MICHAEL BRANDMAN ASSOCIATES 7 - 2008

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April 11, 2008 Pedro GO]& Associate Planner City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza, Post Office Box 1988 Santa Ana, CA 92702 Dear Mr. Guillen: ONES Michael Brandman Associates Michael Brandman Associates (MBA) has prepared this statement of our professional qualifications to provide environmental consulting services for the City of Santa Ana Planning Division. Preparing legally defensible, technically precise, and objective environmental documents is a challenging task, and there are many consulting firms from which to choose. What is even more challenging is the consulting firm's ability to provide excellent service to each client, as dictated by the client's specific needs and expectations. It is this ability to provide high -quality work in conjunction with outstanding client service that sets MBA apart. Our project teams know the City of Santa Ana. We have been pleased to have had the opportunity to demonstrate superior client service and legally adequate environmental documentation for the City of Santa Ana through our on -call environmental consulting services with the City. Past projects have included bat surveys for the Santa Ana Bridges, Patricia Lane Park Cultural Assessment, Cultural Surveys for Grand Avenue and Tustin Avenue, Fairview/Edinger Intersection Widening, Memory Lane Widening, Bristol Street Widening Section 106 Compliance, Santiago Creek Bike Trail Project, 17t" Street and environmental studies related to the 55 Freeway Southbound On -Ramp and the SR-55 Southbound On -Ramp at Dyer Road, as well as through the preparation of the Sav-On and Live/Work Lofts EIR. Our project leaders are seasoned professionals. MBA Team Leaders each average over 20 years of project management experience and are experts at dealing with complex, schedule -driven projects. Further, our management philosophy requires significant on -going coordination with our clients throughout the preparation of required documents. To assure timely project completions and to maintain the high level of service to which the City if accustomed when working with MBA, Mr. Michael E. Houlihan, AICP, Manager of Environmental Services at MBA, will be the City's primary point of contact and Project Manager responsible for day-to-day project management. Mr. Houlihan has nearly 25 years of experience providing environmental planning services, including environmental document preparation (CEQA/NEPA), land use compatibility analyses, and assessments of public services and utilities. Mr. Thomas F. Holm, AICP, MBA Principal and Director of Environmental Services, with more than 30 years of public agency experience, fills the role of Project Director to provide overall strategic planning and quality assurance/quality control. MBA is committed to maintaining the necessary resources for all assigned projects. MBA understands the level of complexity involved in energy projects and, therefore, has assembled an expert team with a wide range of knowledge, skills, and relevant project experience to meet your needs effectively. Team leaders will be committed to each project throughout its lifecycle and, as you will read, supported by a significant number of expert technical staff in all disciplines to ensure a high level of staffing redundancy; this will help to ensure that if an aggressive project schedule is required, the project will not have opportunity to fall behind. With more than 50 professionals in our local Irvine office, and the ability to draw on staff from other local offices, MBA's depth and breadth of available personnel serve as valuable technical and staff resources to the City. We also have a full -service technical editing, graphics, word processing center, reproduction department, and ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ■ PL kM1,TING ■ NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGF-h4ENT www.brandman.com EXHIBIT, Bakersfield 661.334.2755 Fresno 559.497.0310 Irvine 714.508.4100 Palm Springs 760.322.8847 Sacramento 916.447.1100 San Bernardino 909.884.2255 San Ramon 925.830.2733