| Municipality: | Municipality: | Dutchess County | Dutchess County | | - | - | Planning & Development | Planning & Development | | - | - | Division of Solid Waste Management | Division of Solid Waste Management | | - | - | Composting Grant Progress Report | Composting Grant Progress Report | | - | - | Village of Red Hook | Village of Red Hook | | - | - | 1st quarter | 1st quarter | | - | - | 1/1/2025 | 1/1/2025 | | - | - | 3/31/2025 | 3/31/2025 | 2nd quarter 4/1/2025 6/30/2025 3rd quarter 7/1/2025 9/30/2025 4th quarter 10/1/2025 12/31/2025 Section A: Outcomes (insert addional rows if necessary)
||Outcome statement||Outcome Measure| |1|Canvassed residents at a local event (Red Hook Repair Café) to engage interest and assess resident's needs around accessiblity & use.||Municipality's Climate Smart Communities Task Force tabled at the quarterly Repair Café to engage interest in the program and asked if they would take part in the scrap collections program, what would help ease their entry and what are they looking for from a local food waste drop site.| |2|Developed back-end supports on website - onboarding, and program support||Website drafted with resources on composting, creation of marketing materials educating the public about compost and also the do's and don'ts.| |3|Onboarded a new internal administrative team for the grant program, due to an unexpected personnel change in our municipality.||While the personnel change created a temporary delay, we able to attract an even better team for our grant implementation. This also created an opportunity for additional civic engagement with village constituents. We discovered our residents include local experts in sustainability and food waste management - a welcome surprise.| |4 5|Advanced our outreach to and information gathering from residents.||We set up tables at 2 local public events - Apple Blossom Day (May 10) and the Red Hook Repair Café (Apr 26). This also allowed us to spread the word organically about our upcoming service. Our village website and seasonal village newsletter also continued to attract interest and signups from residents.| ||Completed crucial procurement and installation goals, engaging our Department of Public Works||We ordered and installed the shed that will host the food waste collection bins, as well as the all-weather digital lock that will secure the shed and grant access only to registered users. The shed now occupies a prominent position in our village parking lot, and will itself generate interest in the program.| |||||
|Narrative: In the space below, provide a narrative on accomplishments or outcome achievement not covered in the above chart. This may include interim accomplishments or a narrative of major work activities implemented this quarter that will lead to outcome achievement. For the final quarter, provide an analysis of your outcomes making note of any unanticipated accomplishments or obstacles.|Narrative: In the space below, provide a narrative on accomplishments or outcome achievement not covered in the above chart. This may include interim accomplishments or a narrative of major work activities implemented this quarter that will lead to outcome achievement. For the final quarter, provide an analysis of your outcomes making note of any unanticipated accomplishments or obstacles.|Narrative: In the space below, provide a narrative on accomplishments or outcome achievement not covered in the above chart. This may include interim accomplishments or a narrative of major work activities implemented this quarter that will lead to outcome achievement. For the final quarter, provide an analysis of your outcomes making note of any unanticipated accomplishments or obstacles.|Narrative: In the space below, provide a narrative on accomplishments or outcome achievement not covered in the above chart. This may include interim accomplishments or a narrative of major work activities implemented this quarter that will lead to outcome achievement. For the final quarter, provide an analysis of your outcomes making note of any unanticipated accomplishments or obstacles.| |---|---|---|---| |1st Quarter: The Village's CSC Taskforce is working to development education materials, furthermore, CSC is discussing ways to engage the youth of the Village and finding ways to activate them into the Compost program. We are thinking of a call for art from local kids to submit local artwork. This is in the process but its working toward getting our residents aware of the program and educated about what goes into our compost.|||| |2nd Quarter: The Village built a better compost grant administration team after a setback. We continued to make progress on outreach to and data collection from constituents. We were also able to advance our time to launch by installing and securing the compost shed in the highly visible village municipal parking lot. Finally, we began the process of identifying and contracting with a food waste hauler.|||| |3rd Quarter:|||| |4th Quarter:|||| |Section B: Expenses|||| |Grant award total|$7,868.00)||| |Q1: Photocopy services|$28.10)||| |Q2: Food waste bin shed|$1,870.00)||| |Q2: All weather digital padlock for shed|$69.99)||| |Amount invoiced to-date (Sum of quarterly invoices)|$1,968.09)||| |Grant award amount remaining|$5,899.91)||| |In relation to the overall grant budget, are grant funds being expended as planned and on schedule? Explain|||| |In relation to the overall grant budget, are grant funds being expended as planned and on schedule? Explain|||| |Grant funds are being expended as planned and on schedule. We have been able to tap into local resources -- and relationships with our neighboring municipalities in the county -- to sidestep costs and advance operations faster than initially projected.|||| |||||