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MAKING GREEN PART OF YOUR SCENE

KAREN WILEYSALT LAKE COUNTY

COMMUNITY RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT

HOME IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

• Green & Healthy Homes Initiative

• Lead Safe Housing Program

• Energy Smart Program

• Housing Rehab Program

• replaces stand-alone programs • comprehensive and seamless process • creates safer and more stable homes

• improves the health of children and families• produces higher-quality green jobs

• Combines housing interventions

• Weatherization• Energy Efficiency• Health• Safety

LEAD HAZARD CONTROL GRANT

Community Outreach: • Over 200 activities were carried out

• Idea House Open Houses• South Town Expo Fair• Elementary School Assemblies• Head Start Clinic• Ethnic Affairs Presentation

• 18,000 people were provided information about the hazards of lead.

LEAD HAZARD CONTROL GRANT

• Combo projects:

• CDBG and HOME programs funded rehabilitation of single family homes and rental units that have Lead Hazard Control (LHC) eligible units.

• These units have received funding to cover the cost of lead hazard control.

• The Salt Lake County Lead Safe Housing Program is working closely with the Salt Lake City housing rehabilitation program for single family homes and rental housing projects.

LEAD HAZARD CONTROL GRANT

• 2010-11

• 139 units have been completed and cleared and made lead safe.

• This includes both single family and multi-family units.

LEAD HAZARD CONTROL GRANT

• Lead Safe Housing Projects• risk assessments• work write-ups• construction costs for lead safe housing projects located

anywhere in Salt Lake County.

• To date over 900 units have been made lead safe.

LEAD HAZARD CONTROL GRANT

LEAD HAZARD CONTROL GRANT

EECBG GRANT

• New Grant with Stimulus Funds • Implement Renewable Energy• Energy Efficiency Projects. 

• Initiatives were identified• Spur Job Growth, • Build New Projects • Create New Energy Efficiency Infrastructure 

SALT LAKE COUNTY’S ENERGY PROJECTS

• Installation of photo voltaic solar panels on County facilities

• Salt Lake County’s most capital intensive project• maximizing investment with the new “power purchase

agreement” (PPA). 

SALT LAKE COUNTY’S ENERGY PROJECTS

• Retrofitting streetlights

• Energy efficient light emitting diode (LED) lighting.  • Upgrades and retrofits of Street lights with 70 to 250 watt

LED fixtures • Dark Sky Compliant

Old Street Light Head

SALT LAKE COUNTY’S ENERGY PROJECTS

• Purchased materials needed for 1,751 streetlights to begin the project.

New Cobra Light Head

Acorn Light

Decorative Acorn Light

Town & Country Light

SALT LAKE COUNTY’S ENERGY PROJECTS

• Salt Lake County Planning upgraded their codes and enforcement to allow for use of

• Wind • Solar• Hydro • Energy Efficiency• This project was completed June of this year (2011).

“ENERGY SMART” PROGRAM

• A portion of the EECBG funds were used to:

• educate Salt Lake County residents on the benefits of energy efficiency

• Provide opportunities to integrate energy efficiency into their lives and homes

“ENERGY SMART” PROGRAM

• Program Includes:

• Marketing • Outreach • Education • Grants & Low Interest Loans

“ENERGY SMART” PROGRAM

• Grants & Low Interest Loans

• Opportunity to finance significant energy home improvements

• helping many households who otherwise may be unable to make these energy efficient retrofits.

SALT LAKE COUNTY’S ENERGY PROJECTS

80 energy smart projects were completed

Lighting program was completed solar panel project is underway.

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Thank You

Karen WileySalt Lake County

Community Resources & Development801-468-3663

kwiley@slco.org