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DRAFT <br />F:ALICE\RFSOWRK\CURRENT\ Specialized Services Prof Serv Contract-American Red Cross <br />PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT <br />BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF PARIS <br />AND THE AMERICAN RED CROSS, LAMAR COUNTY CHAPTER <br />STATE OF TEXAS § <br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: <br />COUNTY OF LAMAR § <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 <br />at 125 First Street S. E. , in the City of Paris, Lamar County, Texas, hereinafter referred to as <br />"CITY" and the American Red Cross, Lamar County Chapter whose offices are located at 102 <br />Lamar Avenue, 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 <br />services for which CITY has limited or no expertise; 3) providing specialized services for which <br />CITY has limited or no equipment; 4) providing specialized services in a more efficient manner <br />and at a lower cost by operating at a much larger scale than CITY is able to operate; 5) allowing <br />CITY to avoid the necessity of incurring substantial cost in training employees to perform such <br />specialized services on a limited basis; 6) 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; 7) having performed such services successfully for a lengthy period <br />of time; 8) allowing CITY's employees to focus on other issues more directly related to their <br />primary function; and, <br />