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CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made and entered into this /5 ' dayof
iqici / , 2015 by and between the City of Rancho Palos Verdes (hereinafter referred
to as the "CITY") and the Genesis Work, Inc. (hereafter referred to as "CONSULTANT").
IN CONSIDERATION of the covenants hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
ARTICLE 1
SCOPE OF SERVICES
1.1 Project
CONSULTANT shall assist CITY by having Romi Boucher conduct a six hour
workshop with the CITY'S senior management team, which is comprised of the City Manager,
Deputy City Manager and Department Heads, regarding the CITY' goals, as described in the
Scope of Services, which is attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and incorporated herein by this
reference (the "Project").
1.2 Schedule of Work
Upon receipt of written Notice to Proceed from the CITY, CONSULTANT shall
prepare for and shall conduct the workshop on the date established by the City Manger.
ARTICLE 2
COMPENSATION
2.1 Fee
CITY agrees to compensate CONSULTANT the sum of three thousand six
hundred dollars and no cents ($3,600.00) for the services as described in Article 1.
2.2 Terms of Compensation
Within thirty days of the date of the when CONSULTANT submits its invoice to the
CITY following the date of the workshop, CITY shall pay the fee to CONSULTANT.
ARTICLE 3
INSURANCE
3.1 Automobile Liability
CONSULTANT shall at all times during the term of this Agreement obtain,
maintain, and keep in full force and effect, a policy or policies of Automobile Liability Insurance,
as required California by law.
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3.2 Worker's Compensation
CONSULTANT agrees to maintain in force at all times during the performance of
work under this Agreement any worker's compensation insurance that may be required by law.
ARTICLE 4
TERMINATION
4.1 Termination of Agreement
This Agreement may be terminated at any time, with or without cause, by either
Party upon thirty (30) days prior written notice. Notice shall be deemed served if completed in
compliance with Section 5.8.
ARTICLE 5
GENERAL PROVISIONS
5.1 Personnel
CONSULTANT represents that it has, or shall secure at its own expense, all
personnel required to perform CONSULTANT's services under this Agreement. CONSULTANT
shall provide Romi Boucher to conduct the workshop. CONSULTANT may associate with or
employ associates or subconsultants in the performance of its services under this Agreement, but
at all times shall CONSULTANT be responsible for its associates or subconsultants' services.
5.2 Assignment
Neither this Agreement nor any part thereof shall be assigned by CONSULTANT
without the prior written consent of the CITY.
5.3 Independent Contractor
CONSULTANT is and shall at all times remain, as to the CITY, a wholly
independent contractor.
5.4 Titles
The titles used in this Agreement are for general reference only and are not part
of the Agreement.
5.5 Entire Agreement
This Agreement, including any other documents incorporated herein by specific
reference, represents the entire and integrated agreement between CITY and CONSULTANT
and supersedes all prior negotiations, representations or agreements, either written or oral. This
Agreement may be modified or amended, or provisions or breach may be waived, only by
subsequent written agreement signed by both parties.
5.6. Construction
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5.6. Construction
In the event of any asserted ambiguity in, or dispute regarding the interpretation
of any matter herein, the interpretation of this Agreement shall not be resolved by any rules of
interpretation providing for interpretation against the party who causes the uncertainty to exist or
against the party who drafted the Agreement or who drafted that portion of the Agreement.
5.7 Severability
if any term or portion of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal, or otherwise
unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions of this Agreement
shall continue in full force and effect.
5.8 Notice
Except as otherwise required by law, any payment, notice or other
communication authorized or required by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be
deemed received on (a) the day of delivery if delivered by hand or overnight courier service
during CONSULTANT's or CITY's regular business hours or (b) on the third business day
following deposit in the United States mail, postage prepaid, to the addresses listed below, or at
such other address as one party may notify the other:
To CITY:
Doug Willmore, City Manager
City of Rancho Palos Verdes
30940 Hawthorne Blvd.
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
To CONSULTANT: " -
Romi Boucher
Genesis Work, Inc.
Address: 4923 Rupert Lane
La Canada, CA 91011
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the
date and year first above written.
Dated: ///2,7./ GENESIS WORK, INC.
(CONSULTANT")
By:,
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Romi Boucher
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Dated: 13 CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
("CITY")
By: MAA16-62-'t—'
City Manager
ATTEST:
By: rig � J
City Clerk
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Exhibit "A":
SCOPE OF SERVICES
Background Approach
People create meaning and action in relationship and in communication. Human organizing,
change and futures are conversational realities. When leaders want to maximize the best of a
community and culture and also have to demonstrate their responsibility for the direction,
productivity, flexibility, adaptiveness and morale of their organizations, they can cause desired
futures by the conversations they convene, reiterate and expand. Furthermore, they can begin to
shift the mindsets and culture so that an invented future and expanded capacities can be
sustained.
If people engage in conversations designed to bring forth what is best about the current
community and organization as well as the aspirational aspects of what the community or
organization could be for the future, then a desired future can be designed as a strategic focus
with goals, measures and action plans to realize and implement that created future. People who
engage in this reiteratively then begin to practice and demonstrate conversational leadership.
Request
The City Manager would like to convene the staff directors of the Rancho Palos Verdes
government to invent a set of desirable and compelling goals that forward a bold future for the
City and community. He has asked Genesis Work, Inc. (GW)to propose a Workshop facilitation
that would further that end.
Phase I--Invention and Realization of a Desired and Compelling Future
The purpose of this proposal is to outline the aspects of Phase I.
The desired outcome of Phase I is a co-created articulation of a bold future that each and all the
co-designers are committed to realizing together, and with the various constituencies of the City.
The articulation includes recognition and responsibility for some limited past practices, a
possibility-based future vision, the choice and commitment to a collective,bold future for the
2015 year, as well as a framework of articulated conditions of satisfaction for the realization of
the future (goals with measures).
The articulation is made through inquiry and dialogue in a day's workshop. A visual idea of the
strategic articulation looks like this:
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Goals and
Measures
Choice and
Commitment
Vision
Relationship
Expansion
Current Condition
Examined
The framework includes collective City goals (and measures) that all the departments would
have to collaborate to accomplish. In addition to accomplish the framework and realize the
vision, the leaders would need also to engage in new learning and practices that are consistent
with the future they created.
Overview of Future Workshop: Proposed Overall time of Workshop 9 am to 6 pm (with an
hour for lunch and 2, 15 minute breaks): GW on site 8 am to 6 pm
Step Outcome of Step Time
a) Inquire into the current - Build relationship with each 3 hrs
condition, culture, and other based by accessing core
practices of the department values and discover the
heads and the City Manager. powerful stories that shape
what is best in the City;
- Actively look at our limitations:
Factors about how we listen,
slowed or sluggish projects,
and recurrent complaints that
don't seem to get resolved.
- Learn and take responsibility
for the current condition.
b) Invent a new future together - Participants generate a desired 2 hrs
in dialogue and select major vision of a future for Rancho
goal areas Palos Verdes and
administrative services based
in possibility
- Participants are able to choose
to commit to and invest in the
future they co-created;
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- Participants begin to distill the
goal areas and breakthroughs
they would have to make
happen that would indicate a
new reality was created;and
c) Shape goals and key initiatives - Identify aspects of future per 2%hrs
with measures department for goal and
initiative areas
- Identify key measures for each
goal and initiative
- Identify leadership qualities
and actions needed to cause
goal fulfillment
- Select key actions for end of
April accomplishment
Preparation and Post Wrap-UpTime 6 hrs
(non participant time)
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