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Resolution to Approve a Professional Services Agreement with Regents of the University of Michigan for the Evaluation Services of Dr. Lesli Hoey Related to Bryant Neighborhood Decarbonization Work ($80,000.00)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and consideration is a Professional Services Agreement with Regents of the University of Michigan for Dr. Lesli Hoey and her team to conduct a holistic suite of pre- and post-intervention evaluations related to the City's work to decarbonize the Bryant neighborhood in Ann Arbor.
For over three (3) years, City staff have been working with the residents of the Bryant neighborhood and Community Action Network to determine what it would look like to make Bryant one of the nation's most sustainable and resilient existing neighborhoods. Ideas emerging through these engagements have helped inform a scope of services and fundraising efforts by both the City and Community Action Network. Now that significant funding has been secured to make neighborhood and household improvements, the City would like to hire a professional evaluator to help set up mechanisms to evaluate the impact and efficacy of this work.
Dr. Lesli Hoey was on the project team that developed and submitted a winning grant application to the Michigan Public Service Commission ("MPSC") to support work in the Bryant neighborhood. This grant included $50,000.00 of funding to support Dr. Hoey in conducting evaluation services related to making decarbonization improvements in up to 50 homes. However, given the success of other recent fundraising efforts, the Office of Sustainability and Innovations would like to expand the scope of evaluation services from what was included in the MPSC grant to a larger scope of work that would allow for a holistic assessment of how project-based work in the Bryant neighborhood is impacting people's lives and their lived experiences. To move from the grant-funded support of a 50-home evaluation to a program that supports eva...
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