Speaker 1: The city manager to execute the Sixth Amendment to the agreement with Cultivate LLC to increase compensation by 60,000 for total aggregate compensation, not to exceed 354,000 to continue providing technical planting planning support to the City of Alameda. General Plan Update through Housing Element Adoption.
Speaker 0: Thank you. And so I see that we have council member. I don't know, maybe I have had too much coffee tonight. We have a pretty busy transportation director, Andrew Thomas joining us, I think, to answer any questions. But Councilmember Harry Spencer, if I recall correctly, it was you who put this item at the last meeting. So do you want to just lead the discussion?
Speaker 4: I'd like to as possible, please. So thank you, Mayor. So I had pulled this item six eight last time and has put at the back of the agenda then and then continue to this point now. And and I had pulled it and I've discussed it with staff was delightful that this is the item goes to providing technical planning support to the city for a general plan update. And my ask to staff is does this technical planning support include creating some sort of 3-D video that I think it should to show what potential changes would look like from throughout the plan, from, you know, including bay from across the island at the maximum. For instance, if we're looking at rezoning all residential neighborhoods, what does that look like? Same with whatever the maximum heights after getting this as a project qualifies for the density bonus. But what would that height look like? And I've seen other cities utilizing video more to really be able to visualize what projects look like. And I'm hoping that our city that this is part of the technical planning support. So that's five fold it to find out to discuss that.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Okay. So, Mr. Thomas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the question. We are, as everybody knows, working on our next housing element, which is part of the general plan. So that's what this contract is about. The we do have plans for visual simulations. We had not thought about a video. We can certainly do that. The planning board also expressed the need for, you know, graphics and visual representations of what these areas would look like. I think we all agree the community needs to understand what these changes look like. This we have we have three different consultant contracts. This one is with cultivate. They help with public outreach, they help with website, they help with documents. They're not a graphics firm. We do have urban design associates also under contract. It's a small contract. They do drawings. They do things like that. We can certainly talk to them about, you know, sort of visual simulations, more video style like we've seen we've had certain we've done it for specific projects in the past. We haven't done it citywide. I think it's a really interesting idea if this is we have a what I was what I would suggest is we not amend this contract to do that. This is not the right firm to do it. They just don't do that kind of work. But we are scheduled for a Housing Element Workshop on November 16th with the council. I can have a recommendation for you at that workshop. Just give me a give me a week or so to talk to the other consultant teams that we have under contract. I know we can do it. I just need to get an idea of cost. And I can I can bring that information to work.
Speaker 0: Elsewhere. Harry Spencer.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Mary. Thank you, Dr. Thomas. So I'm happy to hear that the family board also is thinking about some visual simulations, I think. Right. It really helps to be able to conceptualize what it really looks like as opposed to just the drawings. And we know when we go through projects, we always hear from people. That's not what I thought it was going to look like. And so that's why I feel like we should be doing our utmost to, especially the technology that's available now to help be as transparent as possible. And when we're talking about what this is, the impact and what it's really going to look like. So I thank you very much. So I'll be able to support this one, and I'm looking forward to see what you're going to propose on the 16th then.
Speaker 0: Which you also like. Would you also like to move this item? Councilmember Harry Spencer Yes.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to. I don't know if any of the council members.
Speaker 0: Anybody else want to comment. Okay. I'm not seeing any.
Speaker 4: So I'm happy to move the item.
Speaker 0: Okay. Councilmember Harry Spencer has moved the item. Councilmember Knox White has seconded and we please have a roll call.
Speaker 4: Vote.
Speaker 1: As a member. However, Spencer I quite but Vella.
Speaker 5: By.
Speaker 1: Mayor as the Ashcraft I that carries my five.
Speaker 0: Okay great. So now we move into the regular agenda and we've going to bring some staff in. But while we're bringing staff in, Madam Kirk, would you introduce this next item for us, please?
Speaker 1: Seven is a recommendation to provide direction on the provision of housing for the city's unhoused population, including emergency housing, transitional supportive housing, permanent supportive housing, and prospective homeless housing projects.
Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Sixth Amendment to the Agreement with Cultivate, LLC to Increase Compensation by $60,000, for a Total Aggregate Compensation Not to Exceed $354,000 to Continue Providing Technical Planning Support to the City of Alameda General Plan Update through Housing Element Adoption.  (Planning, Building and Transportation 20962710) [Continued from October 19, 2021; public comment closed]