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Rincon Consultants, Inc. 250 East 1st Street, Suite 1400 Los Angeles, California 90012 213 788 4842 OFFICE AND FAX info@rinconconsultants,com www. ri nconcons u Itants.com A. Cover Letter April 1, 2021 Project Number 21-11149 David Flores City of Santa Ana Community Development Agency (6th Floor) 20 Civic Center Plaza, M-26 Santa Ana, California 92701 Subject: Proposal for On -Call Environmental Review Services for the City of Santa Ana's Housing Division Dear Mr. Flores: Rincon Consultants, Inc. (Rincon) is pleased to submit this proposal to provide the City of Santa Ana's (City) Housing Division with environmental consulting services. We are enthusiastic about the opportunity to continue working with the City and have assembled a team of highly skilled environmental science and planning professionals who combine extensive technical qualifications and knowledge of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) with several years of experience working in the region. For over 25 years, Rincon has successfully worked with cities, counties, and special districts in the southern California region and throughout California to provide planning and environmental review expertise. Our local staff has successfully managed various on -call assignments with numerous public agencies including the cities of Fullerton, Los Angeles, South Pasadena, Long Beach, and Los Angeles County's Community Development Authority. Rincon has worked with the City of Santa since 2000 under several on -call contracts with the Community Development Agency and the Planning and Building Agency. Rincon recently completed the Categorical Exclusion for the Santa Ana Library Renovations Project for the Community Development Agency (Housing Division), and our historic team is continuing to consult for potential impacts to historic resources. We also recently completed an Initial Study - Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Westview Housing Project for the Planning and Building Agency (Planning Division). Through these projects and over 20 other projects completed under our on -call contracts since 2015, we have developed unique insight with the range of environmental and socioeconomic issues present in the City. The following assets make us well -suited to this important on -call services contract: • Extensive experience providing on -call CEQA consulting services to cities and counties throughout the southern California region and statewide, • Proven project management expertise, Adherence to successful internal quality assurance programs, • Staff who are experts in key technical issues, En ai r o n m e n t a Scie n lis is Planners En flin e e rs