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Sustainability office: $32 million in grants under management; SEU progress and funding uncertainty
Summary
Ann Arbor sustainability staff said they have secured about $32 million in grants but face risk from federal/state shifts; the administration plans a second reading for the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) ordinance and is recruiting an executive director as startup work continues.
Missy Stultz, representing the city’s sustainability office (OSI), updated the council March 24 on grant funding, SEU startup work and budget requests.
Stultz said OSI has secured roughly $32 million in grants over the past 18–24 months and that most of those awards are under signed grant agreements. She cautioned that changes in the federal and state funding landscape have put those awards at risk but that the city is continuing to draw down and spend under existing agreements.
“We have successfully secured $32,000,000 and we will fight to maintain that $32,000,000,” Stultz said.
Stultz identified one larger award that remained…
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