agenda-report Request of Councilmembers Brock, de la Torre and Parra for the City Attorney to return to City Council with an ordinance amending Section 2.24.080 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code limiting the City Attorney’s ability, without City Council approval, to enter into any contract providing for payment of any legal services for new legal matters at hourly rates in excess of the following: • $400 per hour for attorneys with at least ten years' experience engaged in the practice of law; • $300 per hour for attorneys with less than ten years' experience engaged in the practice of law; • $400 per hour for consultants and experts who are not attorneys and are not employees of any law firm; and • $300 per hour for all other consultants and experts, and all investigators. The maximum hourly rates above shall be adjusted annually to the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, United States city average, as published by the United States Department of Labor. Limited exceptions shall include specialized legal work, such as bonds, tax opinions, employment law, CEQA, environmental remediation, and water rights, in which the contract counsel will incur no more than twenty hours of work on the matter. New Item Received.Minutes to be added later.9/5/24
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- agenda-report Request of Councilmembers Brock, de la Torre and Parra for the City Attorney to return to City Council with an ordinance amending Section 2.24.080 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code limiting the City Attorney’s ability, without City Council approval, to enter into any contract providing for payment of any legal services for new legal matters at hourly rates in excess of the following: • $400 per hour for attorneys with at least ten years' experience engaged in the practice of law; • $300 per hour for attorneys with less than ten years' experience engaged in the practice of law; • $400 per hour for consultants and experts who are not attorneys and are not employees of any law firm; and • $300 per hour for all other consultants and experts, and all investigators. The maximum hourly rates above shall be adjusted annually to the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, United States city average, as published by the United States Department of Labor. Limited exceptions shall include specialized legal work, such as bonds, tax opinions, employment law, CEQA, environmental remediation, and water rights, in which the contract counsel will incur no more than twenty hours of work on the matter. New Item Received.Minutes to be added later.9/5/24
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13.D
June 14, 2022
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CITY CLERK’S OFFICE - MEMORANDUM
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Denise Anderson Warren, City Clerk, Records & Elections Services Department
Date: June 14, 2022
13.D Request of Councilmembers Brock, de la Torre and Parra for the City Attorney to return to City Council with an ordinance amending Section
2.24.080 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code limiting the City Attorney’s ability, without City Council approval, to enter into any contract providing for payment of any legal services for new legal matters at hourly rates in excess of the following: •$400 per hour for attorneys with at least ten years' experience engaged in the practice of law; • $300 per hour for attorneys with less than ten years' experience engaged in the practice of law; • $400 per hour for consultants and experts who are not attorneys and are not employees of any law firm; and • $300 per hour for all other consultants and experts, and all investigators. The maximum hourly rates above shall be adjusted annually to the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, United States city average, as published by the United States Department of Labor. Limited exceptions shall include specialized legal work, such as bonds, tax opinions, employment law, CEQA, environmental remediation, and water rights, in which the contract counsel will incur no more than twenty hours of work on the matter.