File #: 22-591    Version: 1 Name: Baker Tilly CSA for Engineering and Transportation Department
Type: Staff Report Status: Filed
In control: City Council
Meeting Date: 10/17/2022 Final action: 10/17/2022
Enactment date: Enactment #: 2022-188
Title: Adopt a Resolution to Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Consulting Services Agreement with Baker Tilly for Staffing and Organizational Review of the Engineering and Transportation Department for $39,900. The Cumulative Projects' Budget Total for Current and Planned Work by Baker Tilly/Management Partners is $161,790
Sponsors: Sheila Marquises
Attachments: 1. Att A - Reso 2022- CSA with Baker Tilly, 2. Att B - CSA Scope of Work Baker Tilly.pdf, 3. Att C - Press Release Baker Tilly-Management Partners.pdf
Title
Adopt a Resolution to Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Consulting Services Agreement with Baker Tilly for Staffing and Organizational Review of the Engineering and Transportation Department for $39,900. The Cumulative Projects' Budget Total for Current and Planned Work by Baker Tilly/Management Partners is $161,790

Staffreport
COUNCIL PRIORITY
* Fiscal Sustainability and Transparency

SUMMARY

This action approves and authorizes the City Manager to execute a Consulting Services Agreement (CSA) with Baker Tilly (formerly Management Partners) for staffing and organizational review of the Engineering and Transportation 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 Baker Tilly 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, Council review and approval of this CSA is recommended.

Analysis

The last Engineering and Transportation Department staffing review occurred in 2016. Baker Tilly was contacted to provide a proposed scope of work that included conducting an organizational assessment, with the goal of taking a fresh look at the organizational structure, operations, and staffing, to ensure the department has the optimum structure to provide services to the community.

The proposed scope of work includes:
* Review of the current organizational structure, staffing levels, and spans of control
* Identify opportuniti...

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