Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP PW14-050, and authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary to enter into agreements with Environ Architecture, Inc. of Long Beach, CA; Gillis & Panichapan Architects, Inc. of Costa Mesa, CA; Kardent Design, Planning & Management of Long Beach, CA; and Westgroup Designs, Inc. of Irvine, CA, for as-needed space planning services in an aggregate amount not to exceed $500,000 over a three-year term, and to execute any necessary amendments to the agreements, relative to extending the terms for up to an additional one-year term, changing the contract dollar amounts, authorizing additional services, if required, within the provisions of the agreements, and adjusting the fee schedules for inflation, all provided that the aggregate total amount of contract authority is not exceeded.  (Citywide)
Motion carries seven zero 18. Item 18 Report from City Manager and Financial Management Recommendation to enter into four agreements for as needed space planning services in an aggregate amount not to exceed 500,000 over a three year period. Citywide. Okay. This is. I'm sorry. This is. I mean, you don't get any public comment on the item. Please come forward. There is a motion in a second by Andrews in Austin. Very good. Hugh Clark has the address. Will someone please explain why we have to spend over a half a million dollars to figure out whether or not essentially something fix fits? I'll give you a tape measure. Go down for the Ace Hardware, pick up a tape measure for $2 and you can measure it yourself. If you're telling us that the management of this city doesn't have the capacity to take a tape measure and measure something out or measure whether or not something fits or how much space. We certainly don't have to. You know, it's a again, an indictment of the city. If we have to spend a half a million dollars to find out if something fits or not or plan to have something fit, which is absurd on its face, it's a further urination of money, which is our biggest problem. We don't face so much of a shortfall of money. It's a shortfall of common sense. Give us a motion or a second, please cast your vote. Councilwoman Price. Motion carries seven zero. I don't. 20. Item 20 Report from Financial Management Recommendation to execute a contract with KMT fire apparatus for the purchase of six fire pumper trucks in a total amount not to exceed 3,400,000 and increase appropriations in the Fleet Services Fund in the Financial Management Management Department by 1,100,000 citywide.