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Human Resources Department recommending the Board consider the following:
1) Make findings in accordance with Ordinance 3.13.030 that a contract for workplace investigation and training services is necessary to protect against a conflict of interest or to ensure independent and unbiased findings where there is a need for an outside perspective and where work must be completed within limited timeframes;
2) Approve and authorize the Purchasing Agent to sign Amendment II to Agreement 4730 with Boucher Law, PC to increase the not-to-exceed amount by $58,000, making the new not-to-exceed amount $268,000, with a term effective from the final execution through April 15, 2024; and
3) Authorize the Purchasing Agent to execute any necessary amendments relating to Agreement 4730, excluding term extensions and increases to the not-to-exceed amount, contingent upon approval by County Counsel and Risk Management.
FUNDING: General Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Human Resources receives complaints of alleged misconduct in the workplace; including, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and abusive conduct by County employees. Human Resources receives and provides for investigations of these complaints in accordance with County policy or rule, including Board Policy E-5 and Personnel Rule 309.4, or as Human Resources and affected department heads deem necessary. The department has contracted with outside vendors when special skills and qualifications are involved in the performance of the work, when it is necessary to protect against a conflict of interest and obtain an outside perspective to make independent and unbiased findings, or when it is otherwise necessary to ensure a prompt and thorough investigation and resolution of the complaints filed. The nature of the work involves temporary, occasional, and urgent services.
Since April 16, 2020, Boucher Law, PC has provided the personnel and equipment necessary to provide legal services in connection with labor...
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