Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Consent
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CONSIDER APPROVAL OF AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE AGREEMENT WITH ILLUMINAS CONSULTING, LLC FOR ON-CALL FISCAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS CONSULTING SERVICES (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
On June 19, 2018, the City and Illuminas Consulting, LLC (Illuminas) entered into an agreement for on-call fiscal and economic analysis consulting services (Exhibit No. 1). These services are necessary to peer review Fiscal Impact Reports prepared by the applicants for development projects that require a General Plan Amendment. Very few projects fall into this category. Therefore, hiring specialized full time staff would not be economically feasible. The services provided by this consultant are very specialized and require an in-depth technical analysis of the fiscal impacts of the projects on the City's budget which staff is not able to provide.
Illuminas' scope of services consists of three components: (1) Peer review of economic and fiscal impact analysis provided by project developers relating to their proposed projects, (2) Independent economic and fiscal analysis of proposed projects, (3) Consultant will represent the Community Development/Planning project team at meetings/hearings and make presentations as necessary. The term of the agreement was from June 18, 2018 to June 17, 2019, with the City's option to renew the agreement for two additional one-year terms. The contract sum was a not-to-exceed amount of $100,000 per year.
Staff is requesting approval of the proposed Amendment No. 1 (Exhibit No. 2) to extend the term of the contract for the first of the two optional years. This amendment is necessary to allow for continued fiscal and economic analysis consulting services for development proposals throughout the City over the next two years.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
TAKE the following actions:
1. APPROVE Amendment No. 1 to the agreement with Illuminas Consulting, LL...
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