Item 28 - Agreement Amendment for Cost Allocation Plans

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documented and defensible Cost Allocation Plan prepared annually that will identify rates that can be used to recover billable hourly costs for services and develop user fees that comply with Proposition 218. Scone of Secs Prepare the City's .Bull Cost Allocation Plan for FY 1 G/17; FY 17/18; and FY 18/19 (total cost plan and an OMB 2 CFR Fart 225 plan), which may include the following elements (if the consultant feels that additional tasks are warranted, they must be clearly identified in the consultant's proposal): A. 'Work and meet with selected City staff to refine the project scope, purpose, uses and goals of the City's Full Cost Allocation Plan to ensure that the study will be both accurate and appropriate to the City's needs. Review project schedule and answer any questions pertaining to the successful development of the study. B. if necessary, meet with staff and conduct inteMews as needed to gain an understanding of the Public Work Agency's processes and operations. This includes where certain services and Ametions are performed together or shared through cooperation between different divisions. Costs should be identified so that they can be allocated to anal tracked accordingly. C. Identify the total cost of providing each City service at the appropriate activity level and in a manner that is consistent with all applicable laws, statutes, rules and regulations governing the collection of fees, rates, and charges by public entities including, but not limited to, the State Controller's Office Guidelines for Cost Claiming and OM13 2 CFR Park 225 standards. D. Develop a Full Cost Allocation Model using budgeted and/or actual data for calculating the full costs of providing each City service. The requirements of the model should allow for: a. Additions, revisions, or removal of direct and overhead costs so that the full Cost Allocation Plau can be easily adapted to a range of activities, both simple and complex. b. The ability of the City to continuously update the model and full Cost Allocation Plan from year to year as the organization changes. c. The addition of hypothetical service area information for future service enhancements, and the ability to calculate the estimated costs of providing the service under consideration (i.e. ad -hoc analysis), E. Report on ether matters that come to your attention in the mural of your evaluation that in your ,professional opinion the City should consider. F. Present the plan to the City's management group and make necessary adjustments as requested, G. Prepare and deliver presentations (as needed) to the Council to facilitate their understanding of the plan and its implications to the City. H, Provide the City with an electronic copy of the final comprehensive. review, including related schedules and cost documentatiotx in a format such as Microsoft Word and City of Santa Ana RFP 18-023 Page Al-2