts that site is also, of course, impacted by sea level rise and some of those sites are vulnerable. So, we want to develop some protocols around that. And this hasn't been updated, but that letter of intent has been submitted as well for that proposal. And this last slide is just, again, sort of a recap on those next steps of things that we're looking forward to completing in the next six months as we continue to work. I'm open to any questions you, Commissioners, have. Thank you. MR. NELSON: So, thanks for that. So, just to kind of go over the grants. I think we first talked about the position the last time. The County idea was that it'd be self-sustaining and bring in the grants. And I think, if I look at it I did the numbers. I think what you proposed here is like 976,000 a year versus your budget is 886so, it would be self-sustaining, if you win all these grants. Okay. So, I guess we're really just kind of looking at the probability is that—coming to fruition—okay? All right? MS. MORRISON: Yeah. I think we always cross our fingers for anybody that works in a grant world. It is competitive but these funds are all coming from, frankly, the great amount of effort that our Biden Administration has put towards climate investment. So, I think we have a good chance on all three of those. Well, one, we've already brought in. But the other two the clean heavy-duty vehicles grant—we were actually able to leverage grant writing capacity working with our Department of Transportation. They provided professional grant writers and so that proposal I anticipate is going to be pretty competitive. And then the third one that we are hoping to be able to submit for—we had submitted a prior proposal, this is ultimately a NOAA grant—and they had provided us some feedback. And so, a (inaudible) has been included into this proposal, so again, hoping that that's going to be competitive. Page 14