Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP CM15-083 and award a contract to Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc., of San Francisco, CA, at a cost of $170,000 to conduct a parking study in Belmont Shore for a period of two years; or Adopt Specifications No. RFP CM15-083 and award a contract to Walker Parking Consultants, of Los Angeles, CA, in an amount not to exceed $100,000 to conduct a parking study in Belmont Shore for a period of two years. (District 3)
Motion carries. Item 17 Report from Economic and Property Development Recommendation to Award a contract for conducting a parking study in Belmont. Shaw to Nelson. Nygaard. Consulting Associates at a cost of $170,000, or the Walker parking consultants in an amount not to exceed $100,000. District three. Thank you. There's been a motion and a second. Councilwoman Pryce, would you like to address the item? This item? Yes. Vice Mayor, members of the Council on Mike Conway can present a brief staff report. Excuse me, Vice Mayor, members of the council. Prior to the staff report, could we make a clarification on which item the motion is? So a or I'm saying two separate motions. Well, no, there's it's a decision, I think, for the council to make either the 170 or the 100,000. And we just have a motion of I'm not sure. Right. So Councilwoman Price is your motion for one or the other. Emotion is going to be to approve a contract, not to exceed $100,000. Thank you. Vice Mayor Lohan told members of the City Council in 2014, City Council directed staff to issue a request for proposals to conduct a parking study in Belmont Shore for the purpose of identifying solutions for mitigating the parking challenges in both the business and residential districts. Staff spent some time reaching out to various stakeholders in Belmont Shore to ensure that the scope of the study would reflect the issues and concerns of the residents, business owners and tenants. On March 27, 2015, a request for proposals was released for a comprehensive parking study. And on April 23rd, 2015, four responses were received. A staff panel reviewed the submittals and based on five criteria selected Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates at a cost of $170,000. As the most qualified respondent, the panel also determined that Walker parking consultants at a cost of 98,000 met. The requirements of the RFP, though, were scored lower than Nelson Nygaard in August 2015. The Belmont Shore Parking and Business Improvement Area Advisory Commission acknowledged that Nelson Nygaard was the most qualified but voted to limit the budget to $100,000 and eliminate any overlapping scope related to public improvements that may occur along Ocean Boulevard. And as such, City Council may choose to accept staff's recommendation and select may Nelson Nygaard at a cost $170,000. Or to accept the Parking Commission's recommendation to limit the budget to $100,000 and select Walker parking consultants. And with that, I am available to answer questions. Thank you, Councilwoman. Thank you. Just a couple of questions here. Just by way of background to my colleagues, the Belmont Shore Parking Commission reviews. Issues. Related to parking in the shore and makes recommendations as this body we can choose to adopt their recommendations, modify them, or completely disregard them if we feel there's a better route in this particular case. I have reviewed the recommendations made by the Parking Commission and I agree with them that picking a project and scope that is the fiscally prudent one and still achieves the overall result of the overall intended result of the study, which is to find out what parking options are available to us in an area that is parking impacted and has increased in terms of business and residential occupancy since the last time a study was done in the nineties. So I think the study is definitely necessary and I agree with the Parking Commission's recommendation to cap the study to $100,000. The one question that I do have, however, is that this study is projected to take two years. Is there any way that that timeline could be enhanced a bit or sped up so that we can have the opportunity to act? Because I have made a personal commitment to this community that I will attempt to implement some of the recommendations of this parking study, and I want to make sure that I fulfill that commitment to them. So does it really have to be a two year parking study and can we accelerate the study at all? I don't believe the parking study needs to be two years. I think the limiting factors are whether or not you want to include the Christmas parade and the closure of Bayshore within the same study period, in which case it could extend beyond a year. If we went under contract very quickly, we could possibly get this year's Christmas parade, but we might miss that. But if we eliminated the Christmas parade and just dealt with the closures during the summer, we should certainly be able to conclude this in a year. So really, the only limiting factor for us, if we were to not include the Christmas parade, is that we would have all parking data that we need absent what happens that one night a year. That's correct. I think that would be reasonable. And I'd like to see some recommendations from the parking from the parking study be made as quickly as possible. Of course, we want a thorough study, especially at the $100,000 price point, but we want to make sure that we also provide some recommendations in the near future. The other thing that I want to make sure that I clarify through this item is it is very, very important. I would like to be involved with the study in terms of receiving updates, being able to communicate with the constituents about where we are on the study. And I know that we have at least one meeting initially, but I just want to make sure that the legislative intent of this motion is there, that this is one of those projects in my district that I want to be involved in, and I want to be able to communicate to the residents what's happening so that we're all kind of moving forward together as the study gets underway and those recommendations are made. And that would just be a request that I would make because I've never been through a study like this before. So I don't want something to happen and someone to say, Oh, sorry we didn't tell you, but that's how we always do it. So if there is a situation. You don't involve the counsel office. At least let me know. Or please allow me to be involved, because this is a commitment that I've made to my constituents that I'll be involved in. There will be two meetings prior to the start of the study and there are tended to be two meetings after the draft study is produced. But I'd be happy to keep the council office up to date as well. Thank you. I appreciate that. Only because I've never been through a process like this, and I know that a lot of my constituents haven't either. And I just want to make sure we're all collaborating. And I know you do that very well. So I don't have I just wanted to express it so that there's no ambiguity as we go forward. So thank you very much. Thank you. Council member. Is there any public comment on this item? There's been a motion and a second. Members, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. And thank you, Mr. Parkin. We've done 18 and 19.