File #: 24-0484   
Type: Ordinance-S Status: Adopted
Meeting Body: City Council Formal Meeting
On agenda: 3/20/2024 Final action: 3/20/2024
Title: Statewide Foreign Language Interpretation and Translation Services - ADSPO 13-00002842 - Amendment (Ordinance S-50703)
District: Citywide

Title

Statewide Foreign Language Interpretation and Translation Services - ADSPO 13-00002842 - Amendment (Ordinance S-50703)

 

Description

Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to execute amendments to Contracts 147849 and 147848 with AT Translators, LLC, and PCI & TS, LLC, to extend contract terms and add additional expenditures. Further request to authorize the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item. The additional expenditures will not exceed $158,000.

 

Report

Summary

These contracts will allow the City to provide in-person, telephone and written interpretation and translation services on an as-needed basis. Interpreter and translation services are provided during public, private and community meetings and events in addition to emergency and non-emergency situations. This month-to-month extension supports the public interest because these contracts minimize language and other communication barriers by ensuring accessibility for any City department, office or board, and employees and/or consumers who converse in languages other than English.

 

Contract Term

Upon approval the contract will be extended through Oct. 17, 2024.

 

Financial Impact

Upon approval of $158,000 in additional funds, the revised aggregate value of the contract will not exceed $1,055,109. Funds are available in various department budgets.

 

Concurrence/Previous Council Action

The City Council previously reviewed this request:

  • Statewide Foreign Language Interpretation and Translation Services Contracts 147849, 147848 (Ordinance S-44495) on April 18, 2018;
  • Statewide Foreign Language Interpretation and Translation Services Contracts 147849, 147848 (Ordinance S-46961) on Oct. 7, 2020;
  • Statewide Foreign Language Interpretation and Translation Services Contracts 147849, 147848 (Ordinance S-49131) on Nov. 2, 2022; and
  • Statewide Foreign Language Interpretation and Translation Services Contracts 147849, 147848 (Ordinance S-49615) on April 19, 2023.

 

Department

Responsible Department

This item is submitted by City Manager Jeffrey Barton and the Finance Department.