File #: 25-00049    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 1/3/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 1/14/2025 Final action: 1/14/2025
Title: Consider recommendations regarding a Fourth Amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services with Outside Counsel Rutan and Tucker, LLP, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required) a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a Fourth Amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services between the County of Santa Barbara and attorney Douglas Dennington, of the law firm Rutan and Tucker, LLP, to increase the maximum contract amount by $25,000.00 for a new maximum contract amount not to exceed $600,000.00 and to extend the term of the contract to January 31, 2026; and b) Determine that the above action is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15378(b)(4) and 15378(b)(5) because it consists of government administrative or fiscal activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
Sponsors: COUNTY COUNSEL
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - Fourth Amendment to Agreement for Professional Legal Services, 3. Attachment B - Third Amendment to Agreement for Professional Legal Services, 4. Attachment C - Second Amendment to Agreement for Professional Legal Services, 5. Attachment D - First Amendment to Agreement for Professional Legal Services, 6. Attachment E - Agreement for Professional Legal Services, 7. Executed Amendment, 8. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding a Fourth Amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services with Outside Counsel Rutan and Tucker, LLP, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)

 

a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a Fourth Amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services between the County of Santa Barbara and attorney Douglas Dennington, of the law firm Rutan and Tucker, LLP, to increase the maximum contract amount by $25,000.00 for a new maximum contract amount not to exceed $600,000.00 and to extend the term of the contract to January 31, 2026; and

 

b) Determine that the above action is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15378(b)(4) and 15378(b)(5) because it consists of government administrative or fiscal activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.