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Proposal Provided to: City of Santa Ana, Public Works Agency FQ SCI Consulting Group (SCI) is a public finance consulting firm with IConsultingGroup 30 years of expertise in assisting public agencies in California, including the County of Orange, City of Orange, and City of Placentia, with planning, justifying and successfully establishing new revenues for their service and capital improvement needs and objectives, and managing special assessment levies. SCI's 50 employees possess extensive benefit assessment engineering and formation expertise, particularly for agency -wide assessments that are much more difficult to gain property owner approval than development project or neighborhood assessments. Since Proposition 218 was approved in 1996, we have successfully farmed over 120 agency -wide new benefit assessments, which represent the majority of all post -P218 new agency -wide assessments in the State. These successful agency -wide assessments include all of the largest successful assessments in the State as well. SCI provides year -round special tax and assessment administration services and planning services for clients throughout California. Our firm currently administers over 400 assessment and special tax districts, comprising over 10,000,000 parcels. SCI's planning projects have included hundreds of development impact studies, facility and financing plans, demographic studies, cost of service and fee justification studies, and other planning and real estate studies. Moreover, Mr. John Bliss, proposed Task Lead for activities related to Funding Options & Recommendations, has served as the responsible Assessment Engineer on over 300 Engineer's Reports for new or increased assessments, comprising more post- Proposition 218 new assessment engineering than any other assessment engineer in the State. D p A, �i�O� Dan Cloak Environmental Consulting (DCEC) was founded by Mr. Dan Cloak in 2002. The one -man firm assists California municipalities with ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING stormwater NPDES compliance and urban watershed management. While specializing in stormwater treatment and Low Impact Development, DCEC has been involved in integrating stormwater pollution prevention practices into the everyday operations of municipal public works, planning and community development departments. DCEC worked with LWA and SCI on the successful Stormwater Quality Funding Initiative sponsored by the Contra Costa Clean Water Program. 1A.1. Project Team The LWA Team is comprised of highly qualified professionals to support the City with conducting the fee study and implementing funding options as well as providing project management. Our Team includes engineers, scientists and task leads who possess the qualifications and experience to successfully perform their respective role /function. As the Project Manager and Principal -in- Charge, Ms. Ashby is the primary point -of- contact to the City. The identified key personnel are charged with their assigned tasks, and in the event that Ms. Ashby is not available, the individuals will serve as the point -of- contact for their respective tasks. The project organization chart provided as Figure 1 identifies our Team's proposed key personnel as well as their roles. Table 2 provides the anticipated percentage of each individual's time committed to manage, execute and implement the various tasks on this project. Resumes highlighting the experience and qualifications for the key personnel are provided below. Page 1 6 25M -64 Key Personnel Percentage r I,' Giles Pettifor 25% Karen Cowan 15% Will Lewis 25% John Bliss 25% Dan Cloak 15% Table 2. Personnel Commitment NPDES & Environmental Programs Fee Study RFP No. 14 -069 June 23, 2015 at 2 :00 p. m.