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ANALYSIS <br />The Community Development Department’s Building Division and the Fire Department <br />are responsible for ensuring quality development, construction and health and safety <br />standards by processing building permit applications, reviewing development <br />plans, enforcing zoning ordinances, helping to enforce certain chapters of the <br />municipal building and fire code, and conducting building and fire inspections. Many <br />of the services rendered by the Building Division are provided on a cost recovery or <br />user fee basis. The revenues generated for these fees are used to offset the City’s <br />labor, material and professional service costs. While much of the work is performed <br />by staff, the City utilizes consultants during staff turnover, in high volume periods, <br />and for specialized expertise on mid- and large-scale development projects to provide <br />plan review and building inspection services. Amending this contract permits the City to <br />continue using WC3 for plan check review and inspection services. <br /> <br />WC3 has performed to the City’s expectations but the City has exhausted or almost <br />exhausted the approved funding for these services due to the high volume and <br />complex nature of development projects. Staff will issue a new RFP during Fiscal <br />Year 2017-18 in an attempt to increase its pool of consultants for building inspection <br />and plan review services. However, staff desires to maintain services with the current <br />firms until the RFP process is complete. This requires amending the existing fee <br />amounts. <br /> <br />ALTERNATIVES <br />Council could choose to not approve the Agreement, which will significantly limit <br />the City’s ability to provide Building Division services. <br /> <br />FISCAL IMPACT <br />For FY 2017-18, the Building and Code Enforcement Division has a combined budget <br />of $996,706 for reimbursed professional services expenditures. That amount includes <br />budgeted reimbursed professional services for under the Building Division’s <br />Building Regulation and Code Enforcement programs. The reimbursed professional <br />services budget is offset by revenues generated from plan check and building permit <br />fees. <br /> <br />ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW <br />This activity is not a project under California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as <br />defined in CEQA Guidelines, section 15378 because the administrative activities will not <br />result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. <br /> <br /> <br />CHRISTOPHER DACUMOS <br />MANAGEMENT ANALYST II <br /> <br /> <br />6.1.I. - Page 2