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• Create an updated urban forestry pilot schedule that includes recurring meetings with the OSCAR project manager, as well as meetings with the wider municipal working team. • Write a summary of the urban forestry pilot scope, with an overall timeline, key milestones, KPIs, and goals. • Provide monthly programmatic and financial updates to the county project manager and complete a final summary report upon conclusion of the project. • Support outreach and PR, as well as internal or external presentations as needed. Task 2: Develop and support a tree tender working group in each participating county municipality The tree tender training program educates community volunteers in the basics of tree biology, planting, identification, pruning, and aftercare, as well as empowers them to work in their communities to grow the urban tree canopy near where they live. PLAY Boulder will: Extend their current operating Tree Tender program in the City of Boulder to Louisville and Lafayette, with a minimum of 3 people in each volunteer working group. Expand or create a new Tree Trust Advisory Committee to include Lafayette and Louisville for additional support in decision making and community organizing (TBD based on need). Consider a system for regular monthly meetings open to the public. Task 3: Develop youth engagement/employment initiatives associated with urban forest expansion Community Forest Corps (CFC) empower youth to maintain and expand urban forests, gathering critical local environmental information needed to increase community resilience and sustainable community development. The CFC program will be the first step toward the long-term, comprehensive support needed for urban forestry expansion. PLAY Boulder will manage the CFC program, including the following tasks: • Develop the CFC alongside communities that are most at risk to the effects of climate change in urban areas. • Recruit and hire CFC employees from historically underserved communities in Boulder County, with a preference toward a bilingual Crew Lead. • Leverage existing, equity -focused relationships and partnerships to support recruitment from specific communities within Boulder County, such as Boulder County Housing Partners, Community Connectors, El Centro Amistad, and FLOWS. • Provide living wages, participation in professional development, continuing education, technical urban heat training, and opportunities for exposure to a wide range of land stewardship progressions to CFC hires. • Create the CFC work plan, including tree watering and maintenance routes in urban forest pilot neighborhoods. • Develop curriculum for the CFC in partnership with Classrooms for Climate Action (C4CA).