Vote: approved

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65. AGREEMENT AND GRANT FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FOR THE VEHICLE REPAIR AND RETROFIT PROGRAM Approve the agreement and acceptance of grant funds from US Department of Energy, Grant No. DE-EE0000848, in the not-to-exceed amount of $725,000. These grant funds are for the vehicle repair and retrofit program. The grant award begins on August 31, 2009 and ends on August 30, 2012. Authorize the Chairman to sign all documents related to these grant funds, as applicable. The grant allows a 10% rate for indirect costs, or $13,636 which may be incurred by the Air Quality Department or Maricopa County for the administration of this grant. The Maricopa County Department of Finance has calculated the Air Quality Department's composite indirect cost rate at 17.8%, or $24,273. The recoverable indirect cost of administering this grant is $13,636; the non-recoverable indirect cost is $10,637. Grant revenues are not local revenues for the purpose of the constitutional expenditure limitation, and therefore, expenditure of the funds is not prohibited by the budget law. This budget does not alter the budget constraining the expenditure of local revenues duly adopted by the Board pursuant to A.R.S. §42-17105. The $725,000 for the vehicle repair and retrofit program is one project out of three that will be funded by the US Department of Energy. The total grant amount is $3,567,800. A budget adjustment is not required as this item is included in the Board of Supervisor approved FY2009-10 Air Quality Budget. The Air Quality Vehicle Repair and Retrofit program has previously been funded by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. Due to Arizona state budget cuts the Vehicle Repair and Retrofit program was cut from funding. The US Department of Energy will supplant the program funding and provide one-time FY2009-10 funding for the Vehicle Repair and Retrofit program. The Maricopa County Air Quality Department will pass-through $575,000 of the total amount to a sub-contractor with Board of Supervisor approval under a separate agenda. (C-85-10-012-G-00)