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Resolution authorizing the acceptance of a grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation (ICECF) awarded to Lake County for the Regional Operations and Communications Facility (ROC), including an emergency appropriation in the amount of $2,000,000.
Staff Summary
* The ROC Facility is a purpose built Consolidated 911 and Emergency Operations Center to support 911 Dispatch Center, Emergency Management Agency (EMA), and Emergency Telephone Systems Board (ETSB).
* Multiple funding options and ICECF grant funding for the ROC facility were presented and discussed on September 1, 2022.
* The ROC Facility was selected as a sponsored project by ICECF on January 24, 2023.
* Lake County has been awarded an ICECF Net Zero Energy Building Program grant in the amount of $2,000,000 for the ROC Facility.
* The grant term is February 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, and is a reimbursable grant, with 60 percent received upon building completion and occupancy, and 40 percent received upon 12 consecutive months of successful operation as a site net zero energy building.
* Lake County will use the funds to equip and/or construct the ROC Facility.
* The ROC Facility is funded primarily by general obligation bonds issued in 2022 and ARPA federal funding, with various other funding sources, including this private grant, rounding out the necessary funding.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the ICECF provides grants for the construction of Net Zero Energy buildings; and
WHEREAS, the ROC Facility is a purpose-built Consolidated 911 and Emergency Operations Center to support 911 Dispatch Center, EMA, and ETSB; and
WHEREAS, Lake County has been awarded an ICECF Net Zero Energy Building Program Grant for its ROC Facility in the amount of $2,000,000.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the ICECF Net Zero Energy Building Program Grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation is accepted; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED ...
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