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DRAFT <br />F:ALICE\RFSOWRK\CURRENT\ Specialized Services Prof Serv Contract-Children's Advocacy Center <br />PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT <br />BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF PARIS <br />AND THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF PARIS <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 Children's Advocacy Center of Paris whose offices are located at 711 Pine Bluff, <br />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) providing specialized services for which CITY has limited or <br />no expertise; 2) providing specialized services in a more efficient manner and at a lower cost by <br />operating at a much larger scale than CITY is able to operate; 3) allowing CITY to avoid the <br />necessity of incurring substantial cost in training employees to perform such specialized services <br />on a limited basis; 4) being generally acknowledged in the community and recognized as an <br />established source of said services with well established procedures and processes for performing <br />such services; 5) by being a recognized source in the community for specialized expertise in the <br />area of said specialized services; 6) having performed such services successfully for a lengthy <br />period of time; 7) allowing CITY's employees to focus on other issues more directly related to <br />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 <br />in the furtherance of a public purpose; NOW, THEREFORE, <br />