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Resolution to Approve a Professional Services Agreement with Community Action Network to Support and Advance the Bryant Neighborhood Decarbonization Project ($225,000.00)
Memorandum
The City of Ann Arbor has set the ambitious and essential goal of a just transition to community-wide carbon neutrality by the year 2030 (known as A2ZERO). Guiding this goal is the City's "Living Carbon Neutrality Plan," which includes seven strategies and forty-four actions. All of these strategies attempt to center equity, ensuring that those that have done the least to contribute to climate change but suffer the most, are centered in solutions.
Shortly after the adoption of A2ZERO, the Ann Arbor Office of Sustainability and Innovations (OSI) reached out to Community Action Network (CAN) to explore opportunities to collaborate in equitably advancing climate action. Over two years later, this conversation led to the goal of creating the nation's first carbon neutral existing neighborhood - in the Bryant community. CAN has worked side by side with OSI in advancing this goal, with the work at a critical pinnacle that now necessitates sustained commitment and action and support to help scale and transfer the work to other neighborhoods in the City. That is why OSI is recommending this scope of service and the associated five tasks to advance equitable decarbonization in collaboration with CAN
1. Sustained community engagement education
2. Identification of strategies for scaling Bryant work to other neighborhoods
3. Support initiating decarbonization efforts in other neighborhoods
4. Storytelling support
5. On demand support to continue growing the work in Bryant and beyond
The staff recommends a three-year contract with Community Action Network with two, one-year, administrative options to extend.
Budget/Fiscal Impact: Funding to support this work with Community Action Network was integrated into the Office of Sustainability and Innovations 2024 Council adopted budget.
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