DEPARTMENT: Office of Sustainability
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Douglas Melnick
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Sustainability Plan Consultant Contract Award
SUMMARY:
An Ordinance selecting Neutral Forum, LLC, dba Galen Driscol, and Kim Lundgren Associates, Inc., and awarding a contract for consultant services pertaining to the City's Sustainability Plan and authorizing the negotiation and execution of a professional services agreement in an amount not to exceed $200,000.00, for an initial term of one year, with one additional one year renewal option. Funding to develop the Sustainability Plan was allocated and authorized by City Council within the FY 2015 Annual Budget.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Project Background
The City of San Antonio is projected to grow significantly over the next two decades and ascertaining how to sustainably accommodate that growth is an essential goal within the Comprehensive Plan Update. This regionally-influential plan will consider San Antonio's unique attributes, most notably: the hundreds of square miles of footprint (land use/transportation development), its climate (arid), and the climate's impact on natural resources needed to sustain the projected population growth while ensuring the availability of clean air and water. This plan will serve as a mechanism to tie together the City's existing and developing sustainability initiatives, strategies and plans with the community's goals to establish a cohesive set of strategies and practical metrics for improving sustainability in municipal operations and the broader San Antonio community.
Neutral Forum, LLC, dba Galen Driscol, and Kim Lundgren Associates, Inc., will develop a Sustainability Plan that will work in tandem with the City of San Antonio's Comprehensive Plan Update and Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan, as well as other plans and guiding documents such as the Mission Verde Plan and SA2020. In 2009, the City of San ...
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