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Non-Professional Services Agreement between May 1, 2022 City of San Leandro and Common Vision Exhibit A Page 1 of 3 EXHIBIT A SCOPE OF SERVICES OVERVIEW The City will partner with Common Vision 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 focus particularly on neighborhood buy-in for new trees through 1:1 conversations during community canvassing. Common Vision 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 5000-15 gallon street trees over four years and free distribution of saplings to disadvantaged and low income communities and schools as determined by census tract in CalEnviroScreen per CalFire guidelines. The team may hold Arbor Day and Earth Day tree plantings in 2022 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 for saplings to go to disadvantaged community members in undertreed 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 2022, 250 street trees by Dec 2022, 1000 trees by March 2023 and 1750 trees by May 2023; this will include watering, maintenance, community canvassing, and ongoing community stewardship training. The implementation strategy is the best path to meet program objectives that address undertreed 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. Common Vision staff will work and receive training for jobs in arboriculture, horticulture, hydrology, climate science, permaculture, agronomy, and the electrical and solar energy industry through on-the- job training and workforce development pathways to careers programs provided by the California Community Colleges Bay Area and pre-apprenticeship training through labor union partners. Common Vision will also hire California CivicCorps conservation workers. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES