Title
Dept./ Agency: Law
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing (X) Amending
Type of Service: Professional Services Contract
Purpose: First Amendment to the Agreement to provide legal services as Workers Compensation Counsel.
Entity Name: The Law Offices of Martin M. Glazer
Entity Address: 40 Clinton Street, 2nd Floor, Newark, New Jersey 07102
Contract Amount: Not to exceed $50,000.00
Funding Source: 2021 Budget/Law Department
Contract Period: January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor (X) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open (X) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale ( ) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
Additional Information:
Resolution 7R6-b, adopted on June 2, 2021 awarded a contract in the amount of $25,000.00 for the period of January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021.
This First Amendment will increase the contract amount by $25,000.00, for a total contract amount not to exceed $50,000.00.
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WHEREAS, Legal Services are Professional Services and are exempt from the requirements for public bidding pursuant to the Local Public Contracts Law, more specifically, N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5(1)(a)(i); and
WHEREAS, the Municipal Council, by Resolution 7R6-b, adopted on June 2, 2021, awarded a contract to The Law Offices of Martin M. Glazer, 40 Clinton Street, 2nd Floor, Newark, New Jersey 07102, to provide legal services concerning Workers Compensation Matters, in an amount not to exceed Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($25,000.00), for a period of January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021; and
WHEREAS, The Law Offices of Martin M. Glazer, has outstanding legal bills, which has exhausted the total contract amount; and; and
WHEREAS, The Law Offices of Martin M. Glazer, continued to vigorously represent and defend the City of Newark in Workers Compensation matters in which bills have been submitted for the 2021 contract year; and
WHEREAS, the outstanding legal bills require an increase in the total contract amount; and
WHEREAS, The Law Offices of Martin M. Glazer, represents to the City of Newark that an increase of Twenty Five Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($25,000.00), is necessary to cover the outstanding and anticipated legal bills; and
WHEREAS, the requested increase in the total contract amount is deemed reasonable and necessary to pay the outstanding legal bills through the end of the 2021 contract period; and
WHEREAS, the increase of an additional Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($25,000.00), brings the total contract to an amount not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($50,00.00), for services provided from January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2021.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
1. The Mayor of the city of Newark and/or his designee, the Corporation Counsel, are hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the City of Newark to enter into and execute a First Amendment to the Agreement to provide Legal Services with The Law Offices of Martin M. Glazer, 40 Clinton Street, 2nd Floor, Newark, New Jersey 07102, for providing legal services concerning Workers Compensation Matters for an increase of Twenty Five Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($25,000.00), for a total contract amount not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($50,000.00) for a period of January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021, to cover outstanding legal bills.
2. The Municipal Council hereby ratifies this First Amendment to the Agreement to provide Legal Services from January 1, 2021 to the date of the adoption of this authorizing Resolution.
3. All other terms and conditions of the Agreement shall remain the same.
4. This First Amendment to the Agreement to provide Legal Services is being made in accordance with the professional services exception to public bidding in the Local Public Contracts Law (N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5(1)(a)(i)), and pursuant to the Fair and Open Procedures of the State Pay-to-Play Law (N.J.S.A. 19:44A-20.5), as well as the provisions of the Local Public Contracts Law (N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5(1)(a)(i)) and is in compliance with the City of Newark’s Contractor Pay-to-Play Reform Ordinance, Newark, New Jersey, Municipal Code § 2:4-22C.
5. Attached hereto is a Certifications of Funds from the Municipal Comptroller, which states that there are sufficient funds, in the amount of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($25,000.00), for the purpose set forth herein. The Certification of Funds shall be filed along with the original Resolution in the Office of the City Clerk.
6. The Corporation Counsel shall file a copy of the executed First Amendment to the Agreement to provide legal services herein authorized in the Office of the City Clerk and the same shall be made available for public inspection.
7. A notice of this action shall be published in the newspaper authorized by law to publish a legal advertisement and as required by law within ten (10) days of the adoption of this Resolution.
STATEMENT
This Resolution ratifies, amends and authorizes the Mayor of the City of Newark and/or his designee, the Corporation Counsel, to enter into and execute a First Amendment to the Agreement with The Law Offices of Martin M. Glazer, 40 Clinton Street, 2nd Floor, Newark, New Jersey 07102, to provide legal services for Workers Compensation matters for an increase of $25,000.00, for a total contract amount not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($50,000.00), for the period of January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021.