RESOLUTION NO. ________________ (N.C.S.)
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE AGREEMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BETWEEN THE CITY OF SALINAS AND CSG CONSULTANTS, INC., AND AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE AGREEMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BETWEEN THE CITY OF SALINAS AND BUREAU VERITAS NORTH AMERICA, INC. AND APPROVING AN INCREASE OF $125,000 TO THE PERMIT SERVICES FUND APPROPRIATON AND CORRESPONDING REVENUE BUDGET WHEREAS, the Permit Services Division relies upon outside technical professionals to assist with plan review, permitting and inspection services, particularly for more complicated development projects; and WHEREAS, contracting for these services allows for the scaling up of experienced technical staffing resources to be able to respond in a timely manner to increases in the number of development applications due to economic growth, while maintaining the City’s workforce when there is an economic downturn; and WHEREAS, CSG Consultants, Inc. (CSG) and Bureau Veritas North America, Inc. (BV) have extensive knowledge and experience in providing technical services to building departments for multiple jurisdictions in California and employ staff that have the requisite certification, training, and experience to perform the technical work required to meet the City’s needs and have a demonstrated record of quality performance in a timely and cost-effective manner; and WHEREAS, there are no other vendors within the City of Salinas or the County of Monterey at this time that can perform this level of work; and WHEREAS, since 2020 the City has contracted with CSG and BV to provide plan review, permitting and inspection services; and WHEREAS, in June 2021, the City entered into an Agreement for Professional Services with CSG to continue providing plan review, permitting and inspection services for fiscal year 2021-2022 for an amount not to exceed Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000); and WHEREAS, in January 2022 the City Council authorized the execution of Amendment No. 1 increasing the total not to exceed compensation amount to Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($950,000); and WHEREAS, in June 2021, the City entered into an Agreement for Professional Services with BV to continue plan review for fiscal year 2021-2022 for an amount not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000); and WHEREAS, subsequently, multiple unique and complex development project applications have been received. Due to limited staffing resources and position vacancies, additional outside professional services are needed to review and process these applications in a timely manner; and WHEREAS, the increased cost of One Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($125,000) associated with CSG Amendment No. 2 and BV Amendment No. 1 will be fully recovered with collected permit fees from the Permit Services Enterprise Fund; and WHEREAS, the City of Salinas has determined that the proposed action is not a project as defined by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (CEQA Guidelines Section 15378); and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED the Salinas City Council authorizes the Mayor to execute Amendment No. 2 to the Agreement for Professional Services with CSG Consultants, Inc. to increase the total compensation amount from Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($950,000) to One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), and Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement for Professional Services with Bureau Veritas North America, Inc. to increase the total compensation amount from Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) to One Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($125,000); and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Salinas City Council authorizes an increase of $125,000 to the Permit Services Fund appropriation and corresponding revenue budget.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Mayor, and her designee, are authorized to take whatever additional action may be necessary to effectuate the intent of this resolution.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 26th day of April 2022, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
APPROVED:
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Kimbley Craig, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Patricia M. Barajas, City Clerk