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Contract Award to <br />Santa Ana General <br />August 6, 2007 <br />Page 2 <br />Prepare the <br />Plan Housing Element <br />provision of adequate housing choices for the Santa Ana community. In <br />addition, the Housing Element will provide an inventory of vacant or <br />underutilized land with the potential to develop the City's 3,393 housing <br />unit share of the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA). <br />The General Plan Housing Element effort will include a summary of Santa <br />Ana's existing demographic and housing characteristics; identify progress <br />on the goals and implementation actions set forth in the existing 2000 <br />Housing Element, multi - lingual community workshops for input by <br />policymakers, stakeholders and the residents; detail locations that allow <br />for future housing growth to serve the Santa Ana community and regional <br />market; and a planning document that frames Santa Ana's Housing policy <br />and goals for the future. <br />A Request for Proposals was distributed to eleven planning consulting <br />firms in late May 2007. In response to the Request for Proposals, staff <br />received proposals from three highly - qualified planning firms: The <br />Planning Center, RBF Consulting and Hogle- Ireland. After reviewing the <br />proposals, Planning and Housing staff conducted interviews with each of <br />the consulting teams. At the conclusion of the interviews, together with <br />an analysis of the proposals submitted, staff determined that The <br />Planning Center was best qualified to assist in the preparation of the <br />Housing Element update. The total contract amount for the preparation of <br />the General Plan Housing Element will not exceed $227,670. <br />FISCAL IMPACT <br />Funds in the amount of $135,000 are available in the CDBG fund for <br />General Planning Projects (account no. 135 - 149 -6291, project no. 08- <br />7603), funds in the amount of $57,670 are available in the Planning and <br />Building Agency account for other contractual services (account no. 11- <br />505- 6291), funds in the amount of $25,000 are available in the Merged <br />Housing Set Aside funds (account no. 507 - 508 -6291, work order no. 62017), <br />and funds in the amount of $10,000 are available in the Air Quality <br />Management fund (account no. 31 -505- 6291). The total contract amount <br />will not exceed $227,670. <br />4 -2 <br />