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AGREEMENT FOR SPECIAL SERVICES <br />This Agreement is entered into between the law firm of LIEBERT CASSIDY <br />WHITMORE, A Professional Corporation ("Attorney"), and the CITY OF REDLANDS, A <br />Municipal Corporation ("City"). <br />1. Conditions <br />This Agreement will not take effect, and Attorney will have no obligation to provide <br />services, until City returns a properly signed and executed copy of this Agreement. <br />2. Attorney's Services <br />This particular Agreement addresses the City retaining Attorney to provide consulting, <br />representation and legal services to the City, as regards the issues of executive compensation <br />and issues related to it. Accordingly, this Agreement supplements other existing contract(s) <br />between the City and Attorney whereby Attorney provides employment relations services to <br />the City. Services already performed regarding the above issues of executive compensation <br />have therefore been deemed authorized pursuant to such other contract(s). <br />3. Fees, Costs, Expenses <br />City agrees to pay Attorney the sums billed monthly for time spent by Attorney in <br />providing the services, including reasonable travel time. Unless authorized by the City <br />Council, the attorney's fees regarding provision of the services described in Paragraph 2, <br />above, shall not exceed $5,000.00. It is understood that Attorney is not agreeing to provide <br />the above services for a flat rate. Accordingly, if the $5,000.00 attorney fee limit is reached <br />and additional fees are not authorized by the City Council, Attorney shall be relieved of any <br />duties/obligation to provide additional services. <br />The range of hourly rates for Attorney time is from One Hundred Sixty to Two <br />Hundred Ninety Dollars ($160.00 - $290.00), and from One Hundred to One Hundred Thirty <br />Dollars ($100.00 - $130.00) for time of paraprofessional staff. Attorney reviews its hourly <br />rates on an annual basis and, if appropriate, adjusts them effective July 1. Attorneys and <br />paraprofessional staff bill their time in minimum units of one -tenth of an hour. <br />Communications advice (telephone, voice -mail, e-mail) is billed in a minimum increment of <br />three -tenths (.30) of an hour. <br />City agrees to reimburse Attorney for necessary costs and expenses incurred by <br />Attorney on behalf of City. Attorney bills photocopying charges at Fifteen Cents ($.15) per <br />page and facsimile charges at Fifty Cents ($0.50) per page. A Public Agency Fee Schedule is <br />attached to this Agreement. <br />Payment by City against monthly billings is due upon receipt of statements, and is <br />considered delinquent if payment is not received within thirty (30) days of the date of the <br />invoice. <br />434119.3 RE035-001 <br />