Cascadia Consulting Group Inc 8/1/2019

PROPOSAL TO THE CITY OF EVERETT 44 CLIMATE ACTION PLAN CONSULTANT 2. TECHNICAL CAPABILITY, APPROACH, AND CAPACITY A. What is your approach to this project? List the primary features or work tasks. Describe your execution, management, and control of the project The City of Everett's decision to develop a Climate Action Plan (CAP) is timely and essential. Everett's approach— drawing from existing City plans and policies and climate science produced by leading regional and national organizations—represents an efficient and effective way to take on this critical work. We are eager to bring our unique skillset and extensive local experience to this project, supporting the City as it formalizes its climate action strategies. Cascadia's approach to this important effort centers on ensuring that the project integrates and aligns internal and external reference sources—resulting in a CAP that is cogent, ambitious, actionable, and equitable.Additionally,we will bring in our external expertise and regional context—gained from dozens of climate action planning projects for local and regional clients throughout the Northwest and beyond—to ensure that the plan incorporates best practices that make it as useful and engaging as possible. A summary of our approach to this project is laid out in the four tasks below. Task 1 –Kick-off and scoping We will convene an initial kick-off meeting to help us understand the data already available, review the supporting City plans, and make key decisions regarding project methodologies,scopes,and boundaries.We anticipate using the kick-off meeting to begin identification and sharing of relevant data and sources available to the City and build a shared understanding of the project's goals, key outcomes, and methodologies for meeting those outcomes. Based on this meeting,we will produce a final project work plan and schedule. We will share this final plan with the Planning Commission and use it as a guide for scheduling the workshop and public hearing. Once the project is underway, Cascadia will continue to coordinate with the client team through brief monthly status update calls with the client. Our project manager will also be available as needed for additional check-in calls to discuss specific project elements,address any issues that arise, and provide strategic input to the client team. Deliverables ► Finalized project work plan and schedule ► Monthly invoices and status update calls throughout the project Task 2–Draft CAP At the kick-off meeting in Task 1, we will work with the client to envision the format,objectives, and audience for the final deliverables.We will establish expectations at the start of the project and will review and discuss these expectations and adjust as appropriate before preparing the draft and final Plan documents. Cascadia will produce a draft CAP document that generally hews to the outline provided in the RFP and reflects the project goals and parameters established in the kick-off meeting.We anticipate the CAP will include the following key components: ► Introduction:This will define the CAP and set the stage by describing the history of sustainability in the city and region.The introduction will conclude with an outline of the CAP,which includes mitigation,adaptation and economics. sr ASCADIA 6 -... CO..'INC C.,0.