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7.A Page 3 Over the next 11 months, Hart Howerton's work will focus on three primary tasks, as generally described below: ', Task One - Oversight and management of environmental review process: Provide programmatic assistance and management fo the City and associated staff. This includes helping to coordinate contracts, consultants, scoping strategy, schedules, the Environmental Review Management Team (ERMT) meetings, as well as assisting Hauge Brueck Associates with establishing an efficient, credible and robust CEQA process. Also included in the revised scope of services is a contract for water exchange legal advisory services� which includes providing the City with analysis, input and policy guidance regarding the water exchange proposal in the application. Task Two - Development review: Continue to work with the applicant and City staff to review the Saltworks project application and provide evaluation, anatysis, critique, and � policy guidance, including the development of project afternatives for study in the EIR. Development review at this scale requires the ability to evaluate the complexities of a project over a wide array of topics ranging from the general to the specific. Analyzing the interrelationship of project components, City policy, and public input requires a firm with the depth, knowledge base, expertise and staff to manage such a task. � Task Three - Communications support: VIlork with the City and the ERMT to ensure that I a transparent, meaningful and inclusive public participation process occurs in relation to the processing of the Saltworks development proposal. The amended scope of work is intended to cover the anticipated time and materials associated wifh the review of the development proposal and the public invo[vement process through June 2011. Contract Amendment No. 4 is in the amount of $868,274.00 taking the total contract value, including previous amendments, to $1,679,324.00 ($868,274 + $811,050). � Hauqe Brueck Associates As designed, HBA's original scope was intended to cover initial project review costs up to preparation of the "Notice of Preparation". This Amendment was anticipated to occur early in the process once the first phase of review was complete and the scope of work could be better defined. HBA's revised scope of services inc[udes the preparation of a thorough and in-depfh environmental analysis intended to aid the general public, agency representatives, and the City's policymakers to make informed decisions about the Saltworks development proposal (Attachment 3). Including in this scope of work are tasks such as developing a project description for CEQA purposes, implementing project scoping meetings, retaining and managing sub-consultants, the preparation of peer review of technical studies, and preparation of a draft environmental document. The amended scope of work is intended to cover the anticipated work associated with the review of the development proposal and the public involvement process through June 2011. Contract Amendment No. '! is in the amount of $1,439,300.00 taking the total contract value, to $'1,691,300.00 ($1,439,30�.00 + $252,000). ALTERNATIVES Council may choose not to approve the revised scopes with Data Instincts, Hart Howerton, and/or HBA and direct staff to modify the scope of work, work with al#ernative consultant(s), or determine alternative means to perform the work.