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Resolution to Approve a Professional Services Agreement with and Accept Funds from the Huron River Watershed Council for Appropriation to Staff in the Office of Sustainability and Innovation to Provide Services Supporting a Project on Sustaining Engagement on Equitable and Climate-Smart Stormwater Adaptation ($32,000.00) (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and consideration for approval is a resolution approving a Professional Services Agreement ("PSA") with the Huron River Watershed Council ("HRWC") for staff in the Office of Sustainability and Innovation ("Staff") to support a project entitled: "Co-producing climate knowledge and sustained engagement in the Great Lakes in support of stormwater management adaptation" (the "Project"). The $32,000 in expected proceeds from this support will come from a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the University of Michigan ("University"), who will partner with the HRWC, and will reimburse the Major Grants Program fund balance, against which Staff's costs and expenses for the Project will be charged.
As background, in 2016, the-consultant Dr. Missy Stults and the HRWC's Rebecca Esselman, with input from the University's Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessment ("GLISA") and Headwaters Economics, developed a tool to help local communities in the Great Lakes region understand their vulnerabilities to projected changes in climate; in particular, changes in temperature and precipitation and how possible changes can disproportionately impact vulnerable populations. The tool was co-developed with the Cities of Ann Arbor (MI); Dearborn (MI); Cleveland (OH); Evanston (IL); Bloomington (IN); and Indianapolis (IN).
Building off the success of this tool, in the summer of 2017, the University, in tandem with the HRWC and Dr. Stults, prepared an application to the NOAA for funding to support updating their tool to specifically support local stormwater preparedness in the ...
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