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• Commission feedback: Rather than only involving the Planning Commission in the Comprehensive Plan update process, all commissions were given opportunities to provide feedback. While initially not a budget exceedance, evaluating feedback from the Parks, Recreation, and Environmental Commission took more time than anticipated. This is not surprising being 75% of the feedback received through the community engagement phase was parks-related, resulting in a heavily edited, yet better end product with regard to the parks chapter. • Regional Traffic Projections: Some of the content in the transportation chapter has been delayed due to the Metropolitan Council’s delay in publishing regional traffic projection data. This is a required element in comprehensive planning and due to the Metropolitan Council’s delay, the City’s consultant has spent extra effort coordinating how to get the information into the plan once it’s published. Based on the above bulleted items, staff is requesting authorization to spend an additional $10,000 on professional services related to the Comprehensive Plan update process. For context, the City considered two other proposals for professional services related to the Comprehensive Plan update. The most comparable proposal to the services rendered by Hoisington Koegler Group Inc. was for $155,000. Thus, staff finds the additional request of $10,000 to be reasonable based upon the services we have received. Costs and Funding: The additional $10,000 will be paid for out of professional services in the Community Development portion of the DCAD budget. It is anticipated, even with this added expense, the 2018 budget will not be exceeded. ________________________________________ Janice Gundlach Assistant Director of Community Assets & Development / Planning Director Attachments: Work Plan