Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, May 07, 2019
Discussion
SUBJECT:
Title
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO THE AGREEMENT WITH CSG CONSULTANTS, INC. TO PROVIDE ON-CALL PLANNING SERVICES AND ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION NO. 19-081 TO AMEND THE FY2018/19 BUDGET (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
This item was on the April 16, 2019 meeting agenda but City Council continued it to May 7. Since the preparation of the April 16th staff report, however, the City has received CSG's March invoice. The balance left on CSG's contract is small enough that staff has notified the CSG consultants to stop work on all Carson development projects. In order to compensate for losing equivalent of two full-time staff (distributed among four CSG staffers), the workload for the remaining Planning Division staff had to be redistributed and modifications to public counter hours was deemed necessary. This arrangement is not sustainable for the Planning Division with the current work load. Therefore, staff is requesting the City Council to approve Amendment #3 to the CSG contract, adding $250,000 to the contract.
The previous recruitment process for the Senior Planner position did not yield a new hire and a new recruitment has started. In addition, through the budget process, Staff is seeking approval of another planner position the Division lost when a planner transferred to another department and took the "headcount." Staff expects the recruitment process for these two positions to be completed by summer. When the recruitment process for the two planners is complete, the hours of CSG staff will be reduced significantly and they will gradually be phased out. Staff expects the phase-out to be completed in advance of the December 5th contract expiration.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
TAKE the following actions:
1. APPROVE Amendment No. 3 to the on-call planning services agreement with CSG Consultants, Inc.
2. AUTHORIZE the Mayor to execute the amendment, followi...
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