15H.6 - IOWA GREEN CORPS PROGRAM.
15H.6 IOWA GREEN CORPS PROGRAM.
1. The Iowa commission on volunteer service, in collaboration
with the department of natural resources, the department of workforce
development, the office of energy independence, and the utilities
board of the department of commerce, shall establish an Iowa green
corps program. The commission shall work with the collaborating
agencies and nonprofit agencies in developing a strategy for
attracting additional financial resources for the program from other
sources which may include but are not limited to utilities, private
sector, and local, state, and federal government funding sources.
The financial resources received shall be credited to the community
programs account created pursuant to section 15H.5.
2. The program shall utilize AmeriCorps or Iowa summer youth
corps program volunteers to provide capacity building activities,
training, and implementation of major transformative projects in
communities. The project selection shall emphasize energy
efficiency, historic preservation, neighborhood development, and
storm water reduction and management.
3. The capacity building activities shall be targeted in
communities that are already working with existing community
improvement programs, including but not limited to the Iowa great
places program established under section 303.3C, the green streets
and main street Iowa programs administered by the department of
economic development, and disaster remediation activities by
communities located within an area declared to be a disaster area in
a declaration issued by the president of the United States or the
governor. Section History: Recent Form
2009 Acts, ch 161, §2, 4
Referred to in § 15H.5