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City of Redwood City, California Response to Request for Proposal For Overhead Cost Allocation Plan the team approach to most cost allocation projects. There are three primary benefits to our proposed project team. The first, and perhaps the greatest benefit, of the proposed project team is experience working with California cities and counties in general and with Redwood City specifically. The proposed project manager successfully prepared the City's cost allocation plan twice approximately 8-1 0 years ago. In doing so Mr. Wakefield brings to this project an invaluable understanding of City operations and structures. Mr. Hazeltine and Mr. Burgess have both been involved with Redwood City's SB 90 projects over the past decade and have developed an exceptional level of trust with City staff, and understand the challenges the City faces, as well as understanding the City's accounting system and financial structure. Their existing relationships with key project stakeholders will also be invaluable to this engagement. The second benefit is that the expertise of the team as a whole is greater than the sum of the team's parts. The three team members bring unique education, skills, and experiences from numerous local government cost allocation, user fee, management study, and performance review consulting engagements in California. The proposed team includes Mr. Jeff Wakefield. Mr. Wakefield has successfully prepared hundreds of city cost allocation plans over his 20 year consulting career. Mr. Wakefield is a hands-on project manager who will personally prepare Redwood City's Cost Allocation plan and associated deliverables. The third benefit is that by placing two or more experts on the project, all phases of the project are completed in a timely manner which results in an overall on-time project. As part of a successful growing firm, the proposed project consultants are engaged in projects during the same time period as requested by the City. These projects however, will not interfere or prohibit the successful completion of the proposed services for the City. MGT schedules projects and proposes project teams with a client-focused, rather than firm-focused approach. Simply stated, the City will receive the proposed services, in the proposed manner, from the proposed consultants without conditions or qualifications. In addition to the proposed project team, MGT can draw from a deep pool of experienced cost allocation consultants to supplement Redwood City's project as necessary. These consultants have unique skill sets such as performance measurements, performance management and process improvement. Most importantly, all of these consultants have successfully prepared cost allocation plans for the past seven to thirty years. These experts are available to assist the proposed project team with any unforeseen situations inherent in large city cost allocation projects. MGT 7 Qf UHil,CA, IMe