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Mr. Rob Vine Interim City Manager City of Paris, Texas Re: Proposal to Provide Consulting Services —Council Governance and Planning Session — 2025 Mr. Vine: I sincerely appreciate your interest in engaging me to perform consulting services for the City of Paris. I am excited about the prospect of working with your Mayor and City Council and you and your staff in facilitating a governance and planning session for Council and staff. PROJECT OBJECTIVES/DESCRIPTION: Working with the management team, Ron Cox will facilitate two sessions over a two-day period (can be reduced to one if necessary): A governance and visioning session for Mayor and City Council and you; and a planning session with the Mayor, City Council, you, and your key staff. In addition, if authorized, I can provide follow up services for you and your staff assisting in the creation of an action/implementation plan resulting from the strategies and goals prepared at the planning session. (This is budgeted separately for your convenience and information.) At the governance session, the Council will discuss and develop their governance model. The planning session will be designed to provide a time for the Council and staff working together to develop short-term and long-term strategies and goals for the city. Again, Ron Cox will also facilitate a follow up session with the staff to develop an action plan designed to address the strategies. SERVICES/DELIVERABLES: Ron Cox will provide the following services and deliverables (including estimated time for each task for the City of Paris. Task 1) Initial Meetings. Meet with the Interim City Manager and/or key staff to confirm expectations, understand issues relevant to the planning process and determine a more detailed process for the facilitations (up to three hours). Meet with the Interim City Manager and his key staff to understand key issues and challenges from the staff s perspective (up to two hours). Meet with the Mayor and each member of the City Council to fully understand the expected issues and finalize the process and agenda for each the Council Sessions (up to eight hours). Report back to Interim City Manager to confirm expectations.