Recommendation to authorize City to execute an agreement with the firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck, in order to provide legal services in connection with the City's proposed development of a new Civic Center.
Thank you. Cast your votes, please. Motion carries. Item two is a report from the city attorney's office with the recommendation to authorize the city to execute an agreement with the firm of Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck in order to provide legal services in connection with the city's proposed development of a new civic center. There's been a motion. Your second. Second gives the motion the second counsel for Johnson. Yeah. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I mean, I'd like to ask Mr. Parkin, could you describe. The process by which we chose this firm for this project? Yes. Vice Mayor remembers the city council. This firm was selected after. We solicited proposals from various law firms. We actually received multiple proposals. We interviewed six law firms, Hawkins, Delafield, which was the law firm that did the courthouse. They were the state's attorney, McKenna, Long and Aldridge. The Norseman firm who's working on it with us on the job, Desmond Bridge, the Brownstein Hyatt Firm, which was ultimately selected written in Tucker. Who are currently working on a public private partnership in San Francisco on the Park Presidio Project and Cuttack and Rock. So those private those all submitted proposals with estimated budgets and timelines. And we selected the bouncing hired firm and you said solicited. Was it a request for qualifications? Was it posted online? How did if you're a law firm out there in Los Angeles or San Diego or wherever. How do you know about this opportunity to participate? We solicited and talked to various firms that have expertize in this area. We did not do a posted online because there aren't a lot of firms that have the experience on the public private partnerships with working with municipal municipalities. So we did not post the item online. So you basically you your office contacted folks you thought would be interested in and asked them if they were participate. Is that correct? That's correct. We talked to other firms and others municipalities who have although there were no other municipalities that have prepared or done a public private partnership for a civic center. So we started with talking with other firms such as Nasr Men, who has been has an expertize in the three piece on the doesn't bridge on a public private partnership and a design build. And from there, we talked to the state of California to about the law firm that they use, the Harkins Delafield firm out of New York. And then we also had spoke with Richard and Tucker based upon their experience at the Presidio. Okay. Well, thanks. I appreciate the explanation. I think, you know, this is a very large contract, $450,000. And I appreciate there was some process here. But I do think that for large contracts, just as with all other contracts, it should be posted publicly. It doesn't mean you're going to take those those folks as solicitation. But I do think transparency, that's a better process. That's my concern. Okay. Thank you. There's been a motion and a second on the item for the consent calendar. Public comment. Kate seeing none. Members, please go ahead and cast your vote. Councilmember O'Donnell. Yes. Thank you. Council member, Neil. Motion carries seven votes. One vote. No. Okay, great. So we're going to we're going to move on now. We do have a hearing and then public comment before we get to the agenda. So let's go ahead and start with the hearing and I'm going to turn it over to the city clerk. I believe the oath is required because.