DEPARTMENT: Attorney
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
TITLE
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Authorization To Execute Agreements To Provide Legal Services To Community Development Agency, Dakota County Drug Task Force, And Metropolitan Library Service Agency
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize the County Attorney to execute agreements to provide legal services to the Community Development Agency, Dakota County Drug Task Force, and Metropolitan Library Service Agency.
SUMMARY
The Dakota County Attorney's Office is currently providing legal services to the Dakota County Community Development Agency (CDA), Dakota County Drug Task Force (DCDTF) and Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) pursuant to legal services agreements. The agreements have or will expire by December 31, 2022 (Attachments). There is a mutual desire to extend the arrangement with each agency through the end of 2024. The new agreements have substantially the same terms as the current agreements.
Pursuant to the agreements, the County Attorney's Office will provide services to the CDA, DCDTF (except for the first 60 hours, see below) and MELSA at an hourly rate of $216.00 in 2023 for attorney time and $48.00 for paralegal time; and in 2024, at an hourly rate of $222.00 for attorney time and $49.00 for paralegal time. The Dakota County Finance Department determined that the hourly rate includes direct and indirect administrative costs for a mid-level senior attorney in the County Attorney's Office.
The Dakota County Attorney's Office will continue to provide DCDTF 60 hours of legal service (inclusive of both attorney and paralegal time) at no cost to the DCDTF for each year of the contract term and after the first 60 hours have been exhausted, work will be billed at the applicable rate for each year of the contract term.
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 agreements for CDA, DCDTF...
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