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AEA's work plan and process appears thorough and pragmatic. They believe the creation of the plan could take anywhere from 6-9 months. They are proposing five phases with their scope of work included in Appendix "A" attached to the contract. The deliverables will include a proposed Cultural Master plan for the Commission's review, a Final Report and a Powerpoint summary version of the Final Cultural Master Plan. Although they were the second highest bidder, we were able to negotiate both a reduction of their original quoted amount of $169,800 to $136,000 including $17,700 of expenses and an expanded scope of work. Specifically, AEA is willing to include an analysis of not only existing data on Sunny Isles Beach demographic but to the extent possible and necessary to generate an original demographic profile for Sunny Isles Beach residents, working with the Sunny Isles Beach Foundation and City of Sunny Isles Beach to identify and contact building managers and condominium association heads as a method of reaching a representative sampling of the local population in order to create a statistically significant data set. The resulting demographic profile will then be compared against regional data and trends to determine in what ways we are unique and in what ways we are similar to neighboring cities and other cultural plan models. We believe AEA's willingness to create original data, alone, justifies any additional expense for this group as opposed to the others. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The principals appeared to have the best grasp of our City's specific issues with our transient population, diverse demographic, and our inability to date to create an interactive means of communications with our newly emerging populations, particularly from buildings on the East side of Collins. We are hopeful, because of their worldwide cultural perspective and work, they understand the global cultural trends and therefore, possibly will understand better the interests and experiences of many of our residents for whom Sunny Isles Beach is their second homes. This creates a greater likelihood AEA can bring those who have heretofore not participated to any great degree in the City's cultural experiences t o experience a more active role in the community. They may have the ability to create strategic alliances around the globe and some high level funding strategies. In addition to their global experience, AEA has worked in South Florida and has unique experience in the Miami cultural marketplace. For many years, they have done important work for the Knight Foundation (Knight Arts. Challenge: Miami), the Knight Foundation Miami Museum Collaboration Study including MOCA, MAM, Bass, Frost Art Museum, the Lowe, and Viscaya, among others. They created the 2007 Wolfsonian-FIU Strategic Plan. Because of these many local relationships and experience, we believe it would not be unrealistic to expect they can create synergistic activities for us in the Miami marketplace. Finally, we are hopeful their work with both cities and foundations will bring some good perspectives and recommendations on current funding sources, human resources, and the governance structure and coordination between the City and the Sunny Isles Beach Foundation. Both the Foundation and the City are eager for this consulting assistance.