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Attachment A
State of California Natural Resources Agency
Ocean Protection Council
Grantee Name: Contra Costa County
Project Title: Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline Plan
Agreement Number: C0227101
Term of Agreement: Upon Approval through April 30, 2027 Project Summary:
Sea level rise is projected to accelerate over the next century. Without preparation and planning, increased sea levels will result in increased temporary and permanent inundation of the Contra Costa shoreline with no regard for jurisdictional boundaries. To address this cross-jurisdictional hazard, Contra Costa County will develop the Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline Plan (Plan) for the county’s entire shoreline inclusive of incorporated city and unincorporated county jurisdictional boundaries.
The Plan will be built upon an extensive community participatory engagement and visioning campaign and shaped by robust input from local agencies and stakeholders through the Resilient Shoreline Coalition. The Plan will include adaptation pathways and implementation actions at a more granular level than what has been developed previously through larger regional efforts, exploring natural and constructed infrastructure improvements. Other key components of the project include a strategic update to the county’s existing vulnerability assessments to align with the 2024 State of California Sea Level Rise (SLR) Guidance and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s (BCDC) forthcoming Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (RSAP) Guidelines, recommendations for potential land use planning changes, identification of partnership needs for implementation, alignment with local and regional plans, financing strategies, and metrics. The Plan will embody a community-driven vision centered on the values and priorities of environmental justice communities for the future of Contra Costa’s shoreline and chart an equitable path forward towards priority shoreline adaptation projects.
Objective:
The development of the Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline Plan will build capacity and provide a strong foundation for Contra Costa County’s efforts to proactively prepare for C0227101
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and respond to the impacts of sea level rise. This will be accomplished by updating existing vulnerability assessments with best available science, engaging the community throughout the plan development process to build buy-in which will support Plan implementation, and strengthening relationships among responsible agencies working together to develop the Plan for the whole Contra Costa shoreline. This will result in a Plan anchored in contributions from shoreline agencies, tribal representatives, and our environmental justice communities that will be shovel-ready for Plan implementation.
This is consistent with OPC Strategic Plan Objective 1.1 to build resiliency to sea-level rise, coastal storms, erosion, and flooding; Objective 2.1 to enhance engagement with tribes; and Objective 2.2 to enhance engagement with underserved communities.
Project Tasks and Deliverables:
Task 1: Develop Project Roadmap and Conduct Inventory
Subtask
1A:
Identify and onboard community engagement partner subconsultant(s) to help develop the Community Education and Engagement Plan, guide the development of and facilitate community workshops, provide outreach support, and inform the overall participatory community engagement process. The County, with input from Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline Coalition (RSC) members, will develop the scope of work, request for proposal/qualifications (RFP/RFQ), and selection process for community engagement partner subconsultant(s) to support the project team. The County will put out the RFP/RFQ, select the community engagement partner subcontractor(s), and contract with the community engagement partner subcontractor(s).
Deliverable: Community Engagement Partner Subconsultant(s) Request for Proposal/Qualifications
Contracted Community Engagement Partner Subconsultant(s) Subtask
1B:
Identify and onboard technical subconsultant(s) to perform strategic update to vulnerability assessments, participate in community workshops, and develop adaptation pathway options. The County, with input from RSC members, will develop the scope of work, RFP/RFQ, and selection process for technical subconsultant(s) to support the project team. The County will put out the RFP/RFQ, select the technical subcontractor(s), and contract with the technical subcontractor(s).
Deliverable: Technical Subconsultant(s) Request for Proposal/Qualifications Contracted Technical Subconsultant(s)
Subtask
1C:
Develop project roadmap and establish project team. The County will host a kickoff meeting with community engagement partner subcontractor(s) and local government subcontractors to co-develop a project roadmap that will guide the Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline C0227101
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Plan (Plan) project development process. Local government subcontractors are intended to be cities along the County’s shoreline with vulnerability to sea level rise impacts and may include the Cities of Antioch, Hercules, Martinez, Oakley, Pinole, Pittsburg, and San Pablo.
Deliverable: Project Roadmap
Subtask
1D:
Perform strategic update of existing vulnerability assessments and ensure alignment with OPC and BCDC sea level rise guidelines. The technical subcontractor(s) will conduct a thorough review of existing plans and vulnerability assessments to determine additional areas of focus or information gaps to include in a strategic update to the existing vulnerability assessments. The technical subcontractor(s) will perform a strategic update to merge existing vulnerability assessments and ensure the updated vulnerability assessment aligns with the Community Visioning and Vulnerability Assessment criteria identified in OPC’s Phase 1 SLR Adaptation Criteria and BCDC’s SLR Guidance.
Deliverable: Updated Vulnerability Assessment reviewed by BCDC Task 2: Develop Community Shoreline Vision
Subtask
2A:
Develop shoreline agency inventory. County GIS staff will develop an inventory of land use agencies and property owners who own flood- vulnerable parcels.
Deliverable Stakeholder Inventory
Subtask
2B:
Consult and connect with local tribes along the shoreline. The County will share the Plan development process and consult with tribes about how they would like to be engaged in the Plan development process based on capacity and interest.
Deliverable List of tribal contacts
Subtask
2C:
Convene RSC to assess stakeholder capacity. The County will invite land use agencies, property owners, and interested stakeholders identified by community engagement partner subcontractor(s) and local government subcontractors to an RSC meeting. Together, participants at the RSC meeting will create an inventory assessing each stakeholder’s level of readiness and current capacity to collaborate on and engage in sea level rise efforts. The County, in consultation with the RSC, will use the capacity inventory to define stakeholder roles and responsibilities. The RSC will develop processes and criteria to ensure local perspectives and lived experiences are centered and that community members, especially those representing environmental justice (EJ) and tribal communities, are empowered to guide the scope of the Plan development.
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Deliverable: Capacity Inventory
Stakeholder Roles and Responsibilities Document
Signed Agreement between the County and local government subcontractors
Subtask
2D:
Develop the Community Education and Engagement Plan. The County will work primarily with community engagement partner
subcontractor(s) and in consultation with the RSC on the Community Education and Engagement Plan. The plan will be built upon work community organizations are already doing in parts of Contra Costa County to ensure more stakeholders are informed, activated, and engaged. The County, in consultation with the RSC and project team, will identify the scale at which the community education, visioning, and resulting adaptation pathway workshops should occur, whether this be at the operational landscape unit (OLU) scale or a larger or smaller length of the shoreline. The Community Education and Engagement Plan development process will also identify additional engagement methods such as participation in existing community group meetings and asynchronous engagement activities such as surveys or self- guided exercises. This Community Education and Engagement Plan will be the comprehensive baseline plan for engagement and further tailored to identify specific existing community groups and appropriate engagement strategies to use when conducting workshops.
Deliverable Community Education and Engagement Plan
Subtask
2E:
Determine metrics of success and community champions. The RSC will identify Key Performance Indicators that will be tracked and reported on to measure success. The RSC will invite community champions, with emphasis from those representing EJ and/or tribal communities, to participate in education and engagement workshops.
Services such as translation and childcare will be provided to ensure stakeholders are supported through the duration of the education and engagement workshop series.
Deliverable: Key Performance Indicators
List of community champions
Subtask 2F: Develop community education and engagement workshops. The County will consult with the RSC, community engagement partner subcontractor(s), local government subcontractor(s), and technical subcontractor(s) to develop a series of introductory, level-setting educational workshops that will increase community leaders’ understanding of sea level rise and general approaches to adaptation and resilience. The community engagement partner subcontractor(s) and technical subcontractor(s) will co-design the materials for the C0227101
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workshop. The community engagement partner subcontractor(s) will create a capacity building toolbox of outreach and engagement elements that will increase community members’ understanding of sea level rise and familiarity with approaches to adaptation and resilience.
Deliverable: Workshop Curriculum (e.g. Outreach materials, meeting slides and other meeting materials)
Capacity-building toolbox
Subtask
2G:
Conduct education and engagement workshops to establish community vision for the shoreline. The County and its community engagement partner subcontractor(s) and technical subcontractor(s) will engage communities to explore potential ways the community could adapt to sea level rise through education and engagement workshops. Workshop activities could include surveys, interactive exercises, field trips, and other appropriate activities. Through participatory engagement and consensus-building exercises, workshop participants will establish a community vision for the shoreline.
Workshop participants will establish what goals, priorities, criteria, and values will be needed to achieve the shoreline vision. This goal-setting exercise will inform the adaptation pathway prioritization and selection process. Community members who participate in the workshops and provide input on the local shoreline vision, captured in workshop summary documents, will be eligible to receive a stipend for their contribution. Community engagement partner subcontractor(s) and local government subcontractors will be invited to outreach to their communities and participate in these workshops. Special consideration will be given to ensure that EJ communities’ perspectives are centered and woven into all workshop work products. Community engagement partner subcontractor(s) will be responsible for distributing stipends to community workshop participants. The technical subcontractor(s) will create community profiles that will include key takeaways from the community education and engagement workshops including goals, priorities, and values and document the community’s vision for the shoreline.
Deliverable: Vision Workshop participant sign-in sheets Vision Workshop Series Summary
o Document responses capturing stakeholder feedback on
local shoreline vision;
o Document how responses are incorporated or considered for incorporation into the draft local shoreline vision Community vision for a resilient shoreline informed by local shoreline vision workshops.
Community profiles
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Task 3: Write the Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline Plan Subtask
3A:
Co-create community-preferred adaptation pathways through adaptation pathways workshop series. The County and the community engagement partner subcontractor(s), technical subcontractor(s), and local government subcontractors will involve all stakeholders through a subsequent series of workshops on adaptation pathways and triggers.
These workshops will provide all stakeholders space to review, provide input on, prioritize, and rank preferred potential adaptation pathways based upon criteria identified in the community education and engagement workshop series. Community members who participate in reviewing draft adaptation pathways and provide feedback on adaptation options will be eligible to receive a stipend for their contribution. Adaptation pathway workshops will be informed by technical subcontractor(s) who will design short- and long-term adaptation pathway options for stakeholders to assess based on feasibility, desirability, and the community’s established vision for the shoreline. The community engagement partner subcontractor(s) will be responsible for distributing stipends to community workshop participants to compensate them for their engagement in the workshop series.
Deliverable: Adaptation Pathways Workshop participant sign-in sheets Adaptation Pathways Workshop Summary
o Document responses capturing stakeholder feedback on
local adaptation pathways;
o Document how responses are incorporated or considered for incorporation into the draft pathways and Plan
Summary of community-selected adaptation pathways
Subtask
3B:
Write the draft Plan. The County and the technical subcontractor(s) will use the priorities, criteria, community vision for the shoreline, adaptation pathways, and updated vulnerability assessments to write the draft Plan. The Plan will include the community’s preferred adaptation pathways and triggers based on feedback collected during the adaptation pathways workshop series, implementation strategies/actions, and funding mechanisms to sustain planning, partnership, and Plan implementation.
Deliverable Draft Plan reviewed by BCDC
Subtask
3C:
Share the draft Plan with stakeholders and identify priority projects.
The County will share the draft plan with BCDC to confirm that the draft Plan is consistent with OPC and BCDC’s guidelines. The County and RSC, in consultation with the technical subconsultant(s), will work with C0227101
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appropriate state and regional agencies to ensure the identified adaptation pathways and triggers are compatible with guidelines and eligible for state, regional, and federal funding to further implementation. The County will present the draft Plan to stakeholders engaged during the Plan development process through a presentation series. The presentation series will be used to confirm the community’s vision for the shoreline is accurately integrated into the Plan and that agencies are made aware of their potential role in implementing or complementing the Plan. The County, in consultation with the technical subconsultant(s) and RSC, will use the feedback to refine the set of community-selected adaptation pathways and prioritize projects based on feasibility. Factors that could affect feasibility could include community support, financial opportunity, adaptation/resilience effect, and/or land ownership. The RSC will begin to explore roles, responsibilities, and potential governance structures among existing agencies that will be needed to implement the priority projects. The County will work with the RSC to develop a framework for monitoring the implementation of the Plan. The County will facilitate conversations with the RSC to explore and define the relationship between the Plan and other local, regional, and sector-specific plans.
Deliverable: Summary of feedback from stakeholder presentations Plan governance and implementation framework
Subtask
3D:
Hold a Plan Review Community Workshop. The County will work with all project subcontractors to convene a workshop to engage, ground truth, and report back to community leaders and stakeholders about the outcomes of the presentation series. The County and the project subcontractors will collect responses to the presentation series feedback to further refine the adaptation pathways and triggers and identify community priorities for next steps. Community members who participate in the workshops and provide feedback on the draft Plan will be eligible to receive a stipend. The community engagement partner subcontractor(s) will be responsible for distributing stipends to community workshop participants.
Deliverable: Plan Review Workshop Summary
o Document responses capturing stakeholder feedback on
draft Plan;
o Document how responses are incorporated or considered for incorporation into the draft Plan
Subtask
3E:
Prepare the final Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline Plan. The County will take the feedback received during the presentations and workshops to finalize the Plan with the assistance of the project subcontractor team, community stakeholders, and RSC. The final Plan C0227101
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will include a refined list of community-supported prioritized projects with funding strategies and governance structures. The County will take the revised Plan to the Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline Committee to recommend for adoption by the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors.
Deliverable: Final Plan
Task 4: Grant Management, Reporting, Evaluation, and Coordination Subtask
4A:
Prepare and deliver quarterly progress reports and invoices to OPC.
Deliverable: Progress Reports
Invoices
Subtask
4B:
Coordinate with BCDC. The County will meet and coordinate with BCDC as needed, including inviting BCDC staff to workshops and RSC meetings, sharing progress reports, and requesting BCDC staff to review draft documents including the draft Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline Plan.
Deliverable: Coordination Meetings with BCDC; Meeting date and participant list will be documented in quarterly progress reports
Accessibility:
All public-facing products will be produced in accordance with California Department of Rehabilitation guidelines pursuant to https://dor.ca.gov/Home/WebAccessibilityToolkit.
County staff involved in grant execution and project development will oversee overall accessibility requirements and ensure all partners and subcontractors are aware of accessibility requirements. In the Request for Proposal solicitation, County staff will include language calling out the accessibility requirement and require respondents to include detail about their experience and capability to assist with producing reports and other public-facing deliverables in accordance with the California Department of Rehabilitation guidelines.
Project Timeline:
2025
Task Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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3 4
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2026
Task Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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3 4
2027
Task Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1 2
3 4
Project Budget:
Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 Total
Personnel $8,100 $100,125 $189,000 $40,000 $337,225
Travel
Subaward(s) $90,350 $366,750 $687,460 $1,144,560
Materials $17,500 $17,500
Overhead (0%)
Task Total $98,450 $484,375 $876,460 $40,000 $1,499,285 Agreement Total: $1,499,285
Of the $345,260 allocated to the community engagement subconsultant, $119,500 is designated for community stipends at $100 per person per workshop. It is expected there will be 7 community visioning workshop series made up of 3 workshops each with approximately 20 paid community participants, 7 adaptation pathway workshops total with approximately 30 paid community participants, 7 Plan review workshops total with approximately 30 paid community participants, and stipends available for active community participants to attend Board of Supervisors/City Council meeting presentations about the Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline Plan.
Personnel Breakdown:
Title Maximum Hourly Rate
Principal Planner – B $428.82 (Including Fringe, 27.86%) Principal Planner – A $429.70 (Including Fringe, 27.86%) C0227101
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Planner III $353.66 (Including Fringe, 28.44%)
Planner II $282.74 (Including Fringe, 30.06%)
Planner I $246.02 (Including Fringe, 31.08%)
*Please note if fringe is included in hourly rate and at what %.
Agreement Contacts:
Grantee: Contra Costa County
Contact Name: Ryan Hernandez
Contact Number: (925) 655-2919
Contact Address: 30 Muir Road
Contact Email:
Martinez, CA 94553
[email protected]
California Natural
Resources
Ocean Protection Council
Contact Name: Megan Williams
Contact Number: (916) 653-5656
Contact Address: 715 P Street, 20th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
Contact Email: [email protected]