Report to Carson Reclamation Authority
Tuesday, April 04, 2017
Consent
SUBJECT:
Title
CONSIDER AMENDMENT NUMBER 3 TO A SPECIAL COUNSEL ENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT WITH GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP FOR LEGAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
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I. SUMMARY
The Authority originally contracted in May, 2016 with Greenberg Traurig, LLP (GT) to provide it and the Authority's legal counsel specific legal assistance in the procurement of a new Pollution and Remediation Legal Liability Policy and associated negotiations on the Environmental Protection Program Policy and with Tetra Tech, the environmental contractor. The firm continues to provide technical legal work to the CRA in a number of environmental areas.
Attached is a Data and Information Project Management Proposal from GT, the CRA's environmental Special Counsel, for an interactive single-source web portal for the master developer diligence and project management efforts. GT's Legal Project Management (LPM) Office developed this platform to conform the specifications to CRA's immediate needs in the most cost-effective manner possible. This is a service GT provides to their clients at a rate less than commercial data management services. Staff is in the middle of fulfilling developer due diligence requests, so the project needs to be up and running in a very short time period.
The term of this Amendment would be from March 15, 2017 to March 15, 2018 and would be for a not-to-exceed amount of $125,000.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
TAKE the following actions:
1. APPROVE Amendment No. 3 to the Special Counsel Engagement Agreement for Legal Project Management Services between the Carson Reclamation Authority and Greenberg Traurig, LLP; and
2. AUTHORIZE Chairman to execute such Agreement.
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III. ALTERNATIVES
TAKE another action the Authority Board deems appropriate.
IV. BACKGROUND
One thing understood by large developers working on major construction projects is that there is a very high correla...
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