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Staff received a concern that one councilmember had three Aide agreements that appear to exceed the maximum amounts. Daniel has provided the following. At the Feb. 20, 2024 meeting, the City Council will be presented with amendments to three agreements for City Council Aide consultancy services: one for Claudia Perez (the Mayor's contracted aide), one for Valerie Magdaleno (Councilmember Lopez's contracted aide), and one for Andrew Linares (Councilmember Bacerra's contracted aide). To be transparent, in the staff report a table was included with an overview of all agreements for contracted aides. A councilmember reviewed the staff report and noted that there are three contracted aides for Councilmember Vazquez, totaling an amount not to exceed $85,000. Three things: (1) the not -to -exceed amount of $85,000 does not mean that we expect to expend $85,000; rather, the $85,000 allows flexibility in seeking services using any of the three agreements (i.e., we may expend more from one agreement than from another); (2) so far, we have only expended $1,567.50 in city council aide consultancy services for Councilmember Vazquez; and (3) regardless of the not -to -exceed amounts for these agreements, the City Council approved a budget of $60,000 to be used for city council aide consultancy services per councilmember—the City Manager's Office oversees this budget, tracks these agreements, and makes sure that no councilmember exceeds the $60,000 allocation for their contracted aides. 5. Agenda Item No. 38 - Food and Beverage Services at Santa Ana Zoo Staff received concern that the percentage share appeared low. Hawk and his team have provided the following back up. Outreach/Solicitation Efforts: During the recent concessions RFP process zoo staff reached out to the downtown businesses and did extensive research on vendors that provide concessions at zoo and museum facilities. Those vendors included groups like SSA (services at numerous zoos like LA Zoo), Patina Group (Bowers Museum), Aramark, Delaware North, the food vendor for Chapman University, and others. Despite direct emails and outreach to as many relatable businesses as we could find, we only received one proposal from the current concessionaire, Bean Sprouts. At the job walk the owners of the McFadden Public Market were interested in bidding but ultimately said it wasn't profitable enough. Bean Sprouts: Bean Sprouts is currently at the zoo and Discovery Cube and has a number of other installations (both owned and franchised) at other zoos and museums. Bean Sprouts has no prior experience with alcohol sales at their other facilities and this venture will be a learning experience for them as well as the city. Bean Sprouts did request the City keep their revenue share numbers confidential because they stated they are more generous than some of their other facilities. City staff advised it is public record. Because Bean Sprouts was the only proposer we didn't really have leverage to negotiate aggressive revenue share and their numbers were consistent with our past agreement. Previous Alcohol Sales Agreement: The City did pursue a RFP solely for alcohol sales a couple years ago and received a small number of bids at the time. The most competitive proposal, and the one we selected, provided a 20% revenue share for alcohol sales. This vendor was never able to successfully receive an ABC license despite assertions they could. Working closer with the ABC office city staff learned they couldn't receive the license because they didn't operate the on -site kitchen and the ABC wouldn't accept a situation with a separate contracted food operator. Revenue Share: Based on information we could find, restaurant profits are not very high and according to Toast average 3-5%. https:Hpos.toasttab.com/blog/on-the-line/average-restaurant- profit-margin We have learned a lot over the past few years and any original assertions don't appear correct. Golf Course Comparison: As this was not used in negotiation of this contract. We get 2% of all beer sales. Attached is the latest one I have but could get the most recent one.