Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP DV14-034 and award a contract to e-Plan, Inc., dba e-PlanSoft, of Los Angeles, CA, for $406,320, for providing an Electronic Plan Check System, for a period of one year, with the option to renew for four additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Please. Next item. Vice Mayor, would you mind just doing a couple of these for me? Thanks. Item six. Items. Item six Report from Development Services and Financial Management. Recommendation to Adopt Specifications and Award of contract to EA. Plan for 406,000 for providing an electronic plan. Check System City Wide. All right. There's been a motion by Councilmember Richardson and seconded by Councilmember Andrews. Any member of the public that wished to address council on item six. Councilmember Urunga. Yes. Thank you. I notice here if this is a a new system that's going to be coming in, I'm guessing not too far off of a guess that there are some issues presented with the current system. And I'm hoping that the reason, the purpose of this coming through to us is that there's going to be a change in turnaround times or that it would be a cost saving to the mayor council. I'm going to turn it over to Amy, but this does not reflect. An issue with our current system. This is a huge innovation that takes us into the 21st century to. Allow. Architects and folk to use the Internet and get to us digitally. So, Amy, if you could tell us what we're getting. Yes, sir, that's correct. Madam Vice Mayor, members of the city council, this is not replacing an existing system. This is actually an augmentation to our services where we will, as Mr. West said, create essentially a portal through our Web site where we would now now allow electronic submissions instead of hard copies of permits and plans to our planning and building department. We do believe that this will eventually increase efficiency and turnaround time so that that is something that we do expect would happen. But this is definitely cutting edge and very innovative and this is something that we've been working on with tech services for approximately two years now. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Austin. Thank you and thank you, Ms.. Borek, for for the clarification on this. I just want to just highlight that this this electronic plant check system is something that will, I think, increase efficiency in service to the residents. It is an innovation. And, you know, it shows that we actually have some good talent and some strong talent within our own ranks here at City Hall. And so I just want to compliment staff and say, job well done. Thank you. So we're very excited for this. Thank you, Councilmember Austin. And I'd like to add some comments as well. I wanted to just let staff know that I thought this was a great idea with true potential for our city staff. And as Ms.. Burdick said, it's not something new but will contribute to our goal of being a 24 hour city. And I do have one question how do we plan on letting our architects and contractors know about the service? We actually have been beta testing this with some of our architects already, so they have been working with us to work some kinks out. We got basically a six month trial run of software that allowed us to beta test it with some folks to work out some kinks. And we did all of that before we did the RFP so that we knew specifically what we were going to be asking for. So once we get this in place and it speaks to our existing system, we will then hold training for the architecture and contractor community, which is something that we do when we roll out new initiatives. Thank you. Councilmember Richardson. Thanks, Vice Mayor, and thank you for bringing up the outreach. That's what my question was going to be. So I'll just take this opportunity to say great work. I think this is going to go a long way in terms of helping us as council offices to respond to our own communities about projects that might be taking place in our communities. So there's a wide range of benefits to having this stuff online. To have an on demand statistics and numbers and statuses of where we are in the process. So congratulations and keep up the good work. Great. Thank you, Councilwoman Mongo. I want to thank the department services department in making this great step forward. I think that I've heard positive impact on your feedback from the local businesses. Anything we can do to automate and take things online and give people a more customer focused experience at City Hall is a big part of being the business friendly city that we know we are. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion on the floor. Is there any public comment on the item? Seeing none. Please cast your votes. Motion carries seven zero. Thank you. Next item, Madam Clerk.