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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT <br />BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF PARIS <br />AND EAST TEXAS COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL <br />AND DRUG ABUSE (ETCADA~ <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 East Texas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ETCADA) whose offices are located at 2515` <br />Street N.W., in the City of Paris, Lamar County, Texas, hereinafter referred to as "SERVICE <br />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) avoiding duplication of services; 2) providing specialized services <br />for which CITY has limited or no equipment; 3) providing specialized services in a more efficient <br />manner and at a lower cost by operating at a much larger scale than CITY is able to operate; 4) <br />allowing CITY to avoid the necessity of incurring substantial cost in training employees to perform <br />such specialized services on a limited basis; 5) being generally acknowledged in the community and <br />recognized as an established source of said services with well established procedures and processes <br />for performing such services; 6) being a recognized source in the community for specialized <br />expertise in the area of said specialized services; 7) having performed such services successfully for <br />a lengthy period of time; 8) allowing CITY's employees to focus on other issues more directly related <br />to their primary 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 g <br />