June 25, 2024
Community Development
DATE: June 25, 2024
TO: Mayor Martinez and Members of the City Council
FROM:
Lina Velasco, Director of Community Development
Tamara Walker, Community Services, Deputy Director
Employment and Training
Beatriz Guerrero Auna, Project Coordinator of
Transformative Climate Community
Subject:
Contract with The Glen Price Group
FINANCIAL IMPACT: The costs associated with this contract will be paid for using the Transformative Climate Community (TCC)
Implementation Grant. The $50,000 budget was assigned
in Exhibit B of the Strategic Growth Council – TCC
Program Implementation Grant Agreement with the City
of Richmond for a Place-Based Strategy Consultant
under Task No. 1 of the Workforce Development and
Economic Opportunity Program.
Account string: 13771041-400201-16G22.
PREVIOUS COUNCIL
ACTION:
October 3, 2023, September 19, 2023, December 20,
2022, June 21, 2022
STATEMENT OF THE
ISSUE:
On October 27, 2022, Richmond and its co-applicants
were awarded a $35 million Transformative Climate
Communities (TCC) Round 4 Implementation Grant by
the California Strategic Growth Council (“SGC”). The
Community Development Department is requesting City
Council approval of a contract with The Glen Price
Group, for a total contract amount of $50,000, to prepare a Place-Based Workforce Development Strategy and
Implementation Plan for the City of Richmond’s
AGENDA
REPORT
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Workforce Development and Economic Opportunity Plan
(WDEOP) under the TCC implementation grant.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
APPROVE a contract with The Glen Price Group, in an
amount not to exceed $50,000, with a term beginning
July 1, 2024, and expiring on December 31, 2025, to
conduct Place-Based Workforce Development Strategy
and Implementation Plan for the City of Richmond under
the Transformative Climate Communities implementation
grant - Community Development Department/Community
Services Department (Lina Velasco/Beatriz Guerrero
Auna 510-620-5450/Tamara Walker 510-307-8006).
DISCUSSION:
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 (See Attachment 1). Richmond’s project titled Richmond Rising: Healthy, Connected, and Climate Strong focuses on projects serving the Iron Triangle, Santa Fe, and Coronado neighborhoods. The ten (10) key projects included in the Richmond Rising project are:
1. Neighborhood Complete Streets: walking and biking improvements on Harbour Way, Ohio Avenue, and some AC Transit bus stops – City CIP
Subproject Lead: City of Richmond Engineering & Capital Improvement Project
2. Richmond Wellness Trail, Phase 2: walking and biking improvements to connect Phase 1, Richmond BART and central neighborhoods, with the waterfront and ferry terminal.
Subproject Lead: Trust for Public Lands
3. E-Bike Lending Library: long- and short-term e-bikes access for free to target neighborhood residents to improve carbon-free mobility options.
Subproject Lead: Rich City Rides
4. Resilient Homes for Healthy Communities: residential solar panel installations and home energy efficiency and health and safety upgrades at no cost to income- qualifying residents.
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Subproject Lead: GRID Alternatives
5. Basins of Relations: residential greywater systems and rainwater capture systems at no cost to income-qualifying residents, installed by local youth who receive training in watershed stewardship and installation.
Subproject Lead: Urban Tilth
6. Bosque del Barrio: tree planting throughout the project area to create a healthy urban forest.
Subproject Lead: Groundwork Richmond
7. ADA Accessible Garden: edible and pollinator garden at Unity Park with specially designed planting beds so seniors and wheelchair users can comfortably participate in gardening and community activities.
Subproject Lead: Urban Tilth
8. Orchard for ALL!: creating a distributed orchard through fruit tree giveaways, with tree care and harvest support offered in exchange for a share of the harvest, which will be distributed at free farm stands and in veggie boxes.
Subproject Lead: Urban Tilth
9. Veggie RX: prescription veggie boxes in partnership with the local health clinic, to provide free fruits and vegetables as preventative care along with community health workers and programming to support change to a more sustainable diet.
Subproject Lead: Urban Tilth
10. E-Bike Share: the project will bring 5 new bike share access points, 70 new E-bikes, and targeted outreach and engagement to the Project Area. – City Transportation Division will be the subproject lead.
Subproject Lead: City of Richmond – Transportation Division
In addition, the Richmond Rising project includes three Transformative Plans outlining Community Engagement, Workforce Development, and Displacement Avoidance policies and programs.
Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities Plan (WDEOP)
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.
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Youth workforce development is an overall focus of Richmond Rising, offering mentorship, training, skills building, credentials, and access to 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.
This scope of work will support the development of a place-based workforce development strategy and implementation plan for the TCC target community, including 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, emerging recommendations, development of an overall workforce development strategy, and identification of priority activities for the first year of implementation.
Summary of Selection Consultant Process
On March 25, 2023, the City of Richmond Community Development Department, released 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, , via email as an informal solicitation, to three consultants that have worked for the City in similar projects. 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. One of the three consultants, the Glen Price Group, 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 consultant, The 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.
Therefore, staff is requesting Council approve a contract for $50,000, with the GPG, to support the creation of a Richmond Rising Place-Based Workforce Development Strategy and Implementation Plan (see Attachment 3). The contract would be funded using the TCC Implementation Grant.
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED:
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Attachment 1 – TCC Grant Award Letter Richmond
Attachment 2 – Quotes Memo
Attachment 3 – Contract