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EXHIBIT A Contract for Professional Services THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into day of June, 2016 by and between the City of Sunny Isles Beach, a Florida municipal corporation ("CITY") and Ronald L. Book, Esquire ("BOOK"), an attorney and member of the Florida Bar, doing business as Ronald L. Book, P.A. THE PARTIES HERETO DO COVENANT AND AGREE AS FOLLOWS: PURPOSE The purpose of this Agreement is to provide for the CITY to retain the professional services of BOOK for coordination of the City's legislative relations and for lobbying requirements, as described in paragraph II herein below. II. SERVICES BOOK shall provide all necessary legislative relations and lobbying services in any jurisdiction to the City of Sunny Isles Beach, including advising the City Attorney of any new legislation that may affect the City. Such services shall include work for the purposes of securing funds and grants for various purposes from State, Federal and other sources, promoting intergovernmental cooperation in achieving CITY's objective, securing funds and grants for parks and recreation purposes, crime prevention, economic development, tourism, beautification, traffic and streetscape improvement, beach renourishment and other purposes. BOOK shall regularly report the status of his efforts to the City Manager and/or City Attorney. III. COMPENSATION For all professional services provided by BOOK hereunder as described in paragraph II, the CITY shall pay BOOK annual compensation of Sixty-Five Thousand and No/100 ($65,000.00) Dollars for the period of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.The City Manager may choose to extend this agreement for an additional year at the same contract price. IV. EFFECTIVE.DATE, DURATION This revised agreement shall be effective the 1st day of July, 2016 and shall be effective through June 30, 2017 subject to renewal upon-such terms as the parties mutually_agree. . . . V. TERMINATION Either party hereto, at its discretion, may terminate this contract at any time upon thirty (30) days advance written notice to the other. In the event of such termination, the CITY shall be obligated for costs incurred prior to the termination notice. VI. PRIORITY BOOK shall not be prohibited from representing or providing the like services to other persons and entities besides CITY,. so long as BOOK shall avoid any representation or relation which would create a conflict of interest, as determined by the City Attorney and City Manager. Further, BOOK shall not take on any client or matter that would jeopardize BOOK's ability to devote time, resources and effort necessary to fulfill to CITY hereunder.