MEMORANDUM
DATE: JUNE 4, 2024
TO: SHASA CURL, CITY MANAGER
FROM: BEATRIZ GUERRERO AUNA, TCC PROJECT COORDINATOR
LINA VELASCO, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
TAMARA WALKER, DEPUTY COMMUNITY SERVICES
DIRECTOR EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING
RE: MEMO FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR PLACE-
BASED WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AND
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR TRANSFORMATIVE
CLIMATE COMMUNITIES (TCC) GRANT.
On March 25, 2023, the City of Richmond Community Development Department, solicited a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking a consultant to develop a Place-Based Workforce Development Strategy and Implementation Plan for the TCC grant focused on the Iron Triangle, Santa Fe, and Coronado neighborhoods. The RFP was sent to three consultants provided by the Community Services Department that have worked for the City in similar projects via email as an informal solicitation. No vendor responded to the RFP.
On April 24, 2023, the City of Richmond Community Development Department, reissued the RFP. The RFP was sent to the same three consultants via email as an informal solicitation. This time, one of the three consultants responded to the RFP (See Attachment 2). The proposal received was reviewed by staff from Community Development and Employment and Training and found to meet the requirements of the RFP, including experience doing this type of work.
The RFP was sent to the following consultants both times:
CONSULTANT CONTACT NAME EMAIL QUOTE CITY
Cheryl Maier Cheryl Maier cheryl.l.maier@gmail.
com
Not received Not received
Glen Price Group Aaron Price [email protected]
om
$50,000.00 El Cerrito
David Shinder David Shinder [email protected]
m
Not received Not received
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
The consultant, Glen Price Group (GPG), has experience
supporting workforce development planning and fund development projects in the City of Richmond and beyond. For more than 10 years, GPG has worked with the City of Richmond Employment and Training (E&T) Department to secure state and federal funding to support a range of workforce development projects and initiatives. This includes grant awards from the YouthBuild, Workforce Accelerator, Dislocated Worker, Brownfields Job Training, and other grant programs. In addition, GPG has supported the development of the Richmond Workforce Development Board (WDB) Local Plan.
About TCC Grant
On June 21, 2022, the City Council authorized an application for a Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Round 4 Implementation Grant for the Richmond Rising project. The City’s proposal included five Co-Applicants, Groundwork Richmond, GRID Alternatives, Rich City Rides, Trust for Public Land (TPL), and Urban Tilth. On October 27, 2022, Richmond’s application was awarded a $35 million Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Round 4 Implementation Grant by the California Strategic Growth Council
Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities Plan (WDEOP)
Within the TCC Implementation grant, the WDEOP leverages existing and extensive City efforts in workforce development to train residents and connect them to green industry jobs, with a specific focus on undocumented residents since they are often excluded by federal funding programs. A cornerstone of the Workforce Development Plan is GRID Alternatives’ workforce training for competitive-wage jobs in the solar installation and electrician trades. There is growing demand for these types of jobs within the Bay Area and the implementation of the Resilient Homes for Healthy Communities project will directly require people with these skills to implement the project. Youth workforce development is an overall focus of Richmond Rising, to offer mentorship, training, and supported experiences to gain skills and credentials and access high-quality green jobs, including the Youth Fellows program, developed as part of the Community Engagement Plan. Workforce development is also directly integrated into the Bosque del Barrio, Orchard for All, and Basins of Relations projects, which train youth as part of project work.
Scope of Work
This contract scope will support the development of a place-based workforce development strategy and implementation plan for the TCC target community will include desk research, informational interviews, and meetings with the existing Stakeholder Committee to understand the context, needs, and opportunities in the target community. This will result in a set of research findings and emerging recommendations, development of an overall workforce development strategy, and identification of priority activities for the first year of implementation.
Recommended Vendor
Glen Price Group. is being selected as the City’s preferred vendor based on their cost quote and experience completing the work proposed in the scope of work. No other consultants replied to the RFP.
The service contract will be for an amount not-to-exceed $50,000, and term will be from July 1, 2024 through December 31, 2025