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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT <br />BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF PARIS <br />AND THE LAMAR COUNTY HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL <br />STATE OF TEXAS § <br />COUNTY OF LAMAR § <br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: <br />This Professional Services Agreement, hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement," entered <br />into by and between the City of Paris, a municipality and home rule city with its offices located at <br />125 First Street S.E., in the City of Paris, Lamar County, Texas, hereinafter referred to as "CITY" <br />and the Lamar County Human Resources Council whose offices are located at 1275 N.W.19th, in <br />the City of Paris, Lamar County, Texas, hereinafter referred to as "SERVICE ORGANIZATION". <br />WITNESSETH <br />WHEREAS, SERVICE ORGANIZATION possesses certain specialized expertise, <br />personnel, equipment, and training necessary to provide certain community-based specialized <br />services unique to said organization and unavailable from any other readily available source; and, <br />WHEREAS, CITY desires to enter into a Professional Services Agreement for SERVICE <br />ORGANIZATION to provide such specialized services to CITY; and, <br />WHEREAS, contracting with SERVICE ORGANIZATION to provide said specialized <br />services will benefit CITY by: 1) providing specialized services in a more efficient manner and at <br />a lower cost by operating at a much larger scale than CITY is able to operate; 2) allowing CITY to <br />avoid the necessity of incurring substantial cost in training employees to perform such specialized <br />services on a limited basis; 3) being generally acknowledged in the community and recognized as <br />an established source of said services with well established procedures and processes for performing <br />such services; 4) being a recognized source in the community for specialized expertise in the area <br />of said specialized services; 5) having performed such services successfully for a lengthy period of <br />time; 6) allowing CITY's employees to focus on other issues more directly related to their primary <br />function; and, <br />WHEREAS, the City Council finds and determines that contracting with said SERVICE <br />ORGANIZATION will benefit the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the City of Paris in <br />the furtherance of a public purpose; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF THESE PREMISES, and <br />the mutual consideration as set out herein, CITY and SERVICE ORGANIZATION agree as follows: <br />EXHIBIT ~ <br />