DEPARTMENT: Attorney
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Execute An Agreement To Provide Legal Services To Dakota County Community Development Agency
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize the County Attorney to execute agreement to provide legal services to the Dakota County Community Development Agency.
SUMMARY
The Dakota County Attorney's Office is currently providing legal services to the Dakota County Community Development Agency (CDA) pursuant to a legal services agreement. The agreement will expire on December 31, 2025. The County Attorney's Office is willing to continue providing certain legal services for the agency and is not aware of any current conflict of interest between the County Attorney's Office's representation of Dakota County and its continued representation of the CDA. If a conflict arises during the course of representation, the County Attorney's Office will disclose the conflict and consult with both the County and the CDA as to whether continued representation of both parties or either party is possible with the parties' consent.
The new agreement has substantially the same terms as the current agreement. The agreement with the CDA will have a two-year term, January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2027. Legal services will be provided at a rate of $242 per hour for attorney time and $132 per hour for paralegal time in 2026 and $251 per hour for attorney time and $138 per hour for paralegal time in 2027. Dakota County Finance determined that these hourly rates include direct and indirect administrative costs for a mid-level senior attorney and the Civil Division paralegal in the County Attorney's Office.
RECOMMENDATION
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The County Manager and the Dakota County Attorney recommend the County Board authorize the Dakota County Attorney to execute the legal services agreement for the CDA January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2027.
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EXPLANATION OF FISCAL/FTE IMPACTS
Payments for legal services will o...
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