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During this discussion last year, City Staff recommended forgoing the equity component for the <br />"Pilot" year as this is an entirely new program to implement with limited City Staff resources. <br />Staff tracked over 200 hours of time spent towards this program, much of which is customer <br />service with interested property owners to help them understand the program and receive the <br />necessary information to determine if the project qualifies and coordination with the given <br />contractor seeking the grant funds. The time also involved the review of the submitted televising <br />of all applicants (both denied and approved), the official review of the permitting process once <br />the work was approved for the grant, following up with residents who were approved for the <br />grant funds but were slow to act on getting a contractor on board to perform the work, <br />implementation of the invoicing for both the grant portion and resident owed portion once the <br />work was completed, site inspections which occasionally involved multiple site visits per project, <br />and the tracking, compiling and submittal of the invoices and supporting documents to the <br />Metropolitan Council for each address for reimbursement. Adding an equity component will <br />increase the amount of staff time needed for this program. If Council chooses an equity <br />component, Staff recommends choosing an option that is simple as the more complex the equity <br />component is, the more time it will consume. <br />During last year's program, 5 out of the 21 communities implemented an equity component. <br />Those communities were Minneapolis, St. Paul, Roseville, Edina and St. Anthony Village. <br />Attachment A shows the equity component criteria related to each of those communities. <br />Budget Impact <br />This program is funded through Metropolitan Council, so there is no direct budget impact. <br />Attachments <br />Attachment A — Equity component examples <br />Page 2 of 2 <br />