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Public Involvement Consulting Services for.OCT A Consulting services to assist with the public involvement activities will be closely coordinated with the more customized efforts for the cities of Santa Ana, Costa Mesa and Irvine stated below. Public Involvement Consulting Services for the cities of Santa Ana, Costa Mesa and Irvine Since outreach efforts during Preliminary Engineering will also need to focus on specific communities within the three cities and be customized to meet their varying needs, aCTA is allocating funds for the three cities to use for outreach activities, The three cities will play an integral role in the public involvement and consensus building in order to achieve success and develop a project which reflects the needs of the community. As part of aCTA's agreements with each of the three cities, aCTA, as the lead agency,y<ill provide funding and the list of pre-qualified, on-call consultants and vendors from which they each can choose to provide customized public involvement activities in their communities, The cities will work directly with various consulting firms and vendors from aCTA's pre-qualified list which can provide the necessary services on an on-call basis. II. BACKGROUND aCTA plans to complete the Preliminary Engineering for the Centerline Project and have the aCTA Board certify an FEIS by September 15, 2003, During this phase, final decisions must be made on the precise route, elevation along that route, light rail vehicle type, number, location and scale of stations, and actions to be taken to integrate The Centerline into the affected communities (Le. a mitigation plan). The aCTA Board and the city councils of Irvine, Costa Mesa, and Santa Ana have formally endorsed the Centerline and the Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA). This is the first time that aCTA will present to the community at large this precise route as the LPA-and it includes some aspects that have only limited recent public review. Inevitably, additional concerns will emerge as the engineering proceeds and the project becomes a reality, Thus, the challenge before the aCTA Board is to engineer and environmentally clear a project and foster community support for it within a tight schedule and against a backdrop of modest, but growing, political/public support III. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS As support needs arise, aCTA and the city will develop a brief scope of work and select a consultant from the list of qualified firms depending on the type of work needed and the qualifications of the firm, Each CTa will contain requirements for each engagement The selected consultant will respond by providing information about the level of effort required to complete the scope. This will be documented on a pre-approval estimate form that identifies expected hours, labor rates, overhead rates and direct and indirect costs and fees, Rates and costs for each CTa will be in accordance with rates identified in the selected consultants' proposals. Upon approval by the aCTA project manager, the city or cities as appropriate, and