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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />OCTOBER 21, 2014 <br />TITLE: <br />APPROVAL OF QUALIFIED ENVIRONMENTAL <br />CONSULTANT LIST TO PROVIDE <br />ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AND TECHNICAL <br />STUDIES {STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 3,3C) <br />CITY MANA <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on la' Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2ntl Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to execute the attached agreements with the <br />below- referenced list of environmental firms to provide environmental services and related <br />technical studies for the Planning & Building Agency at the fees set forth in their responses to <br />Request for Qualifications in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,500,000 for a period of three <br />years, subject to non- substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney. <br />Consultants: <br />AECOM <br />Bon Terra Psomas <br />CAA Planning <br />DKS Associates <br />DUDEK <br />Environmental Intelligence, <br />ESA <br />First Carbon Solutions <br />ICF International <br />Kimley -Horn & Associates <br />LSA Associates, Inc. <br />DISCUSSION <br />PCR <br />PlaceWorks <br />Phil Martin & Associates, Inc. <br />PMC <br />RBF Consulting <br />Rincon Consultants, Inc. <br />LLC Stantec <br />T &B Planning <br />Templeton Planning Group <br />UltraSystems Environmental, Inc. <br />URS Corporation Americas <br />Wieland Acoustics, Inc. <br />In order to facilitate investment in the community, staff has identified ways to streamline the <br />environmental process by pre - qualifying environmental consultants. While staff prepares many of <br />the environmental services required for City as well as private development projects, larger and <br />more complex projects often necessitate the hiring of environmental consultants to ensure all <br />state - mandated requirements are satisfied. The hiring of these consultants adds additional and <br />sometimes vital time to development processing. It requires staff to solicit City Council approval to <br />request proposals from several consulting firms for the project, review the proposals, prepare a <br />contract and staff report, and request City Council approval for the consultant. This process can <br />add as much as two months to the development process for each project and, thus, cause <br />substantial delay. <br />25AA -1 <br />