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ORDER APPROVING AN INCREASE IN THE MAXIMUM COMPENSATION FOR THE LEGAL SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH THE LAW FIRM OF BERCHEM, MOSES & DEVLIN, P.C. FROM $99,000 TO $218,000 FROM GF 2020-2021 LINE ITEM 11331010-56696.
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WHEREAS, on October 22, 2020, the City of New Haven, Connecticut (the “City”) and the law firm of Berchem, Moses & Devlin, P.C. (the “Contractor”) entered into a legal service agreement (A20-0935) to assist the City of New Haven and Director of Labor Relations with litigation and various labor and employment related matters as assigned by the Corporation Counsel in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($50,000.00); and
WHEREAS, on March 25, 2021, the City of New Haven, Connecticut (the “City”) through the Office of Corporation Counsel requested approval from Leadership of the Board of Alders to enter into an Amendment to a legal service agreement with the law firm of Berchem, Moses & Devlin, P.C. (the “Contractor”) to increase the compensation by an additional Forty-Nine Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($49,000.00); and
WHEREAS, the City has been and continues to be satisfied with all of the services rendered to by the Contractor under the Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the City and the Contractor desire to amend the legal service agreement further to increase the compensation by an additional One Hundred Nineteen Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($119,000.00); and
WHEREAS, funds are available from Account Number 11331010-56696 by decreasing unused funds from other outside counsel agreements.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDERED, by the New Haven Board of Alders, that the maximum compensation to the existing legal service agreement with the law firm of Berchem, Moses & Devlin, P.C. be increased from $99,000 to a total of $218,000.