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. UJ q "] '-1 . 1 ,'] [1 '] U U ] o ~.'.....]-. I 1 Ii U ~J .'.J- . o- J J J \..' !~ * Acquisition of new City Hall in Lexington. * Preparation of leases of space in the new City Hall to the City's municipally-owned gas utility, the Centennial Lakes Police Department and private businesses. * Acquisition of real property, including acquisition of tax-forfeited land. * Gas franchise negotiations with the City of Lino Lakes. * Representation in negotiations and review of operating agreement for Circle Pines and Lexington with a sanitary sewer district. * Gas utility disconnection, cold weather disconnection, and landlord/tenant policies for the City's gas utility. * Successfully recovered close to $400,000 in damages against an engineering frrm due to negligent work performed on a development project. * Create and renegotiate Cable franchise and operating agreements. * Assist in the creation of the Rice Creek Watershed Wetland Management Plan. Ooerational RelationshiD Our proposed working relationship with the City of Centerville would be based on our model of practice with the Cities of Circle Pine and Lexington - and our philosophy of providing excellent services to our clients. As any small law firm our attorneys are directly accountable to our clients, but we will also serve the ~ity as a team. Kurt and Steven will work together to provide both the civil and prosecution services for the City. Using this team approach, if one person is unavailable, another can assist- whether it is to answer a simple question or to respond to an emergency situation. Since we are a small office, the files are accessible to all attorneys and staff: Generally, our main lines of communication have been through the City Administrators for civil issues and individual police officers or the Chief of Police for prosecution issues. As individual matters arise which involve other City. staff or contractors we directly deal with those individuals and keep the administrative or elected officials appraised of progress or updates. Obviously, not every aspect of our current practice can be applied to Centerville but as a small office we are flexible and we will respond to the exacting needs of the City. We also use technology to our . advantage. Communication, Resources & Technology The phone is answered by our legal assistants, Lisa Sorbe and Jennifer Scribner. Ms. Sorbe and Ms. Scribner know all of our clients. If an attorney is not in the office, their calls are generally routed directly to the attorney's cell phone. If it is after hours, the voice mail tree directs calls to cell phones -not an office voice mail system. Whenever possible our attorneys . take phone calls as they arrive instead of routing them for a message. -7-