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A. Cover Letter Subject: Revised Proposal to Prepare Euvironnnental Documents for the Warner Avenue Widening Project Dear Ms. Amirani: We appreciated the opportunity to meet with you, Jason and Kenny last week to review our proposals for road - widening projects in the City of Santa Ana. Per our discussion, we have updated the scope of work, schedule and cost estitrate to more closely meet the CIty's objectives. This January 26, 2009 submittal incorporates the following changes subsequent to the updates the forwarded to you on January 20, 2009: • Elimination of the Public Outreach scope of work (Arellano Associates will no longer participate in this effort) • Reduction of meeting and public hearing attendance. As detailed in the attached scope of work, The Planning Center will participate ht up to 12 meetings (including Public Works staff meetings, IiTAC, and Redevelopment Agency Meetings) and up to five publlc meetings assumed to include a Public Scoping meeting, two Planning Commission Public Hearings, and two City Council Public Hearings. Subconsultant meeting attendance has not been changed and is detailed In the Scope of Work. • The schedule has been substantially reduced, primarily reflecting reductions in longer and multiple reviews anticipated if the process included Caltrans. It is now anticipated that the environmental process, exclusive of public hearings, can be completed by the end of January 2009. • Hardcopy EIR production was fitrtiter reduced (from 50 copies to 25 copies), relying on electronic copies. The following changes incorporated in our previous submittal remain vnlid for this updated proposal: • All work associated with the NEPA process has been eliminated; • Legal descriptions have been removed; • Landscaping design and plan have been removed; • Relocation Plan has been removed; • Ground surveys have been ininhnized; • Right -of -way analysis has been reduced; • Project management hours have been reduced; • Reimbursable hard copies have been reduced in favor of CDs; • The mark -up percentage has been reduced to comply with the City requirements; • A new teann member, Urbana Preservation and Planning, has been brought In to reduce the cost of the cultural /historical analysis. Willi the exception of Arellano Associates, the project team remains as proposed in our previous submittal. As Lead Consultant, The Planning Center's Director of Environmental Services, JoAnn Hadfield, will serve as overall Director-in- Charge and primary contact for [lie City. Our ht- !rouse team will be supported by: + Urbana Preservation and Planning — Archaeological /historical resources • IBI Group -- design and engineering, traffic analysis, hydrology and drainage studies, landscape design • VA Consulting -- field surveying, topo and utility mapping, and right -of -way trapping • GeoLogic Associates— geotechnical report, site assessment and hazardous waste • Cogstone -- paleontological resources City of Santa Ana - Proposal to Prepare Environmental Documents for Warner Avenue Widening Project The Planning Center I Page 1