RFP for Consulting Services to Develop a Comprehensive Parks, Recreation, Pathways, and Open space Master Plan

The City of Caldwell (“City”) is soliciting proposals from qualified consulting firms, or a team of consultants, to provide consulting services for the preparation of a new city-wide Comprehensive Parks, Recreation, Pathways, and Open Space Master Plan (“Master Plan”) with a 20-year planning horizon. The completed Master Plan will provide a 20-year vision and roadmap for parks, recreation, pathways, and open space. The Master Plan shall be financially sustainable, with realistic goals and outcomes. The plan will include research, heavy public engagement, and provide a clear set of goals, policies, standards, and recommendations for the City. Improvements and capital expenditures for existing and future parks, pathways, recreational programming, and open space should be outlined for the next twenty years, at a neighborhood, community, and regional level. The plan should provide recommendations for all capital expenditures and operating investment of Caldwell’s parks, pathways and open space systems, including but not limited to, analyzing the city’s current staffing capacity and policies in place to maintain these facilities and meet the needs of all residents, community groups, and other stakeholders now and in the future. The goal of the Master Plan is to ensure that all residents in Caldwell have close-to-home opportunities where residents feel invited and engaged in the city’s outdoor spaces, which is vitally important to the overall quality of life of the community.