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days versus fifteen working days), provide the City with the same insurance protection, and give the City of Pleasanton priority for consultant services following a local or regional emergency. There are two basic changes in the contract that were added to help the consultants to keep parity with the level of work now expected of them. In regard to the added work of checking on-site construction plans for the new National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) requirements, the plan review rate for NPDES plan reviews was changed from 30% to 40%. Additionally, the flat fee rate increase per year of contract was changed from a flat $2.50 per year to 3% per hour per year of contract. Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council; BACKGROUND The City of Pleasanton has historically utilized consultants to meet the plan review needs within the community. Consultant plan review services provide flexible staffing levels to handle variations in construction activity and plan review workload. Another advantage of consultant plan review services is access to expertise in a wide variety of construction specialties. Our plan review consultants have specialists to assist on plan review for a broad variety of construction projects ranging from new large custom homes and high-tech commercial offices to remodeling of historic structures. The selection process for consultants started by contacting other local jurisdictions in the area to determine names of potential building plan review consultants who had a proven track record of providing professional, timely and friendly plan review services. Based on our discussions with neighboring jurisdictions, staff contacted six plan review firms as to their interest in providing plan review services. Of the six firms, after review of written materials, all six firms were interviewed to discuss the City of Pleasanton's needs for consultant plan review services. We sent a Request for Qualifications to all six firms and provided copies of the City of Pleasanton's proposed Contract for Plan Review Services to four of the firms. The current four firms were selected based on review of their responses to the Request for Qualifications. The four firms selected all currently provide plan review services for the City of Pleasanton, as indicated, and their performance has been satisfactory. The Building permit plan review consultants will provide plan review services as described in Exhibit A of the attached sample Contract for Consultant Services. Consultants will review submitted plans and building permit documents for compliance with the provisions of the City's Building, Fire, Electrical, Plumbing, Mechanical and Housing Codes, the City of Pleasanton's Zoning Ordinances, and related Building Division policies, and State and local laws. Consultants will make such inspections and investigations as may be required by the City's Ordinances and SR 06:121 Page 2 of 4