California Schools Healthy Air, Plumbing, and Efficiency Ventilation Program Guidelines: Third Edition

The School Reopening Ventilation and Energy Efficiency Verification and Repair Program is one of the two grant programs under the School Energy Efficiency Stimulus Program, established by Assembly Bill 841 (Ting, Chapter 372, Statutes of 2020). The program authorizes funding to local educational agencies for assessing, maintaining, and repairing or upgrading school ventilation systems to ensure that systems meet certain classroom ventilation requirements. These guidelines provide requirements for program participation, including eligible applicants and projects, the application process, funding awards and distribution, as well as project documentation and reporting requirements. For administering the program, the program is referred to as the California Schools Healthy Air, Plumbing, and Efficiency Program. The third edition of these guidelines focuses on the initial phase of program awards, which is limited to assessment and maintenance projects for schools, and the subsequent phase of program awards for upgrade, repair, and replacement projects in schools. The program was allocated $20 million from the greenhouse gas reduction fund and is therefore a part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities.