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Contract for Professional Services THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into 21"day of June,2017 by and between the City of Sunny Isles Beach, ; a Florida municipalcorporation ("CITY")and Ronald L. Book, Esquire ("BOOK"), an attorney and member of the Florida Bar,doing business as Ronald L. Book, P.A. THE PARTIES HERETO DO COVENANT AND AGREE AS FOLLOWS: I I. PURPOSE • A 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 11 herein below. 11. SERVICES 1 BOOK shall provide all necessary legislative relations and lobbying services in any jurisdiction to the City of Sunny Isles Beach,including advising the City Attorney of 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, r crime prevention, economic development, tourism, beautification, traffic and streetscape improvement, beach renourishment and other purposes. BOOK shall regularly report the status of his efforts to the City Manager and/or City Attorney. 1 III. COMPENSATION For all professional services provided by BOOK hereunder as described in paragraph II, the CITY shall pay BOOK annual compensation of Sixty-Five Thousand and No/100 ($65,000.00) Dollars for the period of July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018.The City Manager may choose to extend this agreement for an additional year at the same contract price. ill LilIV. EFFECTIVE DATE, DURATION This revised agreement shall be effective the is'day of July, 2017 and shall be effective through June 30, 2018 subject to renewal upon such terms as the parties mutually agree. V. TERMINATION � itjEither party hereto,at its discretion,may terminate this contract at any time uponthirty(30)days advancewritten notice to-the other.In the event of such termination,the CITY shall be obligated for costs incurred prior to the termination notice. Vi. PRIORITY FP BOOK shall not be prohibited from representing or providing the like services to other persons and entities besides CITY, '_n; so longus BOOK shall avoid any representation or relation which would create a conflict of interest,as determined by the 0 City Attorney and City Manager. Further,BOOK shall not take on any client or matter that would jeopardize BOOK's ability fel to devote time, resources and effort necessary to fulfill to CITY hereunder. rg 1 p gl rte...