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City of Sunny Isles Beach 18070 Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 (305) 947-0606 phone (305) 949-3113 Fax 16.1 Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating in any way to the Contract, including without limitation any dispute concerning the construction, validity, interpretation, enforceability or breach of the Contract, shall be exclusively resolved by binding arbitration upon a Party's submission of the dispute to arbitration. In the event of a dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating in any way to the Contract, the complaining Party shall notify the other Party in writing thereof. Within thirty (30) days of such notice, management level representatives of both Parties shall meet at an agreed location to attempt to resolve the dispute in good faith. Should the dispute not be resolved within thirty (30) days after such notice, the complaining Party shall seek remedies exclusively through arbitration. The demand for arbitration shall be made within a reasonable time after the claim, dispute or other matter in question has arisen, and in no event shall it be made after two (2) years from when the aggrieved party knew or should have known of the controversy, claim, dispute or breach. 16.2 This agreement to arbitrate shall be specifically enforceable. A Party may apply to any court with jurisdiction for interim or conservatory relief, including without limitation a proceeding to compel arbitration. 16.3 The arbitration shall be conducted by one (1) arbitrator. If the Parties are not able to agree upon the selection of an arbitrator, within twenty (20) days of commencement of an arbitration proceeding by service of a demand for arbitration, the arbitrator shall be selected by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") in accordance with the terms of this Article XV. 16.4 The arbitrator shall have ten (10) years of experience in construction disputes and also shall have served as an arbitrator at least three (3) times prior to their service as an arbitrator in this arbitration. 16.5 The arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with the Commercial Rules of the AAA. 16.6 The arbitration shall be conducted in Miami -Dade County, Florida. 16.7 The laws of the State of Florida shall be applied in any arbitration proceedings, without regard to principles of conflict of laws. 16.8 It is the intent of the parties that, barring extraordinary circumstances, arbitration proceedings will be concluded within one hundred and twenty (120) days from the date the arbitrator is appointed. The arbitrator may extend this time limit in the interests of justice. Failure to adhere to this time limit shall not constitute a basis for challenging the award. 16.9 The Parties shall be entitled to discovery in the arbitration. Any Party shall be entitled to depose any expert who will testify in the arbitration proceeding but shall pay the regular hourly rate of such expert during such deposition. In addition to the foregoing, any Party shall be entitled to take the deposition of a witness who will testify at the arbitration but who is unavailable to testify at the hearing to preserve such witness' testimony for the arbitration hearing. 16.10 The Parties shall exchange a copy of all exhibits for the arbitration hearing and shall identify each witness who will testify at the arbitration, with a summary of the anticipated testimony of such witness ten (10) days before the arbitration hearing. IDD 37