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V. Interpret and advise regarding impact fees and legal uses. <br />W. Advise and represent the City on environmental matters. <br />X. Prepare and/or review the following: <br />a. Conditional Use Permits and Documentation <br />b. Vacation of Rights -of -way <br />c. Special Assessments <br />d. Planned Unit Developments <br />e. Development Agreements <br />f. Subdivision and Zoning Requests <br />Y. The firm shall not subcontract out or assign any interest in the contract and <br />shall not transfer any interest in the same without prior written consent of the <br />City. <br />In addition, we would impose the additional requirement of meeting from time to time with <br />the City Administrator and the staff to review the status of all legal matters before the City <br />and providing a written status report on all current litigation and unresolved matters. <br />In instances where cumulative litigation time on any given file exceeds ten hours in <br />a single month for that individual file, time spent on that file beyond ten hours <br />would be billed at the hourly rate of $150.00 per hour for attorneys, with no <br />distinction between them as to rate, and $80.00 per hour for paralegal or clerk time. <br />Our review of the City's circumstances, as well as our experience with <br />municipalities in the past, leads us to believe this sort of occurrence would be a <br />very infrequent occurrence. <br />To the extent possible, all hourly billed services that could be performed by a paralegal or <br />law clerk will be billed at the paralegal rate irrespective of whether they are performed by a <br />paralegal or an attorney. The minimum increment of time billed by the firm is the tenth <br />(1/10) of an hour, or six minutes. Long distance calls totaling under $25.00 per month, and <br />copying costs up to 2000 copies per month, would be included in the fee. Time and copies <br />in excess of those figures would be billed at cost. The production of trial exhibits and any <br />disbursements related to securing a witnesses' testimony through a subpoena would be <br />billed at nominal cost. Ordinarily, where witness fees have been less than $200, we have <br />not billed them. <br />Our firm would expect to provide monthly statements and summaries that would fully <br />itemize all time spent, as well as a detailed accounting of expenditures, to the City. We <br />have the capacity to modify this report to provide such additional information as the City of <br />Ramsey might require. <br />Notwithstanding the foregoing proposal, this firm is willing to be engaged for civil <br />legal services with the City, under a traditional hourly billing rate, if that would be <br />the approach preferred by the City. <br />8 <br />