Agenda Item Wording:
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Authorize the City Manager to extend the emergency contract for Engineering Plan Review and Related Services to Interwest Consulting Group, not to exceed $200,000 for one year ending December 31, 2024.
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Deadline for Action: 11/6/2023
Submitting Department: Community Development
Contact Name and Phone Number:
Jason Huckleberry, CD Asst. Director, Jason.huckleberry@visalia.city , (559)713-4495
Paul Bernal, Community Development Director, paul.bernal@visalia.city (559)713-4025
Department Recommendation:
Staff recommends that Council authorize the City Manager to extend the emergency contract for Engineering Plan Review and Related Services to Interwest Consulting Group for one year (ending December 31, 2024) to the City with professional Land Surveyor related map and document review and approvals due to the continued vacancy of the City's Land Surveyor position at a maximum cost not-to-exceed of $200,000.
Background Discussion:
The emergency contract with Interwest was initially executed in October 2020 to provide plan review support to Community Development staff to meet objective plan review timelines related to new project submittals. City staff has been successfully meeting those timelines for nearly two years now and has not relied upon the Interwest contract for plan review service. However, in April of 2022 the City's Land Surveyor accepted a position with another agency, and the City has not been successful in backfilling that position since their departure. The Community Development Department has relied heavily upon the emergency contract to provide both the Engineering and Planning Divisions with a contracted licensed land surveyor to review and sign on subdivision final maps, parcel maps, as well as provide technical review of easements, grant deeds, and lot line adjustments submitted to the City's Community Development Department. These services are critical to the department and a required component of the work...
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