Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Amend an Agreement with Urban Planning Partners, Inc. to Extend the Term until December 2017. (Base Reuse 819099)
5G is the recommendation to authorize the city man city manager to amend an agreement with Urban Planning Partners to extend the term until December 2017. So I'm happy to give a presentation or. If yes, I pulled this matter because in the staff report, it's indicated that the matter will go back. When the specific plan is developed, it'll be it'll go back. The outfit who were funding will go back to the planning board to receive their review. Now, the history of this project was that really the city council had clearly indicated that we want to be part of the planning of the process, not just at the end, but at the beginning. And when you look at the minutes, the minutes clearly state with amendment made by council member Matt, R-S.C., about having us on the front end. And that was on an issue that I had also raised that night. So I want to make sure that the person, the organization that's being funded here will be on call to come to the city council. Who will have the final say and who will have the say before that? Because we're not going to have a Main Street plan where the city council gets it, gets the the outcome at the butt end. So it's going to have to be upfront. You speak to that? Yeah, absolutely. That's we have an item, in fact, tonight on the agenda. One of the major issues of that very night was about the disposition and the units and how it was going to work and the phasing. And that was the direction we heard when that contract was approved. You're having to go. And that's why we're actually here tonight with an item which includes maps. From that we're happy to come. We're just getting the draft plan done that's out for public review probably next week. And then we're happy to come back and get council. Ultimately, it's an ordinance of the council that has to approve this plan. We're happy to get feedback from the council as part of that process. And let me just make sure that when we approved the contract, it was in March 2015 and. Looking at the minutes. When we moved it. Councilmember Ashcraft made a motion and I second it. Then Council Vice Mayor Matt, R-S.C., had requested an amendment to include that the council is the body that selects a preferred alternative for moving on to Task three and Task four of the report. And in response to Council Members Inquiry, Vice Mayor Matarese stated that he is also suggesting in the minutes is also suggesting that there be an in-process check. And that the Council approved the preferred alternative before the design goes into task three before. Mm hmm. So and I'm raising this also because I do have some problems with the matter as stated in the and the agenda item. I can't be on the but end of of what their plan is going to be for the or the main street area. There's a lot of issues and concerns that are being raised right now, particularly with regard to moderate income housing, first time homeownership and and all that. And we need to begin to as a council vet that. Thank you. Yeah. We look forward to engaging the council tonight and at subsequent meetings on the the plan. It won't get approved until the council's happy with it. I wanted to add that was a unanimous vote member Ashcroft. So these four tasks for people who might not have the staff report in front of them and the first two have been completed are the when kick off meetings and stakeholder outreach. I know I attended one of those workshops. Maybe some of my colleagues did as well draft an existing conditions profile and the number three is a market assessment and feasibility of varying housing types. I, I would imagine we would want to leave that to the experts in the field who do those sorts of things. That doesn't seem like a council task. Number four is draft said alternatives for public and private spaces described above. And this is probably where you would bring plans and proposals back to us before a final vote. Is that. That's correct. Well, no. I mean, certainly we want to get the advice of professionals who know what they're doing. But also the profession has to be guided by a council members who have a sense as to what the pulse of the community is. So I don't agree with your statement that that we have no role whatsoever in the intervening process. And I didn't mean to imply that at all. I think we absolutely see the council as instrumental in defining this plan. And so we will be back to you with the draft plan for your feedback and discussing phasing and alternatives. That's what we're here tonight, is that we see it as a process. We didn't want to get release a draft plan until we got feedback from the Council on phasing because we see that was such a big issue and we approve the contract. We'll be back to you with the draft plan. And we will we will not be asking your approval of that plan at that night. We want to get your feedback before finalizing a final plan. I'm here and I understand this agenda item is just to extend the contract because this is not correct. Finish within the original envelope and the agenda item that's further down on the agenda I think is where the discussion of where, because that phasing point that's highlighted in tonight's agenda item is really at the core of the concern that I think we all agreed on back in March of the previous year, that we don't want to be too far into that fate, into the project without having seen it and and provided direction before things are locked. So I have no problem with approving the extension. I think we have to do that and I think we should say continue this discussion to the second agenda item on our agenda, dealing with this. Issue on the. Second. And just in discussion for clarification for the public that might be wondering what we are talking about. This is his main street plan, which is added Alameda point. It's an area where right now we have what we call supportive housing. The Alameda Point Collaborative for formerly homeless families, building futures with Women and children, Operation Dignity for former Lee Homeless Veterans. And we're looking in you'll hear this if you're lucky enough to be here a little later. We're looking at a new site and consolidating them. It's going to be lovely, but this is the consultant's contract that we're working with. And yes, so now we're going to vote on whether to extend it. So I'd like to add that I appreciate member days of bringing this. I think it's important to clarify that so that we're all on the same page. So thank you very much. All those in favor. I. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. That's five G. The next item that was pulled. That's my final L and this is. Our. 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