Title
Apply for U.S. Department of Homeland Security Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Grant Opportunity for Federal Fiscal Year 2022-23 - Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding (Ordinance S-50664)
Description
Request to retroactively authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply for, accept and, if awarded, enter into agreements for disbursement of Federal funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the Federal Fiscal Year 2022-23 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant opportunity. If awarded, the funding will be used for the projects described below. Further request to authorize the City Treasurer to accept, and the City Controller to disburse, all funds related to this item. Funding for these grant opportunities is available through the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The total grant funds applied for will not exceed $23,461,298.18.
Report
Summary
BRIC funds hazard mitigation activities with a recognition of the growing hazards associated with climate change, and of the need for natural hazard risk mitigation activities that promote climate adaptation and resilience with respect to those hazards. These include both acute extreme weather events and chronic stressors which have been observed and are expected to increase in intensity and frequency in the future.
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant submittal deadline was Feb. 29, 2024. Retroactive authorization is being sought for these applications as a result of the required multi-step review and submission process through the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to ensure cost estimates and project details were finalized prior to Council approval.
Described below are the project descriptions staff are requesting City Council approval to submit, by department.
Water Services Department (WSD)
City of Phoenix WSD Power Redundancy 24th Street
Installation of 18 Megawatts (MWs) (nine - two MW generators) of standby generators to power the water treatment plant and finished water pumping stations during a power outage. The generators are sized to power an entire plant during a power outage and have fuel storage for 48 hours.
Project Cost: $22,043,630.00
Federal Match Requested: $16,532,722.50
Local Match: $5,510,907.50
Public Works Department and Office of Heat Response and Mitigation
Hazard Mitigation and Cooling Center Emergency Generators
Design and installation of new emergency generators of various sizes ranging from 125 to 2,000 kilowatts for 16 Cooling Centers at City libraries. The generators are sized to power critical building systems including air conditioning during a power outage. The project also includes the installation of solar photovoltaic system at one of the 16 sites to provide shade and further enhance power resiliency.
Project Cost: $8,826,211.06
Federal Match Requested: $6,619,658.29
Local Match: $2,206,552.77
Financial Impact
The estimated total cost for the projects is approximately $30,869,841.06. The maximum federal participation rate is 75 percent with a minimum local match of 25 percent of the total eligible project cost. If awarded, the federal match would not exceed $23,152,380.79 (75 percent) and the City’s costs would be approximately $7,717,460.27 (25 percent) for the local match.
This grant will also fund an additional $308,917.39 (3.5 percent of project costs) for the Hazard Mitigation and Cooling Center Emergency Generators project, to cover grant administration and related costs with no additional match requirement from the City.
Funding for the local match is available in the City’s Capital and Operating budgets. Potential grant funding received is available through the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the Federal Fiscal Year 2022-23 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant opportunity.
Location
City of Phoenix WSD Power Redundancy 24th Street
24th Street Water Treatment Plant
Council District: 6
Hazard Mitigation and Cooling Center Emergency Generators
16 various locations - see Attachment A
Council Districts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Managers Ginger Spencer, Inger Erickson, Gina Montes and Mario Paniagua, and the Water Services, Public Works, and Library departments and the Office of Heat Response and Mitigation.