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File Number: 22-215 climate action. Analysis CalFire Urban Forestry Grant Project The City will partner with Common Vision and their project 100K Trees for Humanity to implement three key components: organizing, planning, planting. The team may work with local community-based organizations such as Sierra Club, San Leandro 2050, Friends of San Leandro Creek, Unity in the Community, and Climate Reality Project to do outreach and volunteer recruitment. The outreach work will particularly focus on getting neighborhood buy-in on trees through 1:1 conversation during community canvassing. 100K Tree staff may also work with youth volunteers from the San Leandro High School Interact Club and Key Club, and their adult community counterparts at Rotary and Kiwanis Club for the tree plantings and canvassing. The project will include the planting of 5,000 15-gallon street trees over two years and another 10,000 one-year old saplings will be distributed freely in disadvantaged and low-income communities and schools. The team may hold Arbor Day and Earth Day tree plantings in 2023 as well as a September community organization rally in preparation for winter rainy season plantings in October and November 2022. At each of these community events, there will be a tree distribution plan for 5,000 trees to go to disadvantaged community members in under treed neighborhoods. The program team will develop a seasonal planting schedule for 2022 and 2023. The project will also include the following goals of a cumulative total of trees planted: 50 by summer '22, 250 street trees by Dec '22, 1000 trees by March '23 and 1750 trees by May '23; this will include watering, maintenance, community canvassing, and ongoing community stewardship training. The implementation strategy is the best path to meet program objectives to address under treed tree canopy, poor environmental air quality, and public health equity in vulnerable communities. The project meets CALFIRE’s grant guidelines to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, authentically engage the local community, and to provide multiple environmental, social, and economic benefits to the community as identified from extensive community engagement meetings from the 2019-2021 climate action planning (CAP) process and with environmental partners. The CAP identifies the need for greater tree canopy to meet its carbon sequestration goal and to meet public health co-benefits of increased shade, reduced urban temperatures, and better air quality. This project will provide jobs for local residents through a workforce development program that will hire community members and youth primarily from frontline communities. 100K Tree staff will work and receive training for jobs in arboriculture, horticulture, hydrology, climate science, permaculture, agronomy, and the electrical and solar energy industries through on-the-job training and workforce development pathways to careers programs provided by the California Community Colleges Bay Area pre-apprenticeship training through labor union partners. 100K Trees for Humanity will also hire California CivicCorps conservation workers. Citywide Trees Master Plan Based on discussions between City staff and the consultant PlanIT Geo, the parties concur on the following scope of services for the proposed agreement. 1.Tree Inventory and Urban Heat Assessment To identify the priority planting areas, PlanIT Geo and team will conduct an inventory of 20,000+ existing trees and open planting areas within San Leandro, and assess the health of existing trees. This will be paired with an urban heat island assessment and social vulnerability data to Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 4/27/2022