File #: 21-1853    Version: 1 Name: Amendment Municipal Per Diem Prosecutor
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 12/8/2021 In control: Law
On agenda: 4/12/2022 Final action: 4/12/2022
Title: Dept./ Agency: Law Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing (X) Amending Type of Service: Professional Services Contracts Purpose: First Amendment to Agreements for Special Municipal Per Diem Prosecutors (4 Amendments) Entity Names and Addresses: 1) Gracia Robert Montilus, d/b/a GRM Legal Works, LLC, 76 South Orange Avenue, Suite 109, South Orange, New Jersey 07079-1923; 2) Evelyn Akushie-Onyeani, Esq., d/b/a Onyeani Law Firm, LLC, South Orange, New Jersey 07079-1923; 3) The Law Office of Gina DeVito, LLC, 28 Valley Road, Suite 1, Montclair, New Jersey 07042; 4) The Law Office of Connie Bentley McGhee, 292 Lafayette Street, Newark, New Jersey 07105 Contract Amount: Not to exceed $234,000.00 Funding Source: 2021 Budget/Law Department Contract Period: January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021 Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor (X) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS (X) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ ( ) Private ...
Sponsors: Council of the Whole
Title
Dept./ Agency: Law
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing (X) Amending
Type of Service: Professional Services Contracts
Purpose: First Amendment to Agreements for Special Municipal Per Diem Prosecutors (4 Amendments)
Entity Names and Addresses:
1) Gracia Robert Montilus, d/b/a GRM Legal Works, LLC, 76 South Orange Avenue, Suite 109, South Orange, New Jersey 07079-1923;
2) Evelyn Akushie-Onyeani, Esq., d/b/a Onyeani Law Firm, LLC, South Orange, New Jersey 07079-1923;
3) The Law Office of Gina DeVito, LLC, 28 Valley Road, Suite 1, Montclair, New Jersey 07042;
4) The Law Office of Connie Bentley McGhee, 292 Lafayette Street, Newark, New Jersey 07105
Contract Amount: Not to exceed $234,000.00
Funding Source: 2021 Budget/Law Department
Contract Period: January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor (X) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
(X) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale ( ) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
Additional Information:
Five (5) Original Resolutions were awarded to five (5) Special Municipal Per Diem Prosecutors, each with separate contracts, yet paid from one (1) funding source with a total cumulative contract amount not to exceed $135,000.00, for the period of January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021.

One (1) of the five (5) Special Municipal Per Diem Prosecutors (Cheryl Craft, d/b/a Law Office of Cheryl Craft) withdrew from the initial contract award.

This First Amendment for (4) four contracts will increase the original contract amount by $99,000.00, for a total contract amount not to exceed $234,000.00 collectively, for four (4) Special Municipal Per Diem Prosecutors, for the period of January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021.

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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,...

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