Resolution approving Department of the Environment Funding Recommendations for Zero Waste grant awards to ten organizations.
[Zero Waste Grant Awards]
Resolution approving Department of the Environment Funding Recommendations for Zero Waste grant awards to ten organizations.
WHEREAS, The Zero Waste grant program of the Department of the Environment administers a grant program and provides funding to non-profit groups; and,
WHEREAS, the Zero Waste grant program is dedicated to funding projects diverting waste from San Francisco’s landfill, thereby assisting the City in achieving its goal of zero waste by 2020, and achieving this at a low cost per ton of waste diverted; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, the Commission approves the award of Zero Waste grants, totaling $608,000 to be disbursed during FY 2013-2015, and a $240,336 for an inter-departmental transfer in the following way:
Organization FY 2013-2015
Garden for the Environment $50,000
(fiscal: Neighborhood Parks Council)
University of California, San Francisco $105,000
San Francisco Clean City Coalition $80,000
San Francisco Food Bank $35,000
Goodwill Industries $103,000
(SF Housing Foundation as a sub-contractor)
San Francisco Conservation Corps $90,000
San Francisco City College $55,000
Boys and Girls Club $60,000
Green Streets
(fiscal: Citizen Film) $30,000
San Francisco Community Recyclers $240,336
(fiscal: Citizen Film)
I hereby certify that this Resolution was adopted at the Commission on the Environment’s Meeting on May 28, 2013.
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Monica Fish, Commission Secretary
VOTE: Approved 4-0; 3 Absent
AYES: Commissioners Arce, Gravanis, Stephenson and Wald
NOES: None
ABSENT: Commissioners Josefowitz, King, and Mok