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Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Fifth Amendment to the Agreement with Cultivate, LLC to Increase Compensation by $73,500, for a Total Aggregate Compensation Not to Exceed $294,000, to Continue Providing Technical Planning Support to the City of Alameda General Plan Update through Plan Adoption. (Planning, Building and Transportation 209)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The last comprehensive update of the current General Plan occurred almost 30 years ago and was designed to serve the City of Alameda (City) for 20 years or until 2010.
In 2019, the City Council approved Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-21 Biennial Budget and 2019 Annual Report on the Status of the General Plan, which identified the need for a comprehensive update of the 1991 General Plan. Work began on the update in 2019, with technical support from Cultivate, LLC. In February 2020, the City Council approved a contract amendment for the next phase of work, and in 2020, the City received a $310,000 State Grant to partially fund the General Plan update and project Environmental Impact Report (EIR).
Since the release of the first draft General Plan, the staff/consultant team has received written comments on the General Plan from over 1,500 individuals through the website, and the Planning Board has held four public forums for the review of the First Draft General Plan, with approximately 75-80 people attending each forum. In addition, staff and consultants have been meeting with a wide variety of organizations and groups.
The 2020 work on the General Plan has been extremely productive and successful, but staff underestimated the volume of work and the number of individuals that would be participating in the process. Therefore, staff is requesting City Council approval for a fifth amendment to the contract to fund the final phase of the General Plan update. The necessary funds are available and budgeted for this purpo...
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