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11.A. IMPACT FEE STUDY CONSULTANT - RECOMMENDATION AND FINAL RANKING OF SELECTION COMMITTEE – APPROVAL OF CONTRACT WITH TINDALE-OLIVER & ASSOCIATES, INC. (COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT) Community Development Director Bob Keating reviewed his memorandum dated March 9, 2004 and offered to respond to questions. Commissioner Lowther inquired whether the responding companies know they have 4 months to complete this project. He asked why the differences were so great in the amounts proposed. Director Keating responded that the firms were well aware of the 4-month time line. He noted that Tindale-Oliver just completed the traffic impact study and the selection committee had ranked them first. Acting County Administrator Baird specified that all members of the evaluating committee had picked Tindale-Oliver as #1 even though Tindale-Oliver was scored low in respect to their bid amount. Tindale-Oliver will dedicate 10 people to our project and their resources and qualifications were very important factors in the ranking. The Chairman thought the Board should hear from the second-ranked Duncan Associates. Jim Duncan , president of Duncan Associates, gave a lengthy PowerPoint presentation and his associate, Tom Wright, gave each Commissioner a spiral-bound copy of it. (Copy is on file with the backup in the Office of the Clerk to the Board along with three other pages entitled Comparative Impact Fee Qualifications, Duncan Associates Impact Fee Clients by Facility and Nicholas Impact Fee Clients by Facility.) He understood that the Board was not as aware of his firm. He specified that his firm is an urban planning firm that specializes in impact fees and LDR’s. He stated that this was the first time he had ever questioned the decision of a staff selection committee. There were 5 factors that guided the selection committee’s ranking, two were fixed (the March 16, 2004 11