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i0m01MAI <br />FIRST AMENDMENT TO <br />AGREEMENT WITH OPPENHEIMER INVESTIGATIONS GROUP <br />THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT is entered into this 21 st day of December <br />2021, by and between Oppenheimer Investigations Group LLP, a limited liability partnership[ <br />("Attorneys"), and the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized and <br />existing under the Constitution and laws of the State of California ("City"). Consultant and City are <br />also referred to herein as "Parties" or individually as a "Party." <br />RECITALS <br />A. On June 15, 2021, the City and Attorneys entered into a limited legal services agreement N- <br />2021-132 for Attorneys to conduct personnel investigations on an as -needed basis for the <br />City. <br />B. The parties desire to amend increase the compensation of the Agreement, and extend the <br />term. <br />THE PARTIES THEREFORE AGREE: <br />Section 2, PAYMENT FOR SERVICES RENDERED, subsection a, FEES, shall be <br />amended and replaced as follows: <br />a. FEES <br />i. City agrees to compensate Attorneys, and Attorneys agree to accept from <br />City, as payment in full for all services for the foregoing Actions, <br />compensation to engage Attorneys at the rate of $420 an hour. <br />Supervision. Substantive edits by assigned partners/attorneys are billed at <br />lower rates but not higher than at the rate of $420 an hour. Writer/editor <br />time shall be billed at the rate of $180 an hour. Interns are billed at the rate <br />of $120 an hour. During the term of this Agreement, the total amount <br />authorized for services is increased from fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to <br />three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) over the term of the Agreement. <br />ii. Effective January 1, 2023, City agrees to compensate Attorneys, and <br />Attorneys agree to accept from City, as payment in full for all services for the <br />foregoing Actions, compensation to engage Attorneys at the rate between <br />$505 - $315 an hour dependent on experience. Investigator/Writer time shall <br />be billed at the rate of $250 an hour. Writer/editor time shall be billed at the <br />rate of $195 an hour. Interns are billed at the rate of $130 an hour. <br />2. Section 9, TERM, shall be amended to change the expiration date from June 14, 2022 to <br />June 30, 2024. <br />3. Except as hereinabove modified, the terms and conditions of said Agreement remain <br />unchanged and in full force and effect. <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />