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• Mr. Sailesh Mehra City of Redwood City July 2, 2010 Page 2 applicant in an effort to resolve this issue. Text changes were made to the DEIR to address this issue, and included the addition of a new mitigation measure. Mr. Jeffrey Smith spent 32 hours of time on this task, for an out of scope cost of $4,736. Task 4 FEIR Task 4 includes the preparation of the Final EIR (FEIR). RMT is requesting that hours originally intended for junior staff be transferred to Mr. Jeffrey Smith in order to expedite the completion of the FEIR. There are a number of reasons for this request, including the extremely short timeline for completion of the Administrative Final EIR (AFEIR), the need for senior level staff to review and incorporate the work produced by the M Group into the AFEIR, and the fact that Mr. Smith is the only member of RMT staff currently fully up to date on the Laurel Way project. The existing approved scope provides 40 hours for junior staff to prepare the AFEIR, and an additional 20 hours to prepare the FEIR. RMT requests that these 60 hours be transferred to Mr. Smith. The billing rate for junior staff is $88 per hour, while the billing rate for Mr. Smith is $148 an hour - a difference of $60 an hour. The budget augment resulting from this transfer of hours would be $3,600. Earlier this week, RMT staff was provided with a copy of the approved meeting minutes for the April 6, 2010 Planning Commission public hearing. RMT staff reviewed these minutes and found that many of the public comments made at the meeting either were not incorporated into the official minutes, or were incomplete. The FEIR must include responses to comments made at the public hearing, and therefore the minutes need to be revised to more accurately reflect the comments made at the meeting. RMT staff is requesting a budget augment of $1,184 for staff to revise these minutes and submit the revisions to the Planning Commission for adoption. A separate item under Task 5, below, includes the cost for attending the July 20, 2010 Planning Commission meeting for the review and adoption of the revised minutes. Task 5 Meetings and Communication Task 5 includes meetings and communication. At City staff request, RMT is requesting a budget augment to have four technical subconsultants present at the August 17, 2010 Planning Commission hearing in order to address questions or comments related to their areas of specialty. The specific subconsultant firms to be present at the meeting and the cost requirements for each are listed below: FfX ter2