IN RESPONSE TO THE CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEAS

REQUEST FOR A STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS

For the Term October 2017 - June 2019

Service Area: Environmental Services

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS

Submitted by,

JEFFREY B. FROKE, PH.D., dba CALIFAUNA

Submitted,

September 12, 2017

 IN RESPONSE TO THE CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEAS
REQUEST FOR A STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS
For the Term October 2017 - June 2019

Service Area: Environmental Services

September 9, 2017

Mr. Robert M. Harary, P.E.

Director of Public Works
City of Carmel by-the-Sea, California

Dear Mr. Harary,

This letter accompanies my firms complete Statement of Qualifications prepared in response

to the Citys current request for SOQs. Thank you for the opportunity to submit.

As a sole proprietor firm, dba CALIFAUNA, I am submitting to provide services to the City in
the area of Environmental Services.

My office is located in Pebble Beach, i.e., in close proximity to the City of Carmel. I have been
working out of this location since starting my firm in 1995.

The majority of my work is performed locally, within Monterey County.

I am the sole representative of my firm who is entitled to legally execute agreements and
amendments with the City of Carmel.

Again, thank you.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey B. Froke, Ph.D.

Consulting Ecologist/Coastal Biologist

(831) 224-8595
jbfroke@mac.com
C A L I FAU N A
Wildlife Sciences for all of California

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 FORM A GENERAL FIRM INFORMATION

1. Firms Name: JEFFREY B. FROKE, PhD / dba CALIFAUNA

2. Firms Local
3158 Bird Rock Rd, Pebble Beach CA 93953
Address:

3. Is your local office the Head Office? X Yes

Branch Office? Yes X No

Only Office? X Yes No

4. Year your firm was established: 1995

5. Year your local office was established: 1995

6. Primary contacts (Principals) in the local office:

Telephone
Name Title E-Mail Address
Number

Jeffrey B. Froke PhD Principal, Ecologist 831-224-8595 jbfroke@mac.com

7. List locations of no more than three (3) other offices where work may
be performed: None applicable.

8. Total employees presently employed:

a) In your local office: 1
b) In your firm: 1

9. Errors and Omissions Insurance: None applicable

a) Amount your firm presently carries:

b) Carriers name and address:

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FORM B TENTATIVE PROJECT TEAM

SERVICE AREA: Environmental Services

A. Consultants Key Personnel

Please identify your tentative, key Project Team members, their titles/roles and primary
duties:

Name Title Role

Natural resource (botanical and

zoological) assessment and
documentation, project/ impact
evaluation, mitigation planning,
Sole proprietor, implementation and compliance
Jeffrey B. Froke, Ph.D. principal ecologist monitoring; landscape restoration
& coastal biologist. design and implementation; wildlife
habitat enhancement - planning and
implementation, state and federal
agency consultation and
coordination.

B. Subconsultant and Support Services

Please identify up to four (4) key subconsultants or vendors, contact persons,

and services they would provide in order to support your Project Team:

None applicable. However, this firm frequently joins multidisciplinary project

teams, large and small. Commonly with local Certified Arborists and Registered
Foresters.

C. Organizational Chart: Not applicable - Principal is the ecologist / coastal biologist.

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 FORM C - RESUMES OF KEY PERSONNEL

1. Name: JEFFREY BENJAMIN FROKE, PhD

2. Role in this Service Area (Environmental Services) : Senior ecologist and coastal biologist

3. Years of experience - Total: 44 years With current firm: 22 years

4. Education: B.S., M.S. (Humboldt State Univ.), Wildlife ecology and management; Ph.D. (UCLA),
Landscape ecology; Addl doctoral study (UC San Diego / Scripps Institute of Oceanography),
Marine ecology and ocean management; Loeb Fellowship (Harvard University, Graduate School
of Design), Landscape ecology; Carl Buchheister Fellowship (National Audubon Society),
Mexican bird research.

5. Current Registration/Certification: None applicable.

6. Other Professional Qualifications: E.g., numerous publications re bird ecology, urban wildlife
management, wildland restoration; Emeritus member - Cooper Ornithological Soc. and
American Ornithologists Union; The Wildlife Society; Urban Land Institute; Law Enforcement
Positions: CA Park Ranger, CA Game Warden, US Fish and Wildlife Service CITES Inspector;
Teaching: UCLA, UC Irvine, College of the Redwoods; Monterey Inst. International Studies
(Middlebury College). Current elected office: Pebble Beach Comm. Serv. District; Current
advisory appointment: USDI Bureau of Land Management - California lands resource
management.

7. Relevant Project: Reservoir Canyon Habitat Restoration Program for the City San Juan
Capistrano CA.

Year Completed - Professional Services: 2011 (7-year project)

Year Completed - Construction: 2011

Brief Description & Specific Role: Designed, implemented and monitored development and
permit compliance of a 20-acre habitat construction and restoration project related to a major
municipal reservoir development; special focus on federally endangered bird species and habitat
replacement on total cut-and-filled landscape.

Performed Project with Current Firm: YES

8. Relevant Project: Heron Rookery Assessment for Channel Islands Boating Instruction &
Safety Center (CI Harbor District and County of Ventura).

Year Completed - Professional Services: 2009 (7-yr project)

Year Completed - Construction: Continuing

Brief Description & Specific Role: Evaluated multi-species herons colony, nesting dynamics, site
use and harbor redevelopment implications throughout CI Harbor; Frequently interfaced with
district managers and CA Coastal Commission scientists.

Performed Project with Current Firm: YES

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 FORM D - EXAMPLE PROJECTS THAT BEST ILLUSTRATE
PROPOSED FIRMS QUALIFICATIONS

SERVICE AREA: (No. 6) Environmental Services

Project Key Number: 1 X 234

1. Title of Example Project: Rancho San Carlos - Santa Lucia Preserve

2. Project Location: Carmel, CA
3. Year Completed - Professional Services: 2004
4. Year Completed - Phased Planning, Design, Permitting: 1998-2001

5. Project Owners Information:

- Project Owner: Rancho San Carlos Partnership (former) and Santa Lucia
Conservancy (successor)

- Point of Contact Name: Dr. William W. Shaw, Past Chairman

- Point of Contact Phone Number: (520) 591-6949
- Point of Contact E-Mail Address: wwshaw001gmailcom

6. Description of Project and Relevance to this Service Area:

The 20,000-acre Rancho San Carlos was purchased in 1990 for the obtained
purpose of developing an ecologically and economically significant community
within a preserve, minutes from Carmel-by-the-Sea. The residential and golf
development - on 2,000 acres - was integrated with a bonafide conservation
preserve on the balance of 80 percent (18,000 acres) of the property, now
altogether known as the Santa Lucia Preserve, to be managed by an
independent and substantially endowed ($25 million) nonprofit, the Santa Lucia
Conservancy.

For 14 years, I was a partner in the project, recruited to serve as the preserves
principal scientist and conservation designer, ultimately becoming the co-
founder and first president of the Conservancy. Since day-one, I was responsible
for coordinating the multimillion-dollar ecological investigation of the property
by nearly 100 consulting scientists and advisors and for ensuring accurate
synthesis and integration of the environmental findings with the professional
landscape architects and land planners employed by the RSC Partnership.
Altogether, the costs associated with the successful acquisition, investigation,
planning, and development of the Preserve approached $250 million.

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SERVICE AREA: (No. 6) Environmental Services

Project Key Number: 1 2 X 34

1. Title of Example Project: Carmel River, CA Red-legged Frog Management

2. Project Location: Carmel/Carmel Valley CA
3. Year Completed: Professional Services: ongoing (1997-present)
4. Year Completed: Well Development and Operations (ongoing)

5. Project Owners Information:

- Project Owner: California American Water

- Point of Contact Name: Mr. Julio Gonzalez, Senior Engineer
- Point of Contact Phone Number: (831) 646-3230
- Point of Contact E-Mail Address: julio.gonzalez@amwater.com

6. Description of Project and Relevance to this Service Area:

California American Water, which develops the local communitys water supply
from pumping alluvial resources of the Carmel River (from 16-18 valley wells), is
committed by an agreement with US Fish and Wildlife Service to manage its
production operations in a manner that conserves in-river populations of the
federally-threatened California Red-legged Frog, specifically to protect water-
dependent CRLF tadpoles from stranding where river flows and pool levels are
diminished by both pumping and natural environmental factors.

Continuously since 1997, I have been contracted by CalAm to develop and

oversee a river-wide frog conservation strategy that involves, in part, a tadpole
rescue and rearing program involving a team of highly trained field biologists
tasked to capture and relocate animals in jeopardy during reduced-flow periods:
a substantial number of the captured tadpoles are held and advanced in an off-
river rearing facility, which I constructed and manage for the water company. All
captive animals are released to their natural habitat in late fall, after completing
their metamorphosis as air-breathing amphibious frogs.

On behalf of CalAm, I am responsible for coordinating all aspects of the project

with appropriate personnel of US Fish and Wildlife Service, locally and
regionally, and always to ensure that the effort is managed cost-effectively and
lawfully in accordance with agency agreements and the Endangered Species
Act.

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SERVICE AREA: (No. 6) Environmental Services

Project Key Number: 1 2 3 X 4

1. Title of Example Project: Reservoir Canyon Habitat Restoration Project

2. Project Location: San Juan Capistrano CA
3. Year Completed: Professional Services: (2000-2011)
4. Year Completed: Implementation and Monitoring, 2011

5. Project Owners Information:

- Project Owner: City of San Juan Capistrano

- Point of Contact Name: Eric Bauman, SJC Public Works
- Point of Contact Phone Number: (949) 493-1171
- Point of Contact E-Mail Address: cityclerk@sanjuancapistrano

6. Description of Project and Relevance to this Service Area:

The City of San Juan Capistrano constructed a multi-million gallon water tank on
an engineered (filled) site at the head of what had been an undeveloped
canyon; access was generated by construction of a three mile road also built on
fill at the bottom/centerline of the canyon. Approximately 10 acres of the
canyon formation and native coastal sage scrub occupied habitat of nesting
California Gnatcatchers, a federally endangered bird species was removed;
restoration of the canyon formation and vegetation amounted to 20 acres.

My role, as the principal biologist and restorationist, was to (1) support the Citys
state and federal permitting efforts, (2) collaborate with project engineers and
construction managers, (3) confer with US Fish and Wildlife Service and CA Fish
and Game, throughout, (4) conduct all biological surveys including a two-year
gnatcatcher nesting survey, (5) design all surface specifications of the canyon
reconstruction (compaction, soils rehabilitation and drainage features) and
vegetation restoration, (6) manage bids and order contracts for native plant
growers, (7) supervise seeding and planting by a landscape construction firm, (8)
monitor and remediate grow-success of natives and encroachment by weeds,
and (9) ultimately document and certify project completion after a 5-year
compliance period.

Costs approximated $20 million; JBFs 7-year billings totaled +- $150,000.

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SERVICE AREA: (No. 6) Environmental Services

Project Key Number: 1 2 3 4

1. Title of Example Project: Calimesa Creek Flood Control Project

2. Project Location: Calimesa, Riverside Co., CA
3. Year Completed: Professional Services 2016
4. Year Completed: Construction Continuing

5. Project Owners Information:

- Project Owner: City of Calimesa

- Point of Contact Name: Phil Martin, PM Associates
- Point of Contact Phone Number: 949-637-4373
- Point of Contact E-Mail Address: pmartin@philmartinassociates.com

6. Description of Project and Relevance to this Service Area:

From the Calimesa Creek Master Plan (2013): Calimesa Creek has presented to
the City of Calimesa a special opportunity to improve channel drainage
conditions for a multi-jurisdictional watershed while enhancing the creek area as
a recreational amenity and increasing economic development potential for the
community. As the Downtown Business Districts north gateway, previous urban
design analysis recommended the creation of a green entry with iconic
gateway features to provide a unique and distinctive character to the City of
Calimesa.

As an integral part of a major watercourse, Calimesa Creek has a tributary

watershed of approximately 890 acres at the project site. The watershed covers
areas of both the City of Yucaipa within the County of San Bernardino and the
City of Calimesa in the County of Riverside.

From 2014-2016, my work for the City was to conduct a watershed and
streamcourse assessment of hydrological and biological resources, identify
vulnerabilities and opportunities for management and remediation, and to
confirm native plant and wildlife resources that could be adversely, also
beneficially, by the proposed stream and channel alteration. Per CEQA, CWA,
and NEPA.

The project budget (2013) was approximately (very conservatively) $2.2 million
while my fee totaled approximately $14,000.

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 FORM E KEY PERSONNEL PARTICIPATION
IN EXAMPLE PROJECTS

Key Personnel From Example Projects from

No. Role
FORM C FORM D

1 2 3 4

1. Jeffrey B. Froke, Ph.D. Principal ecologist X X X X

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 FORM F APPLICABLE SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT AND RESOURCES

Firm: Jeffrey B. Froke, Ph.D.

Service Area: Environmental Services

List specialized and/or unique equipment, vehicles, software, or other resources your firm
possesses that is advantageous or necessary to perform this service and which your firm is
willing to commit locally. Equipment may include, but is not limited to: heavy equipment,
special purpose or specially-equipped vehicles, equipment, specialized computer programs,
reference manuals/codes, laboratory testing equipment, audio visual equipment, tools,
supplies, or other relevant resources.

1. Applicable Specialized Equipment

Binoculars, high-end field photographic equipment.

2. Applicable Specialized Software Programs

ESRIs ARCVIEW, etc. (GIS and mapmaking)

CA Fish and Games CA NATURAL DIVERSITY DATABASE (BIOS)

UC/Collaboratives CAFLORA database

3. Applicable Reference Manuals, Codes, Data, etc.

Subscribed access to a wide range of applicable professional and technical zoological and
botanical databases, as well as personally collected local field records (1990-present)

4. Other Applicable Resources

Firm owns all necessary tools, equipment and materials required for qualified services / tasks.

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 FORM G HOURLY RATE SHEET

Fully Burdened Hourly Rates ()

No. Key Personnel from FORM C Role
2017 2018 2019

Principal -
1. Jeffrey B. Froke, Ph.D. $170 $170 $170
ecologist/biologist

[] Hourly rate reflects a 12.8 percent discount extended to municipal and nonprofit clients.

Does your firms fully burdened hourly rates include the following?

Software Yes X No Vehicles Yes X No

Phone/Cell Yes X No Printing Yes X No
Mileage Yes X No Postage/Courier Yes X No

Please initial here to acknowledge that markups for subconsultants and other direct costs shall
not exceed 10.0% __

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 FORM H ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Firm Name: Jeffrey B. Froke, Ph.D., dba CALIFAUNA

Service Area: Environmental Services

The following information reconfirms my interest and capability to provide the City of
Carmel with quality and highly expert Environmental Services.

Government Relations: I have worked as a field scientist and natural resources manager
for 44 years, the past 22 years as an independent consultant and contract biologist. In
government service, I was a CA peace officer (State Park Ranger and Fish and Game
Warden) and federal wildlife inspector (US Fish and Wildlife Service), the latter enforcing the
Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES). Still, my professional
association with the wildlife trust agencies benefits my effectiveness as a consultant,
particularly in communications and consultations on behalf of clients. A l s o , I have my
extensive experience with CA Coastal Commission, US Army Corps of Engineers, and others.

Urban Ecology: Starting in the 1970s, a major focus of my research and management work,
along with university teaching posts has been on wildlife in urban, rural, village and other
human-settled environments. Forty years ago in the US the arena of settlement ecology was
pioneered by a small and intent group of ecologists including myself: Today, biological-
centered assignments in municipal settings predominantly involve urban ecology.

Municipal Clientele: While I s e r v e n e e d s o f utilities, ranchers, developers, and

individual landowners, my clientele also includes cities and special districts: in part, Carmel-
by-the Sea, San Juan Capistrano, Calimesa, Corona, Colton, Ventura (City and County), LA
County Harbors and Beaches, Laguna Beach, Aliso Viejo, Mission Viejo. As well as in
Monterey County, I work as a registered biologist in Riverside, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara,
Ventura counties and others where registration is not required.

Regulatory Expertise: California Environmental Quality Act, National Environmental

Protection Act, federal Endangered Species Act, CA Endangered Species Act, US Clean Water
Act, US Migratory Bird Treaty Act, CA Fish and Game Code (e.g., 1600 et seq. [Lake
and Streambed Alteration], 3503 et seq. [Native Nesting Birds]), etc.

In view of the City's SOQ, my expertise specifically and extensively includes (1) biological
surveys and analysis, (2) coastal ecology, (3) noise surveys and analysis, (4) regulatory agency
permitting, (5) on-site monitoring during construction, and (6) on-call services; also, (7) project
crew training and environmental orientation for permit compliance and project betterment.

Thank you,

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