Board of Commissioners of Cook County - File #: 22-3910

• File #: 22-3910
• Version: 2
• Name: JUSTICE40 INFRASTRUCTURE FUND
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Approved
• File created: 6/9/2022
• In control: Finance Committee
• On agenda: 6/16/2022
• Final action: 11/17/2022
• Title: PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION to FILE #22-3910 COOK COUNTY JUSTICE40 INFRASTRUCTURE FUND INITIATIVE WHEREAS, infrastructure systems in the United States are in a period of significant disrepair and are increasingly vulnerable due to climate change; and aging infrastructure, new technologies, increasing complexity, and increasing incidents of severe weather due to climate change pose new challenges to the resilience of those infrastructure systems; and WHEREAS, the climate resilience challenge is most severe in disadvantaged communities which are hurt "worst and first" by flooding, extreme heat, extreme cold, and other results of climate change, and these disparities are the result of governmental policies that deliberately institutionalized racial disparities in financing, funding, and delivery of services; and WHEREAS, to build an equitable climate-resilient future for Cook County, reparative climate resilient infrastructure investments are necessary to close the infrastructu...
• Sponsors: DONNA MILLER, BRIDGET DEGNEN, BRANDON JOHNSON, LARRY SUFFREDIN, FRANK J. AGUILAR, ALMA E. ANAYA, LUIS ARROYO JR, SCOTT R. BRITTON, JOHN P. DALEY, DENNIS DEER, BRIDGET GAINER, BILL LOWRY, KEVIN B. MORRISON, PETER N. SILVESTRI, DEBORAH SIMS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Motion	Result
11/17/2022	2	Board of Commissioners	approve as substituted	Pass
11/16/2022	2	Finance Committee	recommend for approval as substituted	Pass
10/20/2022	2	Board of Commissioners	defer	Pass
10/19/2022	1	Finance Committee	accept as substituted	Pass
10/19/2022	2	Finance Committee	recommend for approval as substituted	Pass
6/16/2022	1	Board of Commissioners	refer	Pass

title

PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION to FILE #22-3910

COOK COUNTY JUSTICE40 INFRASTRUCTURE FUND INITIATIVE

WHEREAS, infrastructure systems in the United States are in a period of significant disrepair and are increasingly vulnerable due to climate change; and aging infrastructure, new technologies, increasing complexity, and increasing incidents of severe weather due to climate change pose new challenges to the resilience of those infrastructure systems; and

WHEREAS, the climate resilience challenge is most severe in disadvantaged communities which are hurt "worst and first" by flooding, extreme heat, extreme cold, and other results of climate change, and these disparities are the result of governmental policies that deliberately institutionalized racial disparities in financing, funding, and delivery of services; and

WHEREAS, to build an equitable climate-resilient future for Cook County, reparative climate resilient infrastructure investments are necessary to close the infrastructure gap that has resulted from past policies, and to enable communities that have been subject to disinvestment, underinvestment, and marginalization to fully participate in and benefit from such development; and

WHEREAS, failing to make such reparative investments would perpetuate racial disparities by putting new money into old systems that were designed to maintain inequitable outcomes; and

WHEREAS, reparative climate resilient infrastructure increases the capacity of communities to respond to and recover from the impacts of climate change, and may include renewable energy, energy storage, residential and commercial building energy efficiency, green infrastructure to mitigate and manage stormwater and heat islands, EV charging infrastructure, and other built infrastructure; and

WHEREAS, experts have determined that predevelopment funding at the local and project levels is the critical gap in accelerating efforts of the Federal Government to support climate-resilient i...