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Dept/ Agency: Law
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing (X ) Amending
Type of Service: Professional Services
Purpose: Increase Contract Amount for Continued Legal Services
Entity Name: Decotiis, FitzPatrick & Cole, LLP
Entity Address: Glen Pointe Centre West, 500 Frank Burr Boulevard., Suite 31, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666
Contract Amount: Increase amount by One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars]
Total Contract Amount: [Not to exceed Three Hundred and Fifty ($350,000.00) Dollars
Funding Source: Economic and Housing Development Fund
Contract Period: January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor (X) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open (X) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP () RFQ
( ) Private Sale ( ) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a (X) Non-Fair & Open
Additional Information:
Original Resolution 7R7-g December 18, 2013; Amended by Resolution 7R7-b; adopted on May 7, 2014, amending the contract scope to include legal services ranging from redevelopment/land use matters, tax abatement, local public finance law and other areas as directed by the Corporation Counsel, without an increase of the contract amount to cover the additional services
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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 City of Newark by Resolution 7R7-g, adopted on December 18, 2013, awarded a contract to Decotiis, Fitzpatrick & Cole, LLP, with offices located at Glen Pointe Center West, 500 Frank Burr Boulevard., Suite 31, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666, to provide legal services as bond counsel in an amount not to exceed Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand ($250,000.00) Dollars, for the period of January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014; and
WHEREAS, the City of Newark by Re...
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