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Tahlia R. Gray, MBA
Procurement Analyst
City of Miami
Procurement Department
444 SW 2nd Ave, 6th FL
Miami, FL 33130
May 26, 2022
Re: Stormwater and Climate Data Engagement Platform and Services for the City of
Miami
Greetings Ms. Gray,
We appreciate the opportunity to continue advancing the outreach, engagement
reach, and ground-truthed data about urban flooding and climate impacts for the City
of Miami's Departments of Public Works and Resilience. It has been a privilege
serving and working with the City of Miami for the last three years to give voice to
community members in the process of planning and designing major infrastructure
projects as well as creating a direct line of communication to public works officials to
improve response to infrastructure operations and maintenance challenges.
ISeeChange is a mission driven social impact company that connects communities
to each other and their changing environments to make solutions together. With
initial support from the Knight Foundation in 2020, ISeeChange began working with
the City of Miami to customize our climate -ready digital outreach platform to integrate
across city systems.
For the last three years, ISeeChange has been used as the Departments of Public
Works and Resilience's primary resident reporting tool for urban flooding. We have
worked directly and closely with their teams, as well as the city's Department of
Innovation & Technology (DoIT), to shape features that make the platform and
service a "one -stop shop" for compiling resident generated information and
eliminating data silos across operations, maintenance, and planning. During Tropical
Storm Eta in November 2020, for example, ISeeChange data was the first to report a
drainage pumping emergency that the Department of Public Works used to decrease
response times. ISeeChange flooding data has been used by the Department of
Resilience to secure approximately $20M in stormwater infrastructure grants from
the state of Florida.
The platform is regularly used by the Department of Public Works to coordinate and
communicate direct service requests to clean and repair storm drains and deploy
pumps. ISeeChange was included as part of the city's Smart City Silver Level
Certification from Bloomberg Philanthropies. In recent reporting by Harvard's
Data -Smart City Solutions, ISeeChange is listed among the city's tools to "make sure
that all data is accessible, is getting to the right people at the right time, and is being
used."
Beyond our platform subscription and development services, the ISeeChange
engagement team has coordinated and supported local partnerships and outreach
efforts across flood prone neighborhoods (Allapattah, Little Havana, Flagami,
Wynwood, Shorecrest, Coconut Grove, Brickell/Downtown Miami) and nonprofits
(Healthy Little Havana, Dream in Green, Miami Climate Alliance, Ocean
Conservancy). Our team provides communications and graphic design support for
the city's communication department during storms and flooding events. The
availability of our platform in multiple languages alongside targeted outreach has
resulted in efficient direct service requests and improved communication, particularly
in majority Spanish speaking neighborhoods like Little Havana.
Going forward the Departments of Resilience and Public Works, in coordination with
the Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT), have requested to use
ISeeChange for three years to engage, collect data, and coordinate monitoring of
urban heat, coastal changes, green infrastructure, and pollution (including trash, silt
plumes, debris, nutrient runoff, and water quality). Heat tracking will include heat
sensor data syncs and health data collection. Several green infrastructure projects
will be focused on including ongoing outreach, engagement, and data collection to
support WEDGE certification for Jose Marti Park.
Our current basic service package and deliverables to the City of Miami's
Department of Public Works for stormwater monitoring and data collection includes:
Tier Size UofM Description Deliverables
Bronze: Platform Large Unlimited • Al Enabled Tagging and Data Prompts
and Data Teams Unlimited • Client Accounts and Email Integrations
Integrations Unlimited • GIS Exports and Standard Reports
Single Tag: Up to 3 hrs/mo • Community Notifications on Platform,
Storms and Custom Messaging and Outreach
Flooding Support for storm events
Does not include staffed community
Up to 120 events
hours/yr
• Development support to the City of
Price
Up to 3 hrs/
mo
$36,000 Annual
Miami for data integrations and
customizations
• Project management and
communications support to the City of
Miami for flooding and storm events
Our expanded service package and deliverables to the City of Miami's Department of
Resilience for heat, green infrastructure, and pollution monitoring and data collection
includes:
Tier Size
UofM
Description
Deliverables
Silver: Platform Large
Unlimited
•
Al Enabled Tagging and Data Prompts
and Data Teams
Unlimited
•
Client Accounts and Email Integrations
Integrations
Unlimited
•
GIS Exports and Standard Reports
Ongoing
•
Outreach assets and graphic design
All Tags:
Storms and
Up to 6 hrs/mo
•
Community Notifications on Platform,
Flooding; Heat,
Custom Messaging and Outreach
Green
Support
Infrastructure,
Includes staffed community events.
Trees, Pollution,
etc.
Up to 240
•
Development support to the City of
hours/yr
Miami for data integrations and
customizations, including sensor syncs
Up to 6 hrs/ • Project management and
mo communications support to the City of
Miami for three project tags
Price $72, 000 Annual
These expanded services will be matched with a 3-year grant from the Knight Foundation to
support ISeeChange marketing, and field campaigns in South Florida alongside
Miami -Dade County, the Ocean Conservancy, and Florida International University. The
grant will support signage in local parks, sensors, community partnerships, and additional
technical analysis of the data collected for applications that support the City of Miami's
investments in climate resilience to mitigate the effects of our changing environment.
Thank you again for the opportunity to continue our impactful services and work for the City
of Miami. Our partnership provides a pathway to engage directly with residents to
understand real time needs and impacts to improve climate ready infrastructure design,
development, evaluation, and public trust ahead of the Federal Infrastructure Investment
and Jobs Act funding. Should you have any questions, feel free to call me at 917-720-7327.
Sincerely,
A�
Julia Kumari Drapkin
CEO and Founder, ISeeChange
julia@iseechange.org
ISeeChange, Inc.
www.iseechange.org
"Connecting People to Each Other to Make Climate Solutions Together'
4532 Bancroft Drive 656 19th Avenue, NE
New Orleans, LA 70122 St. Petersburg, FL, 33704
Office: (917) 720-7327
team(d).iseechanae. ora
March 8, 2022
To: City of Miami, Climate Resilience Office and Public Works
Attention: Shelby Buso, Chief Resilience Officer
Re: Sole -Source Climate Data Integration and Engagement Vendor
ISeeChange, the signature platform of ISeeChange, Inc., is a unique product for public sector agencies seeking to
engage communities in real time about hyperlocal flooding, extreme heat, climate adaptation, and infrastructure.
ISeeChange provides community sensing and engagement tools to enable dialogue and collaboration with public
sector partners. In Miami, with support from the Knight Foundation, we have created integrations and features
for the City of Miami including custom regional mapping, email integrations, data exports, landing pages, direct
engagement pathways to support municipal operations, flood modeling, and infrastructure project design. There
is no other socially networked community dialogue tool that collects and distributes urban climate data, both
quantitative and qualitative, in real time in formats we need for immediate response, capital projects, and
resilience planning efforts. To date, the City of Miami has used ISeeChange to decrease response times during
Tropical Storm Eta and generate over $20M in resilience grant support using ISeeChange data.
Hey Pat, we've sent an emergency pump to
alleviate some of the flooding.
Pat G Miami, FL
Thank you! After the pump came, it's been
going down more steadily.
ICITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO: Arthur Noriega V, DATE: June 3, 2022
City Manager
SUBJECT: ISeeChange Bid Waiver
Request
FROM: Juvenal Santana, Director REFERENCES:
Department of Resilience and Public Works
ENCLOSURES: ISeeChange Quote
The City of Miami Department of Resilience and Public Works (RPW) requests a bid waiver for
procurement of services from vendor ISeeChange. RPW and the Office of Resilience and Sustainability
(ORS) have been working with the ISeeChange team for more than two years to develop a platform
and analysis for resident -driven flooding insights. Today, the ISeeChange web platform and app is used
as the City's primary resident reporting tool for urban flooding and we have worked directly with the
team to shape features to make the platform and service even more useful to our operations and
planning work.
As the City continues to manage flooding, resident reports via ISeeChange create a direct line of
communication to Public Works staff to improve response to infrastructure operations and maintenance
challenges. Reports are generated regularly during storm events which helps Public Works staff track
flooding patterns, ground -truth modeling from the Stormwater Master Plan, and strategically think about
both immediate flood relief and long-term flood mitigation solutions. During Tropical Storm Eta in
November 2020, for example, ISeeChange data was the first to report a drainage pumping emergency
that we were then able to respond to swiftly. Bloomberg Philanthropies awarded the City of Miami a
silver level Smart City Certification in part for our department's use of ISeeChange to assess and
prioritize stormwater maintenance. Thanks to the customizations by the ISeeChange development
team, the platform integrates across City of Miami systems and is incorporated into a visualization of
changing coastlines with the data from 311 calls, emails to the city, and other types of climate alerts.
This creates a one -stop -shop for city departments to compile resident -generated information, and helps
eliminate the data silos, as was noted by the City's data scientist, Jennifer Hernandez, in an interview
with Harvard's Data Smart City Solutions Center.
In addition, resident reports via ISeeChange helps contextualize needed flood mitigation investments
and the documentation provided by users has bolstered City applications for infrastructure funding.
ISeeChange flooding data from Brickell, Little Havana, Wynwood, Little Haiti, and Allapattah to secure
approximately $20M in stormwater resilience investment support from the State of Florida. We are
waiting to hear on additional grants from FEMA and HUD where we also used ISeeChange data to
make a stronger funding case.
Currently the City only collects data on flooding from ISeeChange However, both RPW and ORS hope
to leverage the platform to enhance data collection on more issues such as urban heat, green
infrastructure design, pollution, and water quality. Going forward, RPW will continue to pay for flood
monitoring services while ORS will pay for any additional topics that are outside of RPW's
responsibilities. This topic expansion is supported not only by City of Miami but also the Knight
Foundation, which for the next three years, is supporting ISeeChange's expansion in South Florida with
over half a million dollars in matching funds for projects with the City of Miami, Miami Dade County,
Florida International University, the Ocean Conservancy, and other local partners. We look to continue
using ISeeChange this storm season and for improving climate ready infrastructure design,
development, maintenance, and evaluation ahead of the future funding opportunities such as the
Federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding and Resilient Florida. ISeeChange has already
proven to improve City outcomes in its efforts to address climate impacts and we hope to have the aid
of this tool and platform to inform our work moving forward.
Pursuant to section 18-85(a), as amended, RPW respectfully requests that competitive sealed bidding
methods are waived for the reasons stated herein. Said waiver shall need to be ratified, confirmed, and
approved by the Miami City Commission by a four -fifths (4/5ths) affirmative vote during an advertised
public hearing.
The City Manager's sign ure below confirms your approval of waiving competitive sealed bidding
methods for the provisiori/bf services from ISeeChange.
Approved:
Arthur Ndriega V, City Manager
Date:(,�- �_ 1960,�
cc: Nzeribe Ihekwaba, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant City Manager, Chief of Operations
Annie Perez, CPPO, Director/Chief Procurement Officer, Procurement
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DIVISION OF CORPORATIONS
Attached are the forms and instructions to register a foreign profit corporation to transact business
in Florida. The requirements are as follows:
• Pursuant to section 607.1503(1), Florida Statutes, the attached application must be
completed in its entirety.
• The corporation must submit an original certificate of existence, no more than 90
days old, duly authenticated by the Secretary of State or the proper official having
custody of corporate records in the state or country under the law of which it is
incorporated. A photocopy is not acceptable. If the certificate is in a foreign language, a
translation of the certificate under oath of the translator must be submitted.
• There is a $70.00 registration fee and a letter of acknowledgment will be issued free of
charge upon registration.
• Certification fees are optional. Please submit an additional $8.75 if a certificate of status
is needed. The fee for a certified copy of the application is $8.75 (plus $1 per page for
each page over 8, not to exceed a maximum of $52.50). Please check the appropriate
box on the COVER letter and send one check for the total amount made payable to the
Florida Department of State.
• The COVER letter included in this packet should be completed and submitted
along with the certificate, application and check. Both the mailing address and courier
address are noted in the COVER letter.
• Important Information About the Requirement to File an Annual Report
All Profit Corporations must file an Annual Report yearly to maintain "active"
status. The first report is due in the year following formation. The report must be filed
electronically online between January 1st and May 1st. The fee for the annual report is
$150. After May 1st a $400 late fee is added to the annual report filing fee. "Annual
Report Reminder Notices" are sent to the e-mail address you provide us when you submit
this document for filing. To file any time after January 1st, go to our website at
www.sunbiz.org. There is no provision to waive the late fee. Be sure to file before May 1st
Any further inquiries concerning this matter should be directed to the Registration Section by
calling (850) 245-6051 or writing the Registration Section, Division of Corporations,
P.O. Box 6327, Tallahassee, FL 32314.
CR2E007 (1/19)
COVER LETTER
TO: Registration Section
Division of Corporations
SUBJECT: ISEECHANGE, INC.
Name of corporation - must include suffix
Dear Sir or Madam:
The enclosed "Application by Foreign Corporation for Authorization to Transact Business in Florida,"
"Certificate of Existence," or "Certificate of Good Standing" and check are submitted to register the
above referenced foreign corporation to transact business in Florida.
Please return all correspondence concerning this matter to the following:
Julia Kumari Drapkin
ISEECHANGE, INC.
4532 Bancroft Drive
New Orleans, LA, 70122
Name of Person
Firm/Company
Address
City/State and Zip code
j uliagiseechange.org
E-mail address: (to be used for future annual report notification)
For further information concerning this matter, please call:
Julia Drapkin
Name of Person
at (917 ) 720-7327
Area Code Daytime Telephone Number
STREET/COURIER ADDRESS:
Registration Section
Division of Corporations
The Centre of Tallahassee
2415 N. Monroe Street, Suite 810
Tallahassee, FL 32303
MAILING ADDRESS:
Registration Section
Division of Corporations
P.O. Box 6327
Tallahassee, FL 32314
Enclosed is a check for the following amount:
Please make check payable to: FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE
❑ $70.00 Filing Fee ❑ $78.75 Filing Fee & ❑ $78.75 Filing Fee &
Certificate of Status Certified Copy
0 $87.50 Filing Fee,
Certificate of Status &
Certified Copy
APPLICATION BY FOREIGN CORPORATION FOR AUTHORIZATION TO TRANSACT
BUSINESS IN FLORIDA
IN COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 607.1503, FLORIDA STATUTES, THE FOLLOWING IS SUBMITTED TO
REGISTER A FOREIGN CORPORATION TO TRANSACT BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
1 ISEECHANGE, INC.
(Enter name of corporation; must include "INCORPORATED," ..COMPANY," "CORPORATION,"
nInc.,n "Co.," "Corp," "Inc," 11C0 n or "Corp.")
(If name unavailable in Florida, enter alternate corporate name adopted for the purpose of transacting business in Florida)
2 DELAWARE 3
(State or country under the law of which it is incorporated) (FEI number, if applicable)
4. 07/02/2020 5.
(Date of incorporation) (Date of duration, if other than perpetual)
6.
(Date first transacted business in Florida, if prior to registration)
(SEE SECTIONS 607.1501 & 607.1502, F.S., to determine penalty liability)
7. 4532 Bancroft Drive, New Orleans, LA 70122
(Principal office street address)
(Current mailing address, if different)
8. Name and street address of Florida registered agent: (P.O. Box NOT acceptable)
Name: Chitranee Drapkin
Office Address: 206 2nd Avenue South
Saint Petersburg, Florida Florida 33712
(City) (Zip code)
9. Registered agent's acceptance:
Having been named as registered agent and to accept service ofprocess for the above stated corporation at theplace
designated in this application, I hereby accept the appointment as registered agent and agree to act in this capacity. I
further agree to comply with the provisions of'all statutes relative to the proper and complete performance of'my duties,
and I am familiar with and accept the obligations of my position as registered agent.
(Registered agent's signature)
10. Attached is a certificate of existence duly authenticated, not more than 90 days prior to delivery of this application to
the Department of State, by the Secretary of State or other official having custody of corporate records in the jurisdiction
under the law of which it is incorporated.
11. For initial indexing purposes, list names, titles and addresses of the primary officers and/or directors [up to six (6) total]:
A. DIRECTORS
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From: Farina, Alissa
To: Velez. Pablo; Perez. Annie
Cc: Calderon. Yadissa; Ponassi Boutureira, Fernando; Alvarez. Valentin J; Gomez. Marta; Legislative Division;
Cabrera, Paola; Santana Jr.. Juvenal; Gray, Tahlia; Flores, Miriam
Subject: Re: ISeeChange, Inc. Bid Waiver - File 12145
Date: Friday, July 8, 2022 6:04:24 PM
Attachments: imaae001.Dna
imaae002.Dna
Hi, verifying that this item is cleared and will be heard at July 28 Commission.
-Alissa
Alissa Farina
afarinaCcDmiamigov.com
305.809.6551 (cell phone)
From: Velez, Pablo <pvelez@miamigov.com>
Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 6:00:52 PM
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Cc: Calderon, Yadissa <ycalderon@miamigov.com>; Ponassi Boutureira, Fernando
<FPonassi@miamigov.com>; Alvarez, Valentin J <VJAlvarez@miamigov.com>; Gomez, Marta
<martagomez@miamigov.com>; Legislative Division <Vagenda@miamigov.com>; Cabrera, Paola
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Subject: RE: ISeeChange, Inc. Bid Waiver - File 12145
Alissa,
Thank you so much for the information below.
Pablo R. Velez
Senior Assistant City Attorney
City of Miami Office of the City Attorney
444 S.W. 2nd Avenue, Suite 945
Miami, Florida 33130
Telephone: 305-416-1882
Facsimile: 305-400-5071
PVelez@miamigov.com
Legal Assistant: Paola Cabrera, (305) 416-1841
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Subject: RE: ISeeChange, Inc. Bid Waiver - File 12145
Hi Pablo,
ISeeChange received a grant from the Knight Foundation towards the end of 2019 that funded them
to partner with the City on crowd -sourced flood monitoring, at no cost to the City. In that time the
City worked with ISeeChange to set up the platform, tailor functionality to meet City needs, and
socialize with residents. The grant expired in November 2021 and the City expressed intent to
continue the partnership and pay for services with City funds. Going forward the intent is for flood
monitoring services to be paid for by RPW, as this platform is now part of their standard operating
procedures, and any other monitoring that is facilitated by ISeeChange will be paid for by the Office
of Resilience and Sustainability.
Please give me a call if you have further questions. Let me know when this is confirmed on the July
28 agenda.
Alissa Farina (she/her/ella)
afarinaC@rniamigov.com
305.809.6551 (cell phone)
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Subject: RE: ISeeChange, Inc. Bid Waiver - File 12145
Hi Pablo. I have copied Alissa herein as Juvenal is on vacation and she would be able to explain
believe there was a Knight Foundation Grant that was used.
A nnLt Pe4-el, CPPO
Director of Procurement/Chief Procurement Officer
City of Miami Procurement Department
444 SW. 2 Avenue, 6th Floor
Miami, FL 33130
Phone: (305) 416-1910
Fax: (305) 400-5373
Email: AnniePerezl@miamigov.com
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goods and services, design, construction and construction management services at the best value for
the City, while providing excellent customer service, process efficiency, transparency, fairness,
competition, accountability, and maintaining public trust.
For current solicitations please visit our Solicitation page
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For solicitations in the Cone of Silence please visit our Cone of Silence webpage
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<VJAlvarezl@miamigov.com>; Gomez, Marta <martagomezl@miamigov.com>; Legislative Division
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Subject: ISeeChange, Inc. Bid Waiver- File 12145
Juvenal,
Good afternoon. I hope all is well.
I'm working on the above referenced matter and, according the current draft legislation and the
back-up information for this item, "the City has used ISC to decrease response times during tropical
storms, generate over $20 million in resilience grant support, and coordinate/communicate direct
services requests to clean and repair storm drains and deploy pumps..." However, Procurement -
wise, there's no reference to what authorized that prior, initial use.
When you can, please let me know. As always, thank you.
Pablo R. Velez
Senior Assistant City Attorney
City of Miami Office of the City Attorney
444 S.W. 2nd Avenue, Suite 945
Miami, Florida 33130
Telephone: 305-416-1882
Facsimile: 305-400-5071
PVelez(cDmiamigov.com
Legal Assistant: Paola Cabrera, (305) 416-1841
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