216A.101 - EMERGENCY WEATHERIZATION FUND. - Iowa Statutes

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