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the average budgeted hourly rate, the Project Manager can decide if the appropriate staff are assigned to the project and if they appear to be working efficiency. FIRM WORKLOAD One benefit of hiring a firm the size of URS is our resource base and our corresponding ability to surge up and down to respond to project needs. Also, our team is largely local and very accessible. Furthermore, our local staffis supported by an additional 600 personnel in Southern California alone. We are confident in our ability to meet the City's needs and to perform and tasks outlined in our scope of work on time. The following table highlights the specific availability of our proposed project team for the Grand Avenue Widening effort. Team Member/Role CurrentAvailability Court Morgan, Project Manager 30% Paul Ryan, Principal-in-Charge 30% Jeffry Rice, QA/QC 30% Leonard Malo, Biology Lead 25% Laurie Solis, Cultural Resources 25% Paul Nguyen, Air Quality 30% Chris Goetz, Geology/Soils 35% Youji Yausi, Community/Relocation Impacts 25% Ted Lindberg, Noise 20% Cynthia Gabaldon, Water Quality 30% Angela Lieba, Visual/Aesthetics 25% Douglas Smith, Traffic Study 25% Janet Tentler, Hazardous Materials 25% Sylvia Novoa, Public Involvement 25% E. PROJECT TEAM, ORGANIZATIONAL CHART AND RESUMES URS has not only worked side-by-side with City personnel on several recent city projects, but we aze also geogrnph;cal~y by your side. Our location in Santa Ana gives us the ability to offer local resources and communicate with the City in a timely manner. Plus, the URS team is highly trained in prepazing CEQA/NEPA documentation. Additionally, with over 55,000 employees world wide, and more than 1,600 available in California, URS has immense talent to draw upon for each aspect of this project. For this contract, URS is particularly excited to offer our depth of resources to the City. After decades of working with Caltrans, the URS staff has honed a keen knowledge of their processes. This coupled with URS' experience in CEQA/NEPA documentation, brings strength to the partnership of URS and the City allowing for a more fluid and streamlined approach to compliance procedures. The table below highlights the Califomia personnel who have expertise required for this contract. For this project, URS has assembled a local team ofhighly-skilled professionals who are not only qualified in all areas set forth in the RFP, but also have an intricate understanding of the required documentation for the Grand Avenue Widening project. Furthermore, our team's QA/QC leader, Jeffry Rice, worked for 15 years with the City. He was involved in the planning and land use impacts of this project, as well as the initial EIR as part of his role as principal planner. 15 25H-17