REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
December 15, 2016
FROM: JENNIFER CLARK, Director
Development and Resource Management Department
THROUGH: MIKE SANCHEZ, Assistant Director
Development and Resource Management Department
BY: BRIAN T. LEONG, Building and Safety Services Manager
Building and Safety Services Division
SUBJECT
Title
Approve an amendment to the contract with Brooks-Ransom Associates, for professional engineering services to conduct structural engineering plan check services for Building and Safety customer projects.
Body
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends approving the amendment to the contract with Brooks-Ransom Associates to extend the term of the agreement past December 31, 2016 to December 31, 2017, and increase the amount not to exceed $150,000 for professional engineering services to conduct structural engineering plan check services for Building and Safety customer projects.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Brooks-Ransom Associates is structural engineering consulting firm originally contracted on November 2015 to provide structural engineering plan check services for the Building and Safety Division for customer development projects. Due to the volume of new development projects along with an increasing volume of submittals triggered by State mandated enforcement of the 2016 California Building Standards Codes, there is a need to continue services with said consultant to meet acceptable processing timelines.
BACKGROUND
On October 2015, the need for an additional resource to provide structural engineering plan check services arose due to a retirement of existing staff in the Building and Safety Services Division. After an exhaustive recruitment for a Professional Engineer to fill the vacant position in the Division, and projects not meeting acceptable timelines, it was determined that a third party consultant should be retained for structural engineering plan check services to supplement the increasing backlog. This amendment i...
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