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REQUEST FOR
COUNCIL ACTION
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CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE:
MARCH 15, 2004
TITLE:
LEGAL SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH
DALEY AND HEFT, LLP
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RECOMMENDED ACTION
Direct the City Attorney to prepare and authorize the City Manager and
Clerk of the Council to execute an agreement with the law firm of Daley
and Heft for specialized legal services for the City of Santa Ana.
DISCUSSION
.The City Attorney' s Office provides legal sèrvices to the City, its
officials and employees, primarily through staff attorneys. However, it
is sometimes necessary to retain outside counsel for specialized fields
of practice and cases that have extraordinary staffing requirements. The
City is, currently engaged in various extensive projects that require
regular and constant eminent domain proceedings. While our staff has
handled the majority of the legal proceedings, both the volume and the
complexity of the cases now require and merit additional attention that
only a firm that specializes in eminent domain can provide.
Daley and Heft has been handling eminent domain cases since 1980 for a
variety of public entities throughout California. The scope of services
has varied from preparing Resolutions of Necessity, to review of
appraisals, to negotiations. Daley and Heft's billing rate is $200 per
hour, plus reimbursable costs for expenses such as travel, photocopying
and facsimile transmissions. A member of the Litigation Division will
supervise counsel to ensure that costs are efficiently reasonably
maintained.
In surveying the limited market for these services, City Attorney staff
found the rate for the services to be competitive given the complexity of
the litigation and expertise possessed by Daley and Heft.
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Agreement with Daley and Heft
March 15, 2004
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FISCAL IMPACT
Funds are budgeted and available in the Public Works account for
Transportation System Improvement Area D Funds (992-631-6631) and various
projects in the Capital Improvement Program.
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APPOVED AS TO FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS:
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