Authorize Intergovernmental Agreement with Portland State University in the amount of $90,000 to prepare population, housing unit, and household estimates and forecasts

The City of Portland ordains: Section 1. The Council finds: The Regional Water Providers Consortium (Consortium) serves as a collaborative and coordinating organization to improve the planning and management of municipal water supplies in the region. The City of Portland is a member of the Consortium and collects and manages the funds of the Consortium under Intergovernmental Agreement Number 50880. The Consortium and the Portland Water Bureau have an on-going need for estimates and forecasts of total population and number of housing units and households within their service areas. Accurate and timely population, housing unit and household estimates and forecasts help water providers develop water demand forecasts. Water providers will achieve economies of scale by participating in this work together and will benefit from using the same data and methodology. Portland State University’s Population Research Center prepared population, housing unit, and household estimates and forecasts for Portland Water Bureau and the Consortium under previous Intergovernmental Agreements. The Portland Water Bureau, on behalf of the Consortium seeks to enter into a new Intergovernmental Agreement with Portland State University and their Population Research Center to continue services to support the preparation of the population, housing unit and household estimates and forecasts. The total amount of the I ntergovernmental Agreement is $90,000. Funding in the amount of $19,484 is available in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-22 Budget. Funds of $70,516 will be requested in FY 2022-23 through FY 2025-26 Budgets. NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs: The Portland Water Bureau Director is authorized to execute on behalf of the City an Intergovernmental Agreement with Portland State University in the amount of $90,000 substantially in accordance to the Intergovernmental Agreement attached as Exhibit A. The Intergovernmental Agreement authorized by this ordinance is subject to approval as to form by the City Attorney's Office. Amendments increasing the total compensation of the Intergovernmental Agreement may be agreed to and executed by the Portland Water Bureau Director for up to twenty-five percent of the total agreement amount and are subject to approval as to form by the City Attorney's Office. Any increase exceeding twenty-five percent of the total compensation of the Intergovernmental Agreement would require City Council approval. The Mayor and Auditor are hereby authorized to draw and deliver checks chargeable to the Water Fund when demand is presented and approved by the proper authorities.