216A.101 - EMERGENCY WEATHERIZATION FUND.
216A.101 EMERGENCY WEATHERIZATION FUND.
1. The division of community action agencies of the department of
human rights shall identify all participants in the low-income home
energy assistance program for the 1987- 1988 winter heating season
whose household income was less than seventy-five percent of the
poverty level.
2. The division shall conduct within each community action agency
an inventory of the residences of these individuals to determine the
number of residences eligible for weatherization under the two
programs currently administered by the division but which will not be
weatherized in the next twelve months due to the current priorities
imposed by the federal programs.
3. One and one-half percent of the total amount of funds
appropriated by 1988 Iowa Acts, chapter 1280, to the division of
community action agencies for the fiscal year beginning October 1,
1988, for the low-income home energy assistance block grants, shall
be expended by the division for the operation of the program under
this section. The one and one-half percent shall be taken from those
funds to be used for low-income residential weatherization or other
related home repairs for low-income households; however, no less than
ten percent of the total amount of funds appropriated for the
low-income home energy assistance block grants shall be expended by
the division for other low-income residential weatherization or
related home repairs for low-income households.
4. The division shall allocate the available funds among the
nineteen community action agencies and shall establish weatherization
goals for each agency based upon the inventory in subsection 2 of
this section. The division shall give priority to weatherizing these
residences.
5. The division shall submit a report to the general assembly on
February 1, 1989. The report shall include the number of residences
identified as eligible for weatherization in this project, the number
of residences weatherized from July 1, 1988, to December 31, 1988,
the average cost per dwelling weatherized, and the range of costs for
individual weatherizations. In addition, the report shall include
the department's recommendation for a program to complete the
weatherization of the remaining residences in this category. The
report shall also include an inventory of the number of residences
not weatherized for the 1987-1988 participants whose household
incomes fall between seventy-five percent and one hundred percent of
the poverty level. Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1175, §5
C89, § 601K.101
C93, § 216A.101