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^ Attend other public meetings on the EIR or the projects EIP's technical approach to the work is detailed below. Project Management Purpose: Provide continuous direction to the consultant team and to coordinate with Kathleen Livermore, the City's Interim Planning Manager. City Involvement: Participate in weekly progress discussions; coordinate with EIP project manager; serve as liaison to ICI, unless it is determined that EIP may contact ICI directly; help set project priorities and facilitate decisions. Deliverables: (1) Meeting notes as required, and (2) Monthly progress and budget reports. Discussion: From EIP's perspective, project success is San Leandro and ICI agreeing to a Site Plan that achieves all or most of their respective goals. The EIR process facilitates achieving this objective by identifying and analyzing issues and suggesting alternatives and mitigation .measures that address adverse impacts. Project success begins with quickly and accurately discovering issues and conditions that must be addressed by a project. This knowledge lays the groundwork for the analysis and understandings that must follow. This working environment can be only achieved with good project management and clear communication. EIP will rely on close coordination and frequent communication with the City. To facilitate this style of management, EIP's project manager, Mr. Michael Kay, will serve as the consultant team's single point of contact. He will actively manage the work to ensure its timeliness and quality and will participate in all project meetings. We anticipate holding frequent meetings or conference calls (up to two per month) in order to disseminate quickly accurate information about the project description, schedule, impact assumptions, and deliverables. Electronic mail will be an essential part of the communication network among all team members. As part of overall project management, all written materials will be reviewed and edited for technical accuracy, adequacy, style, grammar, tone, and presentation. At the outset of the project, EIP will prepare a style guide that all EIR authors will follow to facilitate production of a well-organized and readable document. This same guide will be shared with Dowling Associates (DA) to ensure that they will conform as much as possible to our style and conventions and reduce the time required to edit their materials. We will establish a set time each week for the EIP project manager to contact the City project manager to review work progress, to identify data needed from the City or ICI, and to address foreseeable issues. The EIP project manager will record any decisions and action items and Consulting Services Agreement between City of San Leandro and EIP Associates Page 18 of 43