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ANALYSIS The Community Development Department’s Building Division and the Fire Department are responsible for ensuring quality development, construction and health and safety standards by processing building permit applications, reviewing development plans, enforcing zoning ordinances, helping to enforce certain chapters of the municipal and fire code, and conducting building and fire inspections. While much of the work is performed by staff, the City ut ilizes consultants during staff turnover, in high volume periods, and for specialized expertise on mid- and large-scale development projects to provide plan review and building inspection services. CSG, Shums Coda, and WC3 have performed to the City’s expectations but the City has exhausted or almost exhausted the approved funding for these services. Additionally, the current agreements expire June 30, 2017. Staff will issue a new RFP during Fiscal Year 2017-18 in an attempt to increase its pool of consultants for building inspection and plan review services. However, staff desires to maintain services with the current firms until the RFP process is complete. This requires amending the existing fee amounts and extending the agreements by one year. ALTERNATIVES Council could choose to not approve the Agreement, which will significantly limit the City’s ability to provide Building Division services. FISCAL IMPACT Spanning both FY 2016-17 and FY 2017-18, the Building Division is anticipated to have approximately $1.6 million for reimbursed professional services expenditures that may be used for administrative, code enforcement, plan review, or building inspection services. That amount includes budgeted professional services for under the Building Division’s Building Regulation (63110) and Code Enforcement (63310) programs. Specifically in FY 2016-17 for professional services expenditures, the Building Division has approximately $600,000 in remaining available balance. For FY 2017-18, staff are proposing a budget of $996,706 for professional services expenditures for the Building Division. Additionally, the Fire Department has allocated approximately $80,000 for their share of requested services. Staff anticipate receiving approximately $5 million in development related building permit and plan check revenue. It is expected that revenues from development projects will offset the costs of professional services. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW This activity is not a project under California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as defined in CEQA Guidelines, section 15378 because the administrative activities will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. 6.1.F. - Page 2