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Administration proposes climate-resiliency fund portfolio and internal scoring to speed projects
Summary
The Mayor’s climate office proposed a $1.377M Climate Resiliency Fund allocation in FY27 and presented a scored portfolio of 16 city projects (~$5.5M) plus externally directed initiatives for home-energy retrofits and cesspool-conversion assistance.
The Mayor’s Office of Climate Change, Resiliency and Sustainability presented its FY27 operating request and the proposed Climate Resiliency Fund (CRF) allocations to the committee on March 9, 2026.
Executive Director Kealoha Fox described an internal competitive process: the CRF evaluation committee scored 21 internal proposals and recommended funding for 16 projects across 11 agencies totaling roughly $5.5 million to be encumbered and accelerated in FY27. Those projects focus on facility retrofits, community food resilience, youth climate programming, shoreline protection, stormwater modeling and neighborhood-scale resilience interventions. The administration said the chosen projects were screened for the ability to begin and be encumbered in FY27 and completed within two years and ten months.
The administration proposed directing approximately 36% of FY27 CRF resources to externally managed initiatives: residential energy retrofit programs, household cesspool-conversion financial assistance structured to leverage state or HGIA programs, and third-party contracts with nonprofits for program delivery. Fox said the office has developed a scoring rubric, transparency protocols and encumbrance plans to reduce the risk of funds lapsing and to improve external funding leverage.
Members asked for project-level narratives and neighborhood breakdowns; the office said it can provide district- and neighborhood-level reporting for each recommended line item and confirmed several proposals have match or philanthropic partners. The office also noted one grant-funded position was lost in FY26 because of an EPA termination of a grant and emphasized a strategy to leverage federal, state and philanthropic funds at roughly a one-to-three match rate for city dollars.
The Council did not vote on CRF allocations March 9; members asked for additional detail and requested timely project-level reporting to ensure encumbrances can occur in FY27.
