RFP/Q Resiliency Plan

Location:	California
Posted:	Dec 31, 2025
Due:	Feb 6, 2026
Agency:	City of Shasta Lake
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	B - Special Studies and Analyses - Not R&D
Solicitation No:	N/A
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Bid Number:	N/A
Bid Title:	RFP/Q Resiliency Plan
Category:	Request for Proposals, RFP, RFQ
Status:	Open

Description:

The City seeks a qualified consultant to lead the development of the Resiliency Plan. The selected firm will conduct thorough community engagement, compile and analyze data on existing facilities and deficiencies, facilitate long-range visioning, and ensure environmental and CEQA compliance. This comprehensive plan will serve as a strategic roadmap to guide future public investments in mitigating hazards and enhancing public safety.

Publication Date/Time:

12/31/2025 11:00 AM

Closing Date/Time:

2/6/2026 4:00 PM

Contact Person:

Peter Bird, AICP
Senior Planner
City of Shasta Lake
(530) 275-7416
pbird@cityofshastalake.gov

Download Available:

Yes

Fee:

None

Business Hours:

7am to 4pm M-F

Qualifications:

To be considered qualified, the Consultant must demonstrate experience in successfully completing a resiliency plan (or similar) and compliance with the requirements of CDBG planning grant funding. The Consultant services contract is expected to be awarded in March 2026, with all work completed by May 2028. The schedule for completing the work described in this RFQ&P will be negotiated with the successful Consultant; however, the final schedule must comply with the requirements of the planning grant agreement. Any Consultant responding to the RFQ&P must be willing to commit the necessary resources to the project within the agreed-upon schedule.

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CITY OF SHASTA LAKE

DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT

REQUEST FOR

QUALIFICATIONS &

PROPOSALS

Resiliency Plan

Response Due: Friday, February 6, 2026, 4:00 P.M.

City of Shasta Lake

4477 Main Street

Shasta Lake, CA 96019

530.275.7416

pbird@cityofshastalake.gov

CITY OF SHASTA LAKE

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

RESILIENCY PLAN

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1. INTRODUCTION

The City of Shasta Lake (City), located in Northern California along the Interstate 5 corridor just

north of the City of Redding in Shasta County, is characterized by extensive wildland-urban

interface areas, very high fire hazard severity zones, steep slopes, and several older subdivisions

with single-access roads and limited or aging water systems, all of which significantly elevate life-

safety risk. Approximately seventy-four percent of the City’s residents are classified as low- to

moderate-income.

Recognizing these vulnerabilities, the City intends to hire a qualified consultant to prepare a

Resiliency Plan with assistance from City staff that identifies and prioritizes “shovel-ready”

projects that can be advanced for state and federal funding opportunities, including programs

administered by the California Department of Housing and Community Development, Cal OES,

FEMA, CAL FIRE, and the Governors Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation. The City has

secured funding through the State of California’s Community Development Block Grant Mitigation

Planning and Public Services program (CDBG-MIT-PPS). In accordance with the grant program,

all work shall remain at a conceptual, non-engineering level and must support long-term mitigation

outcomes.

The City seeks a qualified consultant to lead the development of the Resiliency Plan. The selected

firm will conduct thorough community engagement, compile and analyze data on existing facilities

and deficiencies, facilitate long-range visioning, and ensure environmental and CEQA

compliance. This comprehensive plan will serve as a strategic roadmap to guide future public

investments in mitigating hazards and enhancing public safety.

Strategies outlined in the Resiliency Plan will be utilized to apply for funding as opportunities

become available. Examples of potential projects to be evaluated within the Resiliency Plan

include evacuation routes, drainage improvements, road network deficiencies, and water

infrastructure improvements.

The project must be completed within 26 months from the execution of the consultant selection.

To be considered qualified, the Consultant must demonstrate experience in successfully

completing a resiliency plan (or similar) and compliance with the requirements of CDBG planning

grant funding. The Consultant services contract is expected to be awarded in March 2026, with

all work completed by May 2028. The schedule for completing the work described in this RFQ&P

will be negotiated with the successful Consultant; however, the final schedule must comply with

the requirements of the planning grant agreement. Any Consultant responding to the RFQ&P

must be willing to commit the necessary resources to the project within the agreed-upon schedule.

2. BACKGROUND

The City of Shasta Lake's Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) was developed in accordance

with the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 and 44 CFR Part 201.6, which mandates that local

governments prepare an up-to-date, FEMA-approved hazard mitigation plan every five years to

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qualify for federal mitigation funding. The City worked closely with the California Office of

Emergency Services and FEMA Region IX during 2020 and 2021 to develop the LHMP through

a process that included extensive public involvement, such as surveys, workshops, and online

engagement via the RAMP platform at mitigatehazards.com. The City Council adopted the 2021

LHMP on October 19, 2021. FEMA Region IX approved the LHMP on October 27, 2021, verifying

that the plan meets all federal standards. The approved LHMP now functions as the City’s

strategic framework for identifying natural hazards, analyzing vulnerabilities, and prioritizing

mitigation efforts to lessen future disaster impacts.

The City of Shasta Lake 2040 General Plan represents a comprehensive update of the City’s

1999 General Plan. Led by the City’s Development Services Department with consultant support,

the process involved extensive community participation through workshops, surveys, and

meetings of the General Plan Advisory Committee. The plan integrates long-range policy direction

on land use, housing, transportation, conservation, open space, safety, and community health. A

Program Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was prepared pursuant to the California

Environmental Quality Act to evaluate potential environmental impacts associated with the plan’s

implementation. The City Council adopted the Shasta Lake 2040 General Plan on November 1,

2022, simultaneously certifying the Final Program EIR and adopting findings of fact and a

statement of overriding considerations. The plan became effective on December 15, 2022.

Together, these actions align the City’s long-range planning and hazard mitigation frameworks.

The 2021 LHMP establishes the technical foundation for risk reduction and project eligibility under

FEMA and Cal OES funding programs, while the 2040 General Plan provides the overarching

policy structure for sustainable development, climate resilience, and infrastructure investment

within the City.

Building on that foundation, the City seeks a Resiliency Plan to proactively safeguard its residents,

infrastructure, and natural resources from the potential impacts of wildfire, flooding, drought, and

extreme weather events. The City’s topography, location within the wildland-urban interface, and

legacy subdivision patterns have created heightened vulnerabilities, narrow roads, limited water

storage for fire suppression, and inadequate drainage systems that are aging, undersized, and

increasingly stressed by severe storms.

By preparing this Resiliency Plan, the City aims to identify, prioritize, and provide conceptual

design options for mitigation projects that will strengthen evacuation routes, modernize water and

drainage infrastructure, and enhance community safety. Importantly, with approximately 74

percent of residents classified as low-to-moderate income, the Resiliency Plan will ensure that

investments in resilience are equitable, transparent, and aligned with the community’s long-term

sustainability goals. The resulting Resiliency Plan will position the City to pursue state and federal

funding opportunities and to implement tangible, high-impact projects that reduce risk and build a

safer, more climate-adapted future.

3. PROJECT GOALS

The purpose of this project is to further the goals, policies, and implementation measures of the

2040 General Plan and LHMP by identifying and analyzing the potential impacts of the most

severe environmental hazards facing the City, and identifying meaningful solutions to mitigate the

effects of those hazards. The Resiliency Plan will identify, evaluate, and prioritize infrastructure

projects that reduce risk from wildfire, flooding, extreme weather, drought, and long-term climate

impacts, and will serve as a strategic, grant-ready document enabling the City to apply for and

implement state and federal funding opportunities.

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GOALS

The Resiliency Plan shall:

i. Translate 2021 LHMP-identified hazards into site- and corridor-specific projects.

ii. Identify vulnerabilities by hazard.

iii. Provide preliminary concepts, cost estimates, environmental considerations,

feasibility, and a prioritization framework.

iv. Develop a prioritization framework to rank projects by risk reduction, feasibility, and

equity benefits.

v. Prepare a funding strategy and project portfolio suitable for submission to FEMA, Cal

OES, CAL FIRE, HCD, and other agencies.

vi. Incorporate public participation and interdepartmental coordination, particularly to

reach low- and moderate-income (LMI) residents, who comprise approximately 74

percent of the City’s population.

4. Consultant Tasks

Task 1 – Project Management and Coordination

i. Conduct project kickoff meeting with City staff to confirm objectives, deliverables,

and schedule.

ii. Provide monthly progress reports, meeting notes, and budget tracking updates.

iii. Attend coordination meetings with City departments and partner agencies as

needed.

iv. Manage quality control and ensure deliverables meet all professional and grant

requirements.

Deliverable: Kickoff memorandum, meeting schedule, and monthly progress reports.

Task 2 – Data Collection and Existing Conditions Analysis

i. Review and synthesize existing planning documents and GIS, including:

 City 2021 LHMP and 2040 General Plan.

 Storm Drain Master Plan, Water Master Plan, Wastewater Master Plan,

Local Road Safety Plan, and transportation circulation data.

 CAL FIRE Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone (VHFHSZ) maps.

 FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM), slope/topographic data, and soil

stability information.

 Regional/state climate-resilience guidance

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ii. Coordinate with City staff, and create base mapping in GIS showing infrastructure

networks, hazard overlays, and vulnerable populations.

iii. Create modeling for each hazard, such as emergency evacuation and wildfire

patterns, or incorporate existing modeling information, such as modeling that has

been completed in coordination with the Water and Wastewater Master Plans, to

support Resiliency Plan findings.

Deliverable: Existing Conditions and Hazard Baseline Report, including GIS layers and

summary maps.

Task 3 – Multi-Hazard Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment

The consultant shall identify and assess vulnerabilities, describe the hazard mechanism, identify

exposed or underperforming infrastructure, facilities, and community resources, and outline

feasible mitigation projects with construction cost estimates across the following hazard

categories:

i. Wildfire / WUI Exposure

a. The City of Shasta Lake is partnering with Carollo Engineers to update its

Water Master Plan (WMP). This process will include modeling and mapping

the water system to identify areas where improvements are necessary due

to fire flow concerns. The consultant will use this information to identify

neighborhoods where fire-flow (water) may be inadequate for suppression.

b. Identify areas/neighborhoods with single or substandard access; overgrown

or unmaintained emergency access roads; roadway segments where

vegetation constricts evacuation or responder access; broken/interrupted

road sections.

c. Evaluate defensible-space conditions in and around the city.

d. Model wildfire events and probabilities based on historic weather and

incident patterns.

e. Identify City-owned or maintained facilities (tanks, pump stations,

communications, buildings) in the fire path of most probable events.

f. Complete emergency evacuation modeling to identify circulation constraints.

g. Recommend mitigation for identified constraints.

ii. Flooding / Stormwater / Steep-Slope Runoff

a. Coordinate with the City of Shasta Lake Public Works Department to identify

undersized culverts, roadside drainage issues, and steep-slope runoff

contributing to localized flooding.

b. Identify infrastructure (roads, utilities, structures) subject to washout or

inundation. Evaluate localized flooding, undersized culverts, roadside

ditches, and slope-to-street drainage where debris flow could block

ingress/egress.

c. Recommend options for capital improvements such as culvert upsizing,

channel stabilization, or debris control.

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