11a-Miscellaneous Grants - 2021Miscellaneous Grants
Purpose:
The Miscellaneous Grant Fund is used to present the budgets for a variety of mixed use grants. The presentation represents the sum total of small grants not included in other sections
of the budget. The grants included are as follows:
In FY2012, the Energy Grant special revenue funds are used to account for monies received and spent from the United States Department of Energy through the Florida Energy and Climate
Commission and an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) through the City of Jacksonville as a subgrant recipient. Both grants are part of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus funding. The grants will be used to provide financial assistance for the Atlantic Beach Energy Reduction Program.
In FY2013, this fund also included a grant to retro fit and install wind protection for some of the windows at City Hall.
Issues, Trends and Highlights:
In FY 2011, the City secured $234,789 from the Florida Energy and Climate Commission and $103,400 from the City of Jacksonville EECBG. These grants will be used for a variety of projects,
including funding energy audits at eleven City facilities, replacing 23 HVAC (heating and cooling) systems at the eleven City facilities, retrofitting lights at two baseball/softball
fields with more energy efficient lighting technology, procuring low emission vehicles – one fully electric vehicle The grants also provide funding for energy efficient lighting at
ten City buildings and occupancy sensors at six City buildings.
The Wind Retro-fit Grant total is $39,736 including a required match of $9,934 transferred from the General Fund in FY 2012 was re-budgeted for FY2013.
There are no expenses proposed for FY2015 for this fund.