Metro - File #: 2018-0358

• File #: 2018-0358
• Type: Contract
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 5/31/2018
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 9/20/2018
• Title: CONSIDER: A. RECEIVING AND FILING the Final Feasibility Report for the Metro Transportation School; B. AMENDING the FY19 budget with up to $1,000,000 for predevelopment activities associated with the school site; C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to execute Modification No. 3 to Contract No. PS45385000 with causeIMPACTS LLC for additional support services for the Transportation School Consulting Services contract in the amount of $200,709, increasing the total contract value from $402,530 to $603,239 and extending the contract period of performance by 12 months; and D. INCREASING Contract Modification Authority (CMA) specific to Contract No. PS45385000 in the amount of $100,000 increasing the total authorized CMA amount from $100,000 to $200,000.
• Sponsors: Executive Management Committee, Finance, Budget and Audit Committee
• Indexes: Board approved a Motion, Budget, Budgeting, Construction, Contracts, Expose, Educate, and Employ Youth Initiative, Funding plan, Job opportunities, Memorandum Of Understanding, Motion / Motion Response, Pilot studies, Procurement, Safety, SEED School of Los Angeles, Training programs, Transit centers, Transportation careers
• Related files: 2018-0513, 2018-0673

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FINANCE, BUDGET AND AUDIT COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018


Subject
SUBJECT: METRO TRANSPORTATION SCHOOL

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. RECEIVING AND FILING the Final Feasibility Report for the Metro Transportation School;

B. AMENDING the FY19 budget with up to $1,000,000 for predevelopment activities associated with the school site;

C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to execute Modification No. 3 to Contract No. PS45385000 with causeIMPACTS LLC for additional support services for the Transportation School Consulting Services contract in the amount of $200,709, increasing the total contract value from $402,530 to $603,239 and extending the contract period of performance by 12 months; and

D. INCREASING Contract Modification Authority (CMA) specific to Contract No. PS45385000 in the amount of $100,000 increasing the total authorized CMA amount from $100,000 to $200,000.

ISSUE
ISSUE

Metro is poised to dramatically transform the transportation infrastructure of the region with the passage of Measure M, and in doing so, propel the development of a sizeable workforce to support the planning, construction, operations, and maintenance of our expanding system. This increasing demand for a skilled transportation workforce, combined with at-risk youth's employment needs, create a strategic opportunity for Metro to impact the cycle of poverty by serving as an engaged, founding industry partner in a public charter boarding school to provide students with real word learning opportunities that will expose, explore, engage, experience and employ them about careers in in the transportation industry. Metro can address multiple infrastructure agency needs and give back to the community by educating and ultimately employing local youth.

Background
BACKGROUND

At its April 2017 meeting, the Board approved Motion No. 43 by Directors Ridley-Tho...