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City Council
Special Meeting
Monday, March 14, 2022
5:00 PM
Council Chambers & Virtual
AMENDED
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PUBLIC COMMENTS
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CALL TO ORDER
CLOSED SESSION (5:00 – 6:15 PM)
Public Comments: Members of the public may speak to the Closed Session item(s); three minutes per speaker.
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1.CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS City Designated
Representatives: City Manager and his Designees Pursuant to Merit
System Rules and Regulations (Ed Shikada, Kiely Nose, Rumi Portillo,
Sandra Blanch, Nicholas Raisch, Tori Anthony, Molly Stump, and
Terence Howzell) Employee Organization: Service Employees
International Union, (SEIU) Local 521, Utilities Management and
Professional Association of Palo Alto (UMPAPA)Palo Alto Peace Officers’
Association (PAPOA), Palo Alto Police Management Association
SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY (6:15 – 6:30 PM)
2.Congratulations to Sheryl Klein for designation as Woman of Persistence
for Palo Alto
3.Project Sentinel
AA1. Appointments of Candidates for the Architectural Review Board
STUDY SESSION
12.Report and Discussion on Community Engagement Activities Planned
to Implement the City’s Workplans for the 2022 Calendar Year
Moved from Action to Study Session, Late Report Added 6:30-7:30
AGENDA CHANGES, ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS
PUBLIC COMMENT (7:30 – 7:50 PM)
Members of the public may speak to any item NOT on the agenda. Council reserves the right to limit the duration of
Oral Communications period to 30 minutes.
CONSENT CALENDAR (7:50 – 7:55 PM)
Items will be voted on in one motion unless removed from the calendar by three Council Members.
4.Approve Minutes from the February 28, 2022 City Council Meeting
5.Adoption of Side letters of Agreement with Utilities Management and
Professional Association of Palo Alto "UMPAPA", International
Association of Fire Fighters IAFF "IAFF", Fire Chiefs Association "FCA",
and Updated Salary Schedules for Management and Professional
Employees, SEIU Hourly Unit, and Limited Hourly Employees.
Supplemental Memo Added
6.City Council Approval of the City's Response to the Civil Grand Jury
Report Regarding Affordable Housing and Direction to Staff to Submit
the Response Letter in Accordance with State Law Prior to the March
16, 2022 Deadline
Presentation
Presentation
Memo
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7.Approval of Amendment Number 2 to Contract Number C19172119
with Daryl D. Jones, Inc. DBA Telecommunications Engineering
Associates (TEA) to Increase the Scope of Services to Include Program
Verification and Design Review for the Public Safety Building Project
(CIP PE-15001) and, Accordingly, Increase the Contract Amount by
$189,882, for a New Total Not-to-Exceed Amount of $874,882
8.Adoption of a Resolution Amending the Electric Hydro Rate Adjuster
(E-HRA) and Activating the E-HRA Rate at the $0.013/kWh Level,
Effective April 1, 2022 and Transmit Information on Preliminary Rate
Forecast
9.Approval of Surveillance Use Policy and Contract fo r E-Citation
Devices/Services with Turbo Data Systems, Not-to-Exceed $218,545
for Five Years
10.Approval of Amendment Number 2 to Contract Number C18168129
with Kennedy / Jenks Consultants for Professional Design Services for
the Primary Sedimentation Tanks Rehabilitation and Equipment Room
Electrical Upgrade Project at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant
to Increase Compensation by $166,747 for a New Maximum
Compensation Not to Exceed $1,131,747, and to Extend the Contract
Term Through June 30, 2024 - Capital Improvement Program Project
WQ-14003
CITY MANAGER COMMENTS (7:55 – 8:15 PM)
BREAK (8:15 – 8:25 PM)
ACTION ITEMS
Include: Reports of Committees/Commissions, Ordinances and Resolutions, Public Hearings, Reports of Officials,
Unfinished Business and Council Matters.
11.City Council Discussion with the Independent Police Auditor and
Possible Approval of a Performance Review on Recruitment and Hiring
(8:25- 10:00 PM) Late Report Added
13.Discuss Recommended Foothills Fire Mitigation and Safe ty
Improvement Strategies (10:00-10:30 PM)
COUNCIL MEMBER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS
Members of the public may not speak to the item(s)
Presentation
Presentation
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ADJOURNMENT
OTHER INFORMATION
Standing Committee Meetings
Policy & Services Committee March 8, 2022
Finance Committee Meeting March 15, 2022 - Canceled
Schedule of Meetings
Public Letters to Council
AMENDED AGENDA ITEMS
Items that have been added/modified from the original publication of the agenda are listed below. Any
corresponding materials are appended to the end of the initial packet. If full items have been added to t he Agenda,
they will be denoted with a number staring with AA, meaning Amended Agenda item.
AA1. Appointments of Candidates for the Architectural Review Board
5.Adoption of Side letters of Agreement with Utilities Management and
Professional Association of Palo Alto (UMPAPA), International
Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), Fire Chiefs Association (FCA), Palo
Alto Peace Officers’ Association (POA), Palo Alto Police Management
Association (PMA), and Services Employees International Union Local
521 (SEIU); and Updated Salary Schedules for Management and
Professional Employees, SEIU Hourly Unit, and Limited Hourly
Employees. Title Updated, Supplemental Memo Added
11.City Council Discussion with the Independent Police Auditor and
Possible Approval of a Performance Review on Recruitment and Hiring
Late Report Added
12.Report and Discussion on Community Engagement Activities Planned
to Implement the City’s Workplans for the 2022 Calendar Year
Moved from Action to Study Session, Late Report Added
Presentation
Public Comment
Public Comment
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public inspection at www.CityofPaloAlto.org.
PUBLIC COMMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Office of the City Clerk
City Council CAO Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
Title: Approve Minutes from the February 28, 2022 City Council Meeting
From: Lesley Milton, City Clerk
Staff recommends Council to review and approve the minutes as presented.
ATTACHMENTS:
•Attachment4.a: Attachment A: 20220228amCCs (PDF)
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CITY COUNCIL
DRAFT ACTION MINUTES
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Special Meeting
February 28, 2022
The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on this date in the Council
Chambers and by virtual teleconference at 6:00 P.M.
Present: Burt, Cormack, DuBois, Filseth, Kou, Stone, Tanaka
Absent: None
Study Session
1.Report and Discussion on Valley Water’s Purified Water Project
Including Location of the Advanced Water Purification Facility at the
Former Los Altos Treatment Plant Site, Reverse Osmosis Concentrate
Management, Upcoming Agreements and Decisions. (This item has
been removed from the agenda)
Agenda Changes, Additions and Deletions
Item 1 was removed prior to the final posting deadline and was not
considered.
Consent Calendar
Council Member DuBois registered a no vote on Agenda Item 7.
Council Member Tanaka registered a no vote on Agenda Item 7.
MOTION: Council Member Cormack moved, seconded by Mayor Burt to
approve Agenda Item Numbers 2-6, 8-10.
2.Approve Minutes from the February 5, 2022 City Council Retreat,
February 7, 2022 City Council Meeting, and the February 14, 2022 City
Council Meeting.
3.Adoption of Resolution 10018 to Authorize the City Manager to Apply
for an SB1383 Local Assistance Program Grant from the California
Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) and
Execute Related Program Agreements and Amendments.
4.Appointment of 2022 Emergency Standby Council.
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Draft Action Minutes: 2/28/2022
5. Approval for the Renewal of the Agreement Between the City of Palo
Alto and the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation for Mutual Cooperation
and Support to Facilitate the Foundation's Financial and Administrative
Support of the City's Palo Alto Art Center.
6. Approval of Amendment No. 2 to Professional Services Contract
Number C20176858 With Sandis Civil Engineers to Increase the Not-
to-Exceed Compensation by $50,000 (to $171,000) and to Extend the
Term of the Contract to October 2026 for the Completion of Final Plans
and Design Support for the Churchill Avenue Enhanced Bikeway
Project.
7. Staff and Utilities Advisory Commission Recommend the Council Adopt
Resolution 10019 Amending Utilities Rule and Regulation 11 (Billing,
Adjustments and Payment of Bills) to Set a $5,000 Limit on Fee-Free
Credit Card Payments and Apply a Cost-Recovery Charge for Credit
Card Payments in Excess of $5,000.
8. Approval of a Five-Year Contract C22181932 with Sierra Traffic
Markings, Inc in the Amount of $850,000 to Provide On-Call Minor
Roadway Improvements.
9. Approval of Contract C22182466 With Ranger Pipelines, Inc. in the
Amount of $7,819,336 for Water Main Replacement Project 28 (WS-
14001) in the Barron Park, Oak Creek, Duveneck Francis, Charleston
Meadows Neighborhoods and in the California Business District, and
Authorization for the City Manager to Negotiate and Execute Related
Change Orders Not-to-Exceed $781,934 for a Total Not-to-Exceed
Amount of $8,601,270.
10. Approval of Contract No. C22182372 with CSW/Stuber-Stroeh
Engineering Group Inc. in the Amount of $164,852 for Design Services
for the University Avenue Streetscape Update Capital Improvement
Program Project, PE-21004 and Approval of Budget Amendments in
the Capital Improvement Fund and the Stanford University Medical
Center (SUMC) Fund.
MOTION SPLIT FOR PURPOSE OF VOTING
ITEMS 2-6, 8-10 OF MOTION PASSED: 7-0
ITEM 7 OF MOTION PASSED: 5-2, Tanaka, DuBois no
Action Items
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Sp. City Council Meeting
Draft Action Minutes: 2/28/2022
11.PUBLIC HEARING: Objections to Weed Abatement and Adoption of a
Resolution Ordering Weed Nuisance Abated.
Public Hearing opened at 6:37 P.M.
The Council kept the Public hearing open and returned to the item after the
culmination of Item 12. There were no comments from the public.
Public Hearing closed at 8:46 P.M.
MOTION: Council Member Filseth moved, seconded by Vice Mayor Kou to
adopt Resolution 10020 ordering the abatement of weed nuisances in the
City of Palo Alto.
MOTION PASSED: 7-0
12.Discussion and Direction on Draft Response to the Santa Clara County
Civil Grand Jury Report Published December 16, 2021 Pertaining to
Affordable Housing and Potential Direction to Staff on Related Policies.
MOTION: Vice Mayor Kou moved, seconded by Council Member Filseth to
direct Staff to accept the Grand Jury Response Letter and include
clarification that the 2018 residential development cap is not decided at the
ballot box.
MOTION PASSED: 5-2, Cormack, Tanaka no
13.California Avenue and Ramona Street Temporary and Permanent
Closure: Direct Staff to Issue RFP for a Feasibility Study and Return for
Contract Approval, and Provide Direction to Staff on Activities and
Programming.
ORIGINAL PROPOSED MOTION: Council Member DuBois moved,
seconded by Vice Mayor Kou to:
A.Direct Staff to issue a Request for Information (RFI) and/or Request
For Proposals (RFP) to obtain a consultant to conduct a feasibility
study to define the scope and understand the impact of the proposed
permanent closure(s) on portions of California Avenue from El Camino
Real to Park Blvd. and the section of Ramona Street between Hamilton
Avenue and University Avenue
B.Direct Staff to return to Council for approval of the contract for the
feasibility study and to provide a schedule
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C.Direct Staff to proceed with commencing a charette process prior to
the full RFI/RFP product
D.Include into the RFI, in addition to items mentioned in the staff report:
i.Evaluate option to close Cal Ave from Friday afternoon to
Sunday afternoon in addition to permanent closure
ii.Consider methods to value rents for use of public spaces and
evaluate if revenues could be used as partial funding of the
process
iii.Suggest approach to improve aesthetics and maintain open
sidewalks
iv.Include proposed guidelines on hours of use of public spaces and
noise control
v.Evaluate displaced traffic impacts, particularly on residential
streets
vi.Bring the budget request as part of the 2023 Budget process
AMENDMENT: Council Member Cormack moved, seconded by Mayor Burt to
delete C, i: Evaluate option to close Cal Ave from Friday afternoon to Sunday
afternoon in addition to permanent closure.
MOTION PASSED: 4-3 Filseth, Dubois, Kou no
PROPOSED AMENDMENT: Mayor Burt moved, seconded by Vice Mayor Kou
to add to motion: Direct Staff to proceed with commencing with a charette
process prior to the implementation of the RFI/RFP.
MOTION FAILED: 3-4, DuBois, Filseth, Cormack, Tanaka no
AMENDMENT: Mayor Burt moved, seconded by Council Member Stone to
add to the motion: Direct Staff to come back with an item on Action to
extend the street closure through December 31, 2023
MOTION PASSED: 5-2 DuBois, Kou no
PROPOSED AMENDMENT: Council Member Tanaka moved, seconded by
Mayor Burt approved the addition of section D, i to enable biking on Cal Ave.
MOTION FAILED: 4-2, Dubois, Filseth, Cormack, Kou no
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FINAL AMENDED MOTION: Council Member DuBois moved, seconded by
Vice Mayor Kou to:
A. Direct Staff to issue a Request for Information (RFI) and/or Request
For Proposals (RFP) to obtain a consultant to conduct a feasibility
study to define the scope and understand the impact of the proposed
permanent closure(s) on portions of California Avenue from El Camino
Real to Park Blvd. and the section of Ramona Street between Hamilton
Avenue and University Avenue
B. Direct Staff to return to Council for approval of the contract for the
feasibility study and to provide a schedule
C. Include into the RFI, in addition to items mentioned in the staff report:
i. Evaluate option to close Cal Ave from Friday afternoon to
Sunday afternoon in addition to permanent closure
ii. Consider methods to value rents for use of public spaces and
evaluate if revenues could be used as partial funding of the
process
iii. Suggest approach to improve aesthetics and maintain open
sidewalks so that the pedestrian traffic is near the windows
iv. Include proposed guidelines on hours of use of public spaces and
noise control
v. Evaluate displaced traffic impacts, particularly on residential
streets
vi. Bring the budget request as part of the 2023 Budget process
D. Direct staff to come back with an item on Action to extend the street
closure through December 31, 2023
MOTION PASSED: 7-0
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 11:53 P.M.
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ATTEST: APPROVED:
____________________ ____________________
City Clerk Mayor
NOTE: Action minutes are prepared in accordance with Palo Alto Municipal
Code (PAMC) 2.04.160(a) and (b). Summary minutes (sense) are prepared
in accordance with PAMC Section 2.04.160(c). Beginning in January 2018, in
accordance with Ordinance No. 5423, the City Council found action minutes
and the video/audio recordings of Council proceedings to be the official
records of both Council and committee proceedings. These recordings are
available on the City’s website.
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City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Title: Adoption of Side letters of Agreement with Utilities Management and
Professional Association of Palo Alto "UMPAPA", International Association of
Fire Fighters IAFF "IAFF", Fire Chiefs Association "FCA", and Updated Salary
Schedules for Management an d Professional Employees, SEIU Hourly Unit,
and Limited Hourly Employees.
From: City Manager
Lead Department: Human Resources
Recommendation
Staff recommends that City Council:
1) Adopt revised cover letter for the Management and Professional Compensation
Plan.
2) Adopt a Letter of Agreement extending the existing contracts with the following
labor groups; Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto
(UMPAPA), International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1319 (IAFF), and the
Palo Alto Fire Chiefs Association (FCA).
3) Amend the salary schedules for the Services Employees International Union–
Hourly (SEIU–H) group and the Limited Hourly (HRLY) group in accordance with
the City’s 2022 minimum wage ordinance and applicable bargaining terms.
Background
The salary schedule and compensation plan for the City’s unrepresented Management
and Professional may be adjusted from time-to-time when recommended by the City
Manager and approved by Council. A cost of living adjustment (COLA) is recommended
for the unrepresented Management and Professional at this time, as discussed in this
report. Approximately 200 employees are designated as Management and Professional,
including directors, managers, professionals with technical expertise, and administrative
staff.
In addition to establishing salaries for unrepresented employees, the City of Palo Alto,
as a local public agency, is required under California State law to meet and confer in
good faith with its recognized labor organizations to reach agreements regarding
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wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment. In order to meet the
challenges facing the City specifically in the areas of recruitment and retention, the City
took proactive steps to negotiate agreements in advance of the expiration of the
following agreements:
• The Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto (UMPAPA)
represents Utilities assistant directors, managers, supervisors and management-
level professional and technical employees assigned to the City’s five different
utilities. Approximately 50 employees are in this labor group and are subject to a
bargaining agreement. UMPAPA is currently covered by an agreement that
expires June 30, 2022.
• International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1319 (IAFF/FCA) represents both
front line and supervisory fire personnel. Combined, IAFF represents
approximately 90 fire personnel who work in prevention, suppression, training
and fire management. IAFF and FCA are currently covered by Agreements that
are set to expire June 30, 2022.
Additionally, the City of Palo Alto adopted a Minimum Wage Ordinance which adjusts
the minimum wage each January 1 based on the Bay Area Consumer Price Index as
published by the U.S Department of Labor. Specific adjustments for 2022 based on the
minimum wage ordinance are noted on the revised salary schedule as an attachment
for Council adoption.
Discussion
Since the pandemic began in early 2020, the City has experienced revenue losses and
negative financial impacts. A number of austerity measures were taken to offset the
budgetary impacts of the pandemic, including position eliminations, layoffs, furloughs
and wage freezes. As a result, Management and Professional employees participated in
unpaid furloughs equivalent to a 5% reduction in salary in 2020 and did not receive
general salary adjustments in 2020 or 2021, except for merit awards that were effective
July 1, 2021.
UMPAPA members have not receive general salary adjustments since the pandemic,
except for merit awards that were effective July 1, 2021. In early 2021, the City was
ordered by the California Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) to settle a 2016
contract dispute. The settlement resulted in non-pensionable cash payments to
employees in UMPAPA for wages that would otherwise have been paid if an agreement
had been reached. However, the settlement of that dispute did not change employee
pay rates.
IAFF and FCA approached the City in 2020 and offered to defer their contractually
negotiated 3% general wage increase to assist the City in navigating the sudden and
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unexpected impact of COVID-19 on the City’s FY21 budget. Similar actions were not
taken by surrounding Fire agencies.
At this time the City Manager is recommending a 4% COLA after considering cost of
living indicators (such as the Consumer Price Index) and regional economic factors.
Given the significant recruitment and retention challenges facing the City under the
current labor market conditions, the City Manager recommends implementing the COLA
with urgency and applying the increase as soon as administratively feasible. If approved
at the Council meeting on March 14, the salary adjustments are expected to be
implemented by Human Resources and Payroll Staff in time for paychecks on April 1,
2022. In addition to the required COLA to keep pace with our local inflationary costs,
actions must be more directly taken to address staffing needs within the City’s Fire
services. Surrounding agencies who did not defer wage increase during the pandemic
and have been able to create a competitive advantage in total compensation versus the
City of Palo alto. The actions brought to Council tonight are meant to take some
immediate actions to diminish this advantage while staff develop additional
recommendations and concepts for Council continued discussion and review.
Letters of Agreement
Below is a high-level overview of the Letters of Agreement for each bargaining group:
(1) UMPAPA
a. 4% Cost of Living Adjustment effective April 1, 2022 paycheck
b. New expiration date of December 31, 2022
(2) IAFF Local 1319
a. 4% Cost of Living Adjustment effective the April 1, 2022 paycheck
b. 3% market adjustment effective the first full pay period following July 1,
2022
c. New expiration date of December 31, 2022
(3) FCA
a. 4% Cost of Living Adjustment effective the April 1, 2022 paycheck
b. 3% market adjustment effective the first full pay period following July 1,
2022
c. Expansion of Battalion Chief Extra shift payments to address current
staffing levels
d. New expiration date of December 31, 2022
Revised salary schedules have been attached for each group showing the new ranges.
This Council memorandum is being brought concurrent to Union ratification of the
attached Letters of Agreements. If any Letters of Agreements are not ratified by the
union membership, staff will revise this memorandum prior to Council adoption.
Staff anticipate continuing discussion with Council throughout the budget process both
in open and closed sessions and beginning negotiations with labor partners as soon as
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September of 2022. This action is just one piece of the City’s overall strategy to remain
an employer of choice in an increasingly competitive local job market.
Minimum Wage Ordinance
Additionally, in order to comply with Palo Alto’s Minimum Wager Ordinance, the SEIU-H
and HRLY salary schedules must be updated to reflect the City Minimum wage of
$16.45 per hour.
Battalion Chief Extra Shifts
In order to address immediate staffing shortages within the Fire Department and
reduce the number of force-in overtime shifts of front-line personnel, the City and FCA
have agreed to a temporary expanded Extra Shift language, specifically linked to the
current vacancies at both the Battalion Chief and Firefighter levels. Specifically, the
currently vacant Deputy Chief/Fire Marshall is reducing available Battalion Chief staffing
for suppression activities causing continuous force-in overtime. This action will increase
the compensation for Battalion Chiefs when they cover additional shifts and will expire
with the current agreement or once the Deputy Chief/Fire Marshall role is filled
permanently, whichever is sooner.
Resource Impact
Approval of the staff recommendations outlined in this report will result in
compensation adjustments beginning in the April 1, 2022 pay period for unrepresented
Management and Professional, UMPAPA, IAFF and FCA. The City will incur an additional
16 weeks of costs in the current fiscal year that is expected to be absorbed through
salary savings from vacant positions. The minimum wage adjustments for SEIU-H and
HRLY are minimal and will be absorbed in the operating departments' budgets in the
current year. Staff will include these increases in the development of the FY 2023
Proposed Budget, scheduled for review by the Finance Committee in May 2022.
In FY 2023, the 4% increase for MGMT, UMPAPA, IAFF, and FCA will cost approximately
$2.4 million in annual costs ($1.5 million in the General Fund). The additional 3%
market adjustment for IAFF and FCA is anticipated to cost an additional approximate
$485,000 in the General Fund. Any additional costs from the expansion of the Battalion
Chief extra shift coverage will be absorbed by the Department’s existing overtime
budget.
The City's pension trust manager, CalPERS, issues an annual valuation in July/August
that determines employer contributions for the coming fiscal year. By practice, CalPERS
uses member data two years in arrears; therefore, impacts from actions in this report
are expected to materialize in FY 2025/26.
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A link to the most recent CalPERS annual valuation for the period ending June 30, 2020
(FY 2023 Budget) can be found here (CMR 13440):
https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-
minutes/finance-committee/2021/20210921/20210921pfcr-amended-linked.pdf
Attachments:
• Attachment5.a: Attachemtn A: Management and Conf Salary Schedule Final FY22
03.12.2022
• Attachment5.b: Attachment B: SEIU Hourly Salary Schedule 01.01.2022 Min Wage
• Attachment5.c: Attachment C: Limited Hourly Salary Schedule 01.01.2022 Min
Wage
• Attachment5.d: Attachment D: IAFF Salary Schedule 2022 03.12.2022 07.02.2022
• Attachment5.e: Attachment E: FCA Salary Schedule FY2022 03.12.2022 07.02.2022
• Attachment5.f: Attachment F: UMPAPA Salary Schedule FY22 03.12.2022
• Attachment5.g: Management and Confidential Cover Sheet 3.14.22
• Attachment5.h: UMPAPA Letter of Agreement Extension 3.14.22
• Attachment5.i: IAFF Letter of Agreement Extension 3.14.22
• Attachment5.j: FCA Letter of Agreement Extension 3.14.22
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Job Code FLSA Status Classifications
Grade
Codes Min Mid Max Min Mid Max
190 Non-Exempt Accountant 690P $38.84 $48.54 $58.25 $80,787 $100,963 $121,160
76 Exempt Administrative Assistant 750P $30.71 $39.92 $47.91 $63,877 $83,034 $95,805
115 Exempt Assistant Chief Building Official 405M $49.88 $64.84 $77.81 $103,750 $134,867 $155,605
132 Exempt Assistant Chief of Police 100A $81.64 $106.13 $127.36 $169,811 $220,750 $254,696
108 Exempt Assistant City Attorney 165A $69.20 $89.95 $107.94 $143,936 $187,096 $215,883
109 Exempt Assistant City Clerk 630M $40.28 $52.37 $62.85 $83,782 $108,930 $125,674
107 Exempt Assistant City Manager 20E $84.80 $110.23 $132.28 $176,384 $229,278 $264,555
73 Exempt Assistant Director Administrative Services 120A $69.78 $90.71 $108.86 $145,142 $188,677 $217,714
126 Exempt Assistant Director Community Services 150A $66.80 $86.83 $104.20 $138,944 $180,606 $208,395
1007 Exempt Assistant Director Human Resources 155A $64.57 $83.94 $100.73 $134,306 $174,595 $201,469
2001 Exempt Assistant Director Library Services 160A $63.89 $83.06 $99.68 $132,891 $172,765 $199,347
10 Exempt Assistant Director Planning & Community Environment 130A $68.44 $88.97 $106.77 $142,355 $185,058 $213,512
143 Exempt Assistant Director Public Works 140A $67.64 $87.94 $105.53 $140,691 $182,915 $211,037
168 Exempt Assistant Fleet Manager 585M $42.34 $55.04 $66.05 $88,067 $114,483 $132,101
102 Exempt Assistant Manager WQCP 240D $54.68 $71.08 $85.30 $113,734 $147,846 $170,581
30 Exempt Assistant to the City Manager 390M $52.84 $68.70 $82.44 $109,907 $142,896 $164,861
118 Exempt Chief Building Official 290M $64.93 $84.41 $101.30 $135,054 $175,573 $202,592
2008 Exempt Chief Communications Officer 135A $68.07 $88.49 $106.19 $141,586 $184,059 $212,368
112 Exempt Chief Planning Official 220D $58.03 $75.44 $90.53 $120,702 $156,915 $181,043
95 Exempt Chief Procurement Officer 235D $54.89 $71.36 $85.64 $114,171 $148,429 $171,267
82 Exempt Chief Transportation Official 140A $67.64 $87.94 $105.53 $140,691 $182,915 $211,037
96 Exempt Claims Investigator 660P $37.40 $48.62 $58.35 $77,792 $101,130 $116,688
24 Exempt Communication Specialist 615M $40.51 $52.66 $63.20 $84,261 $109,533 $126,381
89 Exempt Contracts Administrator 585P $42.34 $55.04 $66.05 $88,067 $114,483 $132,101
186 Non-Exempt Coordinator Library Circulation 675M $35.66 $46.36 $55.64 $74,173 $96,429 $111,259
191 Exempt Deputy Chief/Fire Marshall 125A $68.96 $89.65 $107.58 $143,437 $186,472 $215,155
11 Exempt Deputy City Attorney 375M $54.17 $70.42 $84.51 $112,674 $146,474 $169,021
71 Exempt Deputy City Clerk 720M $32.27 $41.95 $50.34 $67,122 $87,256 $100,672
55 Exempt Deputy City Manager 115A $70.69 $91.90 $110.28 $147,035 $191,152 $220,563
195 Exempt Deputy Director Technical Services Division 200D $68.75 $89.37 $107.25 $143,000 $185,890 $214,490
20 Exempt Deputy Fire Chief 110A $71.84 $93.40 $112.08 $149,427 $194,272 $224,141
81 Exempt Director Administrative Services/Chief Financial Officer 50E $81.28 $105.67 $126.81 $169,062 $219,794 $253,594
72 Exempt Director Community Services 45E $81.92 $106.49 $127.79 $170,394 $221,499 $255,570
1012 Exempt Director Development Services 145A $71.92 $93.49 $112.19 $149,594 $194,459 $224,370
City of Palo Alto
Management, Professional and Confidential Salary Schedule
Effective 3/12/2022 (4% Increase)
Hourly Rate Annual Salary
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Grade
Codes Min Mid Max Min Mid Max
City of Palo Alto
Management, Professional and Confidential Salary Schedule
Effective 3/12/2022 (4% Increase)
Hourly Rate Annual Salary
133 Exempt Director Human Resources/Chief People Officer 55E $77.48 $100.72 $120.87 $161,158 $209,498 $241,717
128 Exempt Director Information Technology/Chief Information Officer 25E $84.65 $110.05 $132.06 $176,072 $228,904 $264,118
131 Exempt Director Libraries 60E $76.67 $99.67 $119.61 $159,474 $207,314 $239,200
2028 Exempt Director of Emergency Medical Services 215D $60.16 $78.20 $93.84 $125,133 $162,656 $187,678
2005 Exempt Director Office of Emergency Services 215D $60.16 $78.20 $93.84 $125,133 $162,656 $187,678
49 Exempt Director Office of Management and Budget 120A $69.78 $90.71 $108.86 $145,142 $188,677 $217,714
134 Exempt Director Planning & Community Environment 40E $82.10 $106.73 $128.08 $170,768 $221,998 $256,152
135 Exempt Director Public Works/City Engineer 30E $83.16 $108.11 $129.74 $172,973 $224,869 $259,459
121 Exempt Director Utilities 10E $106.56 $138.53 $166.24 $221,645 $288,142 $332,467
2002 Exempt Division Head Library Services 260D $51.87 $67.43 $80.92 $107,890 $140,254 $161,824
172 Exempt Division Manager Open Space, Parks & Golf 245D $53.94 $70.12 $84.15 $112,195 $145,850 $168,293
TBD Exempt Division Manager Planning 220D $58.03 $75.44 $90.53 $120,702 $156,915 $181,043
1005 Exempt Executive Assistant to the City Manager 705M $34.74 $45.16 $54.20 $72,259 $93,933 $108,389
139 Exempt Fire Chief 35E $82.70 $107.51 $129.02 $172,016 $223,621 $258,024
163 Exempt Hearing Officer 480M $49.08 $63.80 $76.56 $102,086 $132,704 $153,109
101 Exempt Human Resources Representative 735P $31.48 $40.92 $49.11 $65,478 $85,114 $98,197
90 Exempt Landscape Architect Park Planner 510M $46.72 $60.73 $72.88 $97,178 $126,318 $145,746
2015 Exempt Legal Fellow 755P $40.16 $52.21 $62.66 $83,533 $108,597 $125,299
171 Exempt Management Analyst 585M $42.34 $55.04 $66.05 $88,067 $114,483 $132,101
79 Exempt Manager Accounting 235D $54.89 $71.36 $85.64 $114,171 $148,429 $171,267
2007 Exempt Manager Airport 210D $60.17 $78.22 $93.87 $125,154 $162,698 $187,741
2023 Exempt Manager Budget 360M $58.28 $75.76 $90.92 $121,222 $157,581 $181,813
38 Exempt Manager Communications 525M $45.57 $59.24 $71.09 $94,786 $123,219 $142,189
154 Exempt Manager Community Services 630M $40.28 $52.37 $62.85 $83,782 $108,930 $125,674
169 Exempt Manager Community Services Sr Program 585M $42.34 $55.04 $66.05 $88,067 $114,483 $132,101
1013 Exempt Manager Development Center 495M $47.88 $62.25 $74.70 $99,590 $129,480 $149,386
63 Exempt Manager Economic Development 220D $58.03 $75.44 $90.53 $120,702 $156,915 $181,043
44 Exempt Manager Employee Benefits 450M $49.59 $64.46 $77.36 $103,147 $134,077 $154,710
45 Exempt Manager Employee Relations & Training 235D $54.89 $71.36 $85.64 $114,171 $148,429 $171,267
93 Exempt Manager Environmental Control Program 419M $50.77 $66.00 $79.20 $105,602 $137,280 $158,413
1116 Exempt Manager Facilities 445M $50.33 $65.43 $78.52 $104,686 $136,094 $157,040
2030 Exempt Manager Finance 223D $57.64 $74.93 $89.92 $119,891 $155,854 $179,816
127 Exempt Manager Fleet 255D $50.84 $66.10 $79.32 $105,747 $137,488 $158,621
2018 Exempt Manager Human Services 540M $44.47 $57.81 $69.38 $92,498 $120,245 $138,736
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Job Code FLSA Status Classifications
Grade
Codes Min Mid Max Min Mid Max
City of Palo Alto
Management, Professional and Confidential Salary Schedule
Effective 3/12/2022 (4% Increase)
Hourly Rate Annual Salary
32 Exempt Manager Information Technology 230D $56.13 $72.97 $87.57 $116,750 $151,778 $175,136
2006 Exempt Manager Information Technology Security 230D $56.13 $72.97 $87.57 $116,750 $151,778 $175,136
158 Exempt Manager Laboratory Services 495M $47.88 $62.25 $74.70 $99,590 $129,480 $149,386
78 Exempt Manager Library Services 565M $41.80 $54.33 $65.20 $86,944 $113,006 $130,395
92 Exempt Manager Maintenance Operations 469M $46.90 $60.97 $73.17 $97,552 $126,818 $146,328
26 Exempt Manager Transportation Planning 345M $54.88 $71.35 $85.62 $114,150 $148,408 $171,226
51 Exempt Manager Planning 415M $50.84 $66.09 $79.31 $105,747 $137,467 $158,600
103 Exempt Manager Real Property 235D $54.89 $71.36 $85.64 $114,171 $148,429 $171,267
2011 Exempt Manager Revenue Collections 250D $51.56 $67.03 $80.44 $107,245 $139,422 $160,867
160 Exempt Manager Solid Waste 330M $55.53 $72.19 $86.63 $115,502 $150,155 $173,264
57 Exempt Manager Treasury, Debt & Investments 235D $54.89 $71.36 $85.64 $114,171 $148,429 $171,267
86 Exempt Manager Urban Forestry 436M $52.31 $68.00 $81.60 $108,805 $141,440 $163,197
178 Exempt Manager Water Quality Control Plant 205D $61.77 $80.30 $96.36 $128,482 $167,024 $192,733
39 Exempt Manager Watershed Protection 330M $55.53 $72.19 $86.63 $115,502 $150,155 $173,264
1008 Exempt Office of Emergency Services Coordinator 525M $45.57 $59.24 $71.09 $94,786 $123,219 $142,189
2024 Exempt Performance Auditor I 750P $30.71 $39.92 $47.91 $63,877 $83,034 $95,805
100 Exempt Performance Auditor II 585M $42.34 $55.04 $66.05 $88,067 $114,483 $132,101
148 Exempt Police Chief 15E $91.95 $119.53 $143.44 $191,256 $248,622 $286,874
2021 Exempt Chief Assistant City Attorney 101A $83.72 $108.84 $130.61 $174,138 $226,387 $261,206
2016 Exempt Principal Business Analyst 310M $58.51 $76.06 $91.28 $121,701 $158,205 $182,541
2029 Exempt Principal Planner 469M $47.28 $61.46 $73.76 $98,342 $127,837 $147,493
2003 Exempt Principal Management Analyst 360M $58.28 $75.76 $90.92 $121,222 $157,581 $181,813
2009 Exempt Project Manager 570M $42.61 $55.40 $66.48 $88,629 $115,232 $132,954
2012 Exempt Public Safety Communications Manager 495M $47.88 $62.25 $74.70 $99,590 $129,480 $149,386
166 Exempt Public Safety Program Manager 585M $42.34 $55.04 $66.05 $88,067 $114,483 $132,101
117 Exempt Senior Accountant 525M $45.57 $59.24 $71.09 $94,786 $123,219 $142,189
2013 Exempt Senior Business Analyst - M 420M $50.88 $66.15 $79.38 $105,830 $137,592 $158,746
187 Exempt Senior Engineer 300M $58.34 $75.84 $91.01 $121,347 $157,747 $182,021
106 Exempt Senior Executive Assistant 450M $49.59 $64.46 $77.36 $103,147 $134,077 $154,710
157 Exempt Senior Human Resources Administrator 545M $43.22 $56.19 $67.43 $89,898 $116,875 $134,846
14 Exempt Senior Management Analyst 465M $49.55 $64.41 $77.30 $103,064 $133,973 $154,586
130 Exempt Senior Performance Auditor 510M $46.72 $60.73 $72.88 $97,178 $126,318 $145,746
53 Exempt Senior Project Manager 300M $58.34 $75.84 $91.01 $121,347 $157,747 $182,021
33 Exempt Senior Technologist 420M $50.88 $66.15 $79.38 $105,830 $137,592 $158,746
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Job Code FLSA Status Classifications
Grade
Codes Min Mid Max Min Mid Max
City of Palo Alto
Management, Professional and Confidential Salary Schedule
Effective 3/12/2022 (4% Increase)
Hourly Rate Annual Salary
155 Exempt Superintendent Animal Services 540M $44.47 $57.81 $69.38 $92,498 $120,245 $138,736
83 Exempt Superintendent Community Services 480M $49.08 $63.80 $76.56 $102,086 $132,704 $153,109
1117 Exempt Superintendent Recreation 480M $49.08 $63.80 $76.56 $102,086 $132,704 $153,109
2022 Exempt Supervising Librarian 675M $35.80 $46.53 $55.84 $74,464 $96,782 $111,675
161 Exempt Supervisor Facilities Management 600M $41.39 $53.80 $64.56 $86,091 $111,904 $129,126
113 Exempt Supervisor Inspection and Surveying 540M $44.47 $57.81 $69.38 $92,498 $120,245 $138,736
146 Exempt Supervisor Warehouse 660M $37.40 $48.62 $58.35 $77,792 $101,130 $116,688
181 Exempt Supervisor Water Quality Control Operations 525M $45.57 $59.24 $71.09 $94,786 $123,219 $142,189
2027 Exempt Utilities Chief Operating Officer 60E $76.67 $99.67 $119.61 $159,474 $207,314 $239,200
905 Non-Exempt Human Resources Technician 830C $27.15 $35.29 $42.35 $56,472 $73,403 $88,088
903 Non-Exempt Legal Secretary-Confidential 820C $27.83 $36.18 $43.42 $57,886 $75,254 $90,314
67 Exempt Secretary to City Attorney 800C $33.07 $42.99 $51.59 $68,786 $89,419 $107,307
1004 Non-Exempt Senior Legal Secretary - Confidential 810C $30.71 $39.92 $47.91 $63,877 $83,034 $99,653
Confidential Classifications
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Job Code FLSA Job Title Step Effective upon MOA adoption Effective 7/1/2018 Effective 1/1/2019 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2019 Effective 1/1/2020 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2020 Effective 01/01/2022 (Min Wage)
1 $22.90 $23.49 $23.49 $24.09 $24.09 $24.58 $24.58
2 $24.11 $24.73 $24.73 $25.36 $25.36 $25.87 $25.87
3 $25.38 $26.03 $26.03 $26.69 $26.69 $27.23 $27.23
4 $26.72 $27.40 $27.40 $28.09 $28.09 $28.66 $28.66
5 $28.13 $28.84 $28.84 $29.57 $29.57 $30.17 $30.17
1 $27.35 $28.04 $28.04 $28.75 $28.75 $29.33 $29.33
2 $28.79 $29.52 $29.52 $30.26 $30.26 $30.87 $30.87
3 $30.31 $31.07 $31.07 $31.85 $31.85 $32.49 $32.49
4 $31.90 $32.70 $32.70 $33.53 $33.53 $34.20 $34.20
5 $33.58 $34.42 $34.42 $35.29 $35.29 $36.00 $36.00
1 $22.90 $23.49 $23.49 $24.09 $24.09 $24.58 $24.58
2 $24.11 $24.73 $24.73 $25.36 $25.36 $25.87 $25.87
3 $25.38 $26.03 $26.03 $26.69 $26.69 $27.23 $27.23
4 $26.72 $27.40 $27.40 $28.09 $28.09 $28.66 $28.66
5 $28.13 $28.84 $28.84 $29.57 $29.57 $30.17 $30.17
1 $21.17 $21.70 $21.70 $22.24 $22.24 $22.69 $22.69
2 $22.28 $22.84 $22.84 $23.41 $23.41 $23.88 $23.88
3 $23.45 $24.04 $24.04 $24.64 $24.64 $25.14 $25.14
4 $24.68 $25.30 $25.30 $25.94 $25.94 $26.46 $26.46
5 $25.98 $26.63 $26.63 $27.30 $27.30 $27.85 $27.85
1 $18.56 $19.03 $19.03 $19.50 $19.50 $19.90 $19.90
2 $19.54 $20.03 $20.03 $20.53 $20.53 $20.95 $20.95
3 $20.57 $21.08 $21.08 $21.61 $21.61 $22.05 $22.05
4 $21.65 $22.19 $22.19 $22.75 $22.75 $23.21 $23.21
5 $22.79 $23.36 $23.36 $23.95 $23.95 $24.43 $24.43
1 $15.01 $15.39 $15.39 $15.78 $15.78 $16.09 $16.45
2 $15.80 $16.20 $16.20 $16.61 $16.61 $16.94 $17.31
3 $16.63 $17.05 $17.05 $17.48 $17.48 $17.83 $18.22
4 $17.50 $17.95 $17.95 $18.40 $18.40 $18.77 $19.18
5 $18.42 $18.89 $18.89 $19.37 $19.37 $19.76 $20.19
1 $17.54 $17.97 $17.97 $18.44 $18.44 $18.81 $18.81
2 $18.46 $18.92 $18.92 $19.41 $19.41 $19.80 $19.80
3 $19.43 $19.92 $19.92 $20.43 $20.43 $20.84 $20.84
4 $20.45 $20.97 $20.97 $21.50 $21.50 $21.94 $21.94
5 $21.53 $22.07 $22.07 $22.63 $22.63 $23.09 $23.09
1 $17.24 $17.68 $17.68 $18.14 $18.14 $18.50 $18.50
2 $18.15 $18.61 $18.61 $19.09 $19.09 $19.47 $19.47
3 $19.11 $19.59 $19.59 $20.09 $20.09 $20.49 $20.49
4 $20.12 $20.62 $20.62 $21.15 $21.15 $21.57 $21.57
5 $21.18 $21.71 $21.71 $22.26 $22.26 $22.71 $22.71
1 $13.88 $14.23 $15.00 $15.23 $15.40 $15.70 $16.45
2 $14.61 $14.98 $15.75 $16.03 $16.21 $16.53 $17.31
3 $15.38 $15.77 $16.54 $16.87 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
4 $16.19 $16.60 $17.36 $17.76 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
5 $17.04 $17.47 $18.23 $18.69 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
1 $21.66 $22.21 $22.21 $22.76 $22.76 $23.22 $23.22
2 $22.80 $23.38 $23.38 $23.96 $23.96 $24.44 $24.44
3 $24.00 $24.61 $24.61 $25.22 $25.22 $25.73 $25.73
4 $25.26 $25.90 $25.90 $26.55 $26.55 $27.08 $27.08
5 $26.59 $27.26 $27.26 $27.95 $27.95 $28.51 $28.51
1 $26.37 $27.03 $27.03 $27.71 $27.71 $28.26 $28.26
2 $27.76 $28.45 $28.45 $29.17 $29.17 $29.75 $29.75
3 $29.22 $29.95 $29.95 $30.70 $30.70 $31.32 $31.32
4 $30.76 $31.53 $31.53 $32.32 $32.32 $32.97 $32.97
5 $32.38 $33.19 $33.19 $34.02 $34.02 $34.71 $34.71
1 $30.35 $31.12 $31.12 $31.89 $31.89 $32.54 $32.54
2 $31.95 $32.76 $32.76 $33.57 $33.57 $34.25 $34.25
3 $33.63 $34.48 $34.48 $35.34 $35.34 $36.05 $36.05
4 $35.40 $36.29 $36.29 $37.20 $37.20 $37.95 $37.95
5 $37.26 $38.20 $38.20 $39.16 $39.16 $39.95 $39.95
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ‐ Hourly Group
Salary Schedule
9008 Non-exempt Instructor Aide - H
9000 Non-exempt Administrative Specialist I – H
9002 Non-exempt Assistant Park Ranger - H
9003 Non-exempt Building Service Person - H
9009 Non-exempt Instructor I - H
Instructor II - H
9036 Non-exempt Instructor III-H
9010 Non-exempt
Administrative Specialist II - H
Custodial Aide - H
9006 Non-exempt Custodial Assistant - H
9007
9004 Non-exempt
9001 Non-exempt
Non-exempt House Manager - H
Clerical Assistant - H
9005 Non-exempt
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Job Code FLSA Job Title Step Effective upon MOA adoption Effective 7/1/2018 Effective 1/1/2019 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2019 Effective 1/1/2020 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2020 Effective 01/01/2022 (Min Wage)
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ‐ Hourly Group
Salary Schedule
1 $27.85 $28.56 $28.56 $29.26 $29.26 $29.86 $29.86
2 $29.32 $30.06 $30.06 $30.80 $30.80 $31.43 $31.43
3 $30.86 $31.64 $31.64 $32.42 $32.42 $33.08 $33.08
4 $32.48 $33.30 $33.30 $34.13 $34.13 $34.82 $34.82
5 $34.19 $35.05 $35.05 $35.93 $35.93 $36.65 $36.65
1 $20.74 $21.26 $21.26 $21.79 $21.79 $22.24 $22.24
2 $21.83 $22.38 $22.38 $22.94 $22.94 $23.41 $23.41
3 $22.98 $23.56 $23.56 $24.15 $24.15 $24.64 $24.64
4 $24.19 $24.80 $24.80 $25.42 $25.42 $25.94 $25.94
5 $25.46 $26.10 $26.10 $26.76 $26.76 $27.30 $27.30
1 $13.88 $14.23 $15.00 $15.23 $15.40 $15.70 $16.45
2 $14.61 $14.98 $15.75 $16.03 $16.21 $16.53 $17.31
3 $15.38 $15.77 $16.54 $16.87 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
4 $16.19 $16.60 $17.36 $17.76 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
5 $17.04 $17.47 $18.23 $18.69 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
1 $16.69 $17.10 $17.10 $17.54 $17.54 $17.90 $17.90
2 $17.57 $18.00 $18.00 $18.46 $18.46 $18.84 $18.84
3 $18.49 $18.95 $18.95 $19.43 $19.43 $19.83 $19.83
4 $19.46 $19.95 $19.95 $20.45 $20.45 $20.87 $20.87
5 $20.48 $21.00 $21.00 $21.53 $21.53 $21.97 $21.97
1 $16.69 $17.10 $17.10 $17.54 $17.54 $17.90 $17.90
2 $17.57 $18.00 $18.00 $18.46 $18.46 $18.84 $18.84
3 $18.49 $18.95 $18.95 $19.43 $19.43 $19.83 $19.83
4 $19.46 $19.95 $19.95 $20.45 $20.45 $20.87 $20.87
5 $20.48 $21.00 $21.00 $21.53 $21.53 $21.97 $21.97
1 $20.74 $21.26 $21.26 $21.79 $21.79 $22.24 $22.24
2 $21.83 $22.38 $22.38 $22.94 $22.94 $23.41 $23.41
3 $22.98 $23.56 $23.56 $24.15 $24.15 $24.64 $24.64
4 $24.19 $24.80 $24.80 $25.42 $25.42 $25.94 $25.94
5 $25.46 $26.10 $26.10 $26.76 $26.76 $27.30 $27.30
1 $30.00 $30.76 $30.76 $31.52 $31.52 $32.17 $32.17
2 $31.58 $32.38 $32.38 $33.18 $33.18 $33.86 $33.86
3 $33.24 $34.08 $34.08 $34.93 $34.93 $35.64 $35.64
4 $34.99 $35.87 $35.87 $36.77 $36.77 $37.52 $37.52
5 $36.83 $37.76 $37.76 $38.71 $38.71 $39.49 $39.49
1 $22.90 $23.49 $23.49 $24.09 $24.09 $24.58 $24.58
2 $24.11 $24.73 $24.73 $25.36 $25.36 $25.87 $25.87
3 $25.38 $26.03 $26.03 $26.69 $26.69 $27.23 $27.23
4 $26.72 $27.40 $27.40 $28.09 $28.09 $28.66 $28.66
5 $28.13 $28.84 $28.84 $29.57 $29.57 $30.17 $30.17
1 $13.88 $14.23 $15.00 $15.23 $15.40 $15.70 $16.45
2 $14.61 $14.98 $15.75 $16.03 $16.21 $16.53 $17.31
3 $15.38 $15.77 $16.54 $16.87 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
4 $16.19 $16.60 $17.36 $17.76 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
5 $17.04 $17.47 $18.23 $18.69 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
1 $13.88 $14.23 $15.00 $15.23 $15.40 $15.70 $16.45
2 $14.61 $14.98 $15.75 $16.03 $16.21 $16.53 $17.31
3 $15.38 $15.77 $16.54 $16.87 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
4 $16.19 $16.60 $17.36 $17.76 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
5 $17.04 $17.47 $18.23 $18.69 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
1 $15.38 $15.77 $16.45 $16.79 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
2 $16.19 $16.60 $17.32 $17.67 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
3 $17.04 $17.47 $18.23 $18.60 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
4 $17.94 $18.39 $19.14 $19.58 $19.89 $20.29 $21.25
5 $18.88 $19.36 $20.10 $20.61 $20.94 $21.36 $22.36
1 $17.50 $17.94 $18.14 $18.51 $18.90 $19.29 $20.18
2 $18.42 $18.88 $19.10 $19.48 $19.89 $20.30 $21.24
3 $19.39 $19.87 $20.10 $20.50 $20.94 $21.37 $22.36
4 $20.41 $20.92 $21.11 $21.58 $22.04 $22.49 $23.54
5 $21.48 $22.02 $22.16 $22.72 $23.20 $23.67 $24.77
9022 Non-exempt
9019 Non-exempt
9015
Library Page - H
9012 Non-exempt
9013 Non-exempt
9011 Non-exempt Librarian - H
9014 Non-exempt Maintenance Assistant - H
Library Clerk - H
9021 Non-exempt Recreation Leader II - H
Open Space Technician - H
9016 Non-exempt Print Shop Assistant - H
9018 Non-exempt Project Specialist - H
9017 Non-exempt Project Construction Inspector - H
Recreation Aide - H
9020 Non-exempt Recreation Leader I - H
Non-exempt
Recreation Leader III - H
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Job Code FLSA Job Title Step Effective upon MOA adoption Effective 7/1/2018 Effective 1/1/2019 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2019 Effective 1/1/2020 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2020 Effective 01/01/2022 (Min Wage)
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ‐ Hourly Group
Salary Schedule
1 $16.59 $17.01 $17.01 $17.43 $17.43 $17.78 $17.78
2 $17.46 $17.91 $17.91 $18.35 $18.35 $18.72 $18.72
3 $18.38 $18.85 $18.85 $19.32 $19.32 $19.71 $19.71
4 $19.35 $19.84 $19.84 $20.34 $20.34 $20.75 $20.75
5 $20.37 $20.88 $20.88 $21.41 $21.41 $21.84 $21.84
1 $18.56 $19.03 $19.03 $19.50 $19.50 $19.90 $19.90
2 $19.54 $20.03 $20.03 $20.53 $20.53 $20.95 $20.95
3 $20.57 $21.08 $21.08 $21.61 $21.61 $22.05 $22.05
4 $21.65 $22.19 $22.19 $22.75 $22.75 $23.21 $23.21
5 $22.79 $23.36 $23.36 $23.95 $23.95 $24.43 $24.43
1 $13.88 $14.23 $15.00 $15.23 $15.40 $15.70 $16.45
2 $14.61 $14.98 $15.75 $16.03 $16.21 $16.53 $17.31
3 $15.38 $15.77 $16.54 $16.87 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
4 $16.19 $16.60 $17.36 $17.76 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
5 $17.04 $17.47 $18.23 $18.69 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
1 $21.66 $22.21 $22.21 $22.76 $22.76 $23.22 $23.22
2 $22.80 $23.38 $23.38 $23.96 $23.96 $24.44 $24.44
3 $24.00 $24.61 $24.61 $25.22 $25.22 $25.73 $25.73
4 $25.26 $25.90 $25.90 $26.55 $26.55 $27.08 $27.08
5 $26.59 $27.26 $27.26 $27.95 $27.95 $28.51 $28.51
1 $26.37 $27.03 $27.03 $27.71 $27.71 $28.26 $28.26
2 $27.76 $28.45 $28.45 $29.17 $29.17 $29.75 $29.75
3 $29.22 $29.95 $29.95 $30.70 $30.70 $31.32 $31.32
4 $30.76 $31.53 $31.53 $32.32 $32.32 $32.97 $32.97
5 $32.38 $33.19 $33.19 $34.02 $34.02 $34.71 $34.71
1 $30.35 $31.12 $31.12 $31.89 $31.89 $32.54 $32.54
2 $31.95 $32.76 $32.76 $33.57 $33.57 $34.25 $34.25
3 $33.63 $34.48 $34.48 $35.34 $35.34 $36.05 $36.05
4 $35.40 $36.29 $36.29 $37.20 $37.20 $37.95 $37.95
5 $37.26 $38.20 $38.20 $39.16 $39.16 $39.95 $39.95
1 $15.38 $15.77 $15.77 $16.17 $16.17 $16.50 $16.50
2 $16.19 $16.60 $16.60 $17.02 $17.02 $17.37 $17.37
3 $17.04 $17.47 $17.47 $17.92 $17.92 $18.28 $18.28
4 $17.94 $18.39 $18.39 $18.86 $18.86 $19.24 $19.24
5 $18.88 $19.36 $19.36 $19.85 $19.85 $20.25 $20.25
1 $22.90 $23.49 $23.49 $24.09 $24.09 $24.58 $24.58
2 $24.11 $24.73 $24.73 $25.36 $25.36 $25.87 $25.87
3 $25.38 $26.03 $26.03 $26.69 $26.69 $27.23 $27.23
4 $26.72 $27.40 $27.40 $28.09 $28.09 $28.66 $28.66
5 $28.13 $28.84 $28.84 $29.57 $29.57 $30.17 $30.17
9030 Non-exempt
9028 Non-exempt
9025 Non-exempt
Zoological Assistant - H
Technical Specialist - H
Arts & Science Professional II - H
9037 Non-exempt Arts & Science Professional III - H
9029 Non-exempt Arts & Science Technician - H
9023 Non-exempt Stock Clerk - H
9026 Non-exempt Arts & Science Aide - H
9027 Non-exempt Arts & Science Professional I - H
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Job Code FLSA Job Title Min Max Min Max Min Max Min Max Min Max Min Max Min Max
9035 Non-exempt General Laborer - H 13.91$ 61.80$ 14.25$ 63.35$ 15.00$ 63.35$ 15.38$ 64.93$ 15.40$ 64.93$ 15.71$ 66.23$ 16.45$ 66.23$
9032 Non-exempt Inspector - H 13.91$ 61.80$ 14.25$ 63.35$ 15.00$ 63.35$ 15.38$ 64.93$ 15.40$ 64.93$ 15.71$ 66.23$ 16.45$ 66.23$
9033 Non-exempt Journey Level Laborer - H 13.91$ 61.80$ 14.25$ 63.35$ 15.00$ 63.35$ 15.38$ 64.93$ 15.40$ 64.93$ 15.71$ 66.23$ 16.45$ 66.23$
9034 Non-exempt Staff Specialist - H 13.91$ 61.80$ 14.25$ 63.35$ 15.00$ 63.35$ 15.38$ 64.93$ 15.40$ 64.93$ 15.71$ 66.23$ 16.45$ 66.23$
EffecƟve upon MOA adopƟon Effective 7/1/2018 Effective 1/1/2019 (Min Wage)Effective 7/1/2019 Effective 1/1/2020 (Min Wage)Effective 7/1/2020
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ‐ Hourly Group
Salary Schedule
Effective 01/01/2022 (Min Wage)
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Job Code FLSA Job Title Step Effective upon Council adoption Effective 7/1/2018 Effective 1/1/2019 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2019 Effective 1/1/2020 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2020 Effective 1/1/2022 (Min Wage)
1 $22.24 $23.49 $23.49 $24.09 $24.09 $24.58 $24.58
2 $23.41 $24.73 $24.73 $25.36 $25.36 $25.87 $25.87
3 $24.64 $26.03 $26.03 $26.69 $26.69 $27.23 $27.23
4 $25.94 $27.40 $27.40 $28.09 $28.09 $28.66 $28.66
5 $27.31 $28.84 $28.84 $29.57 $29.57 $30.17 $30.17
1 $26.55 $28.04 $28.04 $28.75 $28.75 $29.33 $29.33
2 $27.95 $29.52 $29.52 $30.26 $30.26 $30.87 $30.87
3 $29.42 $31.07 $31.07 $31.85 $31.85 $32.49 $32.49
4 $30.97 $32.70 $32.70 $33.53 $33.53 $34.20 $34.20
5 $32.60 $34.42 $34.42 $35.29 $35.29 $36.00 $36.00
1 $22.24 $23.49 $23.49 $24.09 $24.09 $24.58 $24.58
2 $23.41 $24.73 $24.73 $25.36 $25.36 $25.87 $25.87
3 $24.64 $26.03 $26.03 $26.69 $26.69 $27.23 $27.23
4 $25.94 $27.40 $27.40 $28.09 $28.09 $28.66 $28.66
5 $27.31 $28.84 $28.84 $29.57 $29.57 $30.17 $30.17
1 $20.54 $21.70 $21.70 $22.24 $22.24 $22.69 $22.69
2 $21.62 $22.84 $22.84 $23.41 $23.41 $23.88 $23.88
3 $22.76 $24.04 $24.04 $24.64 $24.64 $25.14 $25.14
4 $23.96 $25.30 $25.30 $25.94 $25.94 $26.46 $26.46
5 $25.22 $26.63 $26.63 $27.30 $27.30 $27.85 $27.85
1 $18.01 $19.03 $19.03 $19.50 $19.50 $19.90 $19.90
2 $18.96 $20.03 $20.03 $20.53 $20.53 $20.95 $20.95
3 $19.96 $21.08 $21.08 $21.61 $21.61 $22.05 $22.05
4 $21.01 $22.19 $22.19 $22.75 $22.75 $23.21 $23.21
5 $22.12 $23.36 $23.36 $23.95 $23.95 $24.43 $24.43
1 $14.56 $15.39 $15.39 $15.78 $15.78 $16.09 $16.45
2 $15.33 $16.20 $16.20 $16.61 $16.61 $16.94 $17.31
3 $16.14 $17.05 $17.05 $17.48 $17.48 $17.83 $18.22
4 $16.99 $17.95 $17.95 $18.40 $18.40 $18.77 $19.18
5 $17.88 $18.89 $18.89 $19.37 $19.37 $19.76 $20.19
1 $17.03 $17.97 $17.97 $18.44 $18.44 $18.81 $18.81
2 $17.93 $18.92 $18.92 $19.41 $19.41 $19.80 $19.80
3 $18.87 $19.92 $19.92 $20.43 $20.43 $20.84 $20.84
4 $19.86 $20.97 $20.97 $21.50 $21.50 $21.94 $21.94
5 $20.90 $22.07 $22.07 $22.63 $22.63 $23.09 $23.09
1 $16.74 $17.68 $17.68 $18.14 $18.14 $18.50 $18.50
2 $17.62 $18.61 $18.61 $19.09 $19.09 $19.47 $19.47
3 $18.55 $19.59 $19.59 $20.09 $20.09 $20.49 $20.49
4 $19.53 $20.62 $20.62 $21.15 $21.15 $21.57 $21.57
5 $20.56 $21.71 $21.71 $22.26 $22.26 $22.71 $22.71
1 $13.50 $14.23 $15.00 $15.23 $15.40 $15.70 $16.45
2 $14.20 $14.98 $15.75 $16.03 $16.21 $16.53 $17.31
3 $14.94 $15.77 $16.54 $16.87 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
4 $15.72 $16.60 $17.36 $17.76 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
5 $16.54 $17.47 $18.23 $18.69 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
1 $21.02 $22.21 $22.21 $22.76 $22.76 $23.22 $23.22
2 $22.13 $23.38 $23.38 $23.96 $23.96 $24.44 $24.44
3 $23.29 $24.61 $24.61 $25.22 $25.22 $25.73 $25.73
4 $24.52 $25.90 $25.90 $26.55 $26.55 $27.08 $27.08
5 $25.81 $27.26 $27.26 $27.95 $27.95 $28.51 $28.51
1 $25.60 $27.03 $27.03 $27.71 $27.71 $28.26 $28.26
2 $26.95 $28.45 $28.45 $29.17 $29.17 $29.75 $29.75
3 $28.37 $29.95 $29.95 $30.70 $30.70 $31.32 $31.32
4 $29.86 $31.53 $31.53 $32.32 $32.32 $32.97 $32.97
5 $31.43 $33.19 $33.19 $34.02 $34.02 $34.71 $34.71
1 $29.46 $31.12 $31.12 $31.89 $31.89 $32.54 $32.54
2 $31.01 $32.76 $32.76 $33.57 $33.57 $34.25 $34.25
3 $32.64 $34.48 $34.48 $35.34 $35.34 $36.05 $36.05
4 $34.36 $36.29 $36.29 $37.20 $37.20 $37.95 $37.95
5 $36.17 $38.20 $38.20 $39.16 $39.16 $39.95 $39.95
1 $27.03 $28.56 $28.56 $29.26 $29.26 $29.86 $29.86
2 $28.45 $30.06 $30.06 $30.80 $30.80 $31.43 $31.43
3 $29.95 $31.64 $31.64 $32.42 $32.42 $33.08 $33.08
4 $31.53 $33.30 $33.30 $34.13 $34.13 $34.82 $34.82
5 $33.19 $35.05 $35.05 $35.93 $35.93 $36.65 $36.65
Limited Hourly Group
Salary Schedule
Administrative Specialist II
Custodial Aide
919 Non-exempt Custodial Assistant
920
917 Non-exempt
913 Non-exempt
Non-exempt House Manager
Clerical Assistant
918 Non-exempt
910 Non-exempt Administrative Specialist I
915 Non-exempt Assistant Park Ranger
916 Non-exempt Building Service Person
922 Non-exempt Instructor I
Instructor II
921 Non-exempt Instructor Aide
982 Non-exempt Instructor III
924 Non-exempt Librarian
923 Non-exempt
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Job Code FLSA Job Title Step Effective upon Council adoption Effective 7/1/2018 Effective 1/1/2019 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2019 Effective 1/1/2020 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2020 Effective 1/1/2022 (Min Wage)
Limited Hourly Group
Salary Schedule
1 $20.13 $21.26 $21.26 $21.79 $21.79 $22.24 $22.24
2 $21.19 $22.38 $22.38 $22.94 $22.94 $23.41 $23.41
3 $22.30 $23.56 $23.56 $24.15 $24.15 $24.64 $24.64
4 $23.47 $24.80 $24.80 $25.42 $25.42 $25.94 $25.94
5 $24.71 $26.10 $26.10 $26.76 $26.76 $27.30 $27.30
1 $13.50 $14.23 $15.00 $15.23 $15.40 $15.70 $16.45
2 $14.20 $14.98 $15.75 $16.03 $16.21 $16.53 $17.31
3 $14.94 $15.77 $16.54 $16.87 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
4 $15.72 $16.60 $17.36 $17.76 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
5 $16.54 $17.47 $18.23 $18.69 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
1 $16.20 $17.10 $17.10 $17.54 $17.54 $17.90 $17.90
2 $17.05 $18.00 $18.00 $18.46 $18.46 $18.84 $18.84
3 $17.95 $18.95 $18.95 $19.43 $19.43 $19.83 $19.83
4 $18.89 $19.95 $19.95 $20.45 $20.45 $20.87 $20.87
5 $19.88 $21.00 $21.00 $21.53 $21.53 $21.97 $21.97
1 $16.20 $17.10 $17.10 $17.54 $17.54 $17.90 $17.90
2 $17.05 $18.00 $18.00 $18.46 $18.46 $18.84 $18.84
3 $17.95 $18.95 $18.95 $19.43 $19.43 $19.83 $19.83
4 $18.89 $19.95 $19.95 $20.45 $20.45 $20.87 $20.87
5 $19.88 $21.00 $21.00 $21.53 $21.53 $21.97 $21.97
1 $20.13 $21.26 $21.26 $21.79 $21.79 $22.24 $22.24
2 $21.19 $22.38 $22.38 $22.94 $22.94 $23.41 $23.41
3 $22.30 $23.56 $23.56 $24.15 $24.15 $24.64 $24.64
4 $23.47 $24.80 $24.80 $25.42 $25.42 $25.94 $25.94
5 $24.71 $26.10 $26.10 $26.76 $26.76 $27.30 $27.30
1 $29.12 $30.76 $30.76 $31.52 $31.52 $32.17 $32.17
2 $30.65 $32.38 $32.38 $33.18 $33.18 $33.86 $33.86
3 $32.26 $34.08 $34.08 $34.93 $34.93 $35.64 $35.64
4 $33.96 $35.87 $35.87 $36.77 $36.77 $37.52 $37.52
5 $35.75 $37.76 $37.76 $38.71 $38.71 $39.49 $39.49
1 $22.24 $23.49 $23.49 $24.09 $24.09 $24.58 $24.58
2 $23.41 $24.73 $24.73 $25.36 $25.36 $25.87 $25.87
3 $24.64 $26.03 $26.03 $26.69 $26.69 $27.23 $27.23
4 $25.94 $27.40 $27.40 $28.09 $28.09 $28.66 $28.66
5 $27.31 $28.84 $28.84 $29.57 $29.57 $30.17 $30.17
1 $13.50 $14.23 $15.00 $15.23 $15.40 $15.70 $16.45
2 $14.20 $14.98 $15.75 $16.03 $16.21 $16.53 $17.31
3 $14.94 $15.77 $16.54 $16.87 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
4 $15.72 $16.60 $17.36 $17.76 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
5 $16.54 $17.47 $18.23 $18.69 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
1 $13.50 $14.23 $15.00 $15.23 $15.40 $15.70 $16.45
2 $14.20 $14.98 $15.75 $16.03 $16.21 $16.53 $17.31
3 $14.94 $15.77 $16.54 $16.87 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
4 $15.72 $16.60 $17.36 $17.76 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
5 $16.54 $17.47 $18.23 $18.69 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
1 $14.92 $15.77 $16.45 $16.79 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
2 $15.71 $16.60 $17.32 $17.67 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
3 $16.54 $17.47 $18.23 $18.60 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
4 $17.41 $18.39 $19.14 $19.58 $19.89 $20.29 $21.25
5 $18.33 $19.36 $20.10 $20.61 $20.94 $21.36 $22.36
1 $16.99 $17.94 $18.14 $18.51 $18.90 $19.29 $20.18
2 $17.88 $18.88 $19.10 $19.48 $19.89 $20.30 $21.24
3 $18.82 $19.87 $20.10 $20.50 $20.94 $21.37 $22.36
4 $19.81 $20.92 $21.11 $21.58 $22.04 $22.49 $23.54
5 $20.85 $22.02 $22.16 $22.72 $23.20 $23.67 $24.77
1 $16.10 $17.01 $17.01 $17.43 $17.43 $17.78 $17.78
2 $16.95 $17.91 $17.91 $18.35 $18.35 $18.72 $18.72
3 $17.84 $18.85 $18.85 $19.32 $19.32 $19.71 $19.71
4 $18.78 $19.84 $19.84 $20.34 $20.34 $20.75 $20.75
5 $19.77 $20.88 $20.88 $21.41 $21.41 $21.84 $21.84
1 $18.01 $19.03 $19.03 $19.50 $19.50 $19.90 $19.90
2 $18.96 $20.03 $20.03 $20.53 $20.53 $20.95 $20.95
3 $19.96 $21.08 $21.08 $21.61 $21.61 $22.05 $22.05
4 $21.01 $22.19 $22.19 $22.75 $22.75 $23.21 $23.21
5 $22.12 $23.36 $23.36 $23.95 $23.95 $24.43 $24.43
Technical Specialist
Recreation Leader III
948 Non-exempt Stock Clerk
Non-exempt Maintenance Assistant
Library Clerk
942 Non-exempt Recreation Leader II
Open Space Technician
937 Non-exempt Print Shop Assistant
939 Non-exempt Project Specialist
938 Non-exempt Project Construction Inspector
Recreation Aide
941 Non-exempt Recreation Leader I
Non-exempt
950 Non-exempt
943 Non-exempt
940 Non-exempt
936
Library Page
925 Non-exempt
930 Non-exempt
935
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Job Code FLSA Job Title Step Effective upon Council adoption Effective 7/1/2018 Effective 1/1/2019 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2019 Effective 1/1/2020 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2020 Effective 1/1/2022 (Min Wage)
Limited Hourly Group
Salary Schedule
1 $13.50 $14.23 $15.00 $15.23 $15.40 $15.70 $16.45
2 $14.20 $14.98 $15.75 $16.03 $16.21 $16.53 $17.31
3 $14.94 $15.77 $16.54 $16.87 $17.06 $17.40 $18.22
4 $15.72 $16.60 $17.36 $17.76 $17.96 $18.32 $19.18
5 $16.54 $17.47 $18.23 $18.69 $18.90 $19.28 $20.19
1 $21.02 $22.21 $22.21 $22.76 $22.76 $23.22 $23.22
2 $22.13 $23.38 $23.38 $23.96 $23.96 $24.44 $24.44
3 $23.29 $24.61 $24.61 $25.22 $25.22 $25.73 $25.73
4 $24.52 $25.90 $25.90 $26.55 $26.55 $27.08 $27.08
5 $25.81 $27.26 $27.26 $27.95 $27.95 $28.51 $28.51
1 $25.60 $27.03 $27.03 $27.71 $27.71 $28.26 $28.26
2 $26.95 $28.45 $28.45 $29.17 $29.17 $29.75 $29.75
3 $28.37 $29.95 $29.95 $30.70 $30.70 $31.32 $31.32
4 $29.86 $31.53 $31.53 $32.32 $32.32 $32.97 $32.97
5 $31.43 $33.19 $33.19 $34.02 $34.02 $34.71 $34.71
1 $29.46 $31.12 $31.12 $31.89 $31.89 $32.54 $32.54
2 $31.01 $32.76 $32.76 $33.57 $33.57 $34.25 $34.25
3 $32.64 $34.48 $34.48 $35.34 $35.34 $36.05 $36.05
4 $34.36 $36.29 $36.29 $37.20 $37.20 $37.95 $37.95
5 $36.17 $38.20 $38.20 $39.16 $39.16 $39.95 $39.95
1 $14.92 $15.77 $15.77 $16.17 $16.17 $16.50 $16.50
2 $15.71 $16.60 $16.60 $17.02 $17.02 $17.37 $17.37
3 $16.54 $17.47 $17.47 $17.92 $17.92 $18.28 $18.28
4 $17.41 $18.39 $18.39 $18.86 $18.86 $19.24 $19.24
5 $18.33 $19.36 $19.36 $19.85 $19.85 $20.25 $20.25
1 $22.24 $23.49 $23.49 $24.09 $24.09 $24.58 $24.58
2 $23.41 $24.73 $24.73 $25.36 $25.36 $25.87 $25.87
3 $24.64 $26.03 $26.03 $26.69 $26.69 $27.23 $27.23
4 $25.94 $27.40 $27.40 $28.09 $28.09 $28.66 $28.66
5 $27.31 $28.84 $28.84 $29.57 $29.57 $30.17 $30.17
1
2
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
1 $16.20 $17.10 $17.10 $17.54 $17.54 $17.90 $17.90
2 $17.05 $18.00 $18.00 $18.46 $18.46 $18.84 $18.84
3 $17.95 $18.95 $18.95 $19.43 $19.43 $19.83 $19.83
4 $18.89 $19.95 $19.95 $20.45 $20.45 $20.87 $20.87
5 $19.88 $21.00 $21.00 $21.53 $21.53 $21.97 $21.97
1 $22.24 $23.49 $23.49 $24.09 $24.09 $24.58 $24.58
2 $23.41 $24.73 $24.73 $25.36 $25.36 $25.87 $25.87
3 $24.64 $26.03 $26.03 $26.69 $26.69 $27.23 $27.23
4 $25.94 $27.40 $27.40 $28.09 $28.09 $28.66 $28.66
5 $27.31 $28.84 $28.84 $29.57 $29.57 $30.17 $30.17
$52.47
$47.03
$27.53
$22.04
$49.20 $49.20 $50.43 $50.43 $51.44
$44.08 $44.08 $45.19 $45.19 $46.10
960
961
962
963
Non-exempt
Non-exempt
Non-exempt
Police Reserve I
Police Reserve II
Technician I
Technician IINon-exempt
Zoological Assistant
Arts & Science Professional II
983 Non-exempt Arts & Science Professional III
953 Non-exempt Arts & Science Technician
954 Non-exempt Arts & Science Aide
951 Non-exempt Arts & Science Professional I
955 Non-exempt
952 Non-exempt
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Job Code FLSA Job Title Min Max Min Max Min Max Min Max Min Max Min Max Min Max
9035 Non-exempt General Laborer 13.91$ 61.80$ 14.25$ 63.35$ 15.00$ 63.35$ 15.38$ 64.93$ 15.40$ 64.93$ 15.71$ 66.23$ 16.45$ 66.23$
9032 Non-exempt Inspector 13.91$ 61.80$ 14.25$ 63.35$ 15.00$ 63.35$ 15.38$ 64.93$ 15.40$ 64.93$ 15.71$ 66.23$ 16.45$ 66.23$
9033 Non-exempt Journey Level Laborer 13.91$ 61.80$ 14.25$ 63.35$ 15.00$ 63.35$ 15.38$ 64.93$ 15.40$ 64.93$ 15.71$ 66.23$ 16.45$ 66.23$
9034 Non-exempt Staff Specialist 13.91$ 61.80$ 14.25$ 63.35$ 15.00$ 63.35$ 15.38$ 64.93$ 15.40$ 64.93$ 15.71$ 66.23$ 16.45$ 66.23$
Effective upon Council adoption EffecƟve 7/1/2018 Effective 1/1/2019 (Min Wage) EffecƟve 7/1/2019 Effective 1/1/2020 (Min Wage) Effective 7/1/2020
Limited Hourly Group
Salary Schedule
Effective 7/1/2022 (Min Wage)
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Job
Code FLSA SH/NS Job Title
Step Rate Monthly Annual Step Rate Monthly Annual
1 37.30$ 1 38.43$
2 39.26$ 2 40.45$
3 41.33$ 3 42.58$
4 43.51$ 4 44.82$
5 45.80$ 11,114$ 133,370$ 5 47.18$ 11,449$ 137,388$
1 44.24$ 1 45.57$
2 46.57$ 2 47.97$
3 49.02$ 3 50.49$
4 51.60$ 4 53.15$
5 54.32$ 13,182$ 158,180$ 5 55.95$ 13,577$ 162,926$
1 46.46$ 1 47.86$
2 48.91$ 2 50.38$
3 51.48$ 3 53.03$
4 54.19$ 4 55.82$
5 57.04$ 13,842$ 166,100$ 5 58.76$ 14,259$ 171,109$
1 34.89$ 1 35.93$
2 36.73$ 2 37.82$
3 38.66$ 3 39.81$
4 40.69$ 4 41.91$
5 42.83$ 10,393$ 124,721$ 5 44.12$ 10,706$ 128,477$
1 41.96$ 1 43.23$
2 44.17$ 2 45.51$
3 46.49$ 3 47.90$
4 48.94$ 4 50.42$
5 51.52$ 12,502$ 150,026$ 5 53.07$ 12,878$ 154,540$
1 49.78$ 1 51.28$
2 52.40$ 2 53.98$
3 55.16$ 3 56.82$
4 58.06$ 4 59.81$
5 61.12$ 14,832$ 177,981$ 5 62.96$ 15,278$ 183,340$
606 Non‐exempt SH OPER PARAMEDIC‐12.5
608 Non‐exempt SH CAPTAIN PARAMEDIC‐12.5
Effective 03/12/2022
(4% Increase)
Effective 07/02/2022
(3% Increase)
International Fire Fighters Association
Salary Schedule
603 Non‐exempt SH FIRE INSPECTOR
604 Non‐exempt SH FIRE FIGHTER
601 Non‐exempt SH FIRE APPARATUS OP
602 Non‐exempt SH FIRE CAPTAIN
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Job
Code FLSA SH/NS Job Title
Step Rate Monthly Annual Step Rate Monthly Annual
Effective 03/12/2022
(4% Increase)
Effective 07/02/2022
(3% Increase)
International Fire Fighters Association
Salary Schedule
1 50.23$ 1 51.72$
2 52.87$ 2 54.44$
3 55.65$ 3 57.31$
4 58.58$ 4 60.33$
5 61.66$ 14,963$ 179,554$ 5 63.51$ 15,412$ 184,941$
1 39.24$ 1 40.42$
2 41.31$ 2 42.55$
3 43.48$ 3 44.79$
4 45.77$ 4 47.15$
5 48.18$ 11,692$ 140,300$ 5 49.63$ 12,044$ 144,523$
1 47.81$ 1 49.26$
2 50.33$ 2 51.85$
3 52.98$ 3 54.58$
4 55.77$ 4 57.45$
5 58.70$ 14,245$ 170,934$ 5 60.47$ 14,674$ 176,089$
1 46.46$ 1 47.86$
2 48.91$ 2 50.38$
3 51.48$ 3 53.03$
4 54.19$ 4 55.82$
5 57.04$ 13,842$ 166,100$ 5 58.76$ 14,259$ 171,109$
1 36.62$ 1 37.72$
2 38.55$ 2 39.71$
3 40.58$ 3 41.80$
4 42.72$ 4 44.00$
5 44.97$ 10,913$ 130,953$ 5 46.32$ 11,240$ 134,884$
1 39.16$ 1 40.34$
2 41.22$ 2 42.46$
3 43.39$ 3 44.69$
4 45.67$ 4 47.04$
5 48.07$ 11,665$ 139,980$ 5 49.52$ 12,017$ 144,202$
680 Non‐exempt SH FIRE FIGHTER HAZ MAT
681 Non‐exempt SH FIRE APPR OP HAZ MAT
677 Non‐exempt SH HAZ MAT SPEC
678 Non‐exempt SH HAZ MAT INSPECTOR
610 Non‐exempt SH INSPCTR PARAMDC‐12.5
676 Non‐exempt SH F FIGHTR PARAMEDC‐12.5
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Job
Code FLSA SH/NS Job Title
Step Rate Monthly Annual Step Rate Monthly Annual
Effective 03/12/2022
(4% Increase)
Effective 07/02/2022
(3% Increase)
International Fire Fighters Association
Salary Schedule
1 46.47$ 1 47.87$
2 48.92$ 2 50.39$
3 51.49$ 3 53.04$
4 54.20$ 4 55.83$
5 57.05$ 13,844$ 166,130$ 5 58.77$ 14,262$ 171,138$
1 35.93$ 1 37.02$
2 37.82$ 2 38.97$
3 39.81$ 3 41.02$
4 41.91$ 4 43.18$
5 44.12$ 10,706$ 128,477$ 5 45.45$ 11,029$ 132,350$
1 37.68$ 1 38.82$
2 39.66$ 2 40.86$
3 41.75$ 3 43.01$
4 43.95$ 4 45.27$
5 46.26$ 11,226$ 134,709$ 5 47.65$ 11,563$ 138,757$
1 38.43$ 1 39.59$
2 40.45$ 2 41.67$
3 42.58$ 3 43.86$
4 44.82$ 4 46.17$
5 47.18$ 11,449$ 137,388$ 5 48.60$ 11,794$ 141,523$
1 40.29$ 1 41.50$
2 42.41$ 2 43.68$
3 44.64$ 3 45.98$
4 46.99$ 4 48.40$
5 49.46$ 12,002$ 144,028$ 5 50.95$ 12,364$ 148,366$
1 45.58$ 1 46.96$
2 47.98$ 2 49.43$
3 50.51$ 3 52.03$
4 53.17$ 4 54.77$
5 55.97$ 13,582$ 162,985$ 5 57.65$ 13,990$ 167,877$
686 Non‐exempt SH FIRE AP OP HZ MT EMT
687 Non‐exempt SH FIRE CAPTAIN EMT
684 Non‐exempt SH FIRE FGHTR HZ MT EMT
685 Non‐exempt SH FIRE APPARATUS OP EMT
682 Non‐exempt SH FIRE CAPTAIN HAZ MAT
683 Non‐exempt SH FIRE FIGHTER EMT
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Job
Code FLSA SH/NS Job Title
Step Rate Monthly Annual Step Rate Monthly Annual
Effective 03/12/2022
(4% Increase)
Effective 07/02/2022
(3% Increase)
International Fire Fighters Association
Salary Schedule
1 47.79$ 1 49.24$
2 50.31$ 2 51.83$
3 52.96$ 3 54.56$
4 55.75$ 4 57.43$
5 58.68$ 14,240$ 170,876$ 5 60.45$ 14,669$ 176,030$
1 47.88$ 1 49.31$
2 50.40$ 2 51.91$
3 53.05$ 3 54.64$
4 55.84$ 4 57.52$
5 58.78$ 14,264$ 171,167$ 5 60.55$ 14,693$ 176,322$
1 40.31$ 1 41.52$
2 42.43$ 2 43.70$
3 44.66$ 3 46.00$
4 47.01$ 4 48.42$
5 49.48$ 12,007$ 144,086$ 5 50.97$ 12,369$ 148,425$
1 43.08$ 1 44.37$
2 45.35$ 2 46.71$
3 47.74$ 3 49.17$
4 50.25$ 4 51.76$
5 52.89$ 12,835$ 154,016$ 5 54.48$ 13,220$ 158,646$
1 51.11$ 1 52.65$
2 53.80$ 2 55.42$
3 56.63$ 3 58.34$
4 59.61$ 4 61.41$
5 62.75$ 15,227$ 182,728$ 5 64.64$ 15,686$ 188,232$
1 49.26$ 1 50.74$
2 51.85$ 2 53.41$
3 54.58$ 3 56.22$
4 57.45$ 4 59.18$
5 60.47$ 14,674$ 176,089$ 5 62.29$ 15,116$ 181,388$
695 Non‐exempt SH CAPT PRMDC‐12.5 EMT
696 Non‐exempt SH HAZ MAT SPEC EMT
691 Non‐exempt SH F FGH PRDMD‐12.5 EMT
693 Non‐exempt SH OPR PRMDC‐12.5 EMT
688 Non‐exempt SH FIRE CAP HAZ MAT EMT
689 Non‐exempt SH FIRE INSPECTOR EMT
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Job
Code FLSA SH/NS Job Title
Step Rate Monthly Annual Step Rate Monthly Annual
Effective 03/12/2022
(4% Increase)
Effective 07/02/2022
(3% Increase)
International Fire Fighters Association
Salary Schedule
1 42.04$ 1 43.30$
2 44.25$ 2 45.58$
3 46.58$ 3 47.98$
4 49.03$ 4 50.50$
5 51.61$ 12,524$ 150,288$ 5 53.16$ 12,900$ 154,802$
1 44.94$ 1 46.29$
2 47.30$ 2 48.73$
3 49.79$ 3 51.29$
4 52.41$ 4 53.99$
5 55.17$ 13,388$ 160,655$ 5 56.83$ 13,791$ 165,489$
1 53.33$ 1 54.94$
2 56.14$ 2 57.83$
3 59.09$ 3 60.87$
4 62.20$ 4 64.07$
5 65.47$ 15,887$ 190,649$ 5 67.44$ 16,365$ 196,385$
1 52.21$ 1 53.77$
2 54.96$ 2 56.60$
3 57.85$ 3 59.58$
4 60.89$ 4 62.72$
5 64.09$ 11,109$ 133,307$ 5 66.02$ 11,443$ 137,322$
1 61.95$ 1 63.81$
2 65.21$ 2 67.17$
3 68.64$ 3 70.70$
4 72.25$ 4 74.42$
5 76.05$ 13,182$ 158,184$ 5 78.34$ 13,579$ 162,947$
1 65.06$ 1 67.00$
2 68.48$ 2 70.53$
3 72.08$ 3 74.24$
4 75.87$ 4 78.15$
5 79.86$ 13,842$ 166,109$ 5 82.26$ 14,258$ 171,101$
635 Non‐exempt NS FIRE CAPTAIN
636 Non‐exempt NS FIRE INSPECTOR
661 Non‐exempt SH FIRE CPT EMT HAZ MT PARA
634 Non‐exempt NS FIRE APPARATUS OP
671 Non‐exempt SH FIRE FGHTR EMT HAZ MT PARA
672 Non‐exempt SH FIRE AP OP EMT HAZ MT PARA
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Job
Code FLSA SH/NS Job Title
Step Rate Monthly Annual Step Rate Monthly Annual
Effective 03/12/2022
(4% Increase)
Effective 07/02/2022
(3% Increase)
International Fire Fighters Association
Salary Schedule
1 48.83$ 1 50.29$
2 51.40$ 2 52.94$
3 54.10$ 3 55.73$
4 56.95$ 4 58.66$
5 59.95$ 10,391$ 124,696$ 5 61.75$ 10,703$ 128,440$
1 58.72$ 1 60.48$
2 61.81$ 2 63.66$
3 65.06$ 3 67.01$
4 68.48$ 4 70.54$
5 72.08$ 12,494$ 149,926$ 5 74.25$ 12,870$ 154,440$
1 69.69$ 1 71.77$
2 73.36$ 2 75.55$
3 77.22$ 3 79.53$
4 81.28$ 4 83.72$
5 85.56$ 14,830$ 177,965$ 5 88.13$ 15,276$ 183,310$
1 70.28$ 1 72.39$
2 73.98$ 2 76.20$
3 77.87$ 3 80.21$
4 81.97$ 4 84.43$
5 86.28$ 14,955$ 179,462$ 5 88.87$ 15,404$ 184,850$
1 65.06$ 1 67.00$
2 68.48$ 2 70.53$
3 72.08$ 3 74.24$
4 75.87$ 4 78.15$
5 79.86$ 13,842$ 166,109$ 5 82.26$ 14,258$ 171,101$
1 66.99$ 1 69.01$
2 70.52$ 2 72.64$
3 74.23$ 3 76.46$
4 78.14$ 4 80.48$
5 82.25$ 14,257$ 171,080$ 5 84.72$ 14,685$ 176,218$
642 Non‐exempt NS 40‐HR TRAINING CAPTAIN
643 Non‐exempt NS 40‐HR TRAINING CAPTAIN EMT
639 Non‐exempt NS CAPTAIN PARAMEDIC‐12.5
641 Non‐exempt NS INSPCTR PARAMDC‐12.5
637 Non‐exempt NS FIRE FIGHTER
638 Non‐exempt NS OPER PARAMEDIC‐12.5
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Job
Code FLSA SH/NS Job Title
Step Rate Monthly Annual Step Rate Monthly Annual
Effective 03/12/2022
(4% Increase)
Effective 07/02/2022
(3% Increase)
International Fire Fighters Association
Salary Schedule
1 54.93$ 1 56.58$
2 57.82$ 2 59.56$
3 60.86$ 3 62.69$
4 64.06$ 4 65.99$
5 67.43$ 11,688$ 140,254$ 5 69.46$ 12,040$ 144,477$
1 66.96$ 1 68.97$
2 70.48$ 2 72.60$
3 74.19$ 3 76.42$
4 78.09$ 4 80.44$
5 82.20$ 14,248$ 170,976$ 5 84.67$ 14,676$ 176,114$
1 65.06$ 1 67.00$
2 68.48$ 2 70.53$
3 72.08$ 3 74.24$
4 75.87$ 4 78.15$
5 79.86$ 13,842$ 166,109$ 5 82.26$ 14,258$ 171,101$
1 51.27$ 1 52.81$
2 53.97$ 2 55.59$
3 56.81$ 3 58.52$
4 59.80$ 4 61.60$
5 62.95$ 10,911$ 130,936$ 5 64.84$ 11,239$ 134,867$
1 54.80$ 1 56.45$
2 57.68$ 2 59.42$
3 60.72$ 3 62.55$
4 63.92$ 4 65.84$
5 67.28$ 11,662$ 139,942$ 5 69.30$ 12,012$ 144,144$
1 65.06$ 1 67.00$
2 68.48$ 2 70.53$
3 72.08$ 3 74.24$
4 75.87$ 4 78.15$
5 79.86$ 13,842$ 166,109$ 5 82.26$ 14,258$ 171,101$
650 Non‐exempt NS FIRE APPR OP HAZ MAT
648 Non‐exempt NS FIRE CAPTAIN HAZ MAT
646 Non‐exempt NS HAZ MAT INSPECTOR
647 Non‐exempt NS FIRE FIGHTER HAZ MAT
644 Non‐exempt NS F FIGHTR PARAMEDC‐12.5
645 Non‐exempt NS HAZ MAT SPEC
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Job
Code FLSA SH/NS Job Title
Step Rate Monthly Annual Step Rate Monthly Annual
Effective 03/12/2022
(4% Increase)
Effective 07/02/2022
(3% Increase)
International Fire Fighters Association
Salary Schedule
1 50.29$ 1 51.81$
2 52.94$ 2 54.54$
3 55.73$ 3 57.41$
4 58.66$ 4 60.43$
5 61.75$ 10,703$ 128,440$ 5 63.61$ 11,026$ 132,309$
1 52.74$ 1 54.33$
2 55.52$ 2 57.19$
3 58.44$ 3 60.20$
4 61.52$ 4 63.37$
5 64.76$ 11,225$ 134,701$ 5 66.71$ 11,563$ 138,757$
1 53.76$ 1 55.39$
2 56.59$ 2 58.30$
3 59.57$ 3 61.37$
4 62.71$ 4 64.60$
5 66.01$ 11,442$ 137,301$ 5 68.00$ 11,787$ 141,440$
1 56.38$ 1 58.07$
2 59.35$ 2 61.13$
3 62.47$ 3 64.35$
4 65.76$ 4 67.74$
5 69.22$ 11,998$ 143,978$ 5 71.30$ 12,359$ 148,304$
1 63.81$ 1 65.74$
2 67.17$ 2 69.20$
3 70.71$ 3 72.84$
4 74.43$ 4 76.67$
5 78.35$ 13,581$ 162,968$ 5 80.71$ 13,990$ 167,877$
1 66.88$ 1 68.88$
2 70.40$ 2 72.50$
3 74.10$ 3 76.32$
4 78.00$ 4 80.34$
5 82.10$ 14,231$ 170,768$ 5 84.57$ 14,659$ 175,906$
655 Non‐exempt NS FIRE CAPTAIN EMT
654 Non‐exempt NS FIRE CAP HAZ MAT EMT
652 Non‐exempt NS FIRE APPARATUS OP EMT
653 Non‐exempt NS FIRE AP OP HZ MT EMT
649 Non‐exempt NS FIRE FIGHTER EMT
651 Non‐exempt NS FIRE FGHTR HZ MT EMT
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Job
Code FLSA SH/NS Job Title
Step Rate Monthly Annual Step Rate Monthly Annual
Effective 03/12/2022
(4% Increase)
Effective 07/02/2022
(3% Increase)
International Fire Fighters Association
Salary Schedule
1 66.99$ 1 69.01$
2 70.52$ 2 72.64$
3 74.23$ 3 76.46$
4 78.14$ 4 80.48$
5 82.25$ 14,257$ 171,080$ 5 84.72$ 14,685$ 176,218$
1 56.41$ 1 58.09$
2 59.38$ 2 61.15$
3 62.50$ 3 64.37$
4 65.79$ 4 67.76$
5 69.25$ 12,003$ 144,040$ 5 71.33$ 12,364$ 148,366$
1 60.29$ 1 62.11$
2 63.46$ 2 65.38$
3 66.80$ 3 68.82$
4 70.32$ 4 72.44$
5 74.02$ 12,830$ 153,962$ 5 76.25$ 13,217$ 158,600$
1 71.54$ 1 73.68$
2 75.30$ 2 77.56$
3 79.26$ 3 81.64$
4 83.43$ 4 85.94$
5 87.82$ 15,222$ 182,666$ 5 90.46$ 15,680$ 188,157$
1 66.99$ 1 69.01$
2 70.52$ 2 72.64$
3 74.23$ 3 76.46$
4 78.14$ 4 80.48$
5 82.25$ 14,257$ 171,080$ 5 84.72$ 14,685$ 176,218$
1 68.95$ 1 71.02$
2 72.58$ 2 74.76$
3 76.40$ 3 78.69$
4 80.42$ 4 82.83$
5 84.65$ 14,673$ 176,072$ 5 87.19$ 15,113$ 181,355$
Non‐exempt NS CAPT PRMDC‐12.5 EMT
656 Non‐exempt NS FIRE INSPECTOR EMT
657 Non‐exempt NS F FGH PRDMD‐12.5 EMT
660 Non‐exempt NS HAZ MAT INSPECTOR EMT
659 Non‐exempt NS HAZ MAT SPEC EMT
658 Non‐exempt NS OPR PRMDC‐12.5 EMT
697
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Job
Code FLSA SH/NS Job Title
Step Rate Monthly Annual Step Rate Monthly Annual
Effective 03/12/2022
(4% Increase)
Effective 07/02/2022
(3% Increase)
International Fire Fighters Association
Salary Schedule
1 58.81$ 1 60.58$
2 61.91$ 2 63.77$
3 65.17$ 3 67.13$
4 68.60$ 4 70.66$
5 72.21$ 12,516$ 150,197$ 5 74.38$ 12,893$ 154,710$
1 62.89$ 1 64.77$
2 66.20$ 2 68.18$
3 69.68$ 3 71.77$
4 73.35$ 4 75.55$
5 77.21$ 13,383$ 160,597$ 5 79.53$ 13,785$ 165,422$
1 74.64$ 1 76.87$
2 78.57$ 2 80.92$
3 82.70$ 3 85.18$
4 87.05$ 4 89.66$
5 91.63$ 15,883$ 190,590$ 5 94.38$ 16,359$ 196,310$
662 Non‐exempt NS FIRE CPT EMT HAZ MT PARA
673 Non‐exempt NS FIRE FGHTR EMT HAZ MT PARA
674 Non‐exempt NS FIRE AP OP EMT HAZ MT PARA
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Non-Shift
Job Code Classifications Grade Codes Hourly Rate Approx Monthly Salary Approx. Annual Salary
018 Battalion Chief 40-hour workweek 28 $101.81 $17,647 $211,765
015 Battalion Chief EMT 40-hour workweek 28E $104.59 $18,129 $217,547
2019 Battalion Chief EMT, Training 40-hour workweek 28E $104.59 $18,129 $217,547
Shift
Job Code Classifications Grade Codes Approx Monthly Salary Approx. Annual Salary
116 Battalion Chief 56-hour workweek 030 $69.29 $16,814 $201,772
016 Battalion Chief EMT 56-hour workweek 030E $71.18 $17,273 $207,276
Non-Shift
Job Code Classifications Grade Codes Hourly Rate Approx Monthly Salary Approx. Annual Salary
018 Battalion Chief 40-hour workweek 28 $104.87 $18,177 $218,130
015 Battalion Chief EMT 40-hour workweek 28E $107.73 $18,673 $224,078
2019 Battalion Chief EMT, Training 40-hour workweek 28E $107.73 $18,673 $224,078
Shift
Job Code Classifications Grade Codes Approx Monthly Salary Approx. Annual Salary
116 Battalion Chief 56-hour workweek 030 $71.37 $17,319 $207,829
016 Battalion Chief EMT 56-hour workweek 030E $73.32 $17,792 $213,508
Palo Alto Fire Chiefs' Association (PAFCA)
Salary Schedule
3/12/2022 (4% Increase)
07/02/2022 (3% Increase)
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Job Code Classifications Grade Codes Min Hourly
Rate
Max Hourly Rate Approx Max
Monthly Salary
Approx. Max
Annual Salary
2076 Utilities Administrative Assistant TBD $35.94 $47.91 $7,984 $95,805
1002 Assistant Director, Utilites Customer Support Services 230 $85.89 $114.51 $19,084 $229,008
TBD Assistant Director, Electric and Fiber Utilities Utilities 190 $97.85 $130.46 $21,743 $260,915
1003 Assistant Director, WGW Utilities 190 $97.85 $130.46 $21,743 $260,915
6 Assistant Director Utilities - Operations 210 $90.75 $120.99 $20,164 $241,966
65 Assistant Director, Utilities Resource Management 200 $95.52 $127.36 $21,226 $254,717
84 Manager, Utilities Public Communications 380 $61.71 $82.27 $13,711 $164,528
129 Engineering Manager, Electric and Fiber Utilities 231 $85.89 $114.52 $19,086 $229,029
120 Engineering Manager, Water, Gas & Wastewater (WGW) Utilities 231 $85.89 $114.52 $19,086 $229,029
2025 Manager, Utilities Strategic Business Services 240 $80.84 $107.78 $17,963 $215,550
179 Manager, Utilities Customer Service 360 $65.56 $87.41 $14,567 $174,803
185 Operations Manager, Electric and Fiber Utilities 270 $79.66 $106.21 $17,701 $212,410
1114 Manager, Utilities Credit & Collection 360 $65.56 $87.41 $14,567 $174,803
156 Operations Manager, WGW Utilities 270 $79.66 $106.21 $17,701 $212,410
150 Manager, Utilities Program Services 350 $65.64 $87.51 $14,584 $175,011
48 Manager, Fiber Optic Utility 350 $65.64 $87.51 $14,584 $175,011
2020 Utilities Principal Business Analyst TBD $68.46 $91.28 $15,212 $182,541
13 Utilities Senior Business Analyst TBD $59.54 $79.38 $13,229 $158,746
188 Principal Engineer, Electric and Fiber Utilities 291 $74.70 $99.60 $16,598 $199,181
2187 Principal Engineer, WGW Utilities 291 $74.70 $99.60 $16,598 $199,181
2014 Utilities Senior Management Analyst TBD $57.98 $77.30 $12,882 $154,586
64 Senior Planner, Utilities Resources 271 $72.92 $97.22 $16,203 $194,438
27 Supervising Project Engineer, Electric and Fiber Utilities 341 $67.23 $89.63 $14,938 $179,254
28 Supervising Project Engineer 341 $67.23 $89.63 $14,938 $179,254
1011 Manager, Utilities Compliance 291 $74.70 $99.60 $16,598 $199,181
114 Operations Supervisor, WGW Utilities 680 $69.27 $92.36 $15,392 $184,704
TBD Operations Supervisor, Electric and Fiber Utilities 680 $69.27 $92.36 $15,392 $184,704
2017 Utilities Safety Officer TBD $57.98 $77.30 $13,399 $160,784
City of Palo Alto
Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto (UMPAPA) Salary Schedule
Effecitve 3.12.2022
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Cover Sheet
City of Palo Alto Compensation Plan
Management and Professional Personnel, And Council Appointees
March 14, 2022
The City of Palo Alto Management and Professional employees will make the following adjustments to
the Compensation Plan for the period of March 14, 2022 through June 30, 2022. All other terms of the
Compensation Plan, as modified by the Fiscal Year 2022 Cover Sheet, shall continue in effect through
June 30, 2022.
Effective the pay period including Council Adoption of this Cover Sheet, a four percent (4%) cost of living
increase will be applied to the salary ranges for all classifications included in the Management and
Professional Compensation Plan.
Except as herein modified, all other provision of the Compensation Plan shall remain in effect.
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Proposed Letter of Agreement
City of Palo Alto and Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto
March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
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City of Palo Alto and Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto
Proposed Letter of Agreement: March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
I. Introduction and MOA Term Extension
Both the City and the Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto (UMPAPA) have a
mutual interest in extending the current Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) as set forth below. All other
terms of the existing MOA shall continue in effect through December 31, 2022.
II. Compensation
The Parties agree to amend Article VI (“Compensation”) Section 2 to the current MOA to include the
following:
a) Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA): Effective the pay period including the adoption of this Letter
of Agreement by the City Council, a four percent (4%) cost of living increase will be applied to
the salary ranges for all represented classes.
III. Duration
The Parties agree to amend Article XV (“Duration”) of the current MOA to extend the duration of the
contract, for an expiration of December 31, 2022.
For the Association: For the City:
Tom Auzenne, Chief Negotiator Date Ed Shikada, City Manager Date
James Bujtor, Chair Date Rumi Portillo, HR Director Date
Michael Mintz, Vice Chair Date Molly Stump, City Attorney Date
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Dave Yuan, Treasurer Date Dean Batchelor, Utilities Director Date
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Catherine Elvert, Secretary Date Nicholas Raisch, ER Manager Date
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Alan Davis Esq. Davis & Reno Date Tori Anthony, SR HR Administrator Date
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Proposed Letter of Agreement
City of Palo Alto and IAFF Local 1319
March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
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City of Palo Alto and International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 1319
Proposed Letter of Agreement: March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
I. Introduction and MOA Term Extension
Both the City and the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 1319 (Association) have a mutual
interest in extending the current Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) as set forth below. All other terms
of the existing MOA, as modified by the June 2020 Letter of Agreement between the parties, shall
continue in effect through December 31, 2022.
II. Salary
The Parties agree to amend Article VII (“Salary Provisions”) Section 1 to the current MOA to include the
following:
Base Salary: Effective the first full pay period including adoption of this Letter of Agreement by the City
Council, a four percent (4%) salary increase will be applied to the salary ranges for all represented
classes.
Equity Increase: Effective the first full pay period following July 1, 2022, a three percent (3%) salary
increase will be applied to the salary ranges for all represented classes.
III. Duration
The Parties agree to amend Article XLIV (“Duration”) of the current MOA to extend the duration of the
contract, for an expiration of December 31, 2022.
For the Association: For the City:
William Dale, President Date Ed Shikada, City Manager Date
Operator Kyle Alarid, Secretary Date Rumi Portillo, HR Director Date
Captain Olazaba, Treasurer Date Molly Stump, City Attorney Date
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Captain Joseph Penko, Vice President Date Geoffrey Blackshire, Fire Chief Date
Nicholas Raisch, ER Manager Date
Tori Anthony, SR HR Administrator Date
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Proposed Letter of Agreement
City of Palo Alto and Palo Alto Fire Chief’s Association
March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
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City of Palo Alto and Palo Alto Fire Chief’s Association
Proposed Letter of Agreement: March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
I. Introduction and MOA Term Extension
Both the City and the Palo Alto Fire Chief’s Association (Association) have a mutual interest in
extending the current Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) as set forth below. All other terms and
conditions other than those set forth below shall be maintained for the duration of the MOA.
II. Salary
The Parties agree to amend Article V (“Salary Provisions”) of the current MOA to include the following:
Base Salary: Effective the first full pay period including adoption of the Letter of Agreement a four
percent (4%) salary increase will be applied to the salary ranges for all represented classes.
Equity Increase: Effective the first full pay period following July 1, 2022, a three percent (3%) salary
increase will be applied to the salary ranges for all represented classes.
III. Duration
The Parties agree to amend Article XXVII (“Duration”) of the current MOA to extend the duration of the
contract, for an expiration of December 31, 2022.
IV. Extra Shift Coverage
In order to ensure shift coverage while there is an understrength of personnel in the Battalion Chief
classification, the Parties agree to amend Article XIII Section “Extra Shift Coverage Pay Rate” of the
current MOA as follows:
Extra shifts worked from January 1, 2022 through until the term of the current MOA will receive an
additional one-half times the rate of pay, for a total of one and one-half times the straight time rate of pay.
For the Association: For the City:
Battalion Chief Ryan Stoddard, President Ed Shikada, City Manager Date
Rumi Portillo, HR Director Date
Molly Stump, City Attorney Date
Geoffrey Blackshire, Fire Chief Date
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City of Palo Alto and Palo Alto Fire Chief’s Association
Proposed Letter of Agreement: March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
Nicholas Raisch, ER Manager Date
Tori Anthony, SR HR Administrator Date
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City of Palo Alto (ID # 14003)
City Council Staff Report
Report Type: Consent Calendar Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Summary Title: Civil Grand Jury Report Response Letter
Title: City Council Approval of the City's Response to the Civil Grand Jury
Report Regarding Affordable Housing and Direction to Staff to Submit the
Response Letter in Accordance with State Law Prior t o the March 16, 2022
Deadline
From: City Manager
Lead Department: Planning and Development Services
Recommendation:
Staff recommends that Council approve the attached response letter to the Civil Grand Jury
Report concerning affordable housing and direct staff to submit the response letter in
accordance with State law.
Background:
The City Council held a discussion on a draft response letter to the Civil Grand Jury Report titled
Affordable Housing: A Tale of Two Cities. This discussion was held on Feb ruary 28, 2022; a copy
of the staff report and draft letter are available online:
https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-
minutes/city-council-agendas-minutes/2022/20220228/20220228pccsm-amended-qa-and-
item-12-presentation.pdf#page=178 as are draft meeting minutes:
https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-
minutes/city-council-agendas-minutes/2022/20220228/20220228amccs-draft.pdf#page=3.
The City Council directed staff to omit an improper reference to eminent domain in Finding 3
related to the Buena Vista Mobile Home preservation project and to clarify in Appendix 4 that
an action to limit nonresidential development was made by the City Council as opposed to
implemented by Palo Alto voters through a ballot initiative. The attached letter has been
updated to reflect these changes.
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City of Palo Alto Page 2
The above linked report provides additional background and context for this response letter.
After Council adoption, staff will forward the letter to the Santa Clara County Superior Court
prior to the March 16 deadline and in accordance with State law.
Environmental Review:
This action is not a project and therefore not subject to environment review in accordance with
the California Environmental Quality Act.
Attachments:
Attachment6.a: Attachment 1: PA Grand Jury Response (Council Final) (PDF)
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Office of the Mayor and City Council
March 15, 2022
Honorable Theodore C. Zayner, Presiding Judge
Superior Court of California
County of Santa Clara
191 North First Street
San José, California 95113
Subject: City of Palo Alto Response to the Civil Grand Jury Report, Affordable Housing: A Tale of Two Cities
Honorable Presiding Judge Zayner,
The City of Palo Alto appreciates the Grand Jury’s detailed work on this important issue. We agree with
many of the Grand Jury’s recommendations. We thank the Grand Jury for its time and consideration.
We believe that the strongest parts of the report were useful ideas for streamlining housing review and
approval processes; and the section on financing dynamics for Affordable Housing.
1. Palo Alto Affordable Housing Supply
Palo Alto has long had one of the County’s stronger records in supporting affordable housing and ranks
second among cities in the County for affordable housing production as a percentage of total housing.
Even compared to larger communities such as Sunnyvale and Mountain View, Palo Alto has many
hundreds more affordable housing units (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 Below Market Rate Housing as a % of Total Housing Stock
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2. “Net-of-Demand” Impacts of Developments on Affordable Housing.
The Grand Jury study focuses strictly on new production during the period from 2015 to 2019. During this
period Palo Alto was among the first on the Peninsula to adopt policies to address housing demand, and
not just supply. Palo Alto has also maintained and renovated existing affordable housing stock to maintain
approximately 8% of its total housing inventory as affordable housing.
A fundamental issue jurisdictions are struggling with is that a given land-use policy or project can
simultaneously influence both the supply and demand for affordable housing. Whether cities consider
both the demand and supply impacts, or just the supply in isolation, makes an enormous difference in
how to evaluate a project’s housing availability and affordability impacts.
When demand is considered (Appendix 1), during the 2015-19 period neither Palo Alto nor Mountain View
effectively increased their affordable housing. Instead, both cities saw declines in it with Mountain View
experiencing more than five times the decline as Palo Alto (Figure 2).
Figure 2 Affordable Housing Supply vs “Net-of-Demand” Affordable Housing Supply
“Net-of-demand,” the two cities’ total production was not a 596-unit gain, but a 3,411-unit loss. Although
the RHNA process counts only the gain, the loss leaves several thousand actual lower-income residents
with no nearby place to live.
This issue is of particular relevance to mixed-use plans, in which housing supply and demand are created
directly together. Palo Alto believes that in the mid-Peninsula, the economics of private developer
investment now make for-profit mixed-use projects with positive “net-of-demand” affordable housing
nearly impossible without subsidies. For example, one North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan (NVCAP)
property owner has proposed to build 508 new housing units, including 76 affordable (<120% AMI), in
exchange for approval of 200,000 square feet of new office space (Appendix 2). Per the “Adjusted KM
2016” demand model in Appendix 1, the commercial component would create a new affordable housing
need of 232 units — three times the project’s supply. Whether approving this project counts as an
increase of 76 affordable units or a loss of 156 depends on whether one considers demand.
Such projects have the paradoxical effect of apparently boosting RHNA performance, while actually
reducing net availability of affordable housing; thereby increasing low-income displacement (Appendix 3).
We view this as a structural problem of the current RHNA process. As a result of this dynamic, we believe
cities with expensive land and high jobs-housing ratios, like our own, should be very cautious to use the
Mixed-Use approach. This issue will reappear multiple times in our response to the Grand Jury
recommendations.
New AH Supply 2015-2019 New New AH Supply
City (Supply-Only)New Jobs AH Demand (Net-of-Demand)
Palo Alto 166 4,174 671 (505)
Mountain View 430 20,748 3,336 (2,906)
Total 2 Cities 596 24,922 4,007 (3,411)
Sources: Grand Jury Report, ACS 5-yr data, 0.67/24% model Appendix 1)
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FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Finding 1
The Civil Grand Jury commends the City of Mountain View for prioritizing and exhibiting strong,
visible support for affordable housing and progress towards Regional Housing Needs Allocation
targets.
City of Palo Alto Response: NA
Finding 2
The Civil Grand Jury commends the City of Mountain View for creating a multi-tiered
communication plan that both communicates the value of affordable housing to all stakeholders
and addresses their issues. This has engendered strong community support for affordable housing
leading to many successful projects.
City of Palo Alto Response: NA
Finding 3
The Palo Alto City Council has not taken a leadership role in developing community support for
affordable housing planning and projects.
City of Palo Alto Response: Partially Agree / Partially Disagree
The City disagrees that the Council has not taken a leadership role in developing support for
affordable housing planning initiatives and projects once they are identified. Specifically, each of
the last two years, the City Council adopted “Housing for Social and Economic Balance” as one of
its four city “Priorities”. Councilmembers actively participate in neighborhood meetings and the
City actively championed the Buena Vista rescue ($15M) project to preserve Buena Vista. The City
financially supported the Wilton Court project ($22M), and the 231 Grant Affordable Teacher-
Housing project ($3M). Councilmembers have also advocated for a land-use strategy that
balances new jobs and new housing creation, and zoning actions (Planned Home Zoning (PHZ),
Housing Incentive Program (HIP) and Affordable Housing Overlay that provides the City’s highest
zoning and approval streamlining incentives for Affordable Housing projects. Recently, the Council
initiated an RFP for piloting housing on city owned parking lots in our downtowns, with a
preference for Affordable Housing.
The City agrees that there can be more Council advocacy to initiate and solicit affordable housing
projects.
Recommendation 3
The City of Palo Alto should research how other cities foster support for affordable housing and develop a
communication plan focused on increasing community support for affordable housing. The plan should be
developed and made available to the public by June 30, 2022.
City of Palo Alto Response: The recommendation has not yet been implemented but will be
implemented before the end of the 2022 calendar year. Palo Alto will research other jurisdictions
within the County and report back to the City Council with a recommended communication
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strategy intended to increase community support for affordable housing. Part of this
communication strategy is anticipated to include actively surveying residents as part of an
upcoming business tax ballot initiative; preliminary results suggest the community is supportive
of a portion of the business tax revenue to be used for affordable housing. Moreover, the City’s
website will be updated to include consolidated affordable housing policies and access to other
relevant information and documents.
Finding 4
Palo Alto City council members do not play a strong enough leadership role in personally engaging in
community education and discussion to aid in resident acceptance of affordable housing.
City of Palo Alto Response: Disagree.
The City Council disagrees with this finding in both that the Council does play an active role in
engaging the community on affordable housing policies and projects and our data shows there is
already widespread community support and acceptance of below market rate housing. Recent
projects, such as the 100% affordable housing project at Wilton Court and 321 Grant Affordable
Teacher Housing Project have been supported by both housing advocates and neighborhood
groups.
In addition to recent polling for our upcoming business tax ballot measure, the annual citizen
survey is a statistically representative survey of residences and indicates widespread support of
affordable housing. Recent solicitation of council priorities also indicates support for a focus on
below-market rate housing.
For several years, community pushback to development in Palo Alto has focused mainly on
additional commercial office projects, and the community has supported office development
restrictions, including in mixed-use developments where commercial-driven housing demand
exceeds housing supply. This tension, not resistance to affordable housing, has been and
continues to be one of the major constraints in the City’s NVCAP planning.
Recommendation 4
The City of Palo Alto should conduct a “lessons learned” analysis from the 4-year unsuccessful North
Ventura Coordinated Area Plan planning process. The City of Palo Alto should create an improved process
to bring residents to a shared understanding of the needs and complexities of affordable housing
development. This process should include direct involvement of Palo Alto City elected leaders in community
outreach. These recommendations should be completed by June 30, 2022.
City of Palo Alto Response: This recommendation will be implemented upon completion of the
NVCAP process; however, the recommended timeline of June 2022 is premature. The NVCAP
process is not complete, and it is inaccurate to call the planning process unsuccessful. Specifically,
Council has recently provided direction (December 2021) on the preferred concept plan that will
become the draft plan reviewed for CEQA compliance and brought back to Council for final
adoption. Meanwhile, negotiations with property owners are continuing.
Moreover, while affordable housing is a component of this planning initiative it is not the only
project component of community interest; others relate to improved circulation, enhanced open
space opportunities, balanced growth, and a focus on sustainable development. The NVCAP
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process cannot be viewed exclusively from the lens of affordable housing. At the appropriate
time the City will conduct a best-practice analysis to determine lessons learned regarding the
totality of the project.
Finding 5
The Housing Element Plan and land-use changes are foundational to supporting affordable housing, but
they are not enough. Affordable housing also needs cities to create area-specific land-use and zoning plans
like the City of Mountain View’s Precise Plans. Mountain View has also prioritized affordable housing
development by using its planning processes to specifically identify a set of projects and actions within a
concrete time frame. The City of Mountain View is to be commended for both its use of Precise Plans and
its short-term City Strategic Planning process.
City of Palo Alto Response: NA
Finding 6
The City of Palo Alto’s multiplicity of planning policies and documents creates lengthy processes and can
lead to frustration for all parties, including neighborhoods as well as developers. The City of Palo Alto does
not have a comprehensive set of plans organized by area or neighborhood that include all zoning elements
and regulations that could support AH. Current plans do not clearly and concisely identify where affordable
housing could be built with design and density acceptable to the City of Palo Alto and the community.
City of Palo Alto Response: Partially Agree / Partially Disagree.
The City agrees that it does have a multiplicity of planning processes, which may benefit from
further rationalization.
We are not persuaded, however, that specific plans are a primary planning tool to achieve more
below market rate housing. We believe the primary challenges to affordable housing are
economic, and the same economics apply equally in both the presence and absence of specific
plans. Palo Alto has successfully done area-specific plans in the past, such as its 1999-2004 South
of Forest Avenue (SOFA) plan.
Among the two main mechanisms for financing below market rate housing, the Grand Jury points
out that specific area plans can be particularly helpful in leveraging mixed-use
development. However as previously noted, Palo Alto believes the economics of affordable
housing in the Peninsula preclude most practical use of mixed-use development as an affordable
housing tool, once “net-of-demand” housing is considered. For this reason, we do not see this as
a valid, primary approach. The other primary funding mechanism, 100% affordable housing
projects using public funds, does not derive as much benefit from specific plans.
Recommendation 6a
The City of Palo Alto should identify, by March 31, 2022, three or four areas where significant affordable
housing can be built.
City of Palo Alto Response: This recommendation has been implemented. Affordable housing is
permissible throughout the city where multifamily and commercial development is allowed.
Under its Housing Incentive Plan (HIP), the City has also identified three specific large zoning
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districts where affordable housing developers can take advantage of increased development
incentives that convey more benefits than can be achieved through state density bonus law. For
100% affordable housing projects, these three areas include the CS, CN and CC-2 zoned properties
along El Camino Real, the CC-2 zoned properties around California Avenue and CD-C zoned
properties Downtown (University Avenue). These projects are also allowed streamlined approval
processes. Additionally, the City is currently updating its housing site inventory, programs and
policies for our Housing Element which is anticipated to identify further opportunities in various
areas of the City, including along Fabian Way and San Antonio Road.
Recommendation 6b
The City of Palo Alto should agree, by June 30, 2022, to task its planners to create realistic plans for each
identified area in consultation with residents and developers.
City of Palo Alto Response: This recommendation will not be implemented because it is not
warranted; as described above, we believe specific plans are not required for affordable housing
production, especially for non-profit and publicly-funded projects.
We believe the primary challenges to affordable housing are economic, and the same economics
apply equally in both the presence and absence of specific plans. Further, the City has a land-use
strategy that balances new jobs and new housing creation, and zoning actions (Planned Home
Zoning, Housing Incentive Program, Affordable Housing overlay) that specifically target
affordable housing without encouraging large, new commercial development. As noted in the
City’s response to Recommendation 9b below, the City will also examine opportunities to further
streamline its Affordable Housing overlay process.
Finding 7
Mountain View Planning Division’s summary memo to the Mountain View City Council provides a clear,
concise update on progress toward Housing Element goals. The City of Mountain View is commended for
the clarity and conciseness of its Annual Housing Element Progress Update to the Mountain View City
Council. However, the Annual Housing Element Progress Updates with cover memos to the Mountain View
City Council cannot be found easily by the public on the city’s website.
City of Palo Alto Response: NA
Recommendation 7
The City of Mountain View should publish its Annual Housing Element Updates and the summaries (in an
appropriate form) on the city’s website by June 30, 2022.
City of Palo Alto Response: NA
Finding 8
Combining the City of Palo Alto’s Housing Element Annual Update and the Comprehensive Plan Update
with one cover memo does not communicate city progress in either area clearly.
City of Palo Alto Response: Partially Agree / Partially Disagree
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Combining reports places all relevant information in one place and provides clarity to residents
and decision makers, as the Housing Element is a component of the General Plan. The reports
are consistent with state reporting requirements. However, it is agreed that the reports can be
made more readable and summarize pertinent information to support broader public
understanding of the City’s progress.
Recommendation 8
The City of Palo Alto should publish the latest two years of its Housing Element Annual Updates and cover
memos summarizing annual progress to the city’s website by June 30, 2022. To better communicate to the
public, the Housing Element Annual Updates and the Comprehensive Plan Updates should be separated.
City of Palo Alto Response: The recommendation has been implemented with respect publishing
the latest two years of the City’s Housing Element Annual Update on the City’s website. This
information is now available online: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Planning-
Development-Services/Long-Range-Planning/Housing-Policies-and-Programs/Housing-Element-
2015-2023.
City of Palo Alto Response: The recommendation will not be implemented because it is not
warranted with respect to separating out the comprehensive plan and housing element annual
reports. However, for the 2023 reporting period, staff will explore opportunities to improve the
readability and format to achieve the report recommendation.
Finding 9
The length of time it takes developers to get their plans approved is significantly higher in the City of Palo
Alto compared to the City of Mountain View. This discourages developers from proposing residential
development in Palo Alto.
City of Palo Alto Response: Partially Agree / Partially Disagree
We are not familiar with other cities' processes or data on time-to-process. The report cites some
anecdotal examples. For code compliant projects, the City’s review processing times are not
anticipated to be significantly greater than other jurisdictions and typically only require review by
the City’s Architectural Review Board. There are other applications, including some 100%
affordable housing projects or Planned Home Zoning applications that deviate from local zoning
standards and require City Council action. While time is certainly a consideration in land use
development there are other factors that may entice or discourage a developer from proposing
an application, including factors beyond the City’s control.
Recommendation 9a
Once the guidelines for developments are clearly defined in area plans, the Palo Alto City Council
preliminary review could be eliminated. The City of Palo Alto should establish a schedule by June 30, 2022,
for defining and accepting the area plans identified in Recommendation 6a.
City of Palo Alto Response: The recommendation will not be implemented because it is not
warranted, as discussed under Finding 6. The City is not persuaded that area plans are inherently
a solution to providing more affordable housing. Rather, the City believes the primary challenges
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to affordable housing are economic, and the same economics apply equally in both the presence
and absence of specific plans.
The preliminary review process referenced in the recommendation is voluntary and optional. It
is not a requirement for code compliant projects; rather, it is to reduce a developer’s risk of fully
developing a non code-compliant project, without some confidence the City Council will view it
favorably. We agree the review is not needed for code-compliant projects and in any area-
specific plans, should we do them in the future.
Recommendation 9b
The City of Palo Alto should explore combining the Planning and Transportation Commission and
Architectural Review Board reviews into a single review, as is done in Mountain View. Palo Alto City staff
should also consult with Mountain View planners to investigate ways to further streamline the approval
process. Recommendations for changes to the planning review process should be proposed by June 30,
2022.
City of Palo Alto Response: The recommendation requires further analysis. The vast majority of the
applications processed in the City do not require review by both the Architectural Review Board and the
Planning and Transportation Commission. This is because these bodies have different statutory authority
and so by dividing their work, greater efficiency is created and the workload divided among two volunteer
bodies.
Some projects seeking an affordable housing overlay approval, which conveys greater height and density
than can be achieved with the City’s base zoning requirements, do, however, require review by the City
Council, Planning and Transportation Commission, and Architectural Review Board. Prior to June 16, 2022,
the Planning and Development Services department will present an option to the City Council to
streamline the review of 100% affordable housing projects such that only Architectural Review Board
review is required, unless appealed to the City Council. In developing its recommendations, staff will
consult with Mountain View planners to better understand its approach for streamlining affordable
housing projects.
Finding 10
Developers (both for-profit and non-profit) find it very useful to work with a designated individual who is
responsible for the affordable housing target and coordinates all activities across developers, funding
sources, city council, planning departments, and other stakeholders to enable progress on projects.
City of Palo Alto Response: Agree
The City agrees a designated individual coordinating all affordable housing-related activities
would be helpful.
Recommendation 10a
The City of Palo Alto should identify an Affordable Housing Manager who can be responsible for the
affordable housing target and ensure coordination among stakeholders by June 30, 2022. This role should
be the primary focus of this individual and should have the support of Palo Alto’s City Council.
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City of Palo Alto Response: The recommendation requires further analysis. The City sees value in
having a single point of contact for affordable housing projects to the extent feasible. Prior to June
16, 2022, as part of the City’s annual budget process, the City Council will consider whether there
are sufficient funds to staff such a position or other personnel adjustments to provide dedicated
attention to affordable housing projects.
Recommendation 10b
The City of Mountain View should identify an Affordable Housing Manager who can be responsible for the
affordable housing target and ensure coordination among stakeholders by June 30, 2022. This role should
be the primary focus of this individual and should have the support of Mountain View’s City Council.
City of Palo Alto Response: NA
Finding 11
In the past decade, the City of Mountain View has created substantial affordable housing funding derived
both from City revenues (fees, charges to developers, etc.) and from external funding. However, the City
of Mountain View’s fund is diminishing and needs to be built up.
City of Palo Alto Response: NA
Recommendation 11
The City of Mountain View should develop a specific affordable housing funding plan to cover its needs for
the next five years by July 30, 2022.
City of Palo Alto Response: NA
Finding 12
The City of Palo Alto does not have a multi-faceted affordable housing funding strategy (including creating
a fund for affordable housing as well as proactively leveraging all potential external funding sources) that
would encourage it to build more below market housing.
City of Palo Alto Response: Disagree
We think the Grand Jury was simply mistaken here; the City has had such an Affordable Housing
Fund for many years. From 2015-2019 it sourced approximately $40 million for affordable
housing efforts, not including associated infrastructure. The fund currently has about $6 million
in it and is anticipated to contribute to the transitional-housing project the Council approved in
2021. The City recently increased its commercial housing impact fees and as noted below, is
exploring the possibility of a business tax to support in part, affordable housing projects.
Moreover, the City Council recently directed its Finance Committee to further explore other
affordable housing funding strategies.
Recommendation 12a
The City of Palo Alto should create a plan with specific goals and timelines by July 30, 2022, to build up the
affordable housing fund considering tools such as business tax, document tax, bond measure, and property
tax
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City of Palo Alto Response: This recommendation has been implemented and is scheduled to
receive further refinement later this year with a possible business tax ballot initiative. The City has
had an Affordable Housing Fund for many years, historically funded primarily through impact and
in-lieu fees. Palo Alto has led on inclusionary housing requirements for decades.
In keeping with its view that new commercial development should pay for its associated housing
needs, in 2021, the City raised its commercial linkage fee for Affordable Housing to the highest in
the Bay Area, $68.50 per square foot, equal to the County’s rate under its “full mitigation” policy
as applied to Stanford University.
We are, however, seeking additional new tools to increase the size of our Affordable Housing
Fund. One potential funding tool is a business tax, currently in evaluation for the November 2022
ballot, including a spending advisory to contribute to the Affordable Housing Fund. Early polling
suggests public sentiment appears to favor such a tax.
Recommendation 12b
The City of Palo Alto should create a Memorandum of Understanding with Santa Clara County by July 30,
2022, to establish goals and actions to leverage Measure A bond funding and advance identified affordable
housing projects.
City of Palo Alto Response: This recommendation requires further analysis as City staff reach out
to the County to assess its willingness to enter into an MOU with Palo Alto; staff will begin these
discussions by June 16, 2022.
Measure A funds are not blanket-allocated to local jurisdictions; rather, they are applied to eligible
individual affordable housing projects. When eligible projects are proposed for Palo Alto, the City
and the developer engage the County regarding the allocation of funds to those projects. Various
City representatives have over time been in direct or indirect contact with the County to explore
funding opportunities for a variety of projects but no Measure A funds have yet been disbursed
for a Palo Alto project at the time of this response.
Finding 13
One hundred percent affordable housing projects are more reliant on scarce city funds and other resources
compared to mixed-use projects that combine housing with commercial space. Having a city-wide portfolio
of both 100% affordable housing projects and mixed-use projects will yield the greatest number of units
and best utilize available funds.
City of Palo Alto Response: Partially Agree / Partially Disagree
In general, Palo Alto will support as many 100% affordable projects as can be funded.
In addition, Palo Alto’s policy is to consider both supply and demand for affordable housing. The
City’s PHZ zoning incentivizes mixed-use projects but explicitly requires that housing supply
exceed job-linked housing demand in those projects. As discussed previously, and also
quantitatively in Appendix 3, we do not believe conventional mixed commercial-residential
development generally represents a sustainable approach to fund affordable housing in high jobs-
housing ratio cities like Palo Alto.
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Historically, most agencies – including the Grand Jury – measured only the supply produced by
such plans and projects, and not any associated demand. We believe that mixed-use projects that
create more housing demand than supply exacerbate the need for affordable housing rather than
reduce that need; and that in high jobs-housing-ratio regions of the Bay Area, this approach is no
longer sustainable, and “net-of-demand” is now a better metric.
Recommendation 13
The City of Palo Alto should include both mixed-use and 100% affordable funding opportunities in its
affordable housing plan referred to in Recommendation 12a by July 30, 2022.
City of Palo Alto Response: This recommendation has been and is being implemented. The City’s
housing work plan and policies in the new housing element will focus on ensuring projects are
net-of-demand housing-positive.
In practice, we anticipate that all 100% affordable projects, but few traditional privately-funded
mixed-use projects, will meet this criterion.
Finding 14
Relying on commercial development to fund affordable housing has the unintended consequence of
increasing the need for affordable housing.
City of Palo Alto Response: Agree
Using ACS 5-year jobs data and the Adjusted Keyser-Marston model (Appendix 1), Palo Alto and
Mountain View together created demand for 4,000 affordable housing units from 2015-2019 ---
3,400 more than the 596 units the two cities actually permitted.
Figure 3: 2015-19 - New Affordable Housing Supply vs New Affordable Housing Demand
Once net-of-demand is measured, this increased 3,400-unit affordable-housing shortage maps to
over 8,000 newly-displaced low-income individuals with no identified place to live (assuming ~2.5
persons per household). The “unintended” consequence described by Finding 14 has concrete
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human ones. In order to ensure sensible policy, agencies should measure “net-of-demand”
affordable housing changes, not simply affordable housing numbers in isolation.
In addition, mixed-use projects that provide more new jobs than housing are also forms of
commercial development to fund affordable housing that have the unintended consequences of
increasing the need for affordable housing.
Recommendation 14
By July 30, 2022, both the City of Palo Alto and the City of Mountain View should require a Housing Impact
Study in the approval process for new commercial development, that informs decision-makers about how
the proposed project affects the job-to-housing ratio.
City of Palo Alto Response: This recommendation has been and is being implemented as it relates
to the City’s PHZ application process. PHZ projects are required to provide more housing units
than needed to offset any net new job generation for commercial land uses. As previously stated,
the City limits commercial development through its annual office cap in the zoning code and
through land use policies in the comprehensive plan. A Housing Impact Study for other by-right
commercial development that is subject to ministerial review, objective standards or design
review may be informative to illustrate how a project may be improving or creating more of a
jobs/housing imbalance but without actionable policies like the ones employed by Palo Alto, a
Housing Impact Study offers little utility and would not likely enable decision-makers to approve
or disapprove most projects, unless structured similarly to the PHZ process in Palo Alto.
Numerous nexus and other studies have already established the linkages from commercial
development to housing demand, including affordable housing. Additional study is always
welcome, but the top factor now is probably agencies’ more consistent adoption of existing Net-
of-Demand metrics into land-use policies.
CONCLUSION
The City of Palo Alto appreciates the Grand Jury’s leadership on this important issue. As noted, we agree
with several of the Grand Jury’s findings and recommendations and look forward to implementing these
items in the coming weeks and months.
As noted, Palo Alto has 8% of its total housing stock as affordable housing. We are proud to have the
second highest affordable housing rate of any city in the county based on the percent of total housing
stock; and we are addressing the office demand side, which is critical to achieving true progress in meeting
the need for affordable housing.
In closing, the City will continue to make progress on this important priority. The City Council recently
adopted housing for social and economic balance as a 2022 Council priority and will be adopting a new
Housing Element to help guide future affordable housing production. Our Affordable Housing Fund has
been an important tool in investing in affordable housing in Palo Alto, and we continue to pursue
additional revenue sources to increase this fund as we look to invest in future affordable housing projects.
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On behalf of the Palo Alto City Council, thank you for considering our responses.
Sincerely,
Pat Burt, Mayor
City of Palo Alto
250 Hamilton Avenue, 7th Floor
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Copy: Palo Alto City Council
Lesley Milton, City Clerk
Ed Shikada, City Manager
Jonathan Lait, Planning & Development Services Director
APPENDICES
1. Affordable-Housing Demand Models
2. Mixed-Use Affordable Housing Proposal in NVCAP
3. RHNA, Recommendation 13, and Mixed-Use Development Economics
4. Housing Supply and Demand
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Appendix 1 - AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEMAND MODELS
Housing costs and availability are influenced by changes in both Supply and Demand. Since land-use
policies and also individual actions can influence both factors at once, an understanding of linkages is
important for planning.
Various studies have analyzed these linkages. One is a 2016 Keyser-Marston Nexus Study commissioned
by the Santa Clara County and used during the County’s “GUP” discussions with Stanford University.1
The core principle is that job growth attracts new employees to the region, who need housing. A range
of affordability levels is needed, because even high-wage office jobs in fields such as software
engineering and biotechnology indirectly create housing demand for workers in associated service,
transportation, education and other roles.
A. Summary of the 2016 Keyser-Marston Nexus Study for Santa Clara County (Commercial Linkage)
The 2016 Keyser-Marston study analyzes this linkage by looking at factors such as prevailing industry
and income profiles and proportions, the housing demand created by different job categories, and
the worker density in both office and residential space. KM 2016 makes the following assumptions:
• 300 square feet of office space per employee
• 1.72 workers per household – KM cites this as the Countywide average
• 20% of new jobs sourced by what KM call “declining industry” workers: existing residents
who already have housing here, and whose old job is not backfilled by a new employee.
From this, KM calculates that each 100,000 sf of office space creates new households as follows:
• Extremely Low Income (0-30% AMI) 2.6 households 1.7% of total
• Very Low Income (30-50% AMI) 12.0 households 7.7% of total
• Low Income (50-80% AMI) 22.0 households 14.2% of total
• Moderate Income (80-120% AMI) 30.7 households 19.8% of total
• Above Moderate Income (> 120% AMI) 88.0 households 56.6% of total
Per this model, each 1,000 sf of new office space adds 3.3 new jobs, and a demand for 1.6 new
households; of which 24% must be 0-80% AMI, and 43% must be 0-120% AMI. Restated, each new
office job creates a demand for .47 new households, with the same percentages for 0-80% and 0-
120% AMI respectively. In table form:
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B. Suggested Adjustments for North County and Overcrowding
The KM 2016 model is a countywide model, and the factors that go into it likely vary between the
South, North and West County regions.
• First, employee density in the tech-heavy North County, where office rents are considerably
higher than the County average, in 2022 is likely higher than 3.3 employees per 1,000 sf.
• Second, the cited (2016) County average of 1.72 workers per housing unit may not be best
for this calculation. Others including California HCD2 and Working Partnerships USA /
Beacon Economics3 argue that current Bay Area housing is “overcrowded” and lower
densities should be used for planning. WPUSA/Beacon recommend a planning target of
1.35 workers per housing unit3.
• Finally, an estimate that 20% of new jobs are still being taken by workers leaving declining
industries feels high at this time in Silicon Valley and especially in the North County.
An adjustment to the base KM 2016 analysis, using 4.0 employees per 1,000 sf office space, 1.35
workers per household, and 10% of new jobs taken by “declining industry” workers, is shown below
as “Adjusted KM 2016.”
Additionally, the City of Mountain View has developed a Jobs-Housing Linkage Program as part of its
2019 East Whisman Precise Plan. The Mountain View standard prescribes 3.0 housing units per
1,000 sf office space, at a 50% inclusion rate (ELI/VLI/LI/MI)4.
These three models are summarized below:
Conclusion
A reasonable range estimate for new housing demand created by office-space development and new
jobs in the North County would be:
• Each 1,000 sf office space creates a demand for 1.6-3.0 housing units, at a 24% inclusion rate
(ELI/VLI/LI) or a 43% inclusion rate (ELI/VLI/LI/MI)
• Each new job creates a demand for .47-.67 new housing units, at a 24% inclusion rate
(ELI/VLI/LI) or a 43% inclusion rate (ELI/VLI/LI/MI)
For Palo Alto, the higher end of these ranges, closer to Mountain View’s, is likely most accurate.
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Notes
1. Non-Residential Nexus Analysis, Keyser-Marston Associates, December 2016
https://osh.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb671/files/County%20of%20Santa%20Clara%20Affordable
%20Housing%20Nexus%20Studies%20Public%20Review%20Draft.%2004-04-2018.pdf
Appendix B (Commercial Linkage Analysis) p12
2. HCD Regional Housing Needs Determination: ABAG June 2021 - December 2030, California
Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)
https://www.hcd.ca.gov/community-development/housing-element/docs/abagrhna-
final060920(r).pdf
3. The Google Rent Hike, Working Partnerships USA, June 2019
https://www.wpusa.org/files/reports/GoogleRentHike.pdf).
4. Administrative Guidelines for Jobs-Housing Linkage Program, City of Mountain View, 2019
https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=33089
Eric Filseth, February 2022
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Appendix 2 – MIXED-USE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROPOSAL in NVCAP
Tom Gilman tgilman@des-ae.com Tue 9/14/2021 4:34 PM
To: Council, City city.council@cityofpaloalto.org
Cc: Lait, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lait@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Tanner, Rachael
<Rachael.Tanner@CityofPaloAlto.org>; Campbell, Clare <clare.campbell@cityofpaloalto.org>
To the Palo Alto City Council-
In regards to the NVCAP process, the Planning staff has requested from the Jay Paul Company, a
response to the concepts presented at the June 2021 City Council meeting.
Based on the Planning documents from that meeting and in discussions with the Staff, the owner
needed to take a more detailed look into the numbers to evaluate the potential redevelopment for the
395 Page Mill site.
This has included reviewing several existing conditions:
• Rapidly increasing construction costs
• The considerable investment that he has made to the existing building
• Potential buy-out of the existing tenant’s lease and lease extension possibility
• Major construction cost of building 2 1/2 levels of underground parking
Based on the considerable financial investment that a redevelopment would entail, the Jay Paul
Company would be prepared to go along with a redevelopment of the site based on the following:
• Build 508 new living units in a multifamily project with a 15% affordability (BMR) ratio, built in 6-
story and 8-story buildings
• Build an additional 200k sf of tech-office space for a total office area of 420K sf on the site, built
in a new 8-story tech-office building
• Include a new 2.3 acre public park, plus significant usable green space setbacks totaling an
additional 1.3 acres. On average the existing setbacks are 25’, which would be increased to 30’-
40’.
• 95% of the parking would be housed in a new 2 1/2 level underground parking garage, opening
up a significant portion of the site as green space.
o The 9.8 acre acre site would have almost 60% open space, (public + private) compared
to the current 25%
• The multi-family residential buildings would be highly sustainable, built to CalGreen standards.
• The tech-office buildings would be built to highly sustainable green levels, including LEED
Platinum, and Fitwell accredited
• Designing this office building as a Mass-Timber building. This will help ensure that the project is
a highly sustainable project with the goal of significant Carbon reduction.
• The Jay Paul Company has an on-going relationship with Magical Bridge Foundation, with whom
they have worked in Palo Alto and other communities. They will work with them to consider
Magical Bridge play spaces in the proposed Park area.
The owner believes that this location is ideal for this transit-oriented development with Caltrain and
multiple bus lines within easy walking distance.
Without these levels of additional office space redevelopment, the owner is not motivated to redevelop
the site, given the highly successful development with the current tenancy.
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The owner looks forward to helping the City make this NVCAP effort a reality and is available for further
conversation.
Thank you,
Tom Gilman, AIA
C. Thomas Gilman, AIA, LEED AP
Principal | President
DES Architects + Engineers | 399 Bradford Street | Redwood City, CA 94063
T: 650.364.6453 | tgilman@des-ae.com | www.des-ae.com | @DESarchitects
Architecture | Interior Design | Landscape Architecture | Structural Engineering | Civil Engineering |
Visual Communications | LEED Coordination
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Appendix 3 – RHNA, RECOMMENDATION 13, and MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
How much office space would it take for Palo Alto to have reached 33% of its RHNA Cycle 5 VLI/LI
target by 2019 – parity with Mountain View – using the Mixed-Use approach?
Per the Grand Jury report, by the end of 2019:
• Palo Alto had reached 15% of its VLI/LI RHNA goals (166 units against a target of 1,123)
• Mountain View had reached 33% of its VLI/LI RHNA goal (430 units against a target of 1,306)
A reasonable question is: suppose Palo Alto wished to reach at least 33% of its RHNA Cycle 5 target
using Mixed-Use Development, as indicated by Recommendation 13. How much new office space
would have been required?
To achieve 33%, an additional 206 VLI/LI units would be needed. The Adjusted KM 2016 model suggests
that 206*2.7*1,000 = 550,000 square feet of new office space would have been adequate; however, the
Demand Model does not guarantee this rate would also be economically feasible for a developer.
The Jay Paul NVCAP Page Mill proposal (Appendix 2) provides a recent “economic feasibility” Mixed-Use
data point. The proposal suggests that 76 VLI/LI units can be financed by 200,000 sf of office space, or
2,630 sf office per unit.
However, the Page Mill proposal includes MI (81-120% AMI) units; whereas the Grand Jury report
considers only VLI/LI (0-80% AMI) units. Using the KM 2016 model, we can adjust the 2,630 sf metric by
(43%/24%) to suggest a rate of 4,715 sf office per VLI/LI unit is currently economically viable in Palo Alto.
This suggests that in practice, producing the additional 206 VLI/LI units to reach 33%-of-RHNA using
Mixed-Use as in Recommendation 13, could have been achieved by Palo Alto approving roughly 970,000
sf of new office space; creating space for 3,885 new jobs.
To reach not 33% but 100% of Palo Alto’s 2015-2023 RHNA VLI/LI target this way would require roughly
4.5 million square feet of new office space, and 18,000 new jobs.
Note these are “Supply Only” numbers; “Net-of-Demand” numbers for this much office space would
suggest actual net losses in the hundreds of units of city VLI/LI housing availability, with corresponding
displacement of hundreds or more lower-income residents. This conflict between RHNA performance
and low-income displacement, in context of private commercial development as a funding tool for
affordable housing, represents a structural problem with the RHNA process as currently measured.
Palo Alto Criteria
Net New
VLI/LI
Supply
(units)
Economically
Feasible sf
Office per
VLI/LI unit
New Office
Space
Needed (sf)
Implied New
Jobs
VLI/LI
Demand per
1,000 sf
Office
Net New
VLI/LI
Demand
(units)
Net-of-
Demand
VLI/LI Supply
(units)
Additional VLI/LI units to reach
33% of Palo Alto RHNA Target 206 4,715 971,290 3,885 0.65 629 (423)
Additional VLI/LI units to reach
100% of Palo Alto RHNA Target 957 4,715 4,512,255 18,049 0.65 2,924 (1,967)
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Appendix 4 – MANAGING HOUSING SUPPLY AND DEMAND
After the end of the 2008 Recession, the entire Valley added jobs much faster than housing. In 2014,
facing record-high and still-escalating jobs-housing ratios, Palo Alto began what became a two-pronged
effort to concurrently manage both Demand and Supply for city housing:
• Demand suppression: Council imposed nonresidential development caps in 2015 and 2018;
PHZ projects must be net-housing-positive.
• Supply support: residential upzoning, including 2018’s “Housing Incentive Program,” residential
upzoning of multi-unit and near-transit districts, an Affordable Housing Overlay, and 2019’s
“PHZ” tool, which established a vehicle for the city to negotiate relaxed multi-unit design
standards in exchange for higher BMR inclusion rates.
This dual-focus “Jobs-Housing First” policy has not been without controversy, including prompting one
regional organization’s famous remark, “‘Jobs’ is not a four-letter word!”1
While supply-side results are still ambiguous, a pipeline of interesting projects has developed. And with
the caveats that (1) correlation is not causation, and (2) ACS data is not perfect, there are some positive
indicators: Palo Alto job growth appears to have stopped since 2016, while continuing to surge
elsewhere in the region; and our jobs-housing ratio appears to have plateaued and may even be edging
slightly downwards. Also encouragingly, the rate of appreciation of rental housing costs in the City
appears to have slowed since 2015, despite continuing and in some cases accelerating in other job-rich
parts of the Valley.
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For these reasons we ask the Grand Jury not to simply dismiss this approach; but consider it, and
monitor it, as the region evolves over the next several years. Balancing the demand and supply for
housing has become a vexing problem for the entire region; multiple approaches should be on the table.
Source: ACS 5-yr data tables B08601, DP05; US Census H1
1. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/10/i-want-to-see-the-valley-step-up-gov-newsom-
pressures-companies-to-help-build-housing/
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City of Palo Alto (ID # 13978)
City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Title: Approval of Amendment Number 2 to Contract Number C19172119
with Daryl D. Jones, Inc. DBA Telecommunications Engineering Associates
(TEA) to Increase the Scope of Services to Include Program Verification and
Design Review for the Public Safety Build ing Project (CIP PE-15001) and,
Accordingly, Increase the Contract Amount by $189,882, for a New Total Not -
to-Exceed Amount of $874,882
From: City Manager
Lead Department: Police
Recommendation
Staff recommends that Council approve and authorize the City Manager or their designee to
execute the attached Amendment No. 2 to Contract C19172119 with Daryl D. Jones, Inc. DBA
Telecommunications Engineering Associates (TEA) (Attachment A) to increase the scope of
services to include program verification and design review services for the Public Safety
Building project (PE-15001) and, accordingly, increase the contract sum by $189,822 to a new
total not-to-exceed amount of $874,882.
Background
The New Public Safety Building (PSB) (PE-15001) is one of ten key projects included in the 2014
Council Infrastructure Plan. The PSB was identified as the plan’s highest priority project. In June
2018, Council authorized a five-year contract with TEA as the City’s radio system maintenance
provider (CMR# 9246). In June 2019, Council authorized Contract Amendment No. 1 with TEA to
add provision of detailed information about the existing radio system infrastructure to assist in
designing the radio system and equipment specifications for the new PSB (CMR# 10352).
Discussion
TEA provides maintenance for the existing City radio system and the Fire Station Ringdown
System. The existing City radio system is an analog Very High Frequency (VHF) and Ultra High
Frequency (UHF) system that supports Police, Fire, OES, Animal Control, and Park Rangers. The
City currently operates two VHF channels and three UHF channels.
This Amendment No. 2 to the TEA contract is now needed to add provision of final program
verification and design review services focusing on verifying the technology systems, technical
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cabling, and equipment infrastructure requirements for E911 and emergency radio systems for
the new PSB. The added services TEA will be providing support several critical components
which must be properly integrated for overall project success , including the relocation of 911
dispatch operations. Final setup of the new PSB will require careful planning to coordinate
numerous telecommunications issues related to essential service communi cation with respect
to the new and existing systems.
Since TEA has designed, installed, and maintained systems at the current City of Palo Alto
facility, they are uniquely qualified to provide services to accomplish a seamless transition to
the new PSB. TEA will charge an hourly rate of $210 for the added services, with a not-to-
exceed amount of $189,882 for these services, for a new total not-to-exceed amount of the
contract of $874,882. These services will be approached as Additional Services, as defined in
the contract, which are assigned via written Task Order approved by the City’s Project Manager
as detailed in the contract. The cost will be funded from the PSB budget.
This contract is on the City’s professional services template, which permits the City to terminate
without cause/for convenience by providing written notice to the contractor. In the event the
City finds itself facing a challenging budget situation, and it is determined that City resources
need to be refocused elsewhere, the City can terminate for convenience. Other options include
termination due to non-appropriation of funds or amending the contract to reduce the cost, for
example, by reducing the scope of work. The contract may also be temporarily suspended by
written notice of the City Manager.
Timeline
The construction of the PSB is in progress and scheduled to be completed and fully operational
by late 2023.
Resource Impact
Funding for the recommendation in this report is available in the Fiscal Year 2022 New Public
Safety Building Capital Improvement Program project (PE-15001).
Stakeholder Engagement
Public Works has been and is engaging designated staff from key departments that will be
occupying the PSB upon completion. Additionally, the PSB design was reviewed and
recommended for approval via the ARB process that notifies nearby residents and publishes
formal meeting agendas online and via newspaper advertisements. The project website is
regularly updated with current information and email newsletters are sent to persons w ho sign
up to the mailing list via the website.
Policy Implications
This amendment to contract is consistent with existing City policy.
Environmental Review
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This contract is exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA), pursuant to Section 15301 of the CEQA guidelines. An Environmental Impact Report for
the PSB and the New California Avenue Area Parking Garage was prepared and was certified by
Council on June 11, 2018 (CMR# 8967), by adoption of Resolution No. 9772.
Attachments:
• Attachment7.a: Attachment A: Daryl D. Jones, Inc. DBA Telecommunications
Engineering Associates (TEA) Contract; C19172119, Amendment #2
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AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO CONTRACT NO. C19172119
BETWEEN THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AND
DARYL D. JONES, INC. DBA TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES
This Amendment No. 2 (this “Amendment”) to Contract No. C19172119 (the “Contract” as
defined below) is entered into as of March 14, 2022, by and between the City of Palo Alto, a
California chartered municipal corporation (“CITY”), and Daryl D. Jones, Inc. DBA
Telecommunications Engineering Associates, a California corporation, located at 1160 Industrial
Road #15, San Carlos, CA 94070 (“CONSULTANT”). CITY and CONSULTANT are referred to
collectively as the “Parties” in this Amendment.
R E C I T A L S
A. The Contract (as defined below) was entered into by and between the Parties
hereto for the provision of providing radio and telecommunication engineering services for
portions of the CITY’s legacy analog radio and telecommunications systems (the “Project”), as
detailed therein.
B. The Parties entered into Amendment #1 to add to the scope of services under the
Contract and increase compensation by Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000), increasing the total not-
to-exceed amount from Six Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($625,000) to a new total not-
to-exceed amount of Six Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars ($685,000), as detailed therein.
C. The Parties now wish to amend the Contract in order to correct a
typographical/clerical error in the date in the first paragraph of Amendment No. 1; add Task 6
(program verification and design review consulting services) to the scope of services for the Public
Safety Building project (to be approached as Additional Services, as further detailed herein); and
increase compensation by One Hundred Eighty-Nine Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-Two Dollars
($189,882), increasing the total not-to-exceed amount from Six Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand
Dollars ($685,000) to a new total not-to-exceed amount of Eight Hundred Seventy-Four Thousand,
Eight Hundred Eighty-Two Dollars ($874,882), as detailed herein .
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants, terms, conditions, and provisions of
this Amendment, the Parties agree:
SECTION 1. Definitions. The following definitions shall apply to this Amendment:
a. Contract. The term “Contract” shall mean Contract No. C19172119
between CONSULTANT and CITY, dated June 25, 2018, as amended by:
Amendment No.1, dated June 25, 2019 (the corrected date as
detailed in Section 2 herein)
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b. Other Terms. Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Amendment
shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Contract.
SECTION 2. The Parties understand and agree that the date as of which Amendment No. 1
was entered into, as listed in the first paragraph of Amendment No. 1, was stated incorrectly as
“June 25, 2018” instead of “June 25, 2019,” due to a typographical/clerical error, and the Parties
hereby amend said date in the first paragraph of Amendment No. 1 to read “June 25, 2019.”
SECTION 3. Section 4, “NOT TO EXCEED COMPENSATION,” of the Contract is hereby
amended to read as follows: “The compensation to be paid to CONSULTANT for performance of
the Services described in Exhibit “A” (also referred to herein as the “Basic Services”), and
reimbursable expenses, shall not exceed Six Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars ($685,000), as
detailed in Exhibit “C” entitled “COMPENSATION”. CONSULTANT agrees to complete all Basic
Services, including reimbursable expenses, within this amount. In addition, the City has approved
an amount of Three Hundred Fourteen Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-Two Dollars
($314,882) for Additional Services (as defined below), if authorized pursuant to a City-approved
Task Order as detailed under the “Additional Services” section in Exhibit “C”. In the event
Additional Services are authorized by City, the total compensation for Basic Services, reimbursable
expenses, and Additional Services shall not exceed Eight Hundred Seventy-Four Thousand, Eight
Hundred Eighty-Two Dollars ($874,882), as detailed in Exhibit “C”. As detailed in Exhibit C,
equipment maintenance rates, as applicable, are set out at Exhibit “C-1”, entitled “SCHEDULE OF
RATES”. Any work performed or expenses incurred for which payment would result in a total
exceeding the maximum compensation amounts set forth herein shall be at no cost so the City.
Additional Services, if any, shall be authorized in via City-approved Task Order accordance with and
subject to the provisions of Exhibit “A” (“Scope of Services”) and the provisions of the “Additional
Services” section of Exhibit “C”. CONSULTANT shall not receive any compensation for Additional
Services performed without the prior written authorization of CITY via City-approved Task Order.
“Additional Services” shall mean any work that is determined by CITY to be necessary for the
proper completion of the Project, but which is not included within the Scope of Services described
in Exhibit “A”.”
SECTION 4. The following exhibit(s) to the Contract is/a re hereby amended or added, as
indicated below, to read as set forth in the attachment(s) to this Amendment, which is/are hereby
incorporated in full into this Amendment and into the Contract by this reference:
a. Exhibit “A” entitled “SCOPE OF SERVICES, AMENDMENT NO. 2,” AMENDED,
REPLACES PREVIOUS.
b. Exhibit “B” entitled “SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCE, AMENDMENT NO. 2”,
AMENDED, REPLACES PREVIOUS.
c. Exhibit “C” entitled “COMPENSATION, AMENDMENT NO. 2”, AMENDED,
REPLACES PREVIOUS.
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d. Exhibit “C-1” entitled “SCHEDULE OF RATES, AMENDMENT NO. 2”,
AMENDED, REPLACES PREVIOUS.
SECTION 5. Legal Effect. Except as modified by this Amendment, all other provisions of the
Contract, including any exhibits thereto, shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 6. Incorporation of Recitals. The recitals set forth above are terms of this
Amendment and are fully incorporated herein by this reference.
(SIGNATURE BLOCK FOLLOWS ON THE NEXT PAGE.)
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SIGNATURES OF THE PARTIES
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have by their duly authorized representatives executed
this Amendment effective as of the date first above written.
CITY OF PALO ALTO
_______________________________
City Manager
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_______________________________
City Attorney or Designee
DARYL D. JONES, INC. DBA
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
ASSOCIATES
Officer 1
By:_____________________________
Name:__________________________
Title:___________________________
Attachments:
EXHIBIT “A” entitled “SCOPE OF SERVICES, AMENDMENT NO. 2” (AMENDED, REPLACES PREVIOUS)
EXHIBIT “B” entitled “SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCE, AMENDMENT NO. 2” (AMENDED, REPLACES
PREVIOUS)
EXHIBIT “C” entitled “COMPENSATION, AMENDMENT NO. 2” (AMENDED, REPLACES PREVIOUS)
EXHIBIT “C-1” entitled “SCHEDULE OF RATES, AMENDMENT NO. 2” (AMENDED, REPLACES
PREVIOUS)
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Daryl Jones, President
President
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EXHIBIT “A”
SCOPE OF SERVICES, AMENDMENT NO. 2
(AMENDED, REPLACES PREVIOUS)
CONSULTANT (also referred to herein as “TEA”) shall provide professional telecommunications
engineering services to manage and maintain the CITY’s radio infrastructure and console
equipment. The CITY has opted for a service plan that covers all parts and equipment (excepting
the items in the “Services Excluded” section below) without additional charge. In addition, all
labor, including travel time will be provided for any equipment or systems problem without
additional charge.
CONSULTANT agrees to provide total problem resolution services under this Agreement. This
includes liaison with equipment manufacturers, other vendors, the County, and the 9-1-1 System
maintenance provider. CONSULTANT shall investigate all reports of system problems and work
with the appropriate vendor or agency to correct it. CONSULTANT will further serve as the
CITY’s single point of contact for problems related to the equipment listed in Exhibit C.
In addition to routine maintenance and management of telecommunications equipment,
CONSULTANT will make recommendations to the CITY when equipment needs to be replaced
and offer suggestions about new products and equipment, which can be used to enhance system
performance. CONSULTANT agrees to provide training for CITY personnel on communications
systems as necessary. CONSULTANT will assist the CITY in identifying issues when it is
necessary for the CITY to make routine system design changes and enhancements to any
equipment covered under this agreement. CONSULTANT will write bid specifications for base
station equipment when directed to do so by the CITY.
Written reports on the status of the CITY’s communications systems will be provided when
necessary but not less than once per year by the 15th of December. All of the above services are
included in the total compensation set forth in Exhibit C and shall be at no additional cost to CITY.
Further details on services included in CONSULTANT’S performance of this Agreement are
provided below, as well as a section on excluded services.
REQUIRED SERVICES (INCLUDED)
Radio Infrastructure Management Services: All communications problems under this agreement are
resolved effectively and efficiently. In the event of a system failure, the CONSULTANT shall
respond promptly (in accordance with the specified response time requirements) and make the
necessary repairs in a manner that will keep any system downtime to an absolute minimum.
Maintenance and Repair Services: The CONSULTANT shall keep all equipment covered by this
proposal in Exhibit C in excellent working condition, utilizing current industry standards and
modern preventive maintenance techniques. All parts and labor necessary to accomplish preventive
maintenance and repair will be provided without additional costs.
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Response Times: The CONSULTANT shall provide the CITY with a telephone number that is
available for reporting problems that is answered or responded to 24 hours a day, 7 days per week,
365 days per year. All incidents in the following categories shall be responded to and resolved
within the specified time. In all instances, the CONSULTANT shall make every effort to be
available for immediate telephone consultation for any problem.
Emergency Request: The CONSULTANT shall handle all emergency requests for service within
one hour of the request being reported. Emergency requests are defined as a malfunction of
equipment that has a major effect on daily operations. An example of such a malfunction would be
a major failure at a dispatch console.
High Priority Requests: The CONSULTANT shall handle all requests of this nature within four (4)
hours of the request being reported. High Priority request are defined as a malfunction of
equipment that can be temporarily resolved by a work around. An example of such a malfunction
would be a secondary channel becoming inoperable and that traffic being moved to the primary
channel.
Non-critical Requests: The CONSULTANT shall handle all Non-critical requests within twenty-four
(24) of the request being reported. Non-critical requests are defined as intermittent problems that do
not have a significant operational impact. An example of an intermittent problem would be periodic
static on a secondary channel.
In all instances, the CONSULTANT shall make every effort to be available for immediate
telephone consultation.
Equipment Inventory and Handling: It shall be the joint responsibility of the CITY and
CONSULTANT to maintain an accurate listing of all radio infrastructure equipment (except as
otherwise provided for in this Agreement). It is understood that only equipment listed in the most
current copy of the equipment itemization is covered under a fixed fee proposal.
It is further understood that CONSULTANT’s personnel will need to periodically possess
radio equipment that belongs to the CITY. CONSULTANT agrees to exercise reasonable
care for the equipment and shall be responsible for its return to the CITY.
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES (INCLUDED)
It is understood that TEA may need to periodically possess radio equipment that belongs to the
CITY. TEA agrees to exercise reasonable care for the equipment and shall be responsible for its
return to the CITY.
TEA is authorized by the CITY to install its own radio repeater and antenna at any CITY radio site
to facilitate administrative communication between TEA personnel. All equipment and installation
services will be at TEA’s and expense and the CITY shall incur no additional charge. There will
be no charge for rental of space of electrical power at the CITY’s radio sites.
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TEA will maintain the CITY’s FCC’s radio licenses. TEA will provide radio systems training for
probationary dispatchers and at two Continued Professional Training (CPT) sessions annually
ADDITIONAL MAINTENANCE SERVICES (INCLUDED)
During contract year one (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019), CONSULTANT shall provide a higher-
than-usual level of maintenance services, as the CITY’s equipment and systems are in need of some
additional maintenance care. The not-to-exceed amount for such additional maintenance
services/equipment shall be Forty Five Thousand Dollars ($45,000). The per-contract-year
amounts detailed in Exhibit “C” (“Compensation”) reflect this additional $45,000 for higher-than-
usual maintenance during contract year one.
PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION ON THE CITY’S EXISTING
EMERGENCY RADIO/ TELECOMMUNCATIONS SYSTEMS (INCLUDED)
In addition to the above, during contract year two (July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020) or as otherwise
requested by CITY, CONSULTANT shall provide documentation and information on the
specifications and operations of the CITY’s existing emergency radio and telecommunications
system to the radio technology subconsultant of Ross, Drulis, Cusenberry (“RDC”), the architectural
firm engaged by the CITY to design its new Public Safety Building (“PSB”). CONSULTANT’S
services will also include providing a complete inventory of all equipment used in the radio/telecoms
system. CONSULTANT will charge at the rate of One Hundred Eighty-eight dollars ($188) an hour
with a not to exceed amount of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) for these services. The per-
contract-year amounts detailed in Exhibit “C” (“Compensation”) reflect this additional $15,000 for
provision of information and documentation during contract year two. CONSULTANT will not
provide any consulting on the design of such systems for the new PSB, rather, such design work will
be performed by RDC’s subconsultant and/or RDC. CONSULTANT’s role is solely to provide
information and documentation regarding the current CITY systems.
SERVICES EXCLUDED
The following services are not included as part of this Agreement and, if services are required of
TEA, it will be handled on a time and materials basis. (Such services are also referred to in this
Agreement as “Additional Services,” however, Additional Services may also consist of services
other than those listed below in this “Services Excluded” section.)
• Antennas – Base station antennas and coaxial cables at all sites
• Telephone headsets
• Mobile and Portable radios
• System relocation or design changes
• Installation of new equipment
• Batteries
• Microwave System
Any malfunctions or damage for problems caused by natural or manmade disaster such as flood,
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earthquake or fire will not be covered under this Agreement. It is understood that TEA may
determine that a particular piece of equipment is beyond economic repair due to age or condition.
If this occurs, TEA will notify the CITY, this equipment item will be excluded from maintenance
under this Agreement, and the compensation will be adjusted accordingly.
(THIS SCOPE OF SERVICES IS CONTINUED ON THE NEXT PAGE.)
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PROGRAM VERIFICATION AND DESIGN REVIEW SERVICES (INCLUDED) (TASK 6)
Program verification and design review services (approached as Additional Services) focusing on
verifying the technology systems, technical cabling and equipment infrastructure requirements for
E911 and emergency radio systems for the Public Safety Building (PSB), as detailed in Tables 1-4
(Police Telecommunications Consulting Task List) below. (Also referred to as Task 6.)
Table 1 (Police Telecommunications Consulting Task List)
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Table 2 (Police Telecommunications Consulting Task List)
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Table 3 (Police Telecommunications Consulting Task List)
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Table 4 (Police Telecommunications Consulting Task List)
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EXHIBIT B
SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCE, AMENDMENT NO. 2
(AMENDED, REPLACES PREVIOUS)
CONSULTANT shall perform the Services so as to complete each milestone within the number of
days/weeks specified below. The time to complete each milestone may be increased or decreased
by mutual written agreement of the project managers for CONSULTANT and CITY so long as all
work is completed within the term of the Agreement. CONSULTANT shall p rovide a detailed
schedule of work consistent with the schedule below within 2 weeks of recei pt of the notice to
proceed (NTP).
Milestones No. of Weeks from NTP to Completion
1. Task 1. Preventive Maintenance
On going
2. Task 2. Training for Police Personnel
Annually
3. Task 3. Maintenance of FCC Licenses
As-Needed
4. Task 4. Written Status Reports
Annually
5. Task 5. Provision of information and
documentation on the City’s existing
emergency radio/ telecommunications
systems to City’s architect, RDC, and/or its
subconsultant
End of calendar year 2019 (or as otherwise
requested by City)
6. Task 6. Program verification and design
review services focusing on verifying the
technology systems, technical cabling and
equipment infrastructure requirements for
E911 and emergency radio systems for the
Public Safety Building (PSB).
On-going, as-needed, per the timeline
specified in the City-approved Task Order
(these services are approached as Additional
Services per Section 4, “Not-to-Exceed
Compensation,” of this Agreement)
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EXHIBIT “C”
COMPENSATION, AMENDMENT NO. 2
(AMENDED, REPLACES PREVIOUS)
The CITY agrees to compensate the CONSULTANT for professional services performed in
accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as detailed in Exhibit “A” entitled
“Scope of Services”, this Exhibit “C”, and, as applicable, based on the covered equipment rate
schedule attached as Exhibit C-1, all within the not-to-exceed amounts provided in Section 4 (“Not-
to-Exceed Compensation”) and below this Exhibit C (summarized in the Compensation Summary
Table below).
Task 1-5: Per-Contract-Year Not-to-Exceed Compensation Amounts for Basic Services and
Reimbursable Expenses
The following is a per-contract-year breakdown of the not-to-exceed compensation amounts
provided in Section 4 (“Not to Exceed Com pensation”) of this Agreement.
The per-contract-year not-to-exceed compensation amounts for Basic Services and specified
reimbursable expenses for Tasks 1-5 are as follows, respectively:
One Hundred Forty-Five Thousand Dollars ($145,000) for contract year one (including
higher-than-usual maintenance services/equipment);
One Hundred Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($115,000) for contract year two (including
provision of information and documentation to RDC subconsultant);
One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) for contrac t year three;
One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) for contract year four;
One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) for contract year five.
Task 1-5: Per-Contract-Year Not-to-Exceed Compensation Amounts for Basic Services,
Reimbursable Expenses and Additional Services
In the event Additional Services (per Section 4, “Not to Exceed Compensation,” of this Agreement)
are authorized by CITY for, the per-contract-year not-to-exceed compensation amounts for Basic
Services, specified reimbursable expenses and Additional Services for Tasks 1-5 are as follows,
respectively:
One Hundred Seventy Thousand Dollars ($170,000) for contract year one (including higher-
than-usual maintenance services/equipment);
One Hundred Forty Thousand Dollars ($140,000) for contract year two (including provision
of information and documentation to RDC subconsultant);
One Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($125,000) for contract year three;
One Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($125,000) for contract year four; and
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One Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($125,000) for contract year five.
Task 6: Not-to-Exceed Compensation Amount for Task 6 (approached as Additional Services in
accordance with Section 4 (“Not-to-Exceed Compensation”) and the “Additional Services”
section of Exhibit C)
In the event Additional Services (per Section 4, “Not to Exceed Compensation,” of this Agreement)
are authorized by CITY for Task 6, the not-to-exceed compensation amount for Additional Services
for Task 6 is as follows:
One Hundred Eighty-Nine Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-Two Dollars ($189,882)
Tasks 1-6: Total Not-to-Exceed Amount of this Agreement
The total not-to-exceed amount of this Agreement for all tasks is as follows:
Eight Hundred Seventy-Four Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-Two Dollars ($874,882)
CONSULTANT agrees to complete all Basic Services, reimbursable expenses, and Additional
Services within these amounts.
Compensation Summary Table
Tasks 1-5
Basic Services and
specified
Reimbursable
Expenses
Additional Services
(if authorized by
City per Section 4)
Subtotals
Contract year 1 $145,000 $25,000 $170,000
Contract year 2 $115,000 $25,000 $140,000
Contract year 3 $100,000 $25,000 $125,000
Contract year 4 $100,000 $25,000 $125,000
Contract year 5 $100,000 $25,000 $125,000
Subtotals $560,000 $125,000 $685,000
Task 6 (approached as Additional
Services)
$0 (n/a) $189,882 $189,882
Subtotals $560,000 $314,882 $874,882
Total not-to-exceed Amount of this Agreement $874,882
REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES
The CONSULTANT’s administrative, overhead, secretarial time or secretarial overtime,
word processing, photocopying, in-house printing, insurance, telephone and other ordinary
business expenses are included within the scope of payme nt for services and are not
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reimbursable expenses. CITY shall reimburse CONSULTANT for the following reimbursable
expenses at cost.
Expenses for which CONSULTANT shall be reimbursed are for equipment needed for the
operation of the radio/telecommunications system at the rates provided in Exhibit C-1. All
requests for payment of expenses shall be accompanied by appropriate backup
information. Any expense anticipated to be more than $100.00 shall be approved in
advance by the CITY’s project manager.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
The CONSULTANT shall provide Additional Services (as defined in Section 4, “Not to Exceed
Compensation,” of this Agreement) only by advanced, written authorization from the CITY,
pursuant to a Task Order (Exhibit “A-1”) as detailed in Section 1 of this Agreement. The
CONSULTANT, at the CITY’s project manager’s request, shall submit a detailed written
proposal including a description of the scope of such services, schedule, level of effort, and
CONSULTANT’s proposed maximum compensation, consistent with this Agreement,
including reimbursable expenses based on the rates set forth in Exhibit C-1. The Additional
Services scope, schedule and maximum compensation shall be negotiated and agreed to in
writing by the CITY’s Project Manager and CONSULTANT prior to commencement of such
services, pursuant to a Task Order (Exhibit “A-1”) as detailed in Section 1 of this
Agreement. Payment for Additional Services is subject to all requirements and restrictions
in this Agreement.
HOURLY RATE FOR ADDITIONAL SERVICES (CONSULTING) for Task 1-5
For Task 1-5, the CITY may request consulting services on radio infrastructure changes,
additions and relocation. TEA will provide those services at an hourly cost of $155.00 per
hour. In addition the CITY needs to replace and relocate some antiquated radio
equipment. TEA will provide quotes for these replacement/relocation projects and any
long-term consulting projects.
HOURLY RATES FOR ADDITIONAL SERVICES (RADIO ENGINEERING AND
TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN) for Task 1-5
Consulting fees for work outside of the scope of the Agreement (Additional Services) will
not exceed one hundred fifty-five ($155.00) dollars per hour for radio engineering and will
not exceed one hundred thirty-five ($135.00) dollars per hour for telecommunications
technician work.
HOURLY RATES FOR ADDITIONAL SERVICES (PROGRAM VERIFICATION AND DESIGN REVIEW
SERVICES) for Task 6
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For Task 6, the CITY may request Additional Services (as defined in Section 4, “Not to
Exceed Compensation,” of this Agreement) to provide program verification and design
review consulting services focusing on verifying the technology systems, technical cabling
and equipment infrastructure requirements for E911 and emergency radio systems for the
Public Safety Building, as further detailed in Exhibit A. CONSULTANT’s hourly rate for these
Additional Services will not exceed two hundred ten ($210.00) dollars per hour.
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EXHIBIT “C-1”
SCHEDULE OF RATES, AMENDMENT NO. 2
(AMENDED- REPLACES PREVIOUS)
As applicable, CONSULTANT will invoice the CITY on a monthly basis for the amount o f applicable
(as needed) covered equipment (Reimbursable Expenses per Exhibit C) from the list below.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, or the list below, the compensation to CONSULTANT for the
performance of this Agreement shall not exceed the amounts provided in Section 4, Exhibit A, and
Exhibit C of this Agreement.
PD-1 SYSTEM Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
T-Band duplex base station 2
$175 $350
T-band voting receiver 4
$85 $340
Motorola Digitac comparator 1
$160 $160
Transmitter site-select relay system 1
$10 $10
CTI comparator display system 0
$30 $0
Total >> $860
PD-2 SYSTEM Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
T-Band duplex base station 2
$175 $350
T-band voting receiver 4
$85 $340
Motorola Digitac comparator 1
$160 $160
Transmitter site-select relay system 1
$10 $10
CTI comparator display system 0
$30 $0
Total >> $860
FD-1 SYSTEM Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
VHF duplex base station 2
$175 $350
VHF voting receiver 3
$85 $255
Motorola Digitac comparator 1
$160 $160
Transmitter site-select relay system 1
$10 $10
CTI comparator display system 1
$30 $30
Total >> $805
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FD-2 (TAC) SYSTEM Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
VHF duplex base station 2
$175 $350
VHF voting receiver 3
$85 $255
Motorola Digitac comparator 1
$160 $160
Transmitter site-select relay system 1
$10 $10
CTI comparator display system 1
$30 $30
Total >> $805
FIRE STATION ALERTING Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
Zetron Model 25 encoder (CAD
controlled) 0
$32 $0
Zetron Model 26 status control unit 2
$60 $120
Zetron Model 6 fire station
transponder 7
$36 $252
TEA Station Alerting Module (SAM) 7
$20 $140
Fire station PA system – Valcom 0
$35 $0
Fire station PA system – conventional 7
$35 $245
Fire station alerting radios 7
$30 $210
Power supplies 7
$28 $196
Total >> $1,163
LG-1 SYSTEM Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
UHF duplex base station 2
$175 $350
UHF voting receiver 3
$85 $255
Motorola Digitac comparator 1
$160 $160
Transmitter site-select relay system 1
$10 $10
CTI comparator display system 0
$30 $0
Desk set remote control 12
$18 $216
Total >> $991
LG-2 SYSTEM Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
UHF duplex base station 2
$175 $350
UHF voting receiver 3
$85 $255
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Motorola Digitac comparator 1
$160 $160
Transmitter site-select relay system 1
$10 $10
CTI comparator display system 0
$30 $0
Desk set remote control 12
$18 $216
Total >> $991
LG-3 SYSTEM Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
UHF duplex base station 2
$175 $350
UHF voting receiver 1
$85 $85
Motorola Digitac comparator 1
$160 $160
Transmitter site-select relay system 0
$10 $0
CTI comparator display system 0
$30 $0
Desk set remote control 0
$18 $0
Total >> $595
FIBER-OPTIC MULTIPLEXERS Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
Adtran Opti 6100 for Civic Center 1
$435 $435
Adtran Opti 6100 for MSC 1
$235 $235
Adtran Opti 6100 for Park Reservoir 1
$235 $235
Adtran Opti 6100 for Dahl Reservoir 1
$235 $235
48VDC power systems (excluding
batteries) 4
$65 $260
Total >> $1,400
SITE-SPECIFIC EQUIPMENT Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
UHF T-band receiver multicoupler 2
$30 $60
UHF 450 receiver multicoupler 3
$30 $90
VHF receiver multicoupler 3
$30 $90
Wideband multicoupler at Civic Center 4
$30 $120
DC power system for VA Hospital site 1
$85 $85
AC power inverter for VA Hospital site 1
$45 $45
Adtran Atlas 550 mutiplexers for VA
Hospital 2
$65 $130
Total >> $620
CENTRACOM GOLD ELITE CONSOLE Quantity
Monthly Monthly
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Cost
Each Total
Operator position 5
$160 $800
Centracom card cage 6
$15 $90
Centracom CEB power supply 6
$95 $570
Centracom base interface module 18
$32 $576
Centracom dual receive module 6
$32 $192
Centracom OMI modules 5
$60 $300
Centracom timer module 2
$35 $70
Centracom aux relay module 10
$18 $180
Centracom RS232 module 1
$15 $15
Total >> $2,793
CENTRACOM II+ CONSOLE Quantity
Monthly Monthly
(PAUCC)
Cost
Each Total
Operator position 2
$160 $320
Centracom card cage 3
$15 $45
Centracom CEB power supply 3
$95 $285
Centracom base interface module 3
$32 $96
Centracom dual receive module 0
$32 $0
Centracom OMI modules 2
$60 $120
Centracom timer module 2
$35 $70
Centracom aux relay module 1
$18 $18
Centracom RS232 module 1
$15 $15
Total >> $969
MISCELLANEOUS EQUIP. Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
CDM monitor receivers 8
$18 $144
UHF T-band control base station
(MACS) 1
$85 $85
UHF T-band control base station (TAC-
3) 1
$85 $85
Red-Net control base station 1
$85 $85
Law-Net control base station 1
$85 $85
T-band select control base 1
$85 $85
VHF base station (White) 1
$85 $85
VHF base station (Blue) 1
$85 $85
Antenna combining system 0
T&M
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Total >> $739
NORTAC SIMULCAST Quantity
Monthly Monthly
Cost
Each Total
1/3 split between LA. PA and MV 1
$490 $490
Total >> $490
SUMMARY
Monthly
Total
PD-1 SYSTEM
$860
PD-2 SYSTEM
$860
FD-1 SYSTEM
$805
FD-2 (TAC) SYSTEM
$805
FIRE STATION ALERTING
$1,163
LG-1 SYSTEM
$991
LG-2 SYSTEM
$991
LG-3 SYSTEM
$595
FIBER-OPTIC MULTIPLEXERS
$1,400
SITE-SPECIFIC EQUIPMENT
$620
CENTRACOM GOLD ELITE CONSOLE
$2,793
CENTRACOM II+ CONSOLE
$969
MISCELLANEOUS EQUIP.
$739
NORTAC SIMULCAST
$490
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City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Title: Adoption of a Resolution Amending the Electric Hydro Rate Adjuster (E -
HRA) and Activating the E-HRA Rate at the $0.013/kWh Level, Effective April
1, 2022 and Transmit Information on Preliminary Rate Forecast
From: City Manager
Lead Department: Utili ties
Recommendation
The Finance Committee recommends that the City Council adopt a Resolution (Attachment A):
• Amending Electric Utilities Rate Schedule E-HRA (Electric Hydro Rate Adjuster), as
attached; and
• Activating the E-HRA rate at the $0.013/kWh level, effective April 1, 2021
Executive Summary
Staff provided a presentation (Linked Document) to both the Utilities Advisory Committee
(UAC) and the Finance Committee on December 1, 2021 and February 1, 2022 respectively,
showing the preliminary rate projections for the Electric, Gas, Water and Wastewater Collection
utilities. The Committee recommended unanimously to activate the E-HRA Electric Hydro Rate
Adjuster (E-HRA) (Linked Document) surcharge and making changes to the E-HRA schedule, to
broaden the potential activation of the rate and help lower longer-term average rates, as well
as maintain general reserve health.
The Hydro Stabilization Reserve is used to stabilize electric rates when hydrological conditions
are either poor, as is currently the case, or exceptionally good. Staff projects that if the E-HRA
surcharge is not activated by April 2022, an 8% electric rate increase will likely be needed for FY
2023. Based on current hydrological conditions the E-HRA surcharge will most likely need to be
activated for FY 2023 anyway. In either case (E-HRA surcharge applied in April 2022, or in FY
2023), the Hydro Stabilization Reserve is projected to be fully utilized and fall below the
guideline level by the end of FY 2022. The proposed changes to the criteria for activation
include an evaluation of projected as well as current Hydro Stabilization Reserve levels.
In addition, staff provided the preliminary retail rate forecast over the next five fiscal years is
shown in the table below, along with the overall impact to the median residential bill. The rate
changes shown are preliminary estimates. Actual rate changes will be based on updated
financial data and the cost-of-service analyses (COSAs) for each utility and may differ by
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customer class and for individual customers depending on consumption patterns. COSAs were
completed for Wastewater Collection in 2021, for Water and Gas in 2019, and for Electric in
2016.
Table 1: Projected Residential Rate
Changes
FY 2022
(Took effect
July 1, 2021)
HRA 1)
(Proposed for
March/April)
FY 2023
(Proposed for
July 1, 2022)FY 2024 FY 2025 FY 2026 FY 2027
$0.00 $5.09 $2.90 $3.00 $3.20 $3.30 $3.50
0%9%5%5%5%5%5%
$1.60 N/A $2.60 $2.70 $2.80 $3.00 $2.30
3% 4%4%4%4%3%
$2.00 N/A $1.30 $2.20 $2.30 $2.50 $2.60
3% 3%5%5%5%5%
$0.00 N/A $3.60 $3.80 $4.90 $5.10 $4.30
0% 4%4%5%5%4%
$0.00 N/A $0.00 $1.50 $1.50 $1.60 $1.60
0% 0%3%3%3%3%
$0.30 N/A $0.60 $0.40 $0.40 $0.40 $0.40
3% 4%3%3%3%3%
$3.90 $5.09 $11.00 $13.60 $15.10 $15.90 $14.70
1%2%3%4%4%4%4%Monthly Bill Change 4)
Electric Utility
Gas Utility 2)
Wastewater
Water Utility
Refuse
Storm Drain 3)
In an effort to provide financial assistance to Palo Alto’s residents and businesses during the
pandemic, Utilities has either kept rates flat or minimized rate increases for the past several
years (FY 2021 and FY 2022). Utilities drew down reserves and deferring some capital
improvement to avoid raising rates in prior years. As shown in Table 1, staff’s preliminary rate
increase recommendations are a 5% increase in the system average electric rate, 4% increases
in gas and water rates, a 3% wastewater collection rate increase, and a 4.2% storm drain rate
increase (based on December CPI). These rate adjustments will address increasing commodity
costs and enable the continuation of capital investment in these systems.
Based on these preliminary rate increase projections, FY 2023 Operations reserve levels are
projected to remain within guideline levels with this proposal. Staff will continue to monitor
customer consumption patterns and refine operatin g and capital cost projections over the
coming months to determine whether any adjustment from this preliminary forecast is needed.
Staff seeks input from the Finance Committee prior to finalizing the Utilities Financial Plans and
developing recommendations for rate changes that would be effective July 1, 2022. The
proposed rate adjustment recommendations, along with each utility’s Financial Plans, are
scheduled to be presented to the UAC starting in March 2022, the Finance Committee in April
2022 and to City Council as part of the FY 2023 Budget process.
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Background
Annually staff presents the UAC and Finance Committee with financial forecasts for the Electric,
Gas, Water, and Wastewater Collection utilities and recommends any rate adjustments
required to maintain their financial health. These forecasts are memorialized in Financial Plans
that comprehensively discuss the outlook for each utility. Before providing recommended
Financial Plans and rate changes, staff typically presents a preliminary forecast to get early
feedback.
The current year (FY 2022) financial plan for the Electric utility (approved June 21, 2021) is
available at: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-
reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/2021/id-12240.pdf
The current year (FY 2022) financial plan for the Gas utility (approved June 21, 2021) is available
at: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-
manager-reports-cmrs/2021/id-12240.pdf
The current year (FY 2022) financial plan for the Water utility (approved June 21, 2021) is
available at: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-
reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/attachments/06-21-2021-id-12240-attachment-d1-
fy-22-water-utility-financial-plan.pdf
The most recent (FY 2022) financial plan for the Wastewater Collection utility (approved August
9, 2021) is available at: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-
reports/reports/city-manager-reports-cmrs/attachments/08-09-2021-id-12378-att-c-fy22-
wastewater-collection-utility-financial-plan.pdf
Discussion
Hydro Rate Adjuster Amendment Discussion
In 2018, Council adopted the E-HRA mechanism (CMR 8962) to manage the financial impacts of
the annual variability in production of the City’s hydroelectric resources and to allow the City to
maintain a lower target level for its Hydro Rate Stabilization Reserve. Staff designed an E-HRA
to maintain hydro rate stabilization reserve levels within a range ($3 million to $35 million) at
least 80% of the time, based on historical hydro generation conditio ns. This balances the goal
of managing hydro variability using a combination of reserves and a rate adjuster while
minimizing swings in customer rates. To date, the E-HRA has not been activated.
Activation of the E-HRA is based on staff’s evaluation of hydro generation availability and the
Hydro Rate Stabilization Reserve level. When the Hydro Stabilization Reserve falls below 25%
of maximum ($11 million), and hydro generation is projected to be below normal through the
end of the current fiscal year, an electric rate surcharge will be applied:
• If hydro generation is projected to be between 319 and 480 GWh/year, the surcharge
will be $0.0065/kWh;
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• If hydro generation is projected to be below 319 GWh/year, the surcharge will be
$0.013/kWh.
If the Hydro Stabilization Reserve goes above 75% of maximum ($27 million), and projected
hydro generation is projected to be above normal through the end of the current fiscal year, an
electric rate discount will be applied:
• If hydro generation is projected to be between 480 and 642 GWh/year, the discount will
be $(0.0065)/kWh;
• If hydro generation is projected to be above 642 GWh/year, the discount will be
$(0.013)/kWh.
If the Hydro Stabilization Reserve goes above maximum ($35 million), and projected hydro
generation is projected to be above normal through the end of the current fiscal year, an
electric rate discount will also be applied:
• If hydro generation is projected to be between 319 and 642 GWh/year, the discount will
be $(0.0065)/kWh;
• If hydro generation is projected to be above 642 GWh/year, the discount will be
$(0.018)/kWh
While current hydro generation is only projected to be about 310 GWh/year, the Hydro
Stabilization Reserve level is currently $15.4M, so conditions have not been met to activate the
E-HRA surcharge according to Council’s previously-approved criteria. However, the utility’s
financial projections, including drought impacts, indicate activation of the E-HRA surcharge this
spring will mitigate higher supply costs. Thus, staff recommends E -HRA surcharge activation by
the fourth quarter of FY 2022 as a financially responsible means to manage costs and keep long-
term electric rate increases lower.
To that end, staff recommends Council amend the E-HRA methodology to take into account
projected HRA reserve drawdowns over the next fiscal year, as well as current Hydro
Stabilization Reserve levels. Specifically, staff recommends replacing Section D of the E -HRA
rate schedule as follows:
1. Hydro Rate Adjustment
a. The Hydro Rate Adjustment is a surcharge or discount applied to Electric rates
based on the strength of the City’s hydrological generation portfolio, applied to
manage volatility in energy costs and generation and the impact of that volatility
on Customer rates.
b. The Hydro Rate Adjustment is determined based on the level of funding in the
Hydro Stabilization Reserve, including transfers or withdrawals projected to be
made in the current fiscal year according to the City’s Electric Utility Reserve
Management Practices, and on the forecasted amount of annual generation the
City of Palo Alto Utilities will receive from its hydroelectric generation through
the end of the current fiscal year.
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2. Calculation of Hydro Rate Adjustment
a. Staff calculates the Hydro Rate Adjustment surcharge or discount annually in
May, or whenever hydrologic conditions are poor and Hydro Stabilization
Reserves are projected to fall below the 25% level within the fiscal year.
b. The Hydro Rate Adjustment will be applied to all Customers’ Electric rate
schedules upon Council approval, and re-evaluated annually.
c. The Hydro Rate Adjustment will fall within the minimum/maximum range set
forth in Section C, and applied as follows:
Hydro Rate Adjustment ($/kWh) Levels
Hydro Stabilization
Reserve Level
Projected Hydro Generation vs. Average Hydro Generation
(GWh/year)
Less than 319 319 to 480 480 to 642 Over 642
Above Maximum
(>$35 million)
$- $(0.0065) $(0.0065) $(0.018)
75% to 100%
($27 to $35 million)
$- $- $(0.0065) $(0.013)
25% to 75%
($11 to $27 million)
$- $- $- $-
25% and below
(<$11 million)
$0.013 $0.0065 $- $-
During the Finance Committee meeting of February 1, 2022, a request was made to include
current comparisons of Palo Alto’s rates in relation to PG&E and Santa Clara. The following
table shows how Palo Alto’s current and proposed rates with the HRA activated;Palo Alto’s
rates will still be well below PG&E’s rates.
Customer Season Usage (kWh)Palo Alto Palo Alto PG&E Santa Clara
Current $0.013/kwh HRA
E-1 300 41.27$ 45.17$ 84.72 39.22
(Residential)453 (Median)69.22$ 75.11$ 127.93 59.95
650 107.37$ 115.82$ 197.16 86.65
1200 213.89$ 229.49$ 392.28 161.17
300 41.27$ 45.17$ 87.11 39.22
365 (Median)52.18$ 56.92$ 110.17 48.03
650 107.37$ 115.82$ 211.27 86.65
1200 213.89$ 229.49$ 406.39 161.17
E2 (Small Non-Residential)1,000 177$ 190$ 303 196
E4 (Medium Non-Residential)160,000 24,795$ 26,875$ 34,211 21,472
500,000 77,477$ 83,977$ 86,456 66,937
E7 (Large Non-Residential)2,000,000 273,431$ 299,431$ 333,240 267,523
Winter
Summer
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Preliminary Discussion of Utility Rate Forecast
Electric Rates
Costs for electric supply purchases are projected to increase sharply during FY 2022 and FY
2023 as persistent drought conditions have reduced the amount of less expensive hydroelectric
power available to Palo Alto, resulting in a need for more costly market purchases. Increases in
statewide transmission costs are also occurring as access is expanded to new renewable
resources.
Capital spending and distribution system maintenance spending is also projected to increase
over the next few years. Several critical infrastructure projects are anticipated within the next
five years, including improvements to the overhead lines in and around Foothills park (EL-
21001), replacement of aging utility poles throughout the City (EL-19004), and substation and
general system improvements. Staffing shortages have prevented the electric utility from
performing the scheduled levels of capital improvement and distribution system work, so
contractors are performing these functions until full staffing can be reached. As such,
operational and capital costs are projected to increase substantially over the fo recast horizon
until the utility can achieve its targeted staffing levels and capital and maintenance spending
levels.
Electric loads have decreased approximately 10 percent as a result of t he COVID pandemic,
with most of the decrease occurring in the commercial customer sector. Staff has incorporated
this into the load forecast as well as the costs of possible customer bill defaults, which have
increased since the pandemic began. FY 2021 ending reserve levels for the Electric fund were
lower than expected, and rate increases are required to keep reserves within minimum
guideline levels.
Although the 2021-2022 water year is off to a very strong start (with the large volumes of rain
and snow that California received in October and December 2021, cumulative precipitation
totals in Northern and Central California are about 40% above average for this time of year, as
of mid-January 2022), a lot more precipitation is needed to recover from the past several years
of drought. Reservoir levels remain somewhat low – across Northern and Central California,
most reservoirs are now about 30-40% full, which is about 50-75% of their average level for this
point in time.
As a result, Palo Alto’s hydroelectric projections for FY 2022 remain fairly low. Combined, these
resources are only projected to produce around 310 GWh this fiscal year, which is about 38% of
the City’s total load and about 35% below the long-term average level of hydro output. If
precipitation levels had been normal over the past several years, instead of incredibly dry, the
strong start to this water year would likely have boosted the City’s FY 2022 hydro projections to
well over 500 GWh. This lost output – the direct result of several dry years depleting reservoirs
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and drying up groundwater supplies – will result in a supply cost impact of $8-$10 million for
the City in FY 2022.
Staff is proposing broadening the E-HRA activation criteria and rate implementation during the
final quarter of FY 2022 and continuing while poor hydro conditions and low Hydro Stabilization
Reserve levels persist.
The E-HRA and the Hydro Stabilization Reserves are intended to be used to stabilize electric
rates when hydrological conditions are poor, as is currently the case, or exceptionally good. If
the E-HRA surcharge is activated, E-HRA revenues will be used to fund the costs of providing
electric service, resulting in annual electric rate increases of 5% during the forecast horizon. The
alternative to activating the E-HRA surcharge is an 8% electric rate increase in FY 2023, a 7%
increase in FY 2024 and a 6% increase in FY 2025, with 5% increases thereafter. Even in the
alternative case, based on current hydro conditions, it is likely the E-HRA rate would need to be
activated in FY 2023 anyway. Both scenarios fully draw down the Hydro Stabilization Reserve to
help maintain Operations reserve health.
Activation of the E-HRA rate creates either a temporary 4% to 5% rate increase (at the
$0.0065/kWh level) or an 8% to 9% increase (at the $0.013/kWh level). Based on projected
current hydro conditions of 310 GWh/year, activation of the rate at the $0.013/kWh rate is
indicated. If this rate were activated as of April 1, 2022, the Electric fund would gain additional
revenues of approximately $2.5 million in FY 2022 to help mitigate escalating supply purchase
costs. If the E-HRA rate were to remain active in FY 2023, additional short -term revenues are
estimated at $5.25 million or $10.25 million, depending on if the low or high surcharge were
warranted. These revenues are considered short-term in that they are added on top of the
regular customer rates and can be discontinued quickly based on hydro conditions and
projected Hydro Stabilization reserve balances.
Gas Rates
About 40% of gas fund expenses are for supply and about 60% are for distribution and capital.
Most of the supply costs are pass-through charges on customers’ bills that change monthly
according to market conditions.
Staff is currently projecting a preliminary rate increase of 4%. The long-term gas rate increases
shown in Table 1 will fund gas distribution system and capital improvements. Between FY 2018
and FY 2020 rates were steady because capital spending was low . Now that regularly scheduled
main replacement has resumed with a large main replacement project planned for every other
year, rate increases are necessary. In addition, construction costs have risen significantly.
Gas consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic has been around 10% lower compared to the
period before the pandemic. This decrease in load is accounted for in the load forecast.
Water Rates
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In FY 2021, revenues were higher than expected in the FY 2022 financial plan due to increased
water sales during months impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, capital project
expenses were lower than forecasted due to ongoing work on a reservoir replacement that is
expected to be completed in FY 2022 instead of FY 2021. The increased revenue together with
delays in capital spending resulted in a larger than expected ending reserve in FY 2021, which is
expected to decrease as the reservoir replacement and scheduled water main replacement are
completed in FY 2022 and additional reservoir seismic upgrades are scheduled in FY 2023.
Staff projects that a 4% rate increase is needed in FY 2023 , due to the following conditions:
1) Drought conditions are ongoing; San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), the
City’s water supplier, declared a drought emergency on November 23, 2021. SFPUC’s
emergency declaration includes a 10% voluntary water use reduction system-wide for the
Regional Water System from the FY 2019-2020 baseline demand. Since July 2021, Palo Alto
customers have been conserving water in line with this request and staff expects that
customers will continue to meet the voluntary water conservation levels. The rate forecast
includes reduced water sales through July 2023.
2) SFPUC’s latest available estimate forecasts a 5.4% increase in wholesale water rates. SFPUC
also stated in November 2021 that the wholesale rate increase in July of 2022 would be
higher than previously projected to achieve revenue stability; SFPUC is expected to issue a
revised rate estimate in February 2022. SFPUC’s rate increase will be passed through to
Palo Alto water utility customers.
The alternate scenario provided assumes drought conditions continue and worsen, requiring
20% mandatory cutbacks beginning July 2022. A 5% overall water rate increase will be needed
in FY 2023 under this alternate scenario.
Wastewater Collection Rates
Costs are projected to rise over the next several years due primarily to increasing treatment
costs related to capital improvements costs and associated debt service at the Regional Water
Quality Control Plant (RWQCP). Collection system CIP work is also increasing, but at a lower
rate. Operations and maintenance costs for both Treatment and Collections are expected to
increase between 2-4% annually for the duration of the forecast period.
Staff projects a 3% rate increase is needed in FY 2023 and 5% for the rest of the forecast period.
The RWQCP has planned a series of large increases in treatment costs during the next five years
to address aging infrastructure at the treatment plant and ongoing collection system
infrastructure replacement needs. To mitigate the rate impacts, in FY 2022 staff d ecreased the
size of each of the upcoming sanitary sewer replacement projects and deferred two upcoming
sewer replacement projects. This preliminary rate projection includes those same reductions
and deferrals.
Utilities Advisory Commission Review
The Utilities Advisory Commission (UAC) reviewed the preliminary financial forecasts at its
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December 1, 2021 meeting. No recommendation was requested at that meeting, but staff
sought input from Commissioners regarding the preliminary rate adjustment
recommendations. Commissioners asked about planning for a worsening drought scenario
beyond FY 2024 for the electric and water utilities. For the electric utility, there was a request
to see a more level rate increase path, which has been incorporated into the Financ e
presentation and this report. For the water utility, a severe or prolonged drought scenario may
require the use of drought surcharges. UAC members did not request staff revise any of the
rate changes listed in Table 1 and concurred with staff’s initial proposals.
An excerpt of the draft minutes from the UAC’s December 1, 2021 meeting is located at the
UAC website.1 Since the UAC meeting, staff updated the rate estimates with the latest available
estimates for CIP and operating costs. For the water util ity, the changes increased the
preliminary rate estimate for FY 2023 from 3% to 4% primarily to cover increased capital costs
including seismic reservoir upgrades, and generators for emergencies.
The Finance Committee reviewed the preliminary financial fo recasts as well as staff’s proposal
to activate the Hydro Rate Adjuster. They agreed with staff’s recommendation, and wanted to
see additional info regarding the bill impacts of the adjuster in Table 1 above, as well as how
Palo Alto’s electric rates compared to PG&E. These have been included in the report above.
The Finance Committee voted unanimously to recommend the HRA rate be activated in March
2022, and this item will be placed on the City Council’s consent calendar in late February.
Next Steps
The UAC is scheduled to review the long-term Financial Plans and proposed rate adjustments
for the Wastewater Collection, Electric, Water, and Gas utilities in March.
The Finance Committee is tentatively scheduled to review the long-term Financial Plans and
proposed rate adjustments in April/May. Once the Finance Committee has provided its
recommendation, notification of any recommended Water and Wastewater Collection rate
adjustments will be sent to customers, giving them the opportunity to protest the proposed
changes as required by Article XIIID of the State Constitution (added by Proposition 218). The
Financial Plans and proposed new rate schedules will be considered by Council with the FY 202 3
budget, at which time the public hearing required by Article XIIID of the State Constitution will
be held.
Stakeholder Engagement
Staff met with the Utilities Advisory Commission on December 1, 2021 and the Finance
Committee on February 1, 2022. Notices of proposed rate changes will be distributed
throughout the City as recommendations are finalized.
1 https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Utilities/Utilities-Advisory-Commission/Current-UAC-Agendas-
Minutes
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Resource Impact
Based on the preliminary rate increases as shown in table 1, the estimated revenue impacts
would be an increase of $7.9 million in the Electric Fund, $2.8 million in the Water Fund, $1.5
million in the Gas Fund and $1.0 million in the Wastewater Collection Fund. The City is a utility
customer so rate increases will also result in City expense increases. Resource impacts to City
departments and funds of the recommended rate adjustments carried in the FY 2023 proposed
budget will be reflected in the annual budget process.
Environmental Review
The City Council’s review of the preliminary financial projections and activation of the Hydro
Rate Adjuster does not meet the definition of a project, pursuant to Section 21065 of the
California Environmental Quality Act, thus no environmental review is required.
Attachments:
• Attachment8.a: Attachment A: Resolution Amending the Electric Hydro Rate
Adjuster (E-HRA)
• Attachment8.b: Attachment B: Electric Hydro Rate Adjuster
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Reference Document: Utility Rate Schedule E-HRA
Resolution No._____
Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Amending Electric
Rate Schedule E-HRA (Electric Hydro Rate Adjuster) and Activating
the E-HRA rate at the $0.013/kWh Level, Effective April 1, 2022
R E C I T A L S
A. Hydroelectric Rate Adjustment mechanisms are designed to modify customer
rates, either up or down, such that overall sales revenue is aligned with supply costs for the
electric utility.
B. Hydroelectric Rate Adjustment mechanisms are intended to enable the electric
utility to maintain a reasonably stable level of financial reserves, potentially at a lower average
level.
C. As hydroelectric conditions may change dramatically early in a fiscal year,
potentially creating higher supply costs and the need for earlier Hydroelectric Stabilization
Reserve withdrawals, or lower supply costs and the potential to apply a discount to customer
rates, implementation of the Hydroelectric Rate Adjustment may be indicated earlier than the
start of the following fiscal year.
D. Palo Alto’s hydroelectric projections for FY 2022 indicate that these resources are
projected to produce around 310 GWh this fiscal year, which is about 38% of the City’s total load
and about 35% below the long-term average level of hydro output. This lost output – the direct
result of several dry years depleting reservoirs and drying up groundwater supplies – will result
in a supply cost impact of $8-$10 million for the City in FY 2022. Staff’s financial projections,
including drought impacts, indicate activation of the E-HRA surcharge this spring will mitigate
higher supply costs.
E. The Hydro Stabilization Reserve is projected to be drawn below $11 million, or
25% of maximum guideline levels, by the end of FY 2022, to help mitigate against these higher
costs.
F. Thus, staff recommends E-HRA surcharge activation at the $0.013/kWh level by
April 1, 2022 as a financially responsible means to manage costs and keep long-term electric rate
increases lower.
G. Staff also recommends the Council broaden the E-HRA activation criteria along
with a April 1 rate implementation to manage supply costs and minimize swings in customer
rates in a more timely manner.
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Reference Document: Utility Rate Schedule E-HRA
H. If the E-HRA surcharge is activated, E-HRA revenues will be used to fund the
costs of providing electric service, resulting in projected annual electric rate increases of 5%
during the forecast horizon. The alternative to activating the E-HRA surcharge is a projected 8%
electric rate increase in FY 2023, a 7% increase in FY 2024 and a 6% increase in FY 2025, with 5%
increases thereafter.
I. Pursuant to Chapter 12.20.010 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code, the Council of
the City of Palo Alto may by resolution adopt rules and regulations governing utility services,
fees and charges.
The Council of the City of Palo Alto hereby RESOLVES as follows:
SECTION 1. Pursuant to Section 12.20.010 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code, Utility
Rate Schedule E-HRA (Electric Hydro Rate Adjuster) is added as attached and incorporated.
Utility Rate Schedule E-HRA, as amended, shall become effective April 1, 2022.
SECTION 2. Based on staff’s projection that the Hydro Stabilization Reserve will fall
below $11 million by the end of this fiscal year, and that annual hydroelectric generation will be
310 Gwh this fiscal year, the Council approves activation of the Hydro Rate Adjuster at the
$0.013/kWh level, effective April 1, 2022.
SECTION 3. The Council directs staff to continue to monitor hydrological generation
levels and Hydro Stabilization Reserve levels, and to make a recommendation, annually, or as
conditions warrant, to amend or terminate activation of the E-HRA rate.
SECTION 4. The Council finds that the revenue derived from the adoption of this
resolution shall be used only for the purpose set forth in Article VII, Section 2, of the Charter of
the City of Palo Alto.
SECTION 5. The Council finds that the fees and charges adopted by this resolution are
charges imposed for a specific government service or product provided directly to the payor
that are not provided to those not charged, and do not exceed the reasonable costs to the City
of providing the service or product.
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SECTION 6. The Council finds that the adoption of this resolution changing electric
rates to meet operating expenses and meet financial reserve needs is not subject to the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to California Public Resources Code Sec.
21080(b)(8) and Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations Sec. 15273(a). After reviewing
the staff report and all attachments presented to Council, the Council incorporates these
documents herein and finds that sufficient evidence has been presented setting forth with
specificity the basis for this claim of CEQA exemption.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS:
ATTEST:
___________________________ ___________________________
City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED:
___________________________ ___________________________
Assistant City Attorney City Manager
___________________________
Director of Utilities
___________________________
Director of Administrative Services
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ELECTRIC HYDRO RATE ADJUSTER
UTILITY RATE SCHEDULE E-HRA
CITY OF PALO ALTO UTILITIES
Issued by the City Council
Supersedes Sheet No EHRA-1 Sheet No E-HRA-1
dated 7-1-2021 Effective --1-2022
A. APPLICABILITY:
This schedule applies to all Customers receiving Electric Service from the City of Palo Alto
Utilities.
B. TERRITORY:
This schedule applies everywhere the City of Palo Alto provides Electric Service.
C. RATES:
Per kWh
Hydro Rate Adjustment: .......................................................................................($0.018) - $0.013
D. SPECIAL NOTES:
1. Hydro Rate Adjustment
a. The Hydro Rate Adjustment is a surcharge or discount applied to Electric rates based
on the strength of the City’s hydrological generation portfolio, applied to manage
volatility in energy costs and generation and the impact of that volatility on Customer
rates.
b. The Hydro Rate Adjustment is determined based on the level of funding in the Hydro
Stabilization Reserve, including transfers or withdrawals projected to be made in the
current fiscal year according to the City’s Electric Utility Reserve Management
Practices, and on the forecasted amount of annual generation the City of Palo Alto
Utilities will receive from its hydroelectric generation resources through the end of the
current fiscal year.
2. Calculation of Hydro Rate Adjustment
a) Staff calculates the Hydro Rate Adjustment surcharge or discount annually in May, or
whenever hydrologic conditions are poor and Hydro Stabilization Reserves are
projected to fall below the 25% level within the current fiscal year.
b) The Hydro Rate Adjustment will be applied to all Customers’ Electric rate schedules
upon Council approval, and re-evaluated annually.
c) The Hydro Rate Adjustment surcharge or discount will fall within the
minimum/maximum range set forth in Section C, and will be applied as follows:
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UTILITY RATE SCHEDULE E-HRA
CITY OF PALO ALTO UTILITIES
Issued by the City Council
Supersedes Sheet No EHRA-2 Sheet No E-HRA-2
dated 7-1-2021 Effective --1-2022
Hydro Rate Adjustment ($/kWh)
Hydro
Stabilization
Reserve Level
Projected Hydro Generation vs. Average Hydro Generation
(GWh/year)
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Above
Maximum
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City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Title: Approval of Surveillance Use Policy and Contract for E -Citation
Devices/Services with Turbo Data Systems, Not -to-Exceed $218,545 for Five
Years
From: City Manager
Lead Department: Police
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council:
1. Approve the surveillance use policy for electronic citation devices (attached), as
required by the City’s Surveillance and Privacy Protection Ordinance (PAMC 2.30.620 et
seq.); and
2. Approve and authorize the City Manager to execute the attached five-year contract with
Turbo Data Systems, Inc., not to exceed $218,545, for the acquisition of handheld
electronic citation devices with optical character recognition technology, and product
support, for the purposes of traffic violation enforcement by police officers.
Background
In 2018, the City Council passed Ordinance 5450 (known as the Surveillance and Privacy
Protection Ordinance), which requires Council approval for contracts involving surveillance
technology. Council must approve contracts of any time and amount that include acquisition of
surveillance technology. See PAMC 2.30.630. In addition, staff must provide a surveillance
evaluation of the technology (below), and Council must approve a surveillance use policy in
order to use the technology.
PAMC 2.30.680(c) states: “Surveillance Technology” means any device or system primarily
designed and actually used or intended to be used to collect and retain audio, electronic, visual,
location, or similar information constituting personally identifiable information as sociated with
any specific individual or group of specific individuals, for the purpose of tracking, monitoring or
analysis associated with that individual or group of individuals. Examples of surveillance
technology include, but are not limited to, drones with cameras or monitoring capabilities,
automated license plate readers, closed-circuit cameras/televisions, cell-site simulators,
biometrics-identification technology, and facial recognition technology.
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As discussed below, the surveillance technology u nder review is a camera on the device that
captures images when an operator initiates it. The images are processed through optical
character recognition (OCR) analysis to call up the vehicle make and model information.
Related issues are two other technologies: a magnetic card reader for driver’s license
information auto-population and a fingerprint sensor for capturing photographs of fingerprints
in the field. It is staff’s opinion that the magnetic reader and fingerprint sensor do not meet the
intent of the municipal code, however, they are included here for consideration.
Council approved of the use of State of California Citizens' Option for Public Safety (COPS)
program funding in CMRs 5425 (2015) and 9852 (2019). A sole source exemption was approved
to purchase the devices and enter into a contract with Turbo Data Systems (See Attachment A).
Discussion
The handheld E-Cite device for issuing traffic violation citations by sworn personnel will allow
officers to issue the citations using streamlined technology that offers efficient and accurate
data entry. E-Cites eliminate two common issues with paper citations: legible writing and
omitted information. Unrelated to the camera technology (an d possibility of surveillance), the
E-cite system has added features that facilitate electronic submission of citations, currently
hand-typed manually by Records Division personnel, into the Department’s Records
Management System (RMS) and electronically to the county traffic court.
Images of license plates, and their associated alpha-numeric characters, can facilitate the recall
of vehicle information to populate specific fields in the citation record. This feature is a license
plate reader (LPR) function that is manually initiated (as opposed to Automated License Plate
Reader, or ALPR, technology, discussed in CMR 11492 for parking enforcement in the
Residential Parking Program). The operator can either “point-and-click” to capture the license
plate characters or manually enter the characters into their hand-held device. This report
addresses the former. Further, the device allows for the capture and recall of driver’s license
related information from the magnetic strip on the back of a state -issued driver’s license. This
information populates the driver’s information in the citation record – also available for manual
entry. Finally, the fingerprint sensor is an image scanner to be used in cases when violators do
not have government issued identification at the ready. The fingerprint scanner does not
connect to any government identification database. The data is stored in the Turbo Data
Systems Software cloud server, accessible only by authorized law enforcement personnel.
As device capture technology presents the potential to capture personal identifying
information, an evaluation of this technology is provided below.
Surveillance Evaluation
Although this technology does not independently monitor any public activity, due to the
technology using image-detection features, the department will explain the technological
features of the equipment for Council consideration.
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The E-cite vendor and product under consideration for engagement is Turbo Data nFORCER.
The product does not continually scan, monitor, or send information to any source, rather, the
officer only powers on and uses the unit after witnessing a vehicle code violation and contacts
the violator. Photographs taken with the device are stored as an image along with the citation
form and signature image.
As required by the Surveillance and Privacy Protection ordinance, the following consideration s
are explained:
1. A description of the surveillance technology, including how it works and what information it
captures:
The Department will be using the product for issuing traffic violations by sworn officers. The
product is an electronic citation device with printer, allowing for rapid citation issuance,
decreased errors due to the electronic field platform, and has the additional features of
photograph of the vehicle and license plate to add to the comprehensive record of the law
enforcement contact. Once the rear vehicle image is captured, the software will populate the
vehicle information (state of issue, license plate number, make, model and possibly color) using
OCR. OCR is technology to recognize text inside images, such as letter characters within
photographs. This is a feature of the software and is not something that all officers may use. It
is at the officer’s discretion whether they take a photo of the license plate to allow for the
software to populate those fields or whether they opt to manually enter the data on the device,
achieving the same result – populated fields.
The LPR feature used by the device is not the same as ALPR. An ALPR system takes active scans
of every license plate that passes the camera (fixed or mobile). That image is then added to the
system’s database for searching. Any scanned license plate that has been marked in the system
as being stolen or flagged would trigger an alert in the software for the officer to view. The
“LPR” feature of the device only relates to the software involving image recognition to auto-
field population.
The device contains a magnetic stripe to swipe a driver’s license or for the officer to use the
camera to read the bar code of a driver’s license to auto populate the registered owner/driver
information on the citation. It is optional for the officer to use this method of reading licensee
information, they may use the camera to “scan” the bar code on the back of the driver’s
license, if present, or they may enter the data manually.
The device has a fingerprint sensor available on it to capture a detailed image of the driver’s
fingerprint that attaches to the digital record. This feature will only be used, according the
California law, as the positive identification of the person being issued the citation when that
person does not possess a copy of their valid driver’s license or have another form of valid
government-issued identification. The fingerprint scanner does not connect to any government
identification database.
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The driver will use the device stylus to sign the citation on the screen of the unit. The signature
image for all citations is captured as a photo. The image is then transferred to the printed
citation in the signature field. The officer will complete the citation process printing out the
citation on the attached printer and providing the driver with a copy of the citation.
Data Flow and Transmission Specifics
After completion of the citation with a positive internet connection, the device will transfer th e
citation information electronically to a secured department account on the Turbo Data Systems
cloud server through the vendor software. At a designated daily time, the software program
will transfer a copy of the citation record to the department’s Reco rds Management System
(RMS), for permanent storage as a police record. Weekly, the Police Department Court Liaison
Officer will initiate the electronic transfer of the citation records to the Santa Clara County
Traffic Court. The court will process and retain the citation record according to the necessary
legal process and the Court’s retention schedule, as is currently done with paper traffic
citations. Copies of the citation records will reside on the Turbo Data Systems cloud server for
2 years, per the City’s retention schedule, then be purged. The citation data stored in the
department RMS is permanent storage, subject to change per state law and the City Records
Retention Policy. Citation data held on the Turbo Data Systems cloud server is accessib le only
to designated department personnel as needed for citation viewing and processing procedures.
Turbo Data Systems does not release the citation data to outside entities other than described
in the contract (Court and department RMS). Citation data in the department RMS is accessible
only by designated department personnel and will only be released to the public according to
the California Public Records Act under its legal allowances and restrictions. Please refer to the
Turbo Data Systems drafted contract for further specific details.
2. Information on the proposed purpose, use and benefits of the surveillance technology:
Currently, officers issue triplicate form paper citations for violations. The general citation
issuing process will remain the same, which includes recording traffic stop information
including driver’s license information, vehicle registration information, insurance information,
date/time of offense, driving conditions, school or construction zones status and finally, the
violations. The paper citations are handwritten, require the handwriting to be deciphered by
records staff, and manually entered into the department’s existing RMS. The benefit of the
handheld device is that it allows the officers to take a picture of the infraction in order to have a
record of it. For instance, the Traffic officer will issue citations to vehicles parked in no parking
zones and will take a picture of the vehicle, similar to what Department parking enforcement
officers do. These images are cleared off of the device once the citation is uploaded to the
vendor database and are attached as part of the citation record. Any photos captured are not
sent to the courts or the violator. They are for reference only should the officer need to report
to traffic court in the event the citation is being challenged. The department’s new RMS
system, Sun Ridge RIMS, has an interface to automatically upload the e -citations into the
system, eliminating the staff time for manual data entry.
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The Turbo Data software allows for the electronic download of the citations and electronic
transfer of those citations to the County Court System, thus significantly improving the
timeliness of citation processing compared to the Department’s current fully manual process.
This will allow the community member timely access to the citation data for expedited
resolution through the court system, as needed. An additional benefit of this solution is the
ability to update court information seamlessly through software updates. Durin g the shelter-in-
place as a result of the pandemic, County court locations changed multiple times, causing the
Department to purchase and apply adhesive court location change addresses to every citation
issued, along with handwritten citation correction forms. This product eliminates the need to
order updated citation books when court information changes.
3. The location where the surveillance technology may be used:
This technology will be used by sworn officers enforcing vehicle codes on public roadways in
Palo Alto.
4. Present federal, state, and local laws and regulations applicable to the Surveillance
Technology and the information it captures; the potential impacts on civil liberties and privacy;
and proposals to mitigate and manage any impacts:
The Turbo Data nForcer product is the electronic version of a paper citation for vehicle code
enforcement. All data associated with the traffic violation stop will be recorded and stored in
accordance with current law, policy or practice mandated by city o r state that governs traffic
violation citations. Images of license plates, along with any image captured in the field, will be
captured and stored in accordance with the City of Palo Alto Records Retention Policy , which is
a minimum of two years.
Turbo Data has completed the necessary Vendor Information Security Assessment (VISA) forms
and security mandates required by the City’s IT Department and has preliminary approval to
operate the software.
5. The costs for the surveillance technology, including acquisition, maintenance, personnel, and
other costs, and current or potential of funding:
$218,545.67 will purchase the equipment (to own) and fund the service and supplies for five
years. Please refer to the “Resource Impact” section below and Attachment A for Turbo Data
Systems Service Contract details.
Timeline
Upon approval, the Department will purchase and deploy the technology upon receipt.
Resource Impact
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The initial equipment will be purchased using previously-allocated funds in the special revenue
fund – Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund (COPS)– Fund 248. The Department plans
on using this funding for the initial purchase of the technology to include thirteen devices,
printers, and software, extended warranty, the first year licens ing for an initial program startup
total of $78,826.
The subsequent years 2-5 will be funded through the IT Department’s normal technology
maintenance agreement ($94,852 for years 2-5). The Police Department operating budget will
absorb the annual operating costs associated with the devices including the purchase of special
paper for the printer unit; approximately $3,200 per year. This cost can be offset by the
reduction in the amount of printed citation books purchased annually by the Department. In
2020, the Department spent $3,100 on printed paper citation books.
The program does require a $2 per citation processing fee, charged by the vendor, which is an
estimated $17,000 fee the Police Department must cover annually (based on 2018 citation
data). The processing fees will be charged to the Department’s operating budget.
Despite the initial and ongoing costs, the Department recommends pursuing this technology to
offset personnel reductions. Currently, Records staff allocate approximately 1,400 ho urs per
year manually entering data (10 minutes per citation multiplied by 8,500 citations) and staff
currently physically transports the citations to the Traffic Court. With the integration of this
electronic solution with the RMS and the Court system, staff time will be reduced from 27 hours
per week to approximately an hour per week. As a result of the elimination of all hourly
Records Division personnel in FY 2020/2021, the Records Division has struggled to meet
paperwork processing deadlines within t he regular workday. This solution will free up staff time
to attend to other critical Records duties.
Policy Implications
If approved, the use of this technology will be subject to the attached surveillance policy.
Stakeholder Engagement
No stakeholder engagement was completed for the consideration and selection of the citation
issuing system.
Environmental Review
Approval of this technology is exempt from the requirements of California Environmental
Protection Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3).
Attachments:
• Attachment9.a: Attachment A: S22177725 Turbo Data Systems
• Attachment9.b: Attachment B: Surveillance Use Policy for E Citations
• Attachment9.c: Attachment C: ticketPRO_nFORCER_eBrochure
• Attachment9.d: Attachment D: City of Palo Alto Police Records Retention Schedule
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CITY OF PALO ALTO CONTRACT NO. S22177725
AGREEMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
BETWEEN THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AND TURBO DATA SYSTEMS, INC.
This Agreement for Professional Services (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of the 7th day of
March, 2022 (the “Effective Date”), by and between the CITY OF PALO ALTO, a California
chartered municipal corporation (“CITY”), and TURBO DATA SYSTEMS, INC., a California
corporation, located at 1551 N Tustin Avenue Suite 950, Santa Ana CA 92705 (“CONSULTANT”).
The following recitals are a substantive portion of this Agreement and are fully incorporated herein
by this reference:
RECITALS
A. CITY intends for CITY officers to electronically issue and process moving violations without
writing traffic citations (the “Project”) and desires to engage a consultant to implement a Traffic
Module and data collecting technology platform for electronic citation issuance and processing of
moving violations in connection with the Project (the “Services”, as detailed more fully in Exhibit
A).
B. CONSULTANT represents that it, its employees and subconsultants, if any, possess the
necessary professional expertise, qualifications, and capability, and all required licenses and/or
certifications to provide the Services.
C. CITY, in reliance on these representations, desires to engage CONSULTANT to provide the
Services as more fully described in Exhibit A, entitled “SCOPE OF SERVICES”.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the recitals, covenants, terms, and conditions, in this
Agreement, the parties agree as follows:
SECTION 1. SCOPE OF SERVICES. CONSULTANT shall perform the Services described in
Exhibit A in accordance with the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement. The
performance of all Services shall be to the reasonable satisfaction of CITY.
SECTION 2. TERM.
The term of this Agreement shall be from the date of its full execution through March 6, 2027 unless
terminated earlier pursuant to Section 19 (Termination) of this Agreement.
SECTION 3. SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCE. Time is of the essence in the performance of
Services under this Agreement. CONSULTANT shall complete the Services within the term of this
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Agreement and in accordance with the schedule set forth in Exhibit B, entitled “SCHEDULE OF
PERFORMANCE”. Any Services for which times for performance are not specified in this
Agreement shall be commenced and completed by CONSULTANT in a reasonably prompt and
timely manner based upon the circumstances and direction communicated to the CONSULTANT.
CITY’s agreement to extend the term or the schedule for performance shall not preclude recovery
of damages for delay if the extension is required due to the fault of CONSULTANT.
SECTION 4. NOT TO EXCEED COMPENSATION. The compensation to be paid to
CONSULTANT for performance of the Services shall be based on the compensation structure
detailed in Exhibit C, entitled “COMPENSATION,” including any reimbursable expenses specified
therein, and the maximum total compensation shall not exceed One Hundred Ninety Eight
Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Seven Dollars and Eighty Eight Cents ($198,677.88). The
hourly schedule of rates, if applicable, is set out in Exhibit C-1, entitled “SCHEDULE OF RATES.”
Any work performed or expenses incurred for which payment would result in a total exceeding the
maximum compensation set forth in this Section 4 shall be at no cost to the CITY.
Optional Additional Services Provision (This provision applies only if checked and a not-
to-exceed compensation amount for Additional Services is allocated below under this
Section 4.)
In addition to the not-to-exceed compensation specified above, CITY has set aside the not-
to-exceed compensation amount of Nineteen Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty Seven
Dollars and Seventy Nine Cents Dollars ($19,867.79) for the performance of Additional
Services (as defined below). The total compensation for performance of the Services,
Additional Services and any reimbursable expenses specified in Exhibit C, shall not exceed
Two Hundred Eighteen Thousand Five Hundred Forty Five Dollars and Sixty Seven
Cents ($218,545.67), as detailed in Exhibit C.
“Additional Services” means any work that is determined by CITY to be necessary for the
proper completion of the Project, but which is not included within the Scope of Services
described at Exhibit A. CITY may elect to, but is not required to, authorize Additional
Services up to the maximum amount of compensation set forth for Additional Services in
this Section 4. CONSULTANT shall provide Additional Services only by advanced, written
authorization from CITY as detailed in this Section. Additional Services, if any, shall be
authorized by CITY with a Task Order assigned and authorized by CITY’s Project Manager,
as identified in Section 13 (Project Management). Each Task Order shall be in substantially
the same form as Exhibit A-1, entitled “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TASK ORDER”.
Each Task Order shall contain a specific scope of services, schedule of performance and
maximum compensation amount, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
Compensation for Additional Services shall be specified by CITY in the Task Order, based
on whichever is lowest: the compensation structure set forth in Exhibit C, the hourly rates
set forth in Exhibit C-1, or a negotiated lump sum.
To accept a Task Order, CONSULTANT shall sign the Task Order and return it to CITY’s
Project Manager within the time specified by the Project Manager, and upon authorization
by CITY (defined as counter-signature by the CITY Project Manager), the fully executed
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Task Order shall become part of this Agreement. The cumulative total compensation to
CONSULTANT for all Task Orders authorized under this Agreement shall not exceed the
amount of compensation set forth for Additional Services in this Section 4. CONSULTANT
shall only be compensated for Additional Services performed under an authorized Task
Order and only up to the maximum amount of compensation set forth for Additional Services
in this Section 4. Performance of and payment for any Additional Services are subject to all
requirements and restrictions in this Agreement.
SECTION 5. INVOICES. In order to request payment, CONSULTANT shall submit monthly
invoices to the CITY describing the Services performed and the applicable charges (including, if
applicable, an identification of personnel who performed the Services, hours worked, hourly rates,
and reimbursable expenses), based upon Exhibit C or, as applicable, CONSULTANT’s schedule of
rates set forth in Exhibit C-1. If applicable, the invoice shall also describe the percentage of
completion of each task. The information in CONSULTANT’s invoices shall be subject to
verification by CITY. CONSULTANT shall send all invoices to CITY’s Project Manager at the
address specified in Section 13 (Project Management) below. CITY will generally process and pay
invoices within thirty (30) days of receipt of an acceptable invoice.
SECTION 6. QUALIFICATIONS/STANDARD OF CARE. All Services shall be performed by
CONSULTANT or under CONSULTANT’s supervision. CONSULTANT represents that it, its
employees and subcontractors, if any, possess the professional and technical personnel necessary to
perform the Services required by this Agreement and that the personnel have sufficient skill and
experience to perform the Services assigned to them. CONSULTANT represents that it, its
employees and subcontractors, if any, have and shall maintain during the term of this Agreement all
licenses, permits, qualifications, insurance and approvals of whatever nature that are legally required
to perform the Services. All Services to be furnished by CONSULTANT under this Agreement shall
meet the professional standard and quality that prevail among professionals in the same discipline
and of similar knowledge and skill engaged in related work throughout California under the same or
similar circumstances.
SECTION 7. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. CONSULTANT shall keep itself informed of and
in compliance with all federal, state and local laws, ordinances, regulations, and orders that may
affect in any manner the Project or the performance of the Services or those engaged to perform
Services under this Agreement, as amended from time to time. CONSULTANT shall procure all
permits and licenses, pay all charges and fees, and give all notices required by law in the performance
of the Services.
SECTION 8. ERRORS/OMISSIONS. CONSULTANT is solely responsible for costs, including,
but not limited to, increases in the cost of Services, arising from or caused by CONSULTANT’s
errors and omissions, including, but not limited to, the costs of corrections such errors and omissions,
any change order markup costs, or costs arising from delay caused by the errors and omissions or
unreasonable delay in correcting the errors and omissions.
SECTION 9. COST ESTIMATES. If this Agreement pertains to the design of a public works
project, CONSULTANT shall submit estimates of probable construction costs at each phase of
design submittal. If the total estimated construction cost at any submittal exceeds the CITY’s stated
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construction budget by ten percent (10%) or more, CONSULTANT shall make recommendations to
CITY for aligning the Project design with the budget, incorporate CITY approved recommendations,
and revise the design to meet the Project budget, at no additional cost to CITY.
SECTION 10. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR. CONSULTANT acknowledges and agrees
that CONSULTANT and any agent or employee of CONSULTANT will act as and shall be deemed
at all times to be an independent contractor and shall be wholly responsible for the manner in which
CONSULTANT performs the Services requested by CITY under this Agreement. CONSULTANT
and any agent or employee of CONSULTANT will not have employee status with CITY, nor be
entitled to participate in any plans, arrangements, or distributions by CITY pertaining to or in
connection with any retirement, health or other benefits that CITY may offer its employees.
CONSULTANT will be responsible for all obligations and payments, whether imposed by federal,
state or local law, including, but not limited to, FICA, income tax withholdings, workers’
compensation, unemployment compensation, insurance, and other similar responsibilities related to
CONSULTANT’s performance of the Services, or any agent or employee of CONSULTANT
providing same. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as creating an employment or agency
relationship between CITY and CONSULTANT or any agent or employee of CONSULTANT. Any
terms in this Agreement referring to direction from CITY shall be construed as providing for
direction as to policy and the result of CONSULTANT’s provision of the Services only, and not as
to the means by which such a result is obtained.
SECTION 11. ASSIGNMENT. The parties agree that the expertise and experience of
CONSULTANT are material considerations for this Agreement. CONSULTANT shall not assign
or transfer any interest in this Agreement nor the performance of any of CONSULTANT’s
obligations hereunder without the prior written approval of the City Manager. Any purported
assignment made without the prior written approval of the City Manager will be void and without
effect. Subject to the foregoing, the covenants, terms, conditions and provisions of this Agreement
will apply to, and will bind, the heirs, successors, executors, administrators and assignees of the
parties.
SECTION 12. SUBCONTRACTING.
Option A: No Subcontractor: CONSULTANT shall not subcontract any portion of the
Services to be performed under this Agreement without the prior written authorization of the City
Manager or designee. In the event CONSULTANT does subcontract any portion of the work to be
performed under this Agreement, CONSULTANT shall be fully responsible for all acts and
omissions of subcontractors.
Option B: Subcontracts Authorized: Notwithstanding Section 11 (Assignment) above, CITY
agrees that subcontractors may be used to complete the Services. The subcontractors authorized by
CITY to perform work on this Project are: None
CONSULTANT shall be responsible for directing the work of any subcontractors and for any
compensation due to subcontractors. CITY assumes no responsibility whatsoever concerning
compensation of subcontractors. CONSULTANT shall be fully responsible to CITY for all acts and
omissions of subcontractors. CONSULTANT shall change or add subcontractors only with the prior
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written approval of the City Manager or designee.
SECTION 13. PROJECT MANAGEMENT. CONSULTANT will assign Elie M Sleiman,
Email: elie@turbodata.com, Telephone: (714) 368-4888 as the CONSULTANT’s Project Manager
to have supervisory responsibility for the performance, progress, and execution of the Services and
represent CONSULTANT during the day-to-day performance of the Services. If circumstances
cause the substitution of the CONSULTANT’s Project Manager or any other of CONSULTANT’s
key personnel for any reason, the appointment of a substitute Project Manager and the assignment
of any key new or replacement personnel will be subject to the prior written approval of the CITY’s
Project Manager. CONSULTANT, at CITY’s request, shall promptly remove CONSULTANT
personnel who CITY finds do not perform the Services in an acceptable manner, are uncooperative,
or present a threat to the adequate or timely completion of the Services or a threat to the safety of
persons or property.
CITY’s Project Manager is Nicole Frazier, email: Nicole.Frazier@CityofPaloAlto.org Police
Department, Technology Service Division, 275 Forest Avenue, A-Level, Palo Alto, CA, zipcode:
94301, Telephone: (650) 329-2257. CITY’s Project Manager will be CONSULTANT’s point of
contact with respect to performance, progress and execution of the Services. CITY may designate
an alternate Project Manager from time to time.
SECTION 14. OWNERSHIP OF MATERIALS. All work product, including without limitation,
all writings, drawings, studies, sketches, photographs, plans, reports, specifications, computations,
models, recordings, data, documents, and other materials and copyright interests developed under
this Agreement, in any form or media, shall be and remain the exclusive property of CITY without
restriction or limitation upon their use. CONSULTANT agrees that all copyrights which arise from
creation of the work product pursuant to this Agreement are vested in CITY, and CONSULTANT
hereby waives and relinquishes all claims to copyright or other intellectual property rights in favor
of CITY. Neither CONSULTANT nor its subcontractors, if any, shall make any of such work
product available to any individual or organization without the prior written approval of the City
Manager or designee. CONSULTANT makes no representation of the suitability of the work
product for use in or application to circumstances not contemplated by the Scope of Services.
SECTION 15. AUDITS. CONSULTANT agrees to permit CITY and its authorized
representatives to audit, at any reasonable time during the term of this Agreement and for four (4)
years from the date of final payment, CONSULTANT’s records pertaining to matters covered by
this Agreement, including without limitation records demonstrating compliance with the
requirements of Section 10 (Independent Contractor). CONSULTANT further agrees to maintain
and retain accurate books and records in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
for at least four (4) years after the expiration or earlier termination of this Agreement or the
completion of any audit hereunder, whichever is later.
SECTION 16. INDEMNITY.
[Option A applies to the following design professionals pursuant to Civil Code Section
2782.8: architects; landscape architects; registered professional engineers and licensed
professional land surveyors.] 16.1. To the fullest extent permitted by law, CONSULTANT shall
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indemnify, defend and hold harmless CITY, its Council members, officers, employees and agents
(each an “Indemnified Party”) from and against any and all third party demands, claims, or liability
of any nature, including death or injury to any person, property damage or any other loss, including
all costs and expenses of whatever nature including attorney’s fees, experts fees, court costs and
disbursements (“Claims”) to the extent that such Claims arise out of, pertain to, or relate to the
negligence, recklessness, or willful misconduct of CONSULTANT, its officers, employees, agents
or contractors under this Agreement, regardless of whether or not it is caused in part by an
Indemnified Party. CITY will reimburse CONSULTANT for the proportionate percentage of
defense costs exceeding CONSULTANT’s proportionate percentage of fault as determined by the
final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
[Option B applies to any consultant who does not qualify as a design professional as defined
in Civil Code Section 2782.8.] 16.1. To the fullest extent permitted by law, CONSULTANT shall
indemnify, defend and hold harmless CITY, its Council members, officers, employees and agents
(each an “Indemnified Party”) from and against any and all demands, claims, or liability of any
nature, including death or injury to any person, property damage or any other loss, including all costs
and expenses of whatever nature including attorney’s fees, experts fees, court costs and
disbursements (“Claims”) resulting from, arising out of or in any manner related to performance or
nonperformance by CONSULTANT, its officers, employees, agents or contractors under this
Agreement, regardless of whether or not it is caused in part by an Indemnified Party.
16.2. Notwithstanding the above, nothing in this Section 16 shall be construed to
require CONSULTANT to indemnify an Indemnified Party from a Claim arising from the active
negligence or willful misconduct of an Indemnified Party that is not contributed to by any act of, or
by any omission to perform a duty imposed by law or agreement by, CONSULTANT, its officers,
employees, agents or contractors under this Agreement.
16.3. The acceptance of CONSULTANT’s Services and duties by CITY shall not
operate as a waiver of the right of indemnification. The provisions of this Section 16 shall survive
the expiration or early termination of this Agreement.
SECTION 17. WAIVERS. No waiver of a condition or nonperformance of an obligation under
this Agreement is effective unless it is in writing in accordance with Section 29.4 of this Agreement.
No delay or failure to require performance of any provision of this Agreement shall constitute a
waiver of that provision as to that or any other instance. Any waiver granted shall apply solely to the
specific instance expressly stated. No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy will preclude
any other or further exercise of any right or remedy.
SECTION 18. INSURANCE.
18.1. CONSULTANT, at its sole cost and expense, shall obtain and maintain, in
full force and effect during the term of this Agreement, the insurance coverage described in Exhibit
D, entitled “INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS”. CONSULTANT and its contractors, if any, shall
obtain a policy endorsement naming CITY as an additional insured under any general liability or
automobile policy or policies.
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18.2. All insurance coverage required hereunder shall be provided through carriers
with AM Best’s Key Rating Guide ratings of A-:VII or higher which are licensed or authorized to
transact insurance business in the State of California. Any and all contractors of CONSULTANT
retained to perform Services under this Agreement will obtain and maintain, in full force and effect
during the term of this Agreement, identical insurance coverage, naming CITY as an additional
insured under such policies as required above.
18.3. Certificates evidencing such insurance shall be filed with CITY concurrently
with the execution of this Agreement. The certificates will be subject to the approval of CITY’s Risk
Manager and will contain an endorsement stating that the insurance is primary coverage and will not
be canceled, or materially reduced in coverage or limits, by the insurer except after filing with the
Purchasing Manager thirty (30) days’ prior written notice of the cancellation or modification. If the
insurer cancels or modifies the insurance and provides less than thirty (30) days’ notice to
CONSULTANT, CONSULTANT shall provide the Purchasing Manager written notice of the
cancellation or modification within two (2) business days of the CONSULTANT’s receipt of such
notice. CONSULTANT shall be responsible for ensuring that current certificates evidencing the
insurance are provided to CITY’s Chief Procurement Officer during the entire term of this
Agreement.
18.4. The procuring of such required policy or policies of insurance will not be
construed to limit CONSULTANT’s liability hereunder nor to fulfill the indemnification provisions
of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the policy or policies of insurance, CONSULTANT will be
obligated for the full and total amount of any damage, injury, or loss caused by or directly arising as
a result of the Services performed under this Agreement, including such damage, injury, or loss
arising after the Agreement is terminated or the term has expired.
SECTION 19. TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF AGREEMENT OR SERVICES.
19.1. The City Manager may suspend the performance of the Services, in whole or
in part, or terminate this Agreement, with or without cause, by giving ten (10) days prior written
notice thereof to CONSULTANT. If CONSULTANT fails to perform any of its material obligations
under this Agreement, in addition to all other remedies provided under this Agreement or at law, the
City Manager may terminate this Agreement sooner upon written notice of termination. Upon receipt
of any notice of suspension or termination, CONSULTANT will discontinue its performance of the
Services on the effective date in the notice of suspension or termination.
19.2. In event of suspension or termination, CONSULTANT will deliver to the City
Manager on or before the effective date in the notice of suspension or termination, any and all work
product, as detailed in Section 14 (Ownership of Materials), whether or not completed, prepared by
CONSULTANT or its contractors, if any, in the performance of this Agreement. Such work product
is the property of CITY, as detailed in Section 14 (Ownership of Materials).
19.3. In event of suspension or termination, CONSULTANT will be paid for the
Services rendered and work products delivered to CITY in accordance with the Scope of Services
up to the effective date in the notice of suspension or termination; provided, however, if this
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Agreement is suspended or terminated on account of a default by CONSULTANT, CITY will be
obligated to compensate CONSULTANT only for that portion of CONSULTANT’s Services
provided in material conformity with this Agreement as such determination is made by the City
Manager acting in the reasonable exercise of his/her discretion. The following Sections will survive
any expiration or termination of this Agreement: 14, 15, 16, 17, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29
and 30.
19.4. No payment, partial payment, acceptance, or partial acceptance by CITY will
operate as a waiver on the part of CITY of any of its rights under this Agreement, unless made in
accordance with Section 17 (Waivers).
SECTION 20. NOTICES.
All notices hereunder will be given in writing and mailed, postage prepaid, by
certified mail, addressed as follows:
To CITY: Office of the City Clerk
City of Palo Alto
Post Office Box 10250
Palo Alto, CA 94303
With a copy to the Purchasing Manager
To CONSULTANT: Attention of the Project Manager at the address of
CONSULTANT recited on the first page of this Agreement.
CONSULTANT shall provide written notice to CITY of any change of address.
SECTION 21. CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
21.1. In executing this Agreement, CONSULTANT covenants that it presently has
no interest, and will not acquire any interest, direct or indirect, financial or otherwise, which would
conflict in any manner or degree with the performance of the Services.
21.2. CONSULTANT further covenants that, in the performance of this
Agreement, it will not employ subcontractors or other persons or parties having such an interest.
CONSULTANT certifies that no person who has or will have any financial interest under this
Agreement is an officer or employee of CITY; this provision will be interpreted in accordance with
the applicable provisions of the Palo Alto Municipal Code and the Government Code of the State of
California, as amended from time to time. CONSULTANT agrees to notify CITY if any conflict
arises.
21.3. If the CONSULTANT meets the definition of a “Consultant” as defined by
the Regulations of the Fair Political Practices Commission, CONSULTANT will file the appropriate
financial disclosure documents required by the Palo Alto Municipal Code and the Political Reform
Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
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SECTION 22. NONDISCRIMINATION; COMPLIANCE WITH ADA.
22.1. As set forth in Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 2.30.510, as amended from
time to time, CONSULTANT certifies that in the performance of this Agreement, it shall not
discriminate in the employment of any person due to that person’s race, skin color, gender, gender
identity, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic
information or condition, housing status, marital status, familial status, weight or height of such
person. CONSULTANT acknowledges that it has read and understands the provisions of Section
2.30.510 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code relating to Nondiscrimination Requirements and the
penalties for violation thereof, and agrees to meet all requirements of Section 2.30.510 pertaining to
nondiscrimination in employment.
22.2. CONSULTANT understands and agrees that pursuant to the Americans
Disabilities Act (“ADA”), programs, services and other activities provided by a public entity to the
public, whether directly or through a contractor or subcontractor, are required to be accessible to the
disabled public. CONSULTANT will provide the Services specified in this Agreement in a manner
that complies with the ADA and any other applicable federal, state and local disability rights laws
and regulations, as amended from time to time. CONSULTANT will not discriminate against
persons with disabilities in the provision of services, benefits or activities provided under this
Agreement.
SECTION 23. ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERRED PURCHASING AND ZERO WASTE
REQUIREMENTS. CONSULTANT shall comply with the CITY’s Environmentally Preferred
Purchasing policies which are available at CITY’s Purchasing Department, hereby incorporated by
reference and as amended from time to time. CONSULTANT shall comply with waste reduction,
reuse, recycling and disposal requirements of CITY’s Zero Waste Program. Zero Waste best
practices include, first, minimizing and reducing waste; second, reusing waste; and, third, recycling
or composting waste. In particular, CONSULTANT shall comply with the following Zero Waste
requirements:
(a) All printed materials provided by CONSULTANT to CITY generated from a
personal computer and printer including but not limited to, proposals, quotes, invoices, reports, and
public education materials, shall be double-sided and printed on a minimum of 30% or greater post-
consumer content paper, unless otherwise approved by CITY’s Project Manager. Any submitted
materials printed by a professional printing company shall be a minimum of 30% or greater post-
consumer material and printed with vegetable-based inks.
(b) Goods purchased by CONSULTANT on behalf of CITY shall be purchased in
accordance with CITY’s Environmental Purchasing Policy including but not limited to Extended
Producer Responsibility requirements for products and packaging. A copy of this policy is on file at
the Purchasing Department’s office.
(c) Reusable/returnable pallets shall be taken back by CONSULTANT, at no additional
cost to CITY, for reuse or recycling. CONSULTANT shall provide documentation from the facility
accepting the pallets to verify that pallets are not being disposed.
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SECTION 24. COMPLIANCE WITH PALO ALTO MINIMUM WAGE ORDINANCE.
CONSULTANT shall comply with all requirements of the Palo Alto Municipal Code Chapter 4.62
(Citywide Minimum Wage), as amended from time to time. In particular, for any employee
otherwise entitled to the State minimum wage, who performs at least two (2) hours of work in a
calendar week within the geographic boundaries of the City, CONSULTANT shall pay such
employees no less than the minimum wage set forth in Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 4.62.030
for each hour worked within the geographic boundaries of the City of Palo Alto. In addition,
CONSULTANT shall post notices regarding the Palo Alto Minimum Wage Ordinance in accordance
with Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 4.62.060.
SECTION 25. NON-APPROPRIATION. This Agreement is subject to the fiscal provisions of
the Charter of the City of Palo Alto and the Palo Alto Municipal Code, as amended from time to
time. This Agreement will terminate without any penalty (a) at the end of any fiscal year in the
event that funds are not appropriated for the following fiscal year, or (b) at any time within a fiscal
year in the event that funds are only appropriated for a portion of the fiscal year and funds for this
Agreement are no longer available. This Section shall take precedence in the event of a conflict with
any other covenant, term, condition, or provision of this Agreement.
SECTION 26. PREVAILING WAGES AND DIR REGISTRATION FOR PUBLIC WORKS
CONTRACTS.
26.1. This Project is not subject to prevailing wages and related requirements.
CONSULTANT is not required to pay prevailing wages and meet related requirements under the
California Labor Code and California Code of Regulations in the performance and implementation
of the Project if the contract:
(1) is not a public works contract;
(2) is for a public works construction project of $25,000 or less, per California
Labor Code Sections 1782(d)(1), 1725.5(f) and 1773.3(j); or
(3) is for a public works alteration, demolition, repair, or maintenance project of
$15,000 or less, per California Labor Code Sections 1782(d)(1), 1725.5(f) and
1773.3(j).
SECTION 27. CLAIMS PROCEDURE FOR “9204 PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS”. For
purposes of this Section 27, a “9204 Public Works Project” means the erection, construction,
alteration, repair, or improvement of any public structure, building, road, or other public
improvement of any kind. (Cal. Pub. Cont. Code § 9204.) Per California Public Contract Code
Section 9204, for Public Works Projects, certain claims procedures shall apply, as set forth in Exhibit
F, entitled “Claims for Public Contract Code Section 9204 Public Works Projects”.
This Project is not a 9204 Public Works Project.
SECTION 28. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
28.1. In the performance of this Agreement, CONSULTANT may have access to
CITY’s Confidential Information (defined below). CONSULTANT will hold Confidential
Information in strict confidence, not disclose it to any third party, and will use it only for the
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performance of its obligations to CITY under this Agreement and for no other purpose.
CONSULTANT will maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical and physical
safeguards to ensure the security, confidentiality and integrity of the Confidential Information.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, CONSULTANT may disclose Confidential Information to its
employees, agents and subcontractors, if any, to the extent they have a need to know in order to
perform CONSULTANT’s obligations to CITY under this Agreement and for no other purpose,
provided that the CONSULTANT informs them of, and requires them to follow, the confidentiality
and security obligations of this Agreement.
28.2. “Confidential Information” means all data, information (including without
limitation “Personal Information” about a California resident as defined in Civil Code Section 1798
et seq., as amended from time to time) and materials, in any form or media, tangible or intangible,
provided or otherwise made available to CONSULTANT by CITY, directly or indirectly, pursuant
to this Agreement. Confidential Information excludes information that CONSULTANT can show
by appropriate documentation: (i) was publicly known at the time it was provided or has
subsequently become publicly known other than by a breach of this Agreement; (ii) was rightfully
in CONSULTANT’s possession free of any obligation of confidence prior to receipt of Confidential
Information; (iii) is rightfully obtained by CONSULTANT from a third party without breach of any
confidentiality obligation; (iv) is independently developed by employees of CONSULTANT
without any use of or access to the Confidential Information; or (v) CONSULTANT has written
consent to disclose signed by an authorized representative of CITY.
28.3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, CONSULTANT may disclose Confidential
Information to the extent required by order of a court of competent jurisdiction or governmental
body, provided that CONSULTANT will notify CITY in writing of such order immediately upon
receipt and prior to any such disclosure (unless CONSULTANT is prohibited by law from doing
so), to give CITY an opportunity to oppose or otherwise respond to such order.
28.4. CONSULTANT will notify City promptly upon learning of any breach in the
security of its systems or unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, Confidential Information in its
possession or control, and if such Confidential Information consists of Personal Information,
CONSULTANT will provide information to CITY sufficient to meet the notice requirements of
Civil Code Section 1798 et seq., as applicable, as amended from time to time.
28.5. Prior to or upon termination or expiration of this Agreement, CONSULTANT
will honor any request from the CITY to return or securely destroy all copies of Confidential
Information. All Confidential Information is and will remain the property of the CITY and nothing
contained in this Agreement grants or confers any rights to such Confidential Information on
CONSULTANT.
28.6. If selected in Section 30 (Exhibits), this Agreement is also subject to the terms
and conditions of the Information Privacy Policy and Cybersecurity Terms and Conditions.
SECTION 29. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
29.1. This Agreement will be governed by California law, without regard to its
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conflict of law provisions.
29.2. In the event that an action is brought, the parties agree that trial of such action
will be vested exclusively in the state courts of California in the County of Santa Clara, State of
California.
29.3. The prevailing party in any action brought to enforce the provisions of this
Agreement may recover its reasonable costs and attorneys’ fees expended in connection with that
action. The prevailing party shall be entitled to recover an amount equal to the fair market value of
legal services provided by attorneys employed by it as well as any attorneys’ fees paid to third
parties.
29.4. This Agreement, including all exhibits, constitutes the entire and integrated
agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement, and supersedes
all prior agreements, negotiations, representations, statements and undertakings, either oral or
written. This Agreement may be amended only by a written instrument, which is signed by the
authorized representatives of the parties and approved as required under Palo Alto Municipal Code,
as amended from time to time.
29.5. If a court of competent jurisdiction finds or rules that any provision of this
Agreement is void or unenforceable, the unaffected provisions of this Agreement will remain in full
force and effect.
29.6. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the exhibits
hereto (per Section 30) or CONSULTANT’s proposal (if any), the Agreement shall control. In the
event of a conflict between the exhibits hereto and CONSULTANT’s proposal (if any), the exhibits
shall control.
29.7. The provisions of all checked boxes in this Agreement shall apply to this
Agreement; the provisions of any unchecked boxes shall not apply to this Agreement.
29.8. All section headings contained in this Agreement are for convenience and
reference only and are not intended to define or limit the scope of any provision of this Agreement.
29.9. This Agreement may be signed in multiple counterparts, which, when
executed by the authorized representatives of the parties, shall together constitute a single binding
agreement.
SECTION 30. EXHIBITS. Each of the following exhibits, if the check box for such exhibit is
selected below, is hereby attached and incorporated into this Agreement by reference as though fully
set forth herein:
EXHIBIT A: SCOPE OF SERVICES
EXHIBIT A-1 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TASK ORDER
EXHIBIT B: SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCE
EXHIBIT C: COMPENSATION
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EXHIBIT C-1: SCHEDULE OF RATES
EXHIBIT D: INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
EXHIBIT E: SURVEILLANCE ORDINANCE
EXHIBIT F: INFORMATION PRIVACY POLICY
EXHIBIT G: CYBERSECURITY TERMS AND CONDITIONS
EXHIBIT H: RETENTION RECORD SCHEDULE POLICY
THIS AGREEMENT IS NOT COMPLETE UNLESS ALL SELECTED EXHIBITS
ARE ATTACHED.
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CONTRACT No. S22177725
SIGNATURE PAGE
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have by their duly authorized representatives
executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.
CITY OF PALO ALTO
____________________________
City Manager
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
__________________________
City Attorney or designee
TURBO DATA SYSTEMS, INC.
Officer 1
By:
Name:
Title:
Officer 2 (Required for Corp. or LLC)
By:
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
SCOPE OF SERVICES
CONSULTANT shall provide the Services detailed in this Exhibit A, entitled “SCOPE OF
SERVICES”.
CONSULTANT will provide CITY with an electronic citation solution to implement ticketPRO
Traffic Module that will provide the following workflow functions and features:
A. Issuance and Processing of Moving Violations
The ticketPRO Traffic Module is designed for effective issuance of electronic moving violations
(eCitations). Based on a Smartphone technology platform, which includes many features with the
sole purpose of making the officer’s experience effortless. The software is focused on empowering
the officer to develop their own patterns for writing a traffic ticket. This will reduce the time it takes
to write a traffic citation. In addition to the smart-input screen layout and navigation tools,
CONSULTANT added intelligent functions to leverage data input methods that will make collecting
Driver’s License Number (DL#) and Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), information a quick and
simple task. As important as it is to write a quick ticket, which ticketPRO will do, validation of data
is equally as important. With a simple operational use, the officer can preview all data pertaining to
the citation on one screen and edit/correct the information in question.
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B. ticketPRO nFORCER Features and Functions
CONSULTANT will furnish thirteen (13) ticketPRO nFORCER-II Scan devices with ticektPRO
Magic Traffic (Moving) Enforcement Software and built-in Biometric FAP30 Fingerprint Scanner.
The 13 device packages will include device setup and configuration with one (1) training session.
The ticketPRO nFORCER device will perform the following features and functions:
1. License Plate Recognition (LPR) feature which will not only decipher the Plate number for
all 50 States but also performs returns State, Make, Model and Year of vehicle along with
vehicle image capture.
2. REAL-TIME Parking & Traffic ticket enforcement solution on a single device.
3. Provide a DL# scan option via Photo scan.
4. Built-in Biometric Finger Print Scanner.
5. Cloud ZIP-Code Lookup.
6. Global Positioning Satellite System (GPS) Query of current location. Geo tagging of
citation.
7. Geo-Tagging for citation.
8. Type Notes and voice dictation notes.
9. Multiple High-resolution color photo capture. (Vehicle, Person, Evidence, etc.)
10. Automatic court date assignment including holiday schedule tracking.
11. Support for Judicial Council Standards TR145 3" eCitation.
12. Single ticket stock for both Traffic & Parking Citations.
13. REMOTE support for maintenance and software upgrades.
14. Traffic/Moving Violations form (court submission, amendments TR100) processing.
15. Northern CA operation and support team located in San Jose.
16. County wide city and street data listings. Data Support for multi-county.
17. Device Geo-Fencing for protection and tracking.
18. Citation log to view issued citations and apply specific actions.
19. Repeat-ticket and Re-print functionality.
20. Notice to Appear and Warning options.
C. Back-Office Data Support
All citation data (citation form and images (photo, signature, and fingerprint)) upload from the
nFORCER device to the CONTRACTOR’s data center. CONTRACTOR will offer a secured
logically separated IT environment.
CONTRACTOR shall provide an easy way to view all traffic ticket data via a secure and simple web
interface with very intuitive search, filters, sort and viewing capabilities. Access to Photo, GPS and
Interactive Maps is also available via this interface. Reporting is also provided for lists or individual
citation records. Custom reports can also be provided based on CITY requirements.
CONTRACTOR will implement IP based access control to restrict user access to CITY data through
the specified CITY IP addresses provided.
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Data export will be provided in various document formatting forms (XML, Excel, CSV, etc.) for
electronic filing/submission to the court. Interfacing to CITY records management systems, for
example, RIMS, Tritech, and Coplink, will be available. CONTRACTOR will work with current
CITY Records Management System (RMS) vendor to coordinate and integrate electronically date
transfer. This is a major time saver for records staff.
Traffic eCitations Processing & Communication/Software License includes:
▪ Cloud Hosting
▪ Electronic Court Integration/Export and maintenance
▪ RMS system Integration/Export (RIMS) and maintenance
▪ Electronic TR-100 corrections
▪ Support for records personnel
▪ Security Account management and maintenance
▪ Web access for viewing records including photos/signatures/Biometrics
▪ Daily/Monthly shift summary reporting
▪ Citation reprint for officer or public
▪ Fee is per contract/site, not per unit
▪ Ongoing Client Support and Training
D. Data Retention Schedule
All citations and related images (i.e.: signatures, fingerprints, photos) are to be deleted from the
system in accordance with the City’s retention policy regarding Traffic Citations of the calendar
year plus two (2) years (C+2). The retention schedule is attached in this agreement as Exhibit H.
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EXHIBIT A-1
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TASK ORDER
CONSULTANT shall perform the Services detailed below in accordance with all the terms and conditions of
the Agreement referenced in Item 1A below. All exhibits referenced in Item 8 are incorporated into this Task
Order by this reference. CONSULTANT shall furnish the necessary facilities, professional, technical and
supporting personnel required by this Task Order as described below.
CONTRACT NO.
OR PURCHASE ORDER REQUISITION NO. (AS APPLICABLE)
1A. MASTER AGREEMENT NO. (MAY BE SAME AS CONTRACT / P.O. NO. ABOVE):
1B. TASK ORDER NO.:
2. CONSULTANT NAME:
3. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: START: COMPLETION:
4 TOTAL TASK ORDER PRICE: $__________________
BALANCE REMAINING IN MASTER AGREEMENT/CONTRACT $_______________
5. BUDGET CODE_______________
COST CENTER________________
COST ELEMENT______________
WBS/CIP__________
PHASE__________
6. CITY PROJECT MANAGER’S NAME & DEPARTMENT:_____________________________________
7. DESCRIPTION OF SCOPE OF SERVICES (Attachment A)
MUST INCLUDE:
▪ SERVICES AND DELIVERABLES TO BE PROVIDED
▪ SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCE
▪ MAXIMUM COMPENSATION AMOUNT AND RATE SCHEDULE (as applicable)
▪ REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES, if any (with “not to exceed” amount)
8. ATTACHMENTS: A: Task Order Scope of Services B (if any): _____________________________
I hereby authorize the performance of the
work described in this Task Order.
APPROVED:
CITY OF PALO ALTO
BY:____________________________________
Name __________________________________
Title___________________________________
Date ___________________________________
I hereby acknowledge receipt and acceptance of
this Task Order and warrant that I have
authority to sign on behalf of Consultant.
APPROVED:
COMPANY NAME: ______________________
BY:____________________________________
Name __________________________________
Title___________________________________
Date ___________________________________
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EXHIBIT B
SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCE
CONSULTANT shall perform the Services so as to complete each milestone within the date
specified below. The time to complete each milestone may be increased or decreased by mutual
written agreement of the Project Managers for CONSULTANT and CITY so long as all work is
completed within the term of the Agreement. CONSULTANT shall provide a detailed schedule of
work consistent with the schedule below within 2 weeks of receipt of the notice to proceed (“NTP”)
from the CITY.
Milestones
Completion
Date (as specified below)
from NTP
1. 13 ticketPRO nFORCER traffic module
implementation to daily perform a)
moving violation e-citation issuance and
system processing, b) module features and
functions & c) back-office data support -
collecting, searching, submissions and
system maintenance.
March 6, 2027
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EXHIBIT C
COMPENSATION
CITY agrees to compensate CONSULTANT for the Services performed in accordance with the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, including Services, any specified reimbursable expenses,
and Additional Services (if any, per Section 4 of the Agreement), based on the hourly rate schedule
attached as Exhibit C-1.
The compensation to be paid to CONSULTANT under this Agreement for all Services, any specified
reimbursable expenses, and Additional Services (if any, per Section 4), shall not exceed the
amount(s) stated in Section 4 of this Agreement. CONSULTANT agrees to complete all Services,
any specified reimbursable expenses, and Additional Services (if any, per Section 4), within
this/these amount(s). Any work performed or expenses incurred for which payment would result in
a total exceeding the maximum amount of compensation set forth in this Agreement shall be at no
cost to the CITY.
REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES
CONSULTANT’S ordinary business expenses, such as administrative, overhead,
administrative support time/overtime, information systems, software and hardware,
photocopying, telecommunications (telephone, internet), in-house printing, insurance and
other ordinary business expenses, are included within the scope of payment for Services and
are not reimbursable expenses hereunder.
Reimbursable expenses, if any are specified as reimbursable under this section, will be
reimbursed at actual cost. The expenses (by type, e.g. travel) for which CONSULTANT will
be reimbursed are: NONE up to the not-to-exceed amount of: $0.00.
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EXHIBIT C-1
SCHEDULE OF RATES
CONSULTANT’s schedule of rates is as follows:
Project Implementation (Year 1)
Line ITEM DESCRIPTION QTY UNIT UNIT
PRICE
SUBTOTAL SALES
TAX
TOTAL
COST
1 TicketPRO nFORCER –
Purchase
13 Each $3,885.00 $50,505.00 $4,608.5
8
$55,113.58
2 TicketPRO nFORCER
Warranty Extended to 5
Years (Year 1)
13 Each $250.00 $3,250.00 $296.56 $3,546.56
Software License &
Citation Processing
Access
3 Annual TicketPRO
nFORCER
Communications /
Software Fee for 13
devices (Year 1)
12 Monthly $1040.00 $12,480 $1,138.8 $13,618.80
4 Annual TicketPRO
Electronic Moving
Citation Processing
System Access for 13
devices (Year 1)
12 Monthly $500.00 $6,000.00 $547.50 $6,547.50
Year 1 Total $78,826.44
Annual Fees (Years 2-5)
Line ITEM DESCRIPTION QTY UNIT UNIT
PRICE w/
TAX
TOTAL COST
1 Annual Communications/Software License
Fee – Years 2-5
4 Years $13,618.80 $54,475.20
2 Annual TicketPRO Moving Citation
Processing System Processing – Years 2-5
4 Years $6,547.50 $26,190
3 TicketPRO nFORCER Warranty – Years 2-5
4 Years $3,546.56 $14,186.24
Total $94,851.44
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Traffic eCitations Processing Fees:
Electronic Moving Citation Fee per issued and Citation Supply-Standard TR-145 per 50 ticket rolls
Electronic Moving Citation Fee per issued $2
Citation Supplies – Standard TR-145 per 50 ticket rolls $654
As needed, E-Citations Processing Fees and Ticket Rolls not-to-exceed total: $25,000
Total Compensation Summary:
Sub-total for Year 1 and Year 2-5 Services $173,677.88
Traffic eCitations Processing Fees and supplies as
needed through the term of the agreement:
$25,000
Reimbursable Expenses (if any) $0
Total for Services and Reimbursable Expenses $198,677.88
Additional Services (if any, per Section 4) $19,867.79
Maximum Total Compensation $218,545.67
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EXHIBIT D
INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
CONTRACTORS TO THE CITY OF PALO ALTO (CITY), AT THEIR SOLE EXPENSE, SHALL FOR THE TERM OF THE
CONTRACT OBTAIN AND MAINTAIN INSURANCE IN THE AMOUNTS FOR THE COVERAGE SPECIFIED BELOW,
AFFORDED BY COMPANIES WITH AM BEST’S KEY RATING OF A-:VII, OR HIGHER, AUTHORIZED TO
TRANSACT INSURANCE BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
AWARD IS CONTINGENT ON COMPLIANCE WITH CITY’S INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS, AS SPECIFIED, BELOW:
REQUIR
ED TYPE OF COVERAGE REQUIREMENT
MINIMUM LIMITS
EACH
OCCURREN
CE
AGGREGATE
YES
YES
WORKER’S COMPENSATION
EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY
STATUTORY
STATUTORY
YES
GENERAL LIABILITY, INCLUDING
PERSONAL INJURY, BROAD FORM
PROPERTY DAMAGE BLANKET
CONTRACTUAL, PRODUCTS/COMPLETED
OPERATIONS AND FIRE LEGAL LIABILITY
BODILY INJURY
PROPERTY DAMAGE
BODILY INJURY &
PROPERTY DAMAGE
COMBINED.
$2,000,000
$2,000,000
$2,000,000
$2,000,000
$2,000,000
$2,000,000
YES TECHNOLOGY ERRORS AND OMISSIONS
LIABILITY COVERAGE. THE POLICY SHALL
AT A MINIMUM COVER PROFESSIONAL
MISCONDUCT OR LACK OF REQUISITE
SKILL FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF
SERVICES DEFINED IN THE CONTRACT AND
SHALL ALSO PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR THE
FOLLOWING RISKS:
(i) NETWORK SECURITY
LIABILITYARISING FROM UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR TAMPERING WITH
COMPUTERS OR COMPUTER SYSTEMS,
INCLUDING HACKERS, EXTORTION, AND
(ii) LIABILITY ARISING FROM
INTRODUCTION OF ANY FORM OF
MALICIOUS SOFTWARE INCLUDING
COMPUTER VIRUSES INTO, OR OTHERWISE
CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE CITY’S OR
THIRD PERSON’S COMPUTER, COMPUTER
SYSTEM, NETWORK, OR SIMILAR
COMPUTER RELATED PROPERTY AND THE
DATA, SOFTWARE AND PROGRAMS
THEREON.
CONTRACTOR SHALL MAINTAIN IN FORCE
DURING THE FULL LIFE OF THE CONTRACT.
THE POLICY SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE
FOR BREACH RESPONSE COSTS AS WELL AS
REGULATORY FINES AND PENALTIES AS
WELL AS CREDIT MONITORING EXPENSES
WITH LIMITS SUFFICIENT TO RESPOND TO
THESE OBLIGATIONS.
ALL DAMAGES $1,000,000 $2,000,000
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YES Cyber and Privacy Insurance
SUCH INSURANCE SHALL INCLUDE
COVERAGE FOR LIABILITY ARISING FROM
COVERAGE IN AN AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO
COVER THE FULL REPLACEMENT VALUE OF
DAMAGE TO, ALTERATION OF, LOSS OF,
THEFT, DISSEMINATION OR DESTRUCTION
OF ELECTRONIC DATA AND/OR USE OF
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION,
“PROPERTY” OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
THAT WILL BE IN THE CARE, CUSTODY, OR
CONTROL OF VENDOR.
INFORMATION INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, BANK AND CREDIT CARD
ACCOUNT INFORMATION OR PERSONAL
INFORMATION, SUCH AS NAME, ADDRESS,
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, PROTECTED
HEALTH INFORMATION OR OTHER
PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION,
STORED OR TRAMSITTED IN ELECTRONIC
FORM.
ALL DAMAGES $1,000,000 $2,000,000
YES AUTOMOBILE LIABILITY, INCLUDING ALL
OWNED, HIRED, NON-OWNED
BODILY INJURY
- EACH PERSON
- EACH OCCURRENCE
PROPERTY DAMAGE
BODILY INJURY AND
PROPERTY DAMAGE,
COMBINED
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
NO
PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY, INCLUDING,
ERRORS AND OMISSIONS, MALPRACTICE
(WHEN APPLICABLE), AND NEGLIGENT
PERFORMANCE
ALL DAMAGES $1,000,000
YES THE CITY OF PALO ALTO IS TO BE NAMED AS AN ADDITIONAL INSURED: CONTRACTOR, AT ITS SOLE
COST AND EXPENSE, SHALL OBTAIN AND MAINTAIN, IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE
ENTIRE TERM OF ANY RESULTANT AGREEMENT, THE INSURANCE COVERAGE HEREIN DESCRIBED,
INSURING NOT ONLY CONTRACTOR AND ITS SUBCONSULTANTS, IF ANY, BUT ALSO, WITH THE
EXCEPTION OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION, EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY AND PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE,
NAMING AS ADDITIONAL INSUREDS CITY, ITS COUNCIL MEMBERS, OFFICERS, AGENTS, AND
EMPLOYEES.
I. INSURANCE COVERAGE MUST INCLUDE:
A. A CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY ENDORSEMENT PROVIDING INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR
CONTRACTOR’S AGREEMENT TO INDEMNIFY CITY.
II. ENDORSEMENT PROVISIONS, WITH RESPECT TO THE INSURANCE AFFORDED TO “ADDITIONAL
INSUREDS”
A. PRIMARY COVERAGE
WITH RESPECT TO CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE NAMED INSURED, INSURANCE AS
AFFORDED BY THIS POLICY IS PRIMARY AND IS NOT ADDITIONAL TO OR CONTRIBUTING WITH ANY OTHER
INSURANCE CARRIED BY OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ADDITIONAL INSUREDS.
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B. CROSS LIABILITY
THE NAMING OF MORE THAN ONE PERSON, FIRM, OR CORPORATION AS INSUREDS UNDER THE POLICY SHALL
NOT, FOR THAT REASON ALONE, EXTINGUISH ANY RIGHTS OF THE INSURED AGAINST ANOTHER, BUT THIS
ENDORSEMENT, AND THE NAMING OF MULTIPLE INSUREDS, SHALL NOT INCREASE THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF
THE COMPANY UNDER THIS POLICY.
III. CONTRACTOR MUST SUBMIT CERTIFICATES(S) OF INSURANCE EVIDENCING REQUIRED COVERAGE AT
THE FOLLOWING URL: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=25569.
NOTICE OF CANCELLATION
1. IF THE POLICY IS CANCELED BEFORE ITS EXPIRATION DATE FOR ANY REASON OTHER
THAN THE NON-PAYMENT OF PREMIUM, THE CONSULTANT SHALL PROVIDE CITY AT
LEAST A THIRTY (30) DAY WRITTEN NOTICE BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
CANCELLATION.
2. IF THE POLICY IS CANCELED BEFORE ITS EXPIRATION DATE FOR THE NON-PAYMENT
OF PREMIUM, THE CONSULTANT SHALL PROVIDE CITY AT LEAST A TEN (10) DAY
WRITTEN NOTICE BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF CANCELLATION.
Vendors are required to file their evidence of insurance and any other related notices with the City of Palo Alto at the following
URL:
https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=25569
OR
http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/asd/planet_bids_how_to.asp
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EXHIBIT E
Surveillance Use Policy for E Citation Devices for the Police Department Traffic Citations
In accordance with Palo Alto Municipal Code Section PAMC 2.30.680(d), the Surveillance Use
Policy for the use of E Citation devices for traffic enforcement is as follows:
1. Intended purpose of technology. The intended purposes of the E Citation devices are for
sworn officers to issue California Vehicle Code (CVC) traffic citations within the jurisdiction
of Palo Alto. This technology replaces the current triplicate paper citations with fully electronic
means of citation issuance and processing.
2. Authorized uses of the information. The information collected by the officer and entered into
the handheld devices are for the purpose of issuing CVC violations to persons who violate the
law. The information is shared with the Santa Clara County Court system and entered into the
police department Record Management System (RMS) for necessary citation processing
procedures. The citation information will be shared with the court and involved party pursuant
to California and federal laws. The Police Department Custodian of Records is responsible for
overseeing record release processes according to City policy and procedure.
3. Information collected by the technology. The E Citation device does not independently
collect information, rather the officer operator inputs information. The unit has a camera that
the officer can use to photograph the rear of the involved vehicle. The unit software uses Optical
Character Recognition (OCR). OCR is technology to recognize text inside images, such as
scanned documents and photos to auto-populate certain text fields such as license plate number
and vehicle make and model. The operator can choose to use the camera to pre-populate data
fields or enter the information manually.
The device contains a camera to read the bar code of a driver’s license to auto populate the registered
owner/driver information on the citation. It is optional for the officer to use this method of reading
licensee information, they may enter the data manually.
The device has a fingerprint sensor available on it to capture a detailed image of the driver’s
fingerprint that attaches to the digital record. This feature will only be used, according the California
law, as the positive identification of the person being issued the citation when that person does not
possess a copy of their valid driver’s license or have another form of valid government-issued
identification.
The driver will use the device stylus to sign the citation on the screen of the unit. The signature
image for all citations is captured as a photo. The image is then transferred to the printed citation in
the signature field. The device does not connect to any government identification database.
4. Safeguards and Compliance Features. All E Citation data downloaded to the vendor system
will be accessible only through a login/password-protected system capable of documenting all
access of information by name, date and time. Only authorized Police Department and
Information Technology staff will have access to the E Citation devices and software system.
The devices will be housed within a secure area of the Police Department and be checked out
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by officers for field use during their shift.
The procurement of this technology will follow compliance procedures in accordance with and
accepted by the City’s documented Vendor Information Security Assessment (VISA) evaluation and
approval processes for technology vendor contracts. The scope of Vendor Information Security
Assessment (VISA) is to assess vendor IT environment of the Cloud Service Provider (the Vendor),
which intends to provide to the City of Palo Alto (the City) any or all of the following services:
Software as a Service (SaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS); and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
The VISA assesses whether SaaS, PaaS and IaaS service providers database applications, computer
network infrastructure and computer hardware and software platforms can be safely hosted by the
Vendor and made available to the City via interconnected in a network, typically the Internet. The
vendor completed the City’s VISA documentation and was approved.
5. Information Retention. Pursuant to the City of Palo Alto Records Retention Policy and Gov
Code section 34090, the department must retain copies of all issued citations for a minimum of
two years plus current, or pursuant to the violation’s statute of limitations. Citation records may
be kept longer in extenuating circumstances, such as for collections of unpaid fines. Purging of
citation data will be per state law and the City’s documented purging policy and procedure.
Images captured on the device will be stored with the citation record for internal purposes only
to document the conditions of the violation and for officer use during prosecution in court as
necessary. The vendor software system allows the City to set required purging guidelines within
the database. The Police Department Custodian of Records is responsible for overseeing record
purging procedures.
6. Access to Information Outside of City. Citation records are shared with the involved parties,
the court system (for processing), and authorized law enforcement representatives per official
requests for police records. Citation dispositions are shared from the court to the Department of
Motor Vehicles. Citation data within the vendor software system, may, with the City’s
permission, be viewable by law enforcement agencies that use the same system for the purpose
of knowing if a violator has been issued other citations. Currently, Santa Clara County SO, San
Mateo County SO, San Francisco County SO, Alameda County SO, and other allied agencies
use the Turbo Data system. Citation data will automatically transfer into the Department’s new
Records Management System (RMS), which is viewable by partnering law enforcement
agencies that have been authorized to view police records in the same RMS. Citation data
entered into the department’s RMS is not currently set to purge.
7. Compliance Procedures. Information from the E Citation software program is transmitted
daily for citation processing. Department personnel review the citation information and system
functionality every weekday. Authorized operating personnel will be trained on the device
handling and transmission procedures, including the prompt notification of the City’s
Information Technology Department in the event of suspected unauthorized system access.
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EXHIBIT F
INFORMATION PRIVACY POLICY
POLICY STATEMENT
The City of Palo Alto (the “City”) strives to promote and sustain a superior quality of life for
persons in Palo Alto. In promoting the quality of life of these persons, it is the policy of the City,
consistent with the provisions of the California Public Records Act, California Government Code
§§ 6250 – 6270, to take appropriate measures to safeguard the security and privacy of the personal
(including, without limitation, financial) information of persons, collected in the ordinary course
and scope of conducting the City’s business as a local government agency. These measures are
generally observed by federal, state and local authorities and reflected in federal and California
laws, the City’s rules and regulations, and industry best practices, including, without limitation,
the provisions of California Civil Code §§ 1798.3(a), 1798.24, 1798.79.8(b), 1798.80(e),
1798.81.5, 1798.82(e), 1798.83(e)(7), and 1798.92(c). Though some of these provisions do not
apply to local government agencies like the City, the City will conduct business in a manner which
promotes the privacy of personal information, as reflected in federal and California laws. The
objective of this Policy is to describe the City’s data security goals and objectives, to ensure the
ongoing protection of the Personal Information, Personally Identifiable Information, Protected
Critical Infrastructure Information and Personally Identifying Information of persons doing
business with the City and receiving services from the City or a third party under contract to the
City to provide services. The terms “Personal Information,” “Protected Critical Infrastructure
Information”, “Personally Identifiable Information” and “Personally Identifying Information”
(collectively, the “Information”) are defined in the California Civil Code sections, referred to
above, and are incorporated in this Policy by reference.
PURPOSE
The City, acting in its governmental and proprietary capacities, collects the Information pertaining
to persons who do business with or receive services from the City. The Information is collected by
a variety of means, including, without limitation, from persons applying to receive services
provided by the City, persons accessing the City’s website, and persons who access other
information portals maintained by the City’s staff and/or authorized third-party contractors. The
City is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the Information collected by the City.
The City acknowledges federal and California laws, policies, rules, regulations and procedures,
and industry best practices are dedicated to ensuring the Information is collected, stored and
utilized in compliance with applicable laws.
The goals and objectives of the Policy are: (a) a safe, productive, and inoffensive work
environment for all users having access to the City’s applications and databases; (b) the appropriate
maintenance and security of database information assets owned by, or entrusted to, the City; (c)
the controlled access and security of the Information provided to the City’s staff and third party
contractors; and (d) faithful compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
SCOPE
The Policy will guide the City’s staff and, indirectly, third party contractors, which are by contract
required to protect the confidentiality and privacy of the Information of the persons whose personal
information data are intended to be covered by the Policy and which will be advised by City staff
to conform their performances to the Policy should they enjoy conditional access to that
information.
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CONSEQUENCES
The City’s employees shall comply with the Policy in the execution of their official duties to the
extent their work implicates access to the Information referred to in this Policy. A failure to comply
may result in employment and/or legal consequences.
EXCEPTIONS
In the event that a City employee cannot fully comply with one or more element(s) described in
this Policy, the employee may request an exception by submitting Security Exception Request.
The exception request will be reviewed and administered by the City’s Information Security
Manager (the “ISM”). The employee, with the approval of his or her supervisor, will provide any
additional information as may be requested by the ISM. The ISM will conduct a risk assessment
of the requested exception in accordance with guidelines approved by the City’s Chief Information
Officer (“CIO”) and approved as to form by the City Attorney. The Policy’s guidelines will include
at a minimum: purpose, source, collection, storage, access, retention, usage, and protection of the
Information identified in the request. The ISM will consult with the CIO to approve or deny the
exception request. After due consideration is given to the request, the exception request disposition
will be communicated, in writing, to the City employee and his or her supervisor. The approval of
any request may be subject to countermeasures established by the CIO, acting by the ISM.
MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE
This Policy will supersede any City policy, rule, regulation or procedure regarding information
privacy.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF CITY STAFF
A. RESPONSIBILITY OF CIO AND ISM
The CIO, acting by the ISM, will establish an information security management framework to
initiate and coordinate the implementation of information security measures by the City’s
government.
The City’s employees, in particular, software application users and database users, and, indirectly,
third party contractors under contract to the City to provide services, shall by guided by this Policy
in the performance of their job responsibilities.
The ISM will be responsible for: (a) developing and updating the Policy, (b) enforcing compliance
with and the effectiveness of the Policy; (c) the development of privacy standards that will manifest
the Policy in detailed, auditable technical requirements, which will be designed and maintained by
the persons responsible for the City’s IT environments; (d) assisting the City’s staff in evaluating
security and privacy incidents that arise in regard to potential violations of the Policy; (e) reviewing
and approving department-specific policies and procedures which fall under the purview of this
Policy; and (f) reviewing Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) signed by third party contractors,
which will provide services, including, without limitation, local or ‘cloud-based’ software services
to the City.
B. RESPONSIBILITY OF INFORMATION SECURITY STEERING COMMITTEE
The Information Security Steering Committee (the “ISSC”), which is comprised of the City’s
employees, drawn from the various City departments, will provide the primary direction,
prioritization and approval for all information security efforts, including key information security
and privacy risks, programs, initiatives and activities. The ISSC will provide input to the
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information security and privacy strategic planning processes to ensure that information security
risks are adequately considered, assessed and addressed at the appropriate City department level.
C. RESPONSIBILITY OF USERS
All authorized users of the Information will be responsible for complying with information privacy
processes and technologies within the scope of responsibility of each user.
D. RESPONSIBILITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) MANAGERS
The City’s IT Managers, who are responsible for internal, external, direct and indirect connections
to the City’s networks, will be responsible for configuring, maintaining and securing the City’s IT
networks in compliance with the City’s information security and privacy policies. They are also
responsible for timely internal reporting of events that may have compromised network, system or
data security.
E. RESPONSIBILITY OF AUTHORIZATION COORDINATION
The ISM will ensure that the City’s employees secure the execution of Non-Disclosure
Agreements (NDA), whenever access to the Information will be granted to third party contractors,
in conjunction with the Software as a Service (SaaS) Security and Privacy Terms and Conditions.
An NDA must be executed prior to the sharing of the Information of persons covered by this Policy
with third party contractors. The City’s approach to managing information security and its
implementation (i.e. objectives, policies, processes, and procedures for information security) will
be reviewed independently by the ISM at planned intervals, or whenever significant changes to
security implementation have occurred.
The CIO, acting by the ISM, will review and recommend changes to the Policy annually, or as
appropriate, commencing from the date of its adoption.
GENERAL PROCEDURE FOR INFORMATION PRIVACY
A. OVERVIEW
The Policy applies to activities that involve the use of the City’s information assets, namely, the
Information of persons doing business with the City or receiving services from the City, which are
owned by, or entrusted to, the City and will be made available to the City’s employees and third-
party contractors under contract to the City to provide Software as a Service consulting services.
These activities include, without limitation, accessing the Internet, using e-mail, accessing the
City’s intranet or other networks, systems, or devices.
The term “information assets” also includes the personal information of the City’s employees and
any other related organizations while those assets are under the City’s control. Security measures
will be designed, implemented, and maintained to ensure that only authorized persons will enjoy
access to the information assets. The City’s staff will act to protect its information assets from
theft, damage, loss, compromise, and inappropriate disclosure or alteration. The City will plan,
design, implement and maintain information management systems, networks and processes in
order to assure the appropriate confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its information assets
to the City’s employees and authorized third parties.
B. PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CHOICE
Except as permitted or provided by applicable laws, the City will not share the Information of any
person doing business with the City, or receiving services from the City, in violation of this Policy,
unless that person has consented to the City’s sharing of such information during the conduct of
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the City’s business as a local government agency with third parties under contract to the City to
provide services.
C. METHODS OF COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The City may gather the Information from a variety of sources and resources, provided that the
collection of such information is both necessary and appropriate in order for the City to conduct
business as a local government agency in its governmental and proprietary capacities. That
information may be gathered at service windows and contact centers as well as at web sites, by
mobile applications, and with other technologies, wherever the City may interact with persons who
need to share such formation in order to secure the City’s services.
The City’s staff will inform the persons whose Information are covered by this Policy that the
City’s web site may use “cookies” to customize the browsing experience with the City of Palo
Alto web site. The City will note that a cookie contains unique information that a web site can use
to track, among others, the Internet Protocol address of the computer used to access the City’s web
sites, the identification of the browser software and operating systems used, the date and time a
user accessed the site, and the Internet address of the website from which the user linked to the
City’s web sites. Cookies created on the user’s computer by using the City’s web site do not contain
the Information, and thus do not compromise the user’s privacy or security. Users can refuse the
cookies or delete the cookie files from their computers by using any of the widely available
methods. If the user chooses not to accept a cookie on his or her computer, it will not prevent or
prohibit the user from gaining access to or using the City’s sites.
D. UTILITIES SERVICE
In the provision of utility services to persons located within Palo Alto, the City of Palo Alto
Utilities Department (“CPAU”) will collect the Information in order to initiate and manage utility
services to customers. To the extent the management of that information is not specifically
addressed in the Utilities Rules and Regulations or other ordinances, rules, regulations or
procedures, this Policy will apply; provided, however, any such Rules and Regulations must
conform to this Policy, unless otherwise directed or approved by the Council. This includes the
sharing of CPAU-collected Information with other City departments except as may be required by
law.
Businesses and residents with standard utility meters and/or having non-metered monthly services
will have secure access through a CPAU website to their Information, including, without
limitation, their monthly utility usage and billing data. In addition to their regular monthly utilities
billing, businesses and residents with non-standard or experimental electric, water or natural gas
meters may have their usage and/or billing data provided to them through non-City electronic
portals at different intervals than with the standard monthly billing.
Businesses and residents with such non-standard or experimental metering will have their
Information covered by the same privacy protections and personal information exchange rules
applicable to Information under applicable federal and California laws.
E. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE
The Information that is collected by the City in the ordinary course and scope of conducting its
business could be incorporated in a public record that may be subject to inspection and copying by
the public, unless such information is exempt from disclosure to the public by California law.
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F. ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
The City will take reasonable steps to verify a person’s identity before the City will grant anyone
online access to that person’s Information. Each City department that collects Information will
afford access to affected persons who can review and update that information at reasonable times.
G. SECURITY, CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE
Except as otherwise provided by applicable law or this Policy, the City will treat the Information
of persons covered by this Policy as confidential and will not disclose it, or permit it to be
disclosed, to third parties without the express written consent of the person affected. The City will
develop and maintain reasonable controls that are designed to protect the confidentiality and
security of the Information of persons covered by this Policy.
The City may authorize the City’s employee and or third-party contractors to access and/or use the
Information of persons who do business with the City or receive services from the City. In those
instances, the City will require the City’s employee and/or the third-party contractors to agree to
use such Information only in furtherance of City-related business and in accordance with the
Policy.
If the City becomes aware of a breach or has reasonable grounds to believe that a security breach
has occurred, with respect to the Information of a person, the City will notify the affected person
of such breach in accordance with applicable laws. The notice of breach will include the date(s) or
estimated date(s) of the known or suspected breach, the nature of the Information that is the subject
of the breach, and the proposed action to be taken or the responsive action taken by the City.
H. DATA RETENTION / INFORMATION RETENTION
The City will store and secure all Information for a period of time as may be required by law, or if
no period is established by law, for seven (7) years, and thereafter such information will be
scheduled for destruction.
I. SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS) OVERSIGHT
The City may engage third party contractors and vendors to provide software application and
database services, commonly known as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
In order to assure the privacy and security of the Information of those who do business with the
City and those who received services from the City, as a condition of selling goods and/or services
to the City, the SaaS services provider and its subcontractors, if any, including any IT infrastructure
services provider, shall design, install, provide, and maintain a secure IT environment, while it
performs such services and/or furnishes goods to the City, to the extent any scope of work or
services implicates the confidentiality and privacy of the Information.
These requirements include information security directives pertaining to: (a) the IT infrastructure,
by which the services are provided to the City, including connection to the City's IT systems; (b)
the SaaS services provider’s operations and maintenance processes needed to support the IT
environment, including disaster recovery and business continuity planning; and (c) the IT
infrastructure performance monitoring services to ensure a secure and reliable environment and
service availability to the City. The term “IT infrastructure” refers to the integrated framework,
including, without limitation, data centers, computers, and database management devices, upon
which digital networks operate.
Prior to entering into an agreement to provide services to the City, the City’s staff will require the
SaaS services provider to complete and submit an Information Security and Privacy Questionnaire.
In the event that the SaaS services provider reasonably determines that it cannot fulfill the
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information security requirements during the course of providing services, the City will require
the SaaS services provider to promptly inform the ISM.
J. FAIR AND ACCURATE CREDIT TRANSACTION ACT OF 2003
CPAU will require utility customers to provide their Information in order for the City to initiate
and manage utility services to them.
Federal regulations, implementing the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (Public
Law 108-159), including the Red Flag Rules, require that CPAU, as a “covered financial institution
or creditor” which provides services in advance of payment and which can affect consumer credit,
develop and implement procedures for an identity theft program for new and existing accounts to
detect, prevent, respond and mitigate potential identity theft of its customers’ Information.
CPAU procedures for potential identity theft will be reviewed independently by the ISM annually
or whenever significant changes to security implementation have occurred. The ISM will
recommend changes to CPAU identity theft procedures, or as appropriate, so as to conform to this
Policy.
There are California laws which are applicable to identity theft; they are set forth in California
Civil Code § 1798.92.
NOTE: Questions regarding this policy should be referred to the Information Technology
Department, as appropriate.
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EXHIBIT G
CYBERSECURITY TERMS AND CONDITIONS
In order to assure the privacy and security of the personal information of the City's customers and
people who do business with the City, including, without limitation, vendors, utility customers,
library patrons, and other individuals and companies, who are required to share such information
with the City, as a condition of receiving services from the City or selling goods and services to
the City, including, without limitation, the Software as a Service services provider (the
"Consultant") and its subcontractors, if any, including, without limitation, any Information
Technology ("IT") infrastructure services provider, shall design, install, provide, and maintain a
secure IT environment, described below, while it renders and performs the Services and furnishes
goods, if any, described in the Statement of Work, Exhibit B, to the extent any scope of work
implicates the confidentiality and privacy of the personal information of the City's customers. The
Consultant shall fulfill the data and information security requirements (the "Requirements") set
forth in Part A below.
A "secure IT environment" includes (a) the IT infrastructure, by which the Services are provided
to the City, including connection to the City's IT systems; (b) the Consultant's operations and
maintenance processes needed to support the environment, including disaster recovery and
business continuity planning; and (c) the IT infrastructure performance monitoring services to
ensure a secure and reliable environment and service availability to the City. "IT infrastructure"
refers to the integrated framework, including, without limitation, data centers, computers, and
database management devices, upon which digital networks operate.
In the event that, after the Effective Date, the Consultant reasonably determines that it cannot fulfill
the Requirements, the Consultant shall promptly inform the City of its determination and submit,
in writing, one or more alternate countermeasure options to the Requirements (the "Alternate
Requirements" as set forth in Part B), which may be accepted or rejected in the reasonable
satisfaction of the Information Security Manager (the "ISM").
Part A. Requirements:
The Consultant shall at all times during the term of any contract between the City and the
Consultant:
(a) Appoint or designate an employee, preferably an executive officer, as the security liaison
to the City with respect to the Services to be performed under this Agreement.
(b) Comply with the City's Information Privacy Policy:
(c) Have adopted and implemented information security and privacy policies that are
documented, are accessible to the City, and conform to ISO 27001/2 – Information Security
Management Systems (ISMS) Standards. See the following:
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=42103
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50297
(d) Conduct routine data and information security compliance training of its personnel that is
appropriate to their role.
(e) Develop and maintain detailed documentation of the IT infrastructure, including software
versions and patch levels.
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(f) Develop an independently verifiable process, consistent with industry standards, for
performing professional and criminal background checks of its employees that (1) would
permit verification of employees' personal identity and employment status, and (2) would
enable the immediate denial of access to the City's confidential data and information by
any of its employees who no longer would require access to that information or who are
terminated.
(g) Provide a list of IT infrastructure components in order to verify whether the Consultant
has met or has failed to meet any objective terms and conditions.
(h) Implement access accountability (identification and authentication) architecture and
support role-based access control ("RBAC") and segregation of duties ("SoD")
mechanisms for all personnel, systems, and Software used to provide the Services.
"RBAC" refers to a computer systems security approach to restricting access only to
authorized users. "SoD" is an approach that would require more than one individual to
complete a security task in order to promote the detection and prevention of fraud and
errors.
(i) Assist the City in undertaking annually an assessment to assure that: (1) all elements of the
Services' environment design and deployment are known to the City, and (2) it has
implemented measures in accordance with industry best practices applicable to secure
coding and secure IT architecture.
(j) Provide and maintain secure intersystem communication paths that would ensure the
confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the City's information.
(k) Deploy and maintain IT system upgrades, patches and configurations conforming to
current patch and/or release levels by not later than one (1) week after its date of release.
Emergency security patches must be installed within 24 hours after its date of release.
(l) Provide for the timely detection of, response to, and the reporting of security incidents,
including on-going incident monitoring with logging.
(m) Notify the City within one (1) hour of detecting a security incident that results in the
unauthorized access to or the misuse of the City's confidential data and information.
(n) Inform the City that any third party service provider(s) meet(s) all of the Requirements.
(o) Perform security self-audits on a regular basis and not less frequently than on a quarterly
basis, and provide the required summary reports of those self-audits to the ISM on the
annual anniversary date or any other date agreed to by the Parties.
(p) Accommodate, as practicable, and upon reasonable prior notice by the City, the City's
performance of random site security audits at the Consultant's site(s), including the site(s)
of a third-party service provider(s), as applicable. The scope of these audits will extend to
the Consultant's and its third-party service provider(s)' awareness of security policies and
practices, systems configurations, access authentication and authorization, and incident
detection and response.
(q) Cooperate with the City to ensure that to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and
regulations, and the Confidential Information will be accessible only by the Consultant and
any authorized third-party service provider's personnel.
(r) Perform regular, reliable secured backups of all data needed to maximize the availability
of the Services. Adequately encrypt the City of Palo Alto's data, during the operational
process, hosted at rest, and the backup stage at the Vendors' environment (including
Vendor's contracting organization's environment).
(s) Maintain records relating to the Services for a period of three (3) years after the expiration
or earlier termination of this Agreement and in a mutually agreeable storage medium.
Within thirty (30) days after the effective date of expiration or earlier termination of this
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Agreement, all of those records relating to the performance of the Services shall be
provided to the ISM.
(t) Maintain the Confidential Information in accordance with applicable federal, state, and
local data and information privacy laws, rules, and regulations.
(u) Encrypt the Confidential Information before delivering the same by electronic mail to the
City and or any authorized recipient.
(v) Provide Network Layer IP filtering services to allow access only from the City of Palo
Alto's IP address to the Vendor environment (primarily hosted for the City of Palo Alto).
(w) Offer a robust disaster recovery and business continuity (DR-BCP) solutions to the City
for the systems and services the Vendor provides to the City.
(x) Provide and support Single Sign-on (SSO) and Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
solutions for authentication and authorization services from the "City's environment to the
Vendor's environment," and Vendor's environment to the Vendor's cloud services/hosted
environment." The Vendor shall allow two employees of the City to have superuser and
super-admin access to the Vendor's IT environment, and a cloud-hosted IT environment
belongs to the City.
(y) Unless otherwise addressed in the Agreement, shall not hold the City liable for any direct,
indirect or punitive damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of
use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the City's IT environment,
including, without limitation, IT infrastructure communications.
(z) The Vendor must provide evidence of valid cyber liability insurance policy per the City’s
EXHIBIT “D” INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS.
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CMR 13747- Attachment F
Surveillance Use Policy for E Citation Devices for the Police Department Traffic Citations
In accordance with Palo Alto Municipal Code Section PAMC 2.30.680(d), the Surveillance Use
Policy for the use of E Citation devices for traffic enforcement is as follows:
1. Intended purpose of technology. The intended purposes of the E Citation devices are for
sworn officers to issue California Vehicle Code (CVC) traffic citations within the jurisdiction
of Palo Alto. This technology replaces the current triplicate paper citations with fully
electronic means of citation issuance and processing.
2. Authorized uses of the information. The information collected by the officer and entered
into the handheld devices are for the purpose of issuing CVC violations to persons who
violate the law. The information is shared with the Santa Clara County Court system and
entered into the police department Record Management System (RMS) for necessary
citation processing procedures. The citation information will be shared with the court and
involved party pursuant to California and federal laws. The Police Department Custodian of
Records is responsible for overseeing record release processes according to City policy and
procedure.
3. Information collected by the technology. The E Citation device does not independently
collect information, rather the officer operator inputs information. The unit has a camera
that the officer can use to photograph the rear of the involved vehicle. The unit software
uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR is technology to recognize text inside
images, such as scanned documents and photos to auto-populate certain text fields such as
license plate number and vehicle make and model. The operator can choose to use the
camera to pre-populate data fields or enter the information manually.
The device contains a magnetic stripe to swipe a driver’s license or for the officer to use the
camera to read the bar code of a driver’s license to auto populate the registered
owner/driver information on the citation. It is optional for the officer to use this method of
reading licensee information, they may use the camera to “scan” the bar code on the back
of the driver’s license, if present, or they may enter the data manually.
The device has a fingerprint sensor available on it to capture a detailed image of the driver’s
fingerprint that attaches to the digital record. This feature will only be used, according the
California law, as the positive identification of the person being issued the citation when
that person does not possess a copy of their valid driver’s license or have another form of
valid government-issued identification.
The driver will use the device stylus to sign the citation on the screen of the unit. The
signature image for all citations is captured as a photo. The image is then transferred to the
printed citation in the signature field. The device does not connect to any government
identification database.
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4. Safeguards and Compliance Features. All E Citation data downloaded to the vendor
system will be accessible only through a login/password-protected system capable of
documenting all access of information by name, date and time. Only authorized Police
Department and Information Technology staff will have access to the E Citation devices
and software system. The devices will be housed within a secure area of the Police
Department and be checked out by officers for field use during their shift.
The procurement of this technology will follow compliance procedures in accordance
with and accepted by the City’s documented Vendor Information Security Assessment
(VISA) evaluation and approval processes for technology vendor contracts. The scope of
Vendor Information Security Assessment (VISA) is to assess vendor IT environment of
the Cloud Service Provider (the Vendor), which intends to provide to the City of Palo
Alto (the City) any or all of the following services: Software as a Service (SaaS); Platform
as a Service (PaaS); and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The VISA assesses whether
SaaS, PaaS and IaaS service providers database applications, computer network
infrastructure and computer hardware and software platforms can be safely hosted by
the Vendor and made available to the City via interconnected in a network, typically the
Internet. The vendor completed the City’s VISA documentation and was approved.
5. Information Retention. Pursuant to the City of Palo Alto Records Retention Policy and
Gov Code section 34090, the department must retain copies of all issued citations for a
minimum of two years plus current, or pursuant to the violation’s statute of limitations.
Citation records may be kept longer in extenuating circumstances, such as for
collections of unpaid fines. Purging of citation data will be per state law and the City’s
documented purging policy and procedure. Images captured on the device will be
stored with the citation record for internal purposes only to document the conditions of
the violation and for officer use during prosecution in court as necessary. The vendor
software system allows the City to set required purging guidelines within the database.
The Police Department Custodian of Records is responsible for overseeing record
purging procedures.
6. Access to Information Outside of City. Citation records are shared with the involved
parties, the court system (for processing), and authorized law enforcement
representatives per official requests for police records. Citation dispositions are shared
from the court to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Citation data within the vendor
software system, may, with the City’s permission, be viewable by law enforcement
agencies that use the same system for the purpose of knowing if a violator has been
issued other citations. Currently, Santa Clara County SO, San Mateo County SO, San
Francisco County SO, Alameda County SO, and other allied agencies use the Turbo Data
system. Citation data will automatically transfer into the Department’s new Records
Management System (RMS), which is viewable by partnering law enforcement agencies
that have been authorized to view police records in the same RMS. Citation data
entered into the department’s RMS is not currently set to purge.
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7. Compliance Procedures. Information from the E Citation software program is
transmitted daily for citation processing. Department personnel review the citation
information and system functionality every weekday. Authorized operating personnel
will be trained on the device handling and transmission procedures, including the
prompt notification of the City’s Information Technology Department in the event of
suspected unauthorized system access.
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City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Title: Approval of Amendment Number 2 to Contract Number C18168129
with Kennedy / Jenks Consultants for Professional Design Services for the
Primary Sedimentation Tanks Rehabilitation and Equipment Room Electrical
Upgrade Project at the Regional Water Qual ity Control Plant to Increase
Compensation by $166,747 for a New Maximum Compensation Not to
Exceed $1,131,747, and to Extend the Contract Term Through June 30, 2024 -
Capital Improvement Program Project WQ -14003
From: City Manager
Lead Department: Public Works
Recommendation
Staff recommends that Council approve and authorize the City Manager or their designee to
execute Amendment No. 2 to Contract No. C18168129 with Kennedy/Jenks Consultants to
increase the contract amount by $166,747 to continue to provide engineering services during
construction for the Primary Sedimentation Tanks Rehabilitation and Equipment Room
Electrical Upgrade project (CIP WQ-14003), and to extend the term through June 30, 2024. The
revised total contract amount is not to exceed $1,131,747 including $717,082 for basic services
and $414,665 for additional services.
Background
On January 29, 2018, Council approved a professional services contract (SR 8729) for design
services with Kennedy/Jenks Consultants (K/J) for the Primary Sedimentation Tanks
Rehabilitation and Equipment Room Electrical Upgrade Project at the Palo Alto Regional Water
Quality Control Plant (RWQCP). The original contract amount was $715,369 including $650,335
for basic services and $65,034 for additional services. On December 3, 2018, Council approved
Amendment No.1 (SR 9756) to this contract to increase the contract amount by $249,631 to
allow K/J to provide additional services (i.e., perform detailed design of a new electrical building
to accommodate a new electrical power distribution center) and to extend the term through
March 31, 2022. The project design was completed in June 2019 with anticipation that the
construction would begin in October 2019 and be completed by December 2021.
Due to the longer than expected time to obtain signed partner agreement amendments from
partner agencies and to collaborate with the State Water Resources Control Board on finalizing
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the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) Installment Sale Agreement, the invitation for
bid for the construction project was delayed to August 2020. The project was rebid in January
2021 and a construction contract was awarded to C. Overaa & Co. (SR 11735) on May 17, 2021
with a new completion date of December 31, 2023.
Construction of this project began on June 24, 2021 upon issuance of the Notice to Proceed to
the contractor, C. Overaa & Co. As part of t he scope of the basic and additional services
included in the Contract and Amendment No. 1, K/J is required to provide engineering services
during construction. The services include periodic site visit s, as-needed attendance at weekly
progress meetings, construction document review, startup and commissioning support, and
final record drawing preparation.
Discussion
There was a 20-month delay of the anticipated construction start date from October 2019 to
June 2021. The new projected completion date is December 31, 2023. Amendment No. 2 is
needed to add funds in the amount of $166,747 to the project to address the delay and account
for:
1)updated costs, accounting for increases in hourly billing rates, for providing engineering
services during construction
2)additional efforts to provide services during construction associated with a larger
volume of construction documents and resubmittals;
3)additional efforts associated with an extended project management period; and
4)as-needed additional engineering services for unforeseen site conditions and
coordination with other ongoing major capital projects at the RWQCP.
At the start of the construction phase, approximately 20% of K/J’s total budget was reserved for
engineering services during construction and associated project management. Because of
additional efforts associated with rebidding the construction project, design of the new
electrical building, revision of the design to coo rdinate with other ongoing major capital
projects, and other small miscellaneous design elements that are not in the scope of the basic
services, the additional services budget has been depleted. The small miscellaneous design
elements include adding three electrical car charging stations (to be powered from the new
electrical building) for charging of City vehicles; designing a fire sprinkler system for the new
electrical building to meet the more stringent requirements of the Palo Alto Municipal Code;
optimizing the primary sedimentation tank scum skimming process by adding a computerized
program that will be monitored by plant operators; and revising the electrical drawings and
specifications to include additional power needs of other ongoing CIP projects at the plant.
The original contract amount was $715,369. Amendment No. 1 to the contract increased the
contract amount by $249,631. Amendment No. 2 adds $166,747 to the contract. The revised
total contract amount is a not to exceed $1,131,747 including $717,082 for basic services and
$414,665 for additional services.
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Timeline
Amendment No. 2 will extend the contract term with K/J from March 31, 2022 to June 30,
2024. Since July 2021, K/J has provided engineering services during construction. K/J’s services
will continue through construction completion in about December 2023 and allow until June 30,
2024 for K/J to prepare and submit final record drawings.
Resource Impact
Palo Alto RWQCP treats the combined wastewater from Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills,
Mountain View, Stanford University, and the East Palo Alto Sanitary District. Palo Alto’s share of
this project is 38.16% and the other five agencies’ share is 61.84%, based on the fixed capacity
established in partners’ agreements. As the lead agency, the City of Palo Alto has appropriated
the funding for this Project, including additional funding required for this contract Amendment
No. 2, in the Fiscal Year 2022 Wastewater Treatment Enterprise Fund Capital Improvement
Program Budget (Project WQ-14003). The design and construction of this project, including
associated construction management and administrative costs, is being financed through the
CWSRF loan, which is disbursed on a reimbursement basis.
Policy Implications
This recommendation does not represent any change to existing City policies and supports the
Comprehensive Plan Policy N.4-16.
Stakeholder Engagement
This project is part of the RWQCP’s major capital improvement program funded by Palo Alto
and the five partner agencies who use the RWQCP for wastewater treatment. The five partner
agencies are regularly updated on both the need for and the progress of wastewater treatment
capital work. Updates are provided each year at an annual meeting and at other periodic
meetings established to inform partner agency staff about the major capital improvement
program. With respect to Palo Alto itself, the open meetings on the budget process serve as the
main vehicle for engaging the community on both new projects such as this and associated rate
impacts.
Environmental Review
Approval of Amendment No. 2 to Contract C18168129 is a part of administrative governmental
activities that will not cause a direct or indirect physical change in the environment and
therefore, does not require a CEQA review. The construction of this project has been
determined to be exempt from CEQA under CEQA Guidelines Section 15301, subsections (b)
and (e)(1), Existing Facilities, as it involves the repair and maintenance of an existing publicly -
owned utility used to provide sewerage treatment services with a minor addition to an existing
building. On October 15, 2018, Council approved the determination that the construction of the
Primary Sedimentation Tanks Rehabilitation and Electrical Upgrade Project to be exempt from
the California Environmental Quality Act and approved the preliminary design (SR 9581).
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City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Title: City Council Discussion with the Independent Police Auditor and
Possible Approval of a Performance Review on Recruitment and Hiring
From: City Manager
Lead Department: City Manager
Recommendation
Staff recommends a discussion with the City Council and the Independent Police Auditor and
discussion and possible approval of a proposed performance review on recruitment and hiring.
Discussion
Since 2006, Palo Alto has utilized an independent police auditor (IPA) to conduct secondary
review of defined investigations of uniformed Police Department personnel and provide related
services. Since the inception of the independent police auditing program, the City has
contracted with the Office of Independent Review (OIR Group), to provide these services.
In 2021, the City Council amended the IPA contract scope to include meeting with the City
Council in open session twice a year. The last check in with the IPA was in a Study Session on
September 13, 2021 (agenda; minutes).
The IPA provided Attachment A as additional discussion material for the City Council for this
upcoming discussion.
In addition, the IPA has provided an idea of a scope of services in response to the City Council’s
interest in OIR performing a one-time performance review on an appropriate and useful topic.
OIR could conduct a review of the Palo Alto Police Department's Recruitment and Hiring
Processes to assess the extent to which the PAPD recruiting and hiring strategy and standards
reflect contemporary thinking about candidate eligibility, suitability, and potential. OIR believes
that this review could be conducted for $25,000.
If the City Council approves this or any other performance review, the City’s contract with OIR
provides for the Mayor and City Manager to execute a Task Order to approve the work,
timeline, and budget within the existing not-to-exceed contract amount. Of note, the contract
only allocates $10,000 for these additional services, thus further discussion of the cost and /or a
contract amendment would be necessary.
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Resource Impact
The City’s contract with OIR provides for $97,500 for core services, including secondary reviews
of the Police Department administrative investigations and other matters as described in the
contract; preparation of two reports per year; and two discussions with the City Council.
Performance reviews are funded as optional additional services, up to $1 0,000. As noted above,
the estimated recruitment and hiring performance review is for $25,000 which exceeds the
amount in the contract. If the City Council approves the performance review topic, staff would
further discuss the scope and cost with OIR and return to City Council regarding any contract
amendments and budget adjustments as necessary.
Attachments:
•Attachment11.a:Attachment A: Palo Alto Complaint Table with Text (2022)
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INDEPENDENT POLICE AUDITORS’ REPORT:
Addendum to February 2022 Public Report re Cases
Presented to the Honorable City Council
City of Palo Alto
February 2022
Prepared by: Michael Gennaco and Stephen Connolly
Independent Police Auditors for
the City of Palo Alto
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Case Totals: Summary and Trend Analysis
Our February 2022 Report is the latest in a series that we been providing to the City of Palo Alto
since 2007. It is also the first that reflects new elements in the “scope of work” that the City
Council designed in 2021, in response to the renewed emphasis on transparency and police
accountability in Palo Alto and across the country.
One of those new elements is a “statistical breakdown of the number of complaints
/investigations and any developing trends.” In response to that request, we have prepared the
following table in summary of the misconduct investigations that we cover in this report.
The ten matters itemized below are, in one respect, a small sample size from which it is difficult
to discern statistically meaningful trends. They do, however, approximately comport with our
past experience in terms of the volume of total complaints and internally generated investigations
for the period that is covered here. And we can use them as a starting point for a more complete
analysis as more “data points” emerge in the form of new investigations.1
Interestingly, three of the cases arose from complainant assertions regarding an alleged failure to
act by PAPD, as opposed to the more common dynamic of dissatisfaction with an affirmative
encounter (such as officer rudeness, unjustified detention, etc.) PAPD’s approach was found to
be reasonable and appropriate in all three instances – results with which we concurred. And the
circumstances were sufficiently distinct as to not lend themselves to a larger insight.
We do believe there is value to the idea of trend analysis, and look forward to providing further
updates as we assess pending and new cases for our future reports.
1 As part of our increased scope of work, PAPD was to report to IPA cases in which an officer pointed a
firearm at a person. PAPD has advised that there were no such instances during the relevant reporting
period.
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Complaint/Investigation Outcome
Allegation that officer’s investigative actions
“targeted” man improperly
Exonerated
Allegation that PAPD failed to intervene
appropriate in a legal dispute between former
spouses
No misconduct identified
Allegations of improper PAPD tactics and other
misrepresentations in a criminal case resulting
in conviction
Unfounded
Allegation of insufficient response by PAPD to
complainant’s third-party report of another
person’s activity in public.
No misconduct identified
Allegation of insufficient investigative response
by PAPD to a woman’s lost cell phone.
No misconduct identified
Allegation of false arrest, illegal search, and
racial profiling
Allegations not sustained
Internal allegation of officer misconduct
regarding database access and off-duty
misconduct
Sustained for conduct unbecoming and
improper monitoring of ride-along
Allegation of rudeness and improper
suppression of First Amendment activity
Officers counseled, no policy violations
sustained.
Allegation that PAPD had mishandled various
aspects of a medical response call
Dispatcher was found to have deviated
from protocol in handling of 911 call; no
policy violations sustained for officers.
Allegation of improper deployment of PAPD
K-9
No policy violations identified, but
relevant policies were revised in light of
incident.
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City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Title: Report and Discussion on Community Engagement Activities Planned to
Implement the City’s Workplans for the 2022 Calendar Year
From: City Manager
Lead Department: City Clerk
The report for this item will be provide on March 10, 2022 in a late packet distribution.
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City Council Staff Report
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
Title: Discuss Recommended Foothills Fire Mitigation and Safety
Improvement Strategies
From: City Manager
Lead Department: City Clerk
This item was pulled from the Consent agenda during the January 31,
2022 City Council Meeting and referred to a future meeting for discussion.
You can access the staff report here.
Since the original publication of item, the following news article has been
released and staff is forwarding it for City Council’s consideration:
•Growing wildfires pose new problems for water supply - Los Angeles
Times (latimes.com)
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Schedule of Meetings
Published March 3, 2022
This is a courtesy notice only. Meeting dates, times, and locations are subject to change. Almost all Palo Alto
Council and some Standing Committee meetings are cablecast live on Channel 26. If there happens to be
concurrent meetings, one meeting will be broadcast on Channel 29.
Persons with disabilities who require auxiliary aids or services in using City facilities or programs, or who would like information on the City’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, may
contact: ADA Coordinator, City of Palo Alto, 650-329-2550 (voice) or 329-1199 (TDD), ada@cityofpaloalto.org. Listening assistive devices are available in the Council Chambers. Sign language interpreters will be
provided upon request with 72 hours advance notice. Please advise the City Clerk's Office (650-329-2571) of meetings or changes by 3:00 p.m. on Wednesdays for inclusion in the following week’s schedule.
3/03/2022
Starting March 1, meetings will be held in-person and by virtual teleconference.
MONDAY, MARCH 7
Sp. City Council Meeting, 5:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
Council Appointed Officers Committee Meeting, 4:00 p.m.
Policy & Services Committee Meeting, 7:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
Planning & Transportation Commission Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
Historic Resources Board Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
Architectural Review Board Meeting, 10:00 a.m.
Human Relations Commission Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
Sp. City Council Meeting – Architectural Review Board Interviews, 4:00 p.m.
MONDAY, MARCH 14
Sp. City Council Meeting, 5:00 p.m.
THURSDAY, MARCH 17
Architectural Review Board Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
City/School Liaison Committee Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
Public Art Commission Meeting, 7:00 p.m.
MONDAY, MARCH 21
Sp. City Council Meeting, 5:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, MARCH 22
Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, MARCH 24
Historic Resources Board Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30
Planning & Transportation Commission Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
MONDAY, APRIL 4
Sp. City Council Meeting, 5:00 p.m.
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Office of the City Clerk
City Council CAO Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
Title: Appointments of Candidates for the Architectural Review Board
From: Lesley Milton, City Clerk
Recommendation
Staff recommends City Council vote to appoint candidates to the following positions on the
Architectural Review Board:
•One (1) position with a term ending March 31, 2025
•One (1) position with an unexpired term ending March 31, 2024
**A majority vote (4 yes’s) is required to appoint each applicant.
Background
Boards and Commissions are established as advisory bodies to the City C ouncil, made up of
community volunteers that provide essential feedback on matters of importance to the
community. The City Clerk’s office advertises and recruits for vacancies, the Council considers
the applications, interviews desired candidates, and makes recommendations for appointment
for the open positions.
Per City Council’s motion on December 13, 2021, the Special Architectural Review Board (ARB)
recruitment was initiated to invite more applicants through January 31, 2022:
MOTION: Mayor DuBois moved, seconded by Council Member Cormack to:
A.Vote tonight for two ARB positions;
B.Direct the Clerk to open a new recruitment opening from now until the end of
January for the open positions; and
C.Request the incumbent to serve the holdover position until recruited.
MOTION PASSED: 6-0, Kou absent
Another position was added to the one unfilled vacancy due to Board Member Grace Lee’s
resignation from the ARB on December 2, 2021. Board Member Lee’s vacancy was unable to
be added to the Fall Recruitment at that time per PAMC 2.16.060, which required an
advertising period of at least 15 days before vacancies are scheduled to be filled. The
appointments at that time were on December 13, 2021.
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Furthermore, Ordinance 5529 (which outlined the new Board, Commissions, and Committees
term limits approved by City Council on August 9, 2021) came into effect this past January 1,
2022. The Ordinance states, “Effective January 1, 2022, terms of office due to expire on
December 15 of each year shall be extended to expire on March 31 of the following year, and
thereafter terms of office shall commence on April 1.” Advertising was updated to include the
extended terms. As such, the current vacancies staff is requesting to be filled are:
•One (1) position with a term ending March 31, 2025
•One (1) position with an unexpired term ending March 31, 2024
For the Architectural Review Board (ARB) Special Recruitment effort, the City received a total
of 13 qualified applications; 7 new applications were submitted during the extended
recruitment period and 6 applications were from the previous Fall recruitment.
Interviews
At the February 14, 2022 City Council meeting, the Council elected to interview the 7 new
applicants received during the extended recruitment effort (02-14 ARB Recruitment Report).
Their interviews will be conducted on March 11, 2022 at 4 p.m. as a special City Council
meeting. Video recordings of the interviews will be made available on our City of Palo Alto
YouTube Channel for the public and Council Members who are unable to attend.
The 6 applicants from the previous Fall Recruitment have been interviewed on November 16,
2021. A recording of this meeting can be viewed online as well (Interviews Video Link).
All applications received for these positions can be accessed online (All ARB Applications
Received). City Council will incorporate all interviews into the final selection.
Membership Requirements
Per PAMC 2.21.010, the Architectural Review Board requires at least 3 of its members to be
architects, landscape architects, building designers or other design professionals. Board
Members Peter Baltay, David Hirsch, and Osma Thompson are architects. As a result, the
current ARB Members fulfill these requirements.
Architectural Review Board: Two positions
•At least three members must be architects, landscape architects, building designers or
other design professionals. (Fulfilled by current members)
•No Palo Alto residency requirement
(PAMC 2.21.010)
•NEWLY RECEIVED APPLICANTS:
1.Yingxi Chen
2.Joao (Johnny) Baptista DaRosa
3.John Kunz
4.Dave Madwed
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5.Alfred J. Mandel
6.Kendra Rosenberg
7.Curtis Smolar
•PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED APPLICANTS:
8.Yujin Jeon (Preference of the March 31, 2024 term)
9.Kathryn Jordan
10.Manix Patel
11.Brigham Wilson
12.Jim Xiao
13.Bin Zhou (Resubmitted an updated application)
Public Outreach
Palo Alto Municipal Code 2.16.060 requires public notification regarding vacancies of the
Commissions: “The City Clerk shall exercise their discretion in choosing the method of
advertisement that will most effectively reach potential candidates.” Based on the September
14, 2021 Policy & Services Committee meeting report (available here) regarding Board and
Commission Member demographics and community representation, the City Clerk’s office
expanded recruitment efforts through additional means to “most effectively reach potential
candidates.”
The Fall 2021 Boards and Commission recruitment invited applications from September 16,
2021 through October 26, 2021 through the new online application process. From that
previous recruitment, 6 unselected applicants of the 7 confirmed their continued interest for
the 2 vacancies.
The Special ARB recruitment invited applications from December 13 , 2021 through January 31,
2022. The vacancies were advertised through various methods in partnership with the
Communications team. This included paid print advisements in the Palo Alto Weekly and the
Daily Post; via the City’s website and social media channels; in physical locations of the Palo
Alto Libraries and Community Centers; and distributed by email and through City subscription -
based notification lists.
To effectively reach architectural professionals, further email outreach was done to 17 local
Palo Alto based architect companies and Stanford’s Architectural Design Program. Palo Alto’s
Public Works Engineering staff were also notified by email to share the openings to their
professional networks, as several are licensed architects. A focused soci al media engagement
was also organized with AIA Silicon Valley.
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City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Title: Report and Discussion on Community Engagement Activities Planned to
Implement the City’s Workplans for the 2022 Calendar Year
From: City Manager
Lead Department: City Manager
RECOMMENDATION
This item is a study session, and no action is requested. Staff recommends that the Council
receive a staff report and discuss community engagement activities planned to implement the
City’s workplans for the 2022 calendar year.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report provides a summary of community engagement activities planned and underway.
Notably, the report summarizes major topics areas and initiatives that the City is actively
engaging the community on to gain community feedback and inform City Council decision-
making. As described in this report, the number and complexity of initiatives being pursued by
the City necessitates a thoughtful review in order to ensure that limited resources are allocated
to the highest priority areas, and that public engagement is clear and meaningful. To ensure
awareness of the work underway and alignment on next steps, Staff is seeking City Council
feedback on the engagement efforts below.
BACKGROUND
In May 2021, staff presented an update on the City’s community engagement efforts at the
Policy and Services Committee following a Council request to share work underway. The staff
presentation and staff report (listed here) provided background on different community
engagement options planned, including use of Town Halls, with an opportunity for the Policy
and Services Committee to provide additional input and guidance.
Since that update, several work items have been completed such as two town hall meetings,
Wellness Wednesdays, Uplift Local meetings and weekly newsletters, City Manager comments
and blog series, issue specific public meetings; and other work is either planned or revised
based on updated City Council priorities and direction. As an example, since the update to
Policy and Services Committee, a new community engagement effort to support the
Sustainability/Climate Action Plan development and the establishment of a City Council Ad Hoc
on Sustainability, were added to the City’s overall w orkplan.
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DISCUSSION
As part of the 2022 City Council retreat, staff was prepared to present an update on community
engagement in an effort to gain Council input on the efforts underway and refine plans as work
progresses through the calendar year. This staff report is a step in the overall strategy of
implementing the City’s workplans. The details provided in this report relate to and connect
with the City Council Priorities Workplan discussion scheduled for Council consideration on
April 4, 2022. Based on the City Council’s adopted priorities, the April 4 session will present the
major projects involved in advancing each priority. For each priority, projects are divided into
three categories: projects already underway or scheduled to begin by June 2022, projects
scheduled to begin July-December 2022, and projects that have been identified as priorities but
where resources are not currently available or otherwise “on hold.” As priorities evolve and
workplans develop, engagement and other activities to implement these workplans will also
evolve.
While balancing staffing and resource limitations, the City is implementing and planning several
thoughtful community engagement efforts acknowledging this as an important and stated
priority. The City of Palo Alto maintains an extraordinary level of community engagement on
specific topics as well as general engagement and ongoing communication on City programs,
services and events. The volume of engagement outlined below, although extensive, reflects a
summary of intentional strategies to inform City Council decision-making and support the
implementation of the City’s workplans. To ensure awareness of the work underway and
alignment on next steps, Staff is seeking City Council feedback on the engagement efforts
below. Council feedback during this study session will help inform the workplan conversation
that will be brought to the City Council on April 4th.
The report is organized by the following sections:
1.Major City priorities and topics with community engagem ent resources planned
2.Other Work Plan Elements and Examples of Department-Specific Community
Engagement
3.Examples of Communications and Engagement Options Used in Support of Civic
Participation
Major City Priorities and Topics with Community Engagement Resources Planned
Over the next ten months, City staff is planning both general engagement and issue -specific
engagement to seek feedback and input from community members.
From a general engagement standpoint, the City has used several approaches to build
community awareness, enhance civic participation and gain feedback. Approaches include:
town halls, community information sessions, office hours, neighborhood meetings, online
surveys, polls, and digital engagement platform.
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The following is a list of approaches that the City uses for engagement, with reference to the
International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Spectrum of Public Participation, that
the City utilizes to further engagement activities as staff implements the City’s workplan. While
the following list includes general approaches and actions, we tailor each opportunity to
structure community participation to gain the type of input or feedback needed based on the
project/issue:
•Inform: Fact sheets, webpages, blog posts, information sessions, open houses,
frequently asked questions, website feedback forms
•Consult & Involve: Surveys, focus groups, questions and answer sessions, office hours,
public meetings like community meetings, town halls, panel discussions, workshops,
polling, community meetings
•Collaborate & Empower: Working groups, ad hoc groups, feedback groups, boards,
commissions and committee meetings, community advisory panels, advisory groups,
digital engagement platforms, and voter ballot measures.
The tables below provide a sampling of the work completed recently, work underway, and work
planned throughout calendar year 2022; this is not an exhaustive list. Table A in cludes general
community engagement methods.
TABLE A: Community Engagement Methods and Examples
Community
Engagement
Methods
Summary, Audience & Function Timeframe
Weekly
Newsletter
Regular outbound communication enables readers
to feel informed of major issues and upcoming
events. The newsletter is one of several
communications methods to inform and engage the
community.
Uplift Local weekly
newsletter
currently has over
60,000 subscribers
Community
Information
Podcasts
Launched during the beginning of the pandemic, a
series of podcasts drew up to 300 -400 views and
were an opportunity to share updates and answer
community questions received before each chat
with the mayor and city manager. This audience
was general community and businesses. Prior series
completed, and no current series planned.
Weekly series
completed in
March – May 2020
Town Halls For the past several years, the City has used Town
Halls to engage the community on specific priority
topics like budget and rail grade separations.
Calendar Year 2021 meetings:
-May 2021: Budget Town Hall
-Fall 2021: CommUNITY Town Hall to discuss Hate
Two town hall
meetings annually,
that are issue-
specific
-Spring 2022: TBD
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Crimes
National
Community
Survey
The City has a long-standing goal of engaging the
community through the National Community Survey
which benchmarks the City against other
community surveys, engaging the community
through a random sample of community members.
This was completed last in 2020
Per Council
direction in the FY
2022 budget, the
next survey is
planned for late
2022 (FY 2023).
OpenGov Online
Survey
Online survey tool that supports community
engagement through a forum to share feedback on
specific issues, programs, projects and initiatives.
The audience is intended to be resident focused.
Ongoing
City Service
Feedback
Online feedback tool and community resource to
share customer service experience citywide.
Intended audience is any customer at any city
facility or online customer.
Ongoing, initially
launched Summer
2021.
Topic-specific
Community
Meetings
Community meetings provide residents and other
stakeholders to become informed and provide
feedback on specific issues.
Neighborhood and
policy-specific
meetings occur
throughout year
Neighborhood
Town Hall
Meetings
Envisioned as hosted by Councilmembers, a series
of six community meetings in specific neighborhood
areas are being developed in a virtual format. The
audience is intended to be resident-focused.
Six meetings to be
scheduled in Q2-Q4
Chat with the
Mayor Series
This is envisioned as quarterly smaller group
sessions on any topic areas. The audience is
intended to be resident-focused.
To be scheduled
Council, Board,
Commission and
Committee
Meetings
Ongoing meetings on specific topics for the
community. The audience is generally those
interested on a specific topic of discussion at the
respective board, commission or committee
meeting.
Ongoing
Palo Alto Digital
Hub
New online engagement platform using an ESRI
product to enable interaction on major initiatives
like fiber and sustainability. The audience is
intended to be resident and business focused.
Ongoing, initially
launched Summer
2021
Ad hoc
committees,
focus groups,
and task forces
Groups are assembled to provide focused input and
collaboration on specific issues, often requiring
background knowledge and agreement to act in
partnership on next steps.
Multiple groups in
progress for S/CAP,
housing, fiber
Voter Ballot
Measures
Voters are ultimately empowered to make major
decisions through scheduled and special elections.
Potential ballot
measures in
November 2022
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In applying the methods above, Table B summarizes a number of the community engagement
specific to implementing the City’s workplan. This is simply a sampling, as each of the p riorities
listed also involve multiple City Council and committee discussions as well other steps.
Nonetheless, the following table provides an illustration of the volume of communication and
level of effort anticipated over the upcoming months.
TABLE B: Major City Priorities with Community Engagement Options Identified
Major City
Priorities
Engagement Options Identified Timeframe
Budget/Fiscal
Sustainability-
2022 Ballot
Measures
Budget Town Hall
Community Listening Session
Polls, Mailed Survey and Online Survey
Focus Group meetings
Community presentations
May 2021
March 29, 2022
November 2021-
June 2022
Up to 9, February
2022-April 2022
Up to 10, March
2022-May 2022
Sustainability/
Climate Action
Plan
Ad Hoc meetings
Working Group Meetings
Online Surveys
Community Summit and Open House
Climate Pledge
Sustainability Hub
Summer 2021- Fall
2022
Ongoing
Q3
TBD
Spring 2022
Fiber Community Information Session
Focus Groups
Feedback Community
Market Research Survey
Utilities Advisory Commission (UAC) Updates
February 24, 2022
March/April 2022
March-June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
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Major City
Priorities
Engagement Options Identified Timeframe
City Council/UAC Joint Study Session
Palo Alto Fiber Hub
June 2022
Launched Fall 2021
Public Safety Virtual Community Conversation and Panel
Discussion
Chief Office Hours
Chief’s Advisory Group
Discussions with Chamber of Commerce
Launched Calls for Service Interactive Map
Police Chief Selection Community Listening Sessions
Police Chief Selection Online Feedback Form
July 2021
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
February 2022
March 10, 19, 31
Launched February
25, 2022
Race and Equity Women and Girls Summit
CommUNITY Together Town Hall to discuss Hate
Crimes
Creative Attention: Art and Community Restoration
On view from January 22-May 21, 2022, this
exhibition explores the power of art to promote
individual and community wellbeing.
In following the City Council direction in 2021, the
Palo Alto Public Art Program recently launched the
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Coretta Scott King Artist
Residency. The Public Art Commission approved
Rayos Magos as the first artist for the King Artist
Residency, based on recommendations by a
selection panel. Rayos Magos will utilize the power
of storytelling and imagery in community
conversations about culture, identity, and mental
health within Latinx/BIPOC communities living
and/or working in Palo Alto. Community
programming began in February.
June 2021
Fall 2021
January-May 2022
February 2022
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Major City
Priorities
Engagement Options Identified Timeframe
Weekly Women’s History Month Storytimes (March
2022), planning to do storytimes and other events
for AAPI in May 2022 and other library events
specific to race and equity.
AAPI Heritage Month- community celebration of
events hosted by the Library, Community Services
Department and many community groups
Microaggressions Training for Boards, Commission
and Committee members
May 2021
Spring 2022
Community
Health and
Safety
Wellness Wednesdays
Together Again Community Week
Monthly in 2021/
now transitioned to
every Thursday
through the Art
Center
September 2021
Housing Housing Element Working Group
Housing Element Ad Hoc Committee
Renter Protection Outreach
Rental Protections Panel Discussion
Safe Parking Community Meetings
Began June 2021-
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
December 2020
Fall 2021
Economic
Recovery
Uplift Local Monthly Community Meetings
Monthly Business Meetings for the University Ave.,
California Avenue, and other business interests
Monthly through
Fall 2021
Monthly through
December
2021/Now
transitioning to
Chamber
partnership
Tree Ordinance Two community meetings planned. Second meeting
tentative for May 2022.
April 6, 2022
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Major City
Priorities
Engagement Options Identified Timeframe
Parks and Recreation Commission
Architectural Review Board
Online Survey
City Council Consideration
*Tentative dates
April 2022*
April 2022*
May 2022
June 2022*
Grade
Separation
Town Halls
Virtual Town Hall
XCAP
Word on the Street Meetups (neighborhood specific
open house)
Virtual Panel Q&A Sessions
Community & Stakeholder Outreach Through:
•Rail Committee
•Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee
•City/School Traffic Liaison Committee
•PAUSD
•Caltrain
2020-2021
Ongoing
Other Work Plan Elements and Examples of Department-Specific Community Engagement
In addition to the table above that summarizes work completed, underway or planned, there
are regular work elements with community engagement associated, which are typically
department-led efforts. From an overall standpoint, this type of outreach typically is asking for
community input on specific areas of the City’s work plan implementation to help further
decision-making on areas such as policies and programs, service delivery, capital improvement
projects, and also used to bring the community together through community events. Some
examples of annual community events that the City produces and sponsors each year can be
found here on page 73.
Examples of policy issues and topics that are tied to this department-specific work, and
examples of community events that seek to bring the community together include:
•Planning/Objective Standards (Planning)
•Wireless Communication Facilities Ordinance and Resolution (Planning)
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•Airplane Noise Ground Based Augmentation System Community Meeting (Public Works)
•Parking in Lieu Downtown Office Parking Ban (will also address Housing Work Plan Task
2.4.5) (Planning)
•Building Code Update, Reach Code Update & Ordinance RE: Substantial Remodels
(Planning)
•Cubberley Masterplan (Community Services)
•Ambulance Subscription Program (Fire)
•Parking permit and programs (Transportation)
•University Avenue Streetscape (Public Works)
•Charleston/Arastradero Corridor project (Public Works)
•Churchill/Alma Safety Intersection Improvements (Section 130) (Transportation)
•Park openings and the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo grand opening celebration
(Community Services and Public Works)
•Summer concerts and community events such as May Fete (Community Services)
•Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan Update (Transportation)
•South Palo Alto Bikeways Project (Transportation)
•On-demand Transit Service (Transportation)
•Traffic Signal Modifications at San Antonio & Charleston (Transportation)
•Micro-mobility Launch (E-scooters/Bike-share) (Transportation)
•Electric Vehicles Workshops -March –October 2022 (Utilities)
•Neighborhood Traffic Safety and Bike Boulevards Project (Transportation)
•Restart Cool Block neighborhood engagement (City Manager’s Office)
•Neighbors Abroad Sister City/Sibling City Cultural Day (City Manager’s Office)
Community safety trainings and Emergency Services Volunteer programming (Office of
Emergency Services)
•Summer Reading Program, Remaker Faire, Palo Alto Reads (Library)
Examples of Communications and Engagement Options Used in Support of Civic Participation
The City is committed to informing and engaging the community on City programs, priorities,
and services. From a communications standpoint, there are several ways that the City is
supporting building awareness and informing the public about community events, City policies
and programs, City events, and sharing opportunities to participate in the City’s decision-
making process.
With the launch of the City’s new website in early 2021, the use of the new and enhanced City
website calendar is one new way to inform and engage the community about upcoming way s
to participate in City events and meetings. The City also uses Nextdoor and Facebook calendars,
when possible. Sharing public information through digital platforms has worked well to increase
community awareness of programs and services, including existing communications channels
such as blog posts, websites, and social media channels including Nextdoor, Nixle and more.
The City also uses its survey platform through OpenGov, called Open Town Hall to offer online
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surveys and polls as an additional engagement opportunity throughout the year. During our
virtual environment, the City has hosted several Zoom conversations with the community and
during these sessions utilize polls, surveys and the Q and A feature to engage and gain
feedback.
Informally, the City also looks to neighborhood, educational, and community organizations with
existing strong community connections such as Palo Alto Neighborhoods (PAN), Stanford
University, Cool Block, Emergency Service Volunteers and many more to engage and inform.
These existing groups share engagement opportunities with their community networks, acting
as ambassadors for increased public dialogue and engagement. We will continue to use these
and other existing community groups and networks to enhance communications an d
engagement efforts.
TIMELINE
The recommended activities outlined above are to be pursued within the 2022 calendar year.
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
The staff report outlines a series of citywide and department -specific engagement efforts
planned to implement the City’s workplans.
RESOURCE IMPACTS
The details shared above provide activities planned using existing staff resources.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
This agenda item is informational only and is not a “project” requiring review under the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
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City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
City of Palo Alto Page 1
Title: Item 5 Supplemental Report: Adoption of Side letters of Agreement
with Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto
(UMPAPA), International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), Fire Chiefs
Association (FCA), Palo Alto Peace Officer s’ Association (POA), Palo Alto
Police Management Association (PMA), and Services Employees International
Union Local 521 (SEIU); and Updated Salary Schedules for Management and
Professional Employees, SEIU Hourly Unit, and Limited Hourly Employees.
From: City Manager
This memorandum is a supplemental report for agenda item 5 scheduled on the March
14, 2022 Council agenda. Subsequent to the release of the staff report, additional
agreements were reached with employee bargaining units. This supplemental item
recommends a re-titling of the item to notice all employee bargaining units, as well as
updated recommendation language for full inclusion of all adjustments. A second
supplemental item is expected to be released on Monday March 14th detailing all revised
salary schedules in accordance with these new agreements.
New Title and Additional Recommendation
Item 5: Adoption of Side letters of Agreement with Utilities Management and
Professional Association of Palo Alto "UMPAPA", International Association of
Fire Fighters IAFF "IAFF", Fire Chiefs Association "FCA", Palo Alto Peace
Officers’ Association (POA), Palo Alto Police Management Association (PMA),
and Services Employees International Union Local 521 (SEIU); and Updated
Salary Schedules for Management and Professional Employees, SEIU Hourly
Unit, and Limited Hourly Employees.
Staff recommends that the City Council also:
4) Adopt a Letter of Agreement extending the existing contract with Palo Alto Peace
Officers’ Association (POA); Palo Alto Police Management Association (PMA), and
Services Employees International Union Local 521 (SEIU).
Background
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On March 14, 2022, Staff is bringing Letter of Agreements for Council adoption
extending existing contracts with the following groups: Utilities Management and
Professional Association of Palo Alto (UMPAPA), International Association of Fire
Fighters Local 1319 (IAFF), and the Palo Alto Fire Chiefs Association (FCA) in Council
Report #14069.
Since publication of Council Report #14069 on March 3, 2022, Staff successfully
negotiated Letters of Agreement with POA, PMA and SEIU to extend their current
contracts.
The Palo Alto Peace Officers’ Association (POA) and Palo Alto Police Management
Association (PMA) represents both front line and supervisory police personnel. The POA
and PMA represent approximately 78 police personnel providing public safety services
to the community. POA and PMA are currently covered by Agreements that are set to
expire June 30, 2022.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) represents the City’s largest
bargaining unit with approximately 544 full-time positions. The positions support nearly
all areas of City services including Utilities, Public Works, Public Safety, Community
Services and Libraries. The current Memorandum of Agreement expired December 31,
2021.
Discussion
As outlined in Staff Report #14069 the City is addressing cost of living indicators and
regional economic factors through the actions brought to Council by recommending a
4% COLA.
POA and PMA agreed to defer their contractually negotiated general wage increase to
assist the City in navigating the sudden and unexpected impact of COVID-19 on the
City’s FY21 budget. Similar actions were not taken by surrounding Police agencies. POA
and PMA represented employees last received a salary increase, the deferred increase
noted above, July 1, 2021.
SEIU represented employees continued to provide critical services to the community
throughout the pandemic with much of their membership unable to work remotely due
to the nature of their work. SEIU’s contract expired on December 31, 2021. SEIU
represented employees last received a salary increase December 1, 2020.
Below is a high-level overview of the Letters of Agreement for each bargaining group:
(4) POA
a.4% Cost of Living Adjustment effective April 1, 2022 paycheck
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b.New expiration date of December 31, 2022
(5) PMA
a.4% Cost of Living Adjustment effective April 1, 2022 paycheck
b.New expiration date of December 31, 2022
(6) SEIU
a.4% Cost of Living Adjustment effective April 1, 2022 paycheck
b.New expiration date of December 31, 2022
Revised salary schedules will be distributed at places on Monday, March 14, 2022 to
show the new ranges. In the event a Labor Group does not ratify the Letter of
Agreement by March 21, 2022, the increases will not take effect for the April 1, 2022
paycheck and an update to Council will be provided.
Resource Impact
Approval of the staff recommendations outlined in this Supplemental Report will result
in compensation adjustments beginning in the April 1, 2022 pay period for PAPOA, PMA,
and SEIU labor groups. The City will incur an additional 16 weeks of costs in the current
fiscal year that is expected to be absorbed through salary savings from vacant
positions.
In FY 2023, the 4% increase for PAPOA, PMA, and SEIU will result in approximately
$3.2 million in annual costs ($1.5 million in the General Fund).
In total, the FY 2023 additional costs for compensation adjustments for all groups
(MGMT, UMPAPA, IAFF, FCA, POA, PMA, SEIU) in Council Report #14069 and this
report will result in approximately $5.7 million in annual costs ($3.6 million in the
General Fund). This calculation is based on salary and variable benefit costs only; it
does not include any impacts to the unfunded accrued liability for pension costs.
The City's pension trust manager, CalPERS, issues an annual valuation in July/August
that determines employer contributions for the coming fiscal year. By practice, CalPERS
uses member data two years in arrears; therefore, the impact on pension costs are
expected to materialize in FY 2025/26.
Attachments:
•Attachmenta: POA Letter of Agreement Extension 3.14.22
•Attachmentb: SEIU Letter of Agreement Extension 3.14.22
•Attachmentc: PMA Letter Of Agreement Extension 3.14.22
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Proposed Letter of Agreement
City of Palo Alto and Palo Alto Peace Officers’ Association
March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
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City of Palo Alto and Palo Alto Peace Officers’ Association
Proposed Letter of Agreement: March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
I.Introduction and MOA Term Extension
Both the City and the Palo Alto Peace Officers’ Association (Association) have a mutual interest in
extending the current Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) as set forth below. All other terms of the
existing MOA, as modified by the July 1, 2020 Letter of Agreement between the parties, shall continue in
effect through December 31, 2022.
II.Duration
The Parties agree to amend Section 48 (“Duration”) of the current MOA to extend the duration of the
contract, for an expiration of December 31, 2022.
III.Salary
The Parties agree to amend Section 7 (“Salary Provisions”) of the current MOA to include the following:
Effective the first full pay period including adoption of this side Letter of Agreement by City Council,
salary ranges of all represented classifications will be increased by four percent (4%).
For the Association: For the City:
Sgt. Ken Kratt Date City Manager Ed Shikada Date
Agent Chris Correia Date City Attorney Molly Stump Date
Sgt. Joel Hornung Date HR Director Rumi Portillo Date
Agt. Josh Salkeld Date Chief Robert Jonsen Date
Sgt. Alex Afanasiev Date ER Manager Nick Raisch Date
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Peter A Hoffmann, Rains Lucia Stern Date Sr. HR Administrator Tori Anthony Date
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Proposed Letter of Agreement
City of Palo Alto and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521
January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022
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City of Palo Alto and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521
Proposed Letter of Agreement: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022
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I.Introduction and MOA Term Extension
Both the City and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521 have a mutual interest in
extending the current Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) as set forth below. All other terms of the
existing MOA shall continue in effect through December 31, 2022.
II.Salary
The Parties agree to amend Appendix A of the current MOA to include the following:
Effective the pay period including the adoption of this Letter of Agreement by the City Council
(anticipated Council meeting March 14, 2022, PP07) and ratification by the Union, a four percent (4%)
cost of living increase will be applied to the salary ranges for all represented classes.
III.Term
The Parties agree to amend Article XXVII (“Term”) of the current MOA to extend the duration of the
contract, for an expiration of December 31, 2022.
For the Association: For the City:
Xochitl Lopez, Chief Negotiator Date Ed Shikada, City Manager Date
Chris Brickner, Chapter Chair Date Rumi Portillo, HR Director Date
Eidref Laxa, Worksite Organizer Date Molly Stump, City Attorney Date
_________________________________ _________________________________
Lynn Krug Date Nicholas Raisch, ER Manager Date
_________________________________
Ratu Serumalani Date Tori Anthony, Chief Negotiator Date
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Martha Walters Date
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City of Palo Alto and Palo Alto Police Management Association
March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
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City of Palo Alto and Palo Alto Police Management Association
Proposed Letter of Agreement: March 14, 2022 – December 31, 2022
Section I. Introduction and MOA Term Extension
Both the City and the Palo Alto Police Management Association (Association) have a mutual interest in
extending the current Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) as set forth below. All other terms of the
existing MOA, as modified by the July 1, 2020 Letter of Agreement between the parties, shall continue in
effect through December 31, 2022.
Section II. Duration
The Parties agree to amend Article XI Section 50 (“Duration”) of the current MOA to extend the duration
of the contract, for an expiration of December 31, 2022.
Section III. Salary
The Parties agree to amend Article II Section 3 (“Salary”) and Appendix A-1 of the current MOA to
include the following:
Effective the first full pay period including adoption of this Letter of Agreement by City Council, salary
ranges of all represented classifications will be increased by four percent (4%).
For the Association: For the City:
James Reifschneider, A. Captain Date Ed Shikada, City Manager Date
April Wagner, Captain Date Rumi Portillo, HR Director Date
Molly Stump, City Attorney Date
Robert Jonsen, Police Chief Date
Nicholas Raisch, ER Manager Date
Tori Anthony, SR HR Administrator Date
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City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 3/14/2022
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Title: Item 11 Supplemental Report: City Council Discussion with the
Independent Police Auditor and Possible Approval of a Performance Review
on Recruitment and Hiring
From: City Manager
Lead Department: City Manager
Supplemental Report
As the City Council considers a special topic for the Independent Police Auditor (IPA) to review
for 2022, staff is providing the draft scope of work below. This scope of work was coordinated
between OIR and City staff, and completed after the initial staff report was issued for this item.
If the City Council generally agrees with the scope of work, staff can execute the Task Order per
the contract. Staff also lists two other potential process review items for future years.
Proposed Process Review Scope of Work (March 9, 2022)
Recruitment and Hiring Process Review
IPA would conduct a review of PAPD's Recruitment and Hiring Processes to assess the extent to
which the PAPD recruiting and hiring strategy and standards reflect contemporary thinking
about candidate eligibility, suitability, and potential, including contemporary practices from a
diversity and inclusion lens. The report will reference the PAPD demographic information
included in the City’s Race and Equity work. The IPA recruitment and hiring process review will
cover the following areas:
•Recruiting efforts (including job posting/advertising venues, and job fairs)
•Review of application process and interview process and questions
•Review of background investigations
Deliverable: a public report with a presentation to the City Council.
IPA believes that this review could be conducted within the budgetary bounds of the existing
contract. IPA could complete the review within 90 -120 days of receipt of assignment.
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An example of a report from another jurisdiction (Madison, Wisconsin) where the IPA studied
many things including recruitment and hiring can be found online here:
https://www.oirgroup.com/_files/ugd/d85a96_75f806fb3bb74266819b6a9bb6a4b281.pdf
Other future review topic areas (not included in the scope above):
•Review of Field Training (FTO) / Probation process
•Review of the performance review process
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