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6.1.A. - Page 1 RE PO RT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the Cit Mana er September 9, 2013 SUBJECT Amendment Number 3 to Agreement for Professional Services with Moffatt & Nichol for engineering design services RECOMMENDATION By motion, approve, and authorize the City Manager to execute Amendment Number 3 with Moffatt & Nichol in the amount of $138,025 for conceptual design services for the Bayfront Canal and Atherton Channel Improvements and Habitat Restoration Project (Bayfront Project) and authorize the City Manager to increase the contract amount up to 10%. BACKGROUND On February 27, 2012, the City executed an agreement with Moffatt & Nichol for $30,882 to develop a hydraulic model and perform a feasibility study to analyze the potential for routing storm flows from the Bayfront Canal and Atherton Channel into the managed ponds that are part of the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project, which is managed by the California State Coastal Conservancy (Conservancy) and owned by Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge). Moffat and Nichols was selected for this project because of its prior work with the Conservancy and the consulting team providing design services for the Conservancy and the Restoration Project. Staff believed that the value of familiarity with the City and the Restoration Project, and the confidence of the Conservancy in the firm, made them the best firm for this specific City work. They worked for the City previously on the levee certification project. On July 6, 2012, the City executed Amendment Number 1 with Moffatt & Nichol for $17,800 to update the flow data and revise the hydraulic model to avoid conflicts with Caltrans' double 48" storm drain pipes in the same vicinity. On February 25, 2013, the City executed Amendment Number 2 with Moffatt & Nichol for $56,304 for services relating to the Bayfront Project's grant application to the Department of Water Resources, and the water quality monitoring for the Regional Water Quality Control Board. These previous contract amendments resulted in a total agreement in the amount of $104,986 and had the objective of providing preliminary information necessary to assess the feasibility of moving forward with the Bayfront Project.