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6.1 I Page 7 Mr.Sailesh Mehra � City of Redwood City Juiy 2,2010 Page 2 applicanfi in an effort to resolve this issue.TexC changes were made to the DE1R to address this issue, and included the addition oE 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 incIudes 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 compietion of�he FEIR.Theze are a number of reasons for this request,including the extremely short timeline tor completion of the Admi�nisbrative Final EIR(AFEIR),the need for senior level staff to review and incorporate the wvrk produced by the M Group into the AFEII�and the fact that Mr.Smith is tk�e only member of RMT s#aff currently Eully up to dafe on the Laurel Way project.The existing approved scope provides 40 hours for junior sta€f to prepare Ehe AFEIR, a�d ari additional 2�hours to prepare fille FEIR,RMT requests that these 60 hours be transferred to Mr.Smith.The billing xate#or junior staff is$88 per hour,while the biliing rate for Mr.Smith is$148 an hour-a dilference o�f$60 an hour.The b�dge#augment resul.#ing from this�ransfer of hours would be$3,600. Earlier this week,RMT staff was pxovided with a copy of the approved meeting mulutes for the Apri16,2010 Planning Commission public hearing.RMT sta�f reviewed these minutes and found that many of the public comments made at the meeting either were not inco�rporated into the official minutes,or were incomplete.The FEIR must include responses to comments made at the public hearing,and fherefore the minutes need to be revised to more accurately xeflect the comments made at the rneeting.RMT staff is requesti�ng a budget augment of$1,184 for s#aff to revise these minutes and submit the revisions to the Planning Commission for adoption.A separate itexn under Task 5, below,includes the cos�for attending the Juiy 20,2010 Planning Commission meeting for khe review and adoption of the revised minutes. Yask 5 l�eetings and Communication Task 5 includes meetings and communication.Ak City staff request,RMT is requesting a budget augment to have four technical subconsultants pxesent aE the August I7,2�I0 Pla�nning 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 recZuirements for each are listed below: Foo�e�z