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City to contract consultant for school‑focused urban forestry and watershed curriculum; work funded from $2 million USDA award
Summary
City staff proposed a $25,000 professional services agreement with Ellen Friedman Schultz and Associates to develop a place‑based urban forestry and watershed curriculum for Harrisburg School District students, to be paid from a $2 million USDA urban forestry grant.
The council's Parks, Recreation and Enrichment committee discussed a proposed professional services agreement Oct. 14 to create an urban forestry and watershed education curriculum for the Harrisburg School District.
Shay Zwerver, the city’s community outreach forester in the Department of Parks and Recreation, said the project would be funded from a $2,000,000 award the city received under the USDA’s urban and community forestry program (identified in the meeting as the Inflation Reduction Urban and Community…
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