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r Contract for Professional Services THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into the 19t" day of June, 2019 by and between the City of Sunny Isles Beach, a Florida municipal corporation ("CITY") and Ronald L. Book, Esquire ("BOOK'% an attorney and member of the Florida Bar, doing business as Ronald L. sonic, P.A. THE PARTIES HERETO DO COVENANTAND AGREE AS FOLLOWS: PURPOSE • The purpose of this Agreement Is to provide for the CITY to retain the professional services of BOOK for coordination of the City's legislative relations and for lobbying requirements, as described in paragraph II herein below. II. SERVICES BOOK shall provide all necessary legislative relations and lobbying services In any jurisdiction to the City of Sunny Isles Beach, including advising the City Attorneyof any new legislation that may affect the City. Such services shall include work for the purposes of securing funds and grants for various purposes from State, Federal and other sources, promoting Intergovernmental cooperation In achieving CITY's objective, securing funds and grants for parks and recreation purposes, crime prevention, economic development, tourism, beautiffcation, traffic and streetscape improvement, beach renourlshment and other purposes, BOOK shall regularly report the status of his efforts to the City Manager and/or City Attorney. III. COMPENSATION For all professional services provided by BOOK hereunder as described in paragraph II, the CITY shall pay BOOK annual compensation of SlxtyFlve Thousand and No/100 ($65,000.00) Dollars for the period of July 1, 2D19 through June 30, 2020, The City Manager may choose to extend this agreement for an additional year at the same contract price. IV. . EFFECTIVE DATE, DURATION This revised agreement shall be effective the ilk day of July, 2019 and shall be effective through June 30, 2020 subject to renewal upon such terms as the parties mutually agree. V. TERMINATION Either party hereto, at Its discretion, may terminate this contract at any time upon thirty (3o) days advance written notice to the other. In the event of such termination, the CITY shall be obligated for casts incurred prior to the termination notice. VI, PRIORITY 1 BOOK shall npt be prohibited from representing or providing the like services to other persons and entities besides CITY, so long as BOCK shall avoid any representation or reiatlon which would create al conflict of interest, as determined by the City Attorneyland City Manager. Further, BOOK shall not take on any client or m��tter that would jeopardize BOOK's ability to devote time, resources and effort necessary to fulfill to CITY hereunder. Attachment "A"