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Consider recommendations regarding the authorization of a Professional Services Contract with LSA Associates, Inc. to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) for the proposed Orcutt Marketplace Project (Key Site 1), Orcutt Community Plan area, Fourth District, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with LSA Associates, Inc. to complete a SEIR for the Orcutt Marketplace project for a base amount of $148,680.00 and a total contract amount not to exceed $163,548.00;
b) Authorize the Director of Planning and Development, or designee, to approve up to a 10% contingency cost of the base amount not to exceed $14,868.00 for services being performed under the Agreement;
c) Approve and authorize the Director of Planning and Development, or designee, to make immaterial changes in accordance with Section 35 of the Agreement; and
d) Determine that this action is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5), which addresses organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.