REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement with Cascadia Consulting Group, Inc. to Assist the City in updating the Climate Action Plan and Preparation of the Related Environment Documents and Related Budget Amendment
Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Promote Sustainability and Environmental Protection
BACKGROUND
The City formally commenced the Climate Action Plan Update following the City Council's approval of a contract on January 24, 2020 with a consultant team lead by Cascadia Consulting Group, Inc. and including Raimi + Associates and David J. Powers and Associates. The City's current Climate Action Plan (CAP), adopted in December 2013, identifies measurable actions the City can implement through the year 2020 to reduce the City's Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels, as required by California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Assembly Bill 32). The City is now in the process of comprehensively updating the CAP to extend the City's GHG reduction goals through 2030, and to address new State requirements enacted since the 2013 CAP was adopted.
The existing term of agreement with Cascadia Consulting Group, Inc. is for two years, ending on December 31, 2021, with two one-year options to extend the agreement through December 31, 2023.
DISCUSSION
Staff is proposing Amendment No.1 to the Agreement with Cascadia Consulting Group, Inc. to exercise one of the two available one-year options to extend the agreement through December 31, 2022, to revise the scope of work, and to increase the maximum compensation by $20,000.
As the project has developed and was reviewed by the Council, additional tasks were identified by staff working with the CAP update, primarily related to revising and refining the Strategies and Actions to incorporate Council's direction, analyzing scenarios to achieve new reduction targets per Council's direction and additional community engagement efforts due to the pandemic. This has resulted in a need for...
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