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• ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item Nn _ Ij_ ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: _Jline •29 , 199 S:;B.3 CT: COUNTY ATTORNEY CONTRACT DEPARTMENT: County Attorney PUBLIC HEARING YES : NC : X A:,ACHMENT (S) legal services agreeme OR•1ATION CONTACT : Geoffrey Gledhill (732-2196 ) July 1 , 1993 - Child Support Enforcement July 1 , 1993 - general legal TELEPHONE NJMBER- July 1 , 1987 - general legal Hillsborough - 732-8181 July 1 , 1979 - general legal Chapel Hill - 968-4501 December 8 , 1979 memorandum of employ - ,Mebane - 227-2031 ment - general legal Durham - 6aa-7331 PURPOSE: To provide for.Orange County legal services generally and to provide legal services 4to , the- Orange County Child Support Enforcement Program. BACKGROUND: Since 1974 Orange County has contracted with the law firm of Coleman, Gledhill and Hargrave, P.C. and its predecessors for general legal services . Geoffrey.Gledhill has been the lawyer from the firm principally responsible for these legal services since July 1975 . There have been infrequent changes to the contract between the County and its attorneys . The first agreement was unwritten, but confirmed by a December 1974 memorandum. It was revised in 1979 to take the form that it has now. The fee portion of that agreement .was revised again in 1987 . ' There have been no revisions since. The agreement under consideration now provides for a different approach than, that in effect since 1979 . This different approach provides modest fee increases from the 1987 agreement for some aspects of the work performed by the County , Attorney. These increases, are offset' by the "flat fee services " aspect of the agreement. _ Under this approach, services will be provided for a flat fee which, on an hourly basis , is approximately half of the current hourly rate. . The County will have available to it, its Boards and • agencies, a fixed amount of time per month. Only time beyond that will be billed at the. hourly rate provided for in the agreement: • It is anticipated that the new agreement will provide the County with a more efficient legal services plan that is "budget neutral. " The contract, for legal services for the Child Support Enforcement Program is unchanged from recent prior years in scope and fee amount. The fee amount entitles Orange County to receive the full and the same percentage State and federal reimbursement for legal services that it receives for child support generally. RECOMMENDATION: As the Board. decides .