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provided by Consultant to the City pursuant to this Agreement. <br />12. RECORDS <br />Consultant shall keep records and invoices in connection with the work to be performed under this <br />Agreement. Consultant shall maintain complete and accurate records with respect to the costs incurred <br />under this Agreement and any services, expenditures, and disbursements charged to the City for a <br />minimum period of three (3) years, or for any longer period required by law, from the date of final payment <br />to Consultant under this Agreement. All such records and invoices shall be clearly identifiable. <br />Consultant shall allow a representative of the City to examine, audit, and make transcripts or copies of <br />such records and any other documents created pursuant to this Agreement during regular business hours. <br />Consultant shall allow inspection of all work, data, documents, proceedings, and activities related to this <br />Agreement for a period of three (3) years from the date of final payment to Consultant under this <br />Agreement. <br />13. CONFIDENTLALITY <br />If Consultant receives from the City information which due to the nature of such information is <br />reasonably understood to be confidential and/or proprietary, Consultant agrees that it shall not use or <br />disclose such information except in the performance of this Agreement, and further agrees to exercise the <br />same degree of care it uses to protect its own information of like importance, but in no event less than <br />reasonable care. "Confidential Information" shall include all nonpublic information. Confidential <br />information includes not only written information, but also information transferred orally, visually, <br />electronically, or by other means. Confidential information disclosed to either party by any subsidiary <br />and/or agent of the other party is covered by this Agreement. The foregoing obligations of non-use and <br />nondisclosure shall not apply to any information that (a) has been disclosed in publicly available sources; <br />(b) is, through no fault of the Consultant disclosed in a publicly available source; (c) is in rightful <br />possession of the Consultant without an obligation of confidentiality; (d) is required to be disclosed by <br />operation of law; or (e) is independently developed by the Consultant without reference to information <br />disclosed by the City. <br />14. CONFLICT OF INTEREST CLAUSE <br />a. Consultant represents that neither it nor any of its officers, partners or employees has a financial <br />interest, as defined in Section 87103 of the Government Code, in the subject matter of this <br />Agreement other than the right to receive payment from City for services rendered. <br />b. Consultant agrees that it shall not make, participate in making, or in anyway attempt to use its <br />position as consultant to influence any decision of City in which Consultant knows, or has <br />reason to know, that any of its officers, partners or employees has a financial interest as defined <br />in Section 87103 of the Government Code. <br />c. Consultant warrants that neither Consultant nor any of its officers, partners or employees, has <br />any financial interest in any real property, building or structure within 2,500 feet of the location <br />of any project or assignment to which this Agreement may apply in the City of Santa Ana. <br />Page 6 of 12 <br />