NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY, INC. DBA NEIGHBORWORKS ORANGE COUNTY 1

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Payment need not: be made for work which fails to meet the standards Of lrerformance set forth in the Recitals which may reasonably be expected by City. 3. TERM The tern of this Agreement shall commence on the date stated above and continue through September 30, 2018, unless earlier terminated as set forth in. Section 14, below. 4. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR Consultant shall during the entire teen of this Agreement, be construed to be an independent contractor and not an employee of the City. This Agreement is not intended nor shall it be construed to create an employer-employee relationship, a joint venture relationship, or to allow the City to exercise discretion or control over the manner in which Consultant performs the services required by this Agreement, However, the services to be provided by Consultant shall be provided in a maturer consistent with all applicable standards and regulations governing such services. Consultant shall pay all salaries and wages, employer's Social Security taxes, unemployment insurance, and similar taxes relating to employees and shall be responsible for all applicable withholding taxes. - S. ONVNERSHIP OFREPORTS AND DOCUMENTS Upon coulplction of all work under this Agreement, ownership and title to all reports, documents, tracings, plans, specifications, estimates and maps prepared or obtained ander the terns of this Agreerment shall be, delivered to, and become the property of City. Basic survey notes and sketches, charts, computations, and other data prepared or obtained pursuant to this Agreement shall be nnade available upon request of the City without restriction or limitation on their use. Consultant shall furnish the City all necessary copies of data needed to complete the review and approval process. 6. CONFIDENTIALITY if Consultant receives from the City information which due to the nature of such inforrnati.on is reasonably understood to be confidential and/or proprietary, Consultant agrees that it shall not use or disclose such infor:roa.tion except in the performance of this Agreement, and further agrees to exercise the same degree of care it uses to protect its own in form ation of like importance, but in no event less than reasonable care. "Confidential Information" shall include all nonpublic, information, Confidential information includes not only written information, but also information transferred orally, visually, electronically, or by otber means. Confidential inf'ornation disclosed to either party by any subsidiary and/or agent of the other party is covered by this Agreement. The foregoing obligations of non, use and nondisclosure shall not apply to any information that (a.) has been disclosed in publicly available sources; (b) is, through no fault of the Consultant disclosed in a publicly available Mage 2 o 10