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HomeMy WebLinkAboutDevelopment Commission Resolution 2022-01 RESOLUTION NO. 2022- Of A RESOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL POINT DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ADOPTING FINDINGS AUTHORIZING AN EXEMPTION FROM COMPETITIVE SOLICITATION FOR SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT AND AWARDING A CONTRACT TO ELAINE HOWARD CONSULTING Recitals: A. The City seeks to amend its existing urban renewal plan to add property and projects to the plan and to complete other plan updates. B. Elaine Howard and Scott Vanden Bos of Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC provide services to localities within Oregon for creation and expansion of urban renewal plans, urban renewal feasibility studies and other work specific to urban renewal plans in Oregon. C. Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC is a qualified consultant and has specialized skills in urban renewal plan amendments. Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC works closely with Tiberius Solutions, LLC, a public finance consulting company to provide the necessary financial analysis required by statute in amending an urban renewal plan. D. Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC has personnel resources ready to complete the urban renewal plan amendment in the next 6-months. City staff research indicated that Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC is the only consultant who has worked with local jurisdictions such as Medford, Talent, Phoenix, Jacksonville and Bend, with 30-years of expertise working in the creation and expansion of urban renewal plans. E. An exemption from competitive solicitation to award a sole source contract to Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC can be found to meet the requirements of CPMC 2.40.110(A) for special procurements, as provided in those findings attached hereto as Exhibit A. THE CENTRAL POINT DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The findings attached hereto as Exhibit A are hereby adopted and an exemption from competitive solicitation for sole source procurement is authorized. Section 2. A contract in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B is hereby awarded to Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC for up to $32,400.00 for substantial amendment to the Central Point Urban Renewal Plan. Section 3.This exemption is granted under the provisions of CPMC 2.40.110(A). Res. No. 2022- CI ; January 27, 2022 Page 1 Passed by the Central Point Development Commission and signed by me in authentication of its passage this ar`day of January 2022. Mayor Hank Williams, Chair Central Point Development Commission ATTEST: 7-7 Deanna Casey, City Recorders Res. No. 2022- C>( ; January 27, 2022 Page 2 RESOLUTION NO. - EXHIBIT A FINDINGS Pursuant to CPMC 2.40.110(A) —Sole Source Procurements, the following facts support an exemption from competitive solicitation for awarding the Central Point Urban Renewal Substantial Amendment Consulting Agreement to Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC: A. The subject contract for which an exemption is sought is a consulting agreement with Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC to provide for a substantial amendment to Central Point's Urban Renewal Plan, including adding property and projects to the plan and other plan updates. The project will include notice, hearing, public involvement, consultation with taxing districts, presentation to the Planning Commission, and ultimate adoption by the City Council. B. Exempting this project requires a finding under CPMC 2.40.110(A) that the efficient use of professional services is available only from one source or there are other facts and circumstances that support the conclusion that the professional services are only available from once source. The Development Commission finds: a) Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC is a qualified consultant and has the personnel resources available to ensure completion of the Substantial Urban Renewal Plan within the next 6 months; b) In researching consultants with the skills and experience to assist the City with this amendment, the City found that Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC is the only consultant that has been used by neighboring jurisdictions such as Medford, Phoenix, Talent, Jacksonville, Bend and many other jurisdictions in adopting or amending their respective urban renewal plan; c) Elaine Howard Consulting has 30 years' experience advising Oregon municipalities on matters related to Urban Renewal Plans, tax increment financing, amendments to plans and related issues and the number of cities in Oregon that have retained said consultant to work on such projects including major and minor amendments, annual reports, urban renewal feasibility studies, creation of urban renewal plans is extensive. d) Given the vast experience of Elaine Howard Consulting, LLC in Oregon, and in Jackson County in particular, and that said consulting group is the sole group hired by Medford, Phoenix,Talent, Jacksonville, Bend and many other jurisdictions to perform such work, the Development Commission finds that these professional services are only available from one source. Res. No. 2022- C5( ; January 27, 2022 Page 3 C. Public notice of the approval of a special procurement must be given as follows: a. Public notice of the proposed exemption from competitive solicitation was published on City's website beginning January 21, 2022. b. Public notice of the proposed exemption from competition solicitation was published in the Medford Mail Tribune on _ )an 04s,_ .t/), a;a c. A public hearing was held on January 27, 2022 with an opportunity for interested persons to appear and comment. Res. No. 2022- (D1 ; January 27, 2022 Page 4