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Committee approves amendment and six-month extension for CBS Outdoor transit-shelter contract; asks MTA for full RFP details
Summary
The committee approved a retroactive consent amendment and a six-month extension to the transit-shelter advertising contract with CBS Outdoor, asked the MTA for a full RFP and financial reporting on revenue-sharing and maintenance, and recorded a roll call on the extension (transcript contains inconsistent lines but chair declared the item passed).
The Budget & Finance Committee approved an amendment retroactively consenting to prior corporate assignments related to the city’s transit-shelter advertising contract and voted on a separate six-month extension to allow the Municipal Transportation Agency time to finish a comprehensive RFP for a successor contract.
Judson True of the MTA said Amendment 4 does three primary things: it extends the contract six months to December 2007 to allow time for a thorough RFP, it adds the new Third Street light-rail platforms, and it permits inclusion of similar future low-level platforms. True acknowledged staff “just have not... had staff get the job done to be ready to put the RFP on the street and get the contract awarded by June 2007.”
Budget analyst Mr. Rose reported the contract traces to 1987, said CBS Outdoor told analysts it spends about $2.5 million annually maintaining shelters and estimated costs could rise to about $3.1 million under the amendment; however, the MTA could not independently verify CBS’s maintenance figures. Rose recommended the RFP include specific elements: revenue-sharing with the MTA, financial reporting of contractor revenue and expenditures, detailed administrative reimbursement amounts, and required counts of commercial versus noncommercial shelters.
Supervisors asked about public-service advertising commitments; True said CBS provides a portion of space to nonprofits but could not state the percentage and promised to include public-service commitments in the RFP. The committee divided the ordinance to vote separately on the six-month extension, called the roll, and—despite inconsistent roll-call lines in the transcript—Chair declared the item passes. The MTA committed to deliver the RFP to the Board by February and include the budget analyst’s requested details.
