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Item Description: �� � October 17, 2005 Discuss City Attorney Proposals L BACKGROUND The current contract for the City Attorney — the Minneapolis law firm of Ratwik, Roszak, and Maloney — expires on 12/31/O5. They have served as Roseville's City Attorney for three years. On July 18,2005, Council authorized staff to send out proposals seeking City Attorney ser- vices. On July 29,2005, staff issued the attached Request for Proposals for City Attorney services to 34 law firms. In addition, we advertised this City Attorney RFP on the League of Minnesota's website. Six law firms responded in a timely fashion with proposals. II. PROCESS Following receipt of the six Proposals, a team of 5 city employees reviewed all the Proposals: City Manager Neal Beets, Public Works Director Duane Schwartz, Community Development Director Dennis Welsch, Assistant Fire Chief Tim O'Neill, and Communications Specialist Carolyn C��'ti. The Review Team evaluated the proposals based on price, law firm experience, and experience of the attorneys proposed by the firm to provide City Attorney services to Roseville. Based on those criteria, the Review Team unanimously selected three firms to interview in person; the Team felt these three firms were significantly stronger than the other submitting firms: Jensen Bell and Converse, Kennedy and Graven, Ratwik Roszak and Maloney. On October 3,2005, the Review Team interviewed these three law firms. The Review Team used the same set of structured questions to interview each firm. (See attachment.) Each member of the Review Team evaluated the quality of each law firm's responses to the struc- tured interview questions.