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Plan Check Agreements and Appropriation Adjustmen s August 7, 2006 Page 2 soon as possible. Since additional required when these major projects achieve recommended that the City utilize contracted p on-call basis to address the peak workload deman employees may not final approval, it an check services on s more efficiently. be is an In October 2005, City Council approved a simila request for contracted plan check services in a total aggregate amount not to exceed $900,000. Because many of the projects that were expected to enter the plan check process were not submitted in FY 2005-06, on y $20,000 was actually allocated to the Planning and Building Agency b dget for this purpose in FY 2005-06. Of eight consulting firms that responded to the Request for a Proposal, four consulting firms meet the City's requirem nts for availability of qualified engineering staff, turn-around time, ocale, and fees. Two of these recommended firms, Robert Tyler and Scott Fazekas and Associates, Inc., will provide complete plan check services at a rate not to exceed 70% of the City's plan check fee charged to ea h project they receive. The other two recommended firms, Tmad, Taylor & aines and NYA Consulting Structural Engineers, will provide structura only plan checks on selected projects at a rate not to exceed 40% f the City's plan check fee charged to the project. All contracted irms will process any required plan revisions and deferred submitta s at acceptable hourly rates. All four firms have agreed to no other a d-on costs. FISCAL IMPACT Plan check fees paid to the City for each projec contracted out for full plan check will fund the cost for the consulta ts at an amount not to exceed 70% of the plan check fee paid to the Ci In cases where only structural plan check is provided by a consulting firm, the fee will be an amount not to exceed 40% of the total plan che k fee paid to the City. These amounts will be recognized in the revenue count for building plan check (account no. 011-01-5401) and a like amo nt appropriated to the Planning and Building Agency account for contr ctual services (account no. 11-508-6291), not to exceed a total amou t of $500,000. These allocated amounts to the Planning and Buil ing Agency budget for contracted plan check will include only fees not included in the FY 2006- 07 revenue projection for building plan check. APPROVAL AS FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS: ~ Jay)M. Trevino Ex€cutive Director Planning and Building Agency SB:rb sb\rfc,,"S\2006-07\Plan Check Services Aug-06 - ~(\('\\'(\~ \.~.... . .... Francisco-Gutierrez Executive Director Finance & Mana ement ~::_. Services Agen~ 25F-2