Urban and Community Forestry Services

The Vendor is required to provide services for support of city urban forestry programs, to assist with implementation of programs within the urban forest master plan, to improve tree canopy cover in priority areas, and to educate the public about trees.
- Community education, outreach, and advocacy.
• Serve as a comprehensive information source about city trees.
• Educate and motivate city residents to plant, steward, and celebrate trees.
• Advocate for city urban forest.
- Tree planting.
• Work with the city to plant trees and grow canopy in priority sites and areas.
• Priority sites and areas will be determined by the city using data such as canopy cover percentage and/or canopy cover disparity between the sites and neighboring sites/areas.
- Tree assessment and tree care.
• Provide the city with annual heath status of recently planted city trees.
• Assist residents with basic tree care of newly planted trees.
- Urban forestry program assistance.
• Assist the city in planning and performance of routine urban forestry programs on an ongoing basis.
• Complete special projects associated with the city’s urban forest master plan (UFMP).
• Administer department’s right tree in the right place program (RTRP)
- Community education, outreach, and advocacy
• Organize and conduct annual mayor’s tree planting event.
• Coordinate annual arbor day festival or celebration.
• Comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements regarding working with minors, where applicable (including, for example, but not limited to, conducting all required background checks and health screenings).
• Maintain an online, searchable arborist list of ISA certified arborists for distribution to the community.
• Serve as a liaison to the district to increase awareness of the value of the trees on school district land, which could include educational events for students.
• Conduct donor and membership recruitment to leverage this contract and ensure a broad base of support for consultant and its activities.
• Seek participation and support from the commercial and industrial community.
• Continue to seek other financial support (e.g., grants) outside of city government to provide increased services to the community and to increase public involvement.
• Report quarterly on the governance, operations, and capacity building to engage new members and increase efficiency.
- Tree planting
• Include proposed annual tree planting numbers.
• Include details on proposed community planting events.
• Include details regarding strategies for addressing canopy coverage disparities between neighborhoods.
- Tree assessment and tree care
• Conduct an annual city-wide survey of newly planted street trees and report this information to the public works department and residents.
• Organize and train a cadre of volunteers to monitor the condition of young trees and perform simple maintenance tasks on site.
- Urban forestry program assistance
• Manage and maintain the city’s open data portal (currently tree plotter from planit geo) for data entry as a way of engaging the community as partners in stewardship and improving data currency and accuracy (UFMP program 4.g.iii.)
• Other urban forest master plan projects may be added to the contract through the amendment process in future fiscal years if warranted.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: April 18, 2025