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New Resilience and Sustainability Division outlines inventory, brownfields plan and grant priorities
Summary
Charleston County’s newly formed Resilience and Sustainability Division presented its first update, describing an inventory of about 100 projects, recent grant wins and planned federal grant applications, including proposals for a microgrid and an EPA Brownfields coalition grant. Staff invited partners to a countywide symposium on Nov. 19.
Molly Caggiano, manager of Charleston County’s new Resilience and Sustainability Division, delivered the division’s first formal update since it was established in January 2025, outlining a countywide inventory of resilience and sustainability initiatives, recent grants and near-term grant applications.
Caggiano said the division currently consists of two full-time staff (herself and sustainability coordinator Ali Petrucci) plus an intern, and is guided by the county’s Sustainability Plan (adopted August 2024) and a hazard vulnerability assessment briefed to council in October 2024. She told council the division has cataloged roughly 100 projects across departments and community partners and is actively working on about 55% of them.
"The goal of our division is to address all of these interconnected issues," Caggiano said, describing the need for systems thinking to manage chronic stressors such as aging infrastructure…
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