Title
Adopt a Resolution to Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Consulting Services Agreement with Baker Tilly (formerly Management Partners) for Staffing and Organizational Review of the Public Works Department for $46,990. The Cumulative Projects' Budget Total for Current and Planned Work by Baker Tilly/Management Partners is $161,790
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COUNCIL PRIORITY
* Fiscal Sustainability and Transparency
SUMMARY
This action authorizes the City Manager to execute a Consulting Services Agreement (CSA) with Baker Tilly (formerly Management Partners) for staffing and organizational review of the Public Works Department. The consultant's cumulative contracted work occurring across multiple City departments, both currently underway and planned, is $161,790.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends approving and authorizing the City Manager to execute the CSA with Baker Tilly.
BACKGROUND
With the various organizational changes occurring over the past few years, the City has previously engaged the services of Management Partners to perform fiscal model updates, as well as a more recent organizational assessment for the Recreation and Human Services Department. On top of the existing work underway, due to the cumulative contracts amount reached with the planned work for both the Public Works Department and the Engineering & Transportation Department (that CSA is tentatively planned for Council review in October), Council review and approval of this CSA is recommended.
Analysis
The last Public Works Department staffing review occurred in 2007, and those changes were only at the Manager level, involving the creation of two new positions. In the intervening years, some positions were lost due to "golden handshakes" offered during The Great Recession, operational changes have arisen, and technological advancements have occurred that affect all departmental classifications. Management Partners was contacted to provide a proposed scope of work that included...
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