File #: 2015-0955   
Type: Contract Status: Passed
File created: 6/19/2015 In control: Construction Committee
On agenda: 7/16/2015 Final action: 7/23/2015
Title: CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED (5-0) authorizing the Chief Executive Officer to amend the FY16 budget to add 33 non-contract full-time equivalent (FTE) positions: A. 18 non-contract FTE positions (with 7 non-contract FTE positions already accounted in the FY 16 budget) by converting new Construction Management Support Services(CMSS)/consultant positions to support Measure R transit projects for Engineering & Construction (E&C) Department; B. 2 non-contract FTE positions by converting consultant positions to support Environmental Compliance and Sustainability projects for E&C Department (Refer to Appendix 1); C. 3 non-contract FTE positions to support capital transit projects for E&C Department (refer to Appendix 2); D. 4 non-contract FTE positions by converting new CMSS/consultant positions to support Measure R transit projects for Program Management Office (Refer to Appendix 3); E. 4 non-contract FTE positions by converting new CMSS/consultant positions to support ...
Sponsors: Construction Committee
Indexes: Budgeting, Construction, Contracts, Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project, Federal Transit Administration, Metro Blue Line, Metro Exposition Line, Metro Rail C Line, Project
Attachments: 1. Attachment A Table A EC (7-10-15), 2. Attachment A-1 Table A-1 Potential Cost Savings of 5 Metro FTEs 7-10-15, 3. Attachment B Table B Pilot Project Study (6JUL15).pdf, 4. Attachment C Table C Cost Benefit Analysis 6Jul15.pdf, 5. Attachment D Table C-1 CMSS Consultant Conversion Cost Savings for FY16 9Jul15 (2), 6. Attachment E Appendix 1 - Staffing Request for Environmental Compliance, 7. Attachment F Appendix 2 Capital Projects Support Staff_7_9_15, 8. Attachment G Appendix 3PMO CMSS Consultant Conversion to Metro Staff rev 6 12 15 (JO Comment 6Jul15).pdf, 9. Attachment H Appendix 4 Staffing Request for Vendor-Contract Management (JO Comment 6Jul15).pdf, 10. Attachment I Appendix 6 Revised 6 12 15 (JO Comment 6Jul15).pdf
Related files: 2015-0438
Meeting_Body
REVISED
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE
JULY 16, 2015

Subject/Action
SUBJECT: STAFFING REQUEST FOR ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT'S TRANSIT PROJECTS

ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED (5-0) authorizing the Chief Executive Officer to amend the FY16 budget to add 33 non-contract full-time equivalent (FTE) positions:

A. 18 non-contract FTE positions (with 7 non-contract FTE positions already accounted in the FY 16 budget) by converting new Construction Management Support Services(CMSS)/consultant positions to support Measure R transit projects for Engineering & Construction (E&C) Department;

B. 2 non-contract FTE positions by converting consultant positions to support Environmental Compliance and Sustainability projects for E&C Department (Refer to Appendix 1);

C. 3 non-contract FTE positions to support capital transit projects for E&C Department (refer to Appendix 2);

D. 4 non-contract FTE positions by converting new CMSS/consultant positions to support Measure R transit projects for Program Management Office (Refer to Appendix 3);

E. 4 non-contract FTE positions by converting new CMSS/consultant positions to support Measure R transit projects for Vendor/Contract Management Department (Refer to Appendix 4); and

F. 2 non-contract FTE positions to support Measure R transit projects for Countywide Planning and Development Department (Refer to Appendix 6).

It should be noted that the positions A through F are project related positions that can be terminated upon completion of the projects.

Issue
ISSUE

In recent quarterly meetings with the Federal Transit Authority (FTA), FTA has expressed repeated concerns over Metro's staffing levels. There were also discussions over Metro's succession planning. With the on-going construction of the three main transit projects, Crenshaw/LAX, Regional Connector and Westside Purple Line Extension Section 1 and ...

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