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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. The building permit plan review consultant will provide plan review services as described in Exhibit A of the attached 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 duly adopted policies to help facilitate the plan review and building permit process. Such enforcement will include the duties related to the Chief Building and Safety Official as set forth in the Pleasanton Municipal Code and as described in the attached Contract for Consultant Services. The compensation for the consultants is shown on Exhibit B of the attached sample Contract for Consultant Services. The contract is for one year with the option to extend the contract for three additional years. The prior consultant contracts were written for a three-year term (FY 2006/07 - FY 2008/09) with a renewal provision for iwo additional years ending on June 30, 2011. The proposed contract lengths are consistent with the consultant contract lengths of the previously approved contracts. The City of Pleasanton anticipates that most of the consultants' compensation will be based on a percentage of the plan review fee (55%) versus an hourly plan review rate. However, the contracts also establish an hourly rate ($92.83 per hour and increasing 3% per hour per year of the contract) for plan review projects, such as review of plan revisions, where a set plan review fee is not charged. All contracts for consultant services now require the consultants to name the City of Pleasanton as insured and to carry a minimum of $1 million in General Liability and Bodily Injury Insurance, $1 million per person/per occurrence in Automobile Liability Insurance and $500,000 in Errors and Omissions/Professional Liability Insurance. The insurance coverage amounts are consistent with other current City of Pleasanton contracts for professional services. Previously, the amount of insurance coverage carried by our plan review service consultants varied. Proof of insurance coverage is also required as part of the new proposed plan review consultant contracts. Page 2 of 3