Planning Communities, LLC 1/27/2023

Page 8 of 24 SECTION 2 – S COPE OF WORK 2.1 INTENT SUMMARY The City of Everett is seeking a consultant to develop a Zero-Emission Fleet Transition Plan to meet the requirements of Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program (49 U.S.C. 5339 (b) and 49 U.S.C. 5339(c)(3)(D)) for applicants to the FY2022 Low or No Emission Grant Program (Low-No). The fleet transition plan will specifically address the requirements from the Dear Colleague Letter from the FTA dated December 1, 2021, which is attached as Appendix B for reference. The transition plan must address the entire fleet including paratransit administration and support vehicles including the vehicle maintenance areas. Funding for the fleet transition plan is from a Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) grant with Federal Transit Administration requirements. Therefore, suppliers must complete and attach Appendix A, Federal Transit Administration Clauses. 2.2 BACKGROUND Everett Transit (ET) is a municipally owned transit agency in Washington State, operating fixed route and complementary paratransit service. The fleet consists of forty-one (41) fixed-route buses with a standard fleet size of 35' and 40' coaches. A fleet of twenty-eight (28) paratransit vehicles operate in-house for complementary ADA paratransit services. ET’s fleet shop was purchased from a motor truck dealer (class 8 trucks) and converted to bus shop in 1972 and is at the end of its useful life. 2.3 TRANSITION PLAN OUTLINE The fleet transition plan must specifically address the six requirements from the Dear Colleague Letter from the FTA dated December 1, 2021, which are listed below as numbers one (1) through six (6). 1. Fleet Assessment: Demonstrate a long-term fleet management plan with a strategy for how the applicant intends to use the current request for resources and future acquisitions. 2. Funding Needs Assessment: Address the availability of current and future resources to meet costs for the transition and implementation. 3. Policy Assessment: Consider policy and legislation impacting relevant technologies. 4. Facilities Assessment: Include an evaluation of existing and future facilities and their relationship to the technology transition including cabinet chargers and inductive charging. 5. Partnership Assessment: Describe the partnership of the applicant with the utility or alternative fuel provider. 6. Workforce Analysis: Examine the impact of the transition on the applicant's current workforce by identifying skill gaps, training needs, and retraining needs of the existing workers of the applicant to operate and maintain zero-emission vehicles and related infrastructure and avoid displacement of the existing workforce. 7. Equitable Service Planning: It is essential that Everett Transit prioritizes the voices, feedback, and needs of our low-income, minority, communities of color, and non-English speaking and English as a second language communities to ensure an equitable and usable transit system is afforded to all our residents and customers. 2.4 PROPOSED TIMELINE & MILESTONES The following is the City’s required timeline and milestones for the year 2023: • February – Meet with City staff team to kick off project and gather fleet and property information.