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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO STAFF REPORT DATE: February 4, 2008 TO: John Jermanis, City Manager FROM: Luke Sims, Community Development BY: Kathleen Livermore, Planning Manage SUBJECT PROJECT/PROJECT DESCRIPTION: APPROVED AND FORWARDED TO CITY COUNCIL John .~~ "ermanis City nager RESOLUTION APPROVING CONTRACTUAL SERVICES AGREEMENT (CSA) BETWEEN THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO AND BARRY J. MILLER, A1CP, RELATED TO PREPARING THE HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE AND RELATED GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENTS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $100,000 SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends that the City Council approve a contractual services agreement with Barry J. Miller, AICP, for an amount not to exceed $100,000 to prepare the Housing Element Update and related General Plan Amendments for the City of San Leandro. BACKGROUND The City of San Leandro is commencing its update of its Housing Element to comply with State of California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) regulations that require that the Housing Element of the General Plan be updated every 5 years. The last update of the Housing Element occurred. in 2002. The Housing Update will reflect the changes in the City's share of fair share housing goals, as administered by the Association of Bay Area Governments. The Housing Element is also required to be wholly consistent with the San Leandro General Plan that was adopted in May 2002. The Element will be written to comply with State Planning Law that requires that all Elements within a General Plan be internally consistent and to the standards of the State of California Housing and Community Development, which will certify the Element. Staff distributed a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) in December of 2007 to six qualified planning consulting firms and individuals in the Bay Area with expertise in General Plan and Housing Elements. Other firms were directed to the City website for information regarding the RFQ. The consultants were asked to submit their qualifications demonstrating their past work with Housing Element Updates. The City received one Statement of Qualifications and two additional responses by the January deadline. The two additional responses were from firms that indicated that they were not able to take on the project at this time due to work load constraints. The selected consultant team includes the lead planner, Barry Miller, AICP, with subcontractor Moore Iacofano Goltsman (MIG).