Ill make my first contract. For the contract approval itself its 500,000 for Profession Services contract to hire an eir contract, perhaps augmented to Planning Department staff so the commission would approve the request to contract and see the scope at that time. There may be other avenues as well for commission review. But in terms of what were going to do. Im just trying to find out what uses were trying to have more of. So are we. Okay. Maybe you could explain the need for what brought us to the need for doing a new eir and then when we come back for the contract approvals or whatever we come back with next we could share more vision. Diane with the planning and development division. Years ago, and commissioner brandon will probably remember this, there were a number of different leases and port projects that we wanted to do in the southern waterfront and we did do an Environmental Impact report to cover those. That klud the illinois street bridge, probably the biggest one of the
Studying, we are still coming together as staff but because of the budgetary process before, we put some money in there as a place holder, i dont know diane if you want to speak to any more detail as to what our thinking is so far but its pretty preliminary. So the money is set aside but before anything is done you will come back to us and tell us about it . We can. I dont know, i wasnt here for the last one so i dont know how weve done it in the past. I think generally the commission has to approve, has approved. I have three staff people giving me dirty looks so one of you come to the podium. Ill make my first contract. For the contract approval itself its 500,000 for Profession Services contract to hire an eir contract, perhaps augmented to Planning Department staff so the commission would approve the request to contract and see the scope at that time. There may be other avenues as well for commission review. But in terms of what were going to do. Im just trying to find out what use
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