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• <br />Confidential <br />• A Comprehensive Understanding Of The MWD <br />Temporary Employee Lawsuit And A Unique Approach <br />That Minimizes The City's Risk. The following sections <br />summarize the MWD lawsuit and our operational approach <br />follow in Section 1.3. <br />1.1 Project Partners' Unique Benefits <br />Ability To Use On -Site Engineering Services <br />On Longer Term Projects <br />Ability to Consistently Obtain High Quality <br />Technical Professionals <br />Project Partners is unique. We are a civil engineering firm run <br />and managed by a professional engineer with over 20 years of <br />experience. We also have an unusually thorough <br />understanding of the complex public sector labor laws. This <br />combination leads to two distinct benefits for the City. <br />✓ Reducing Risks For Longer Term Projects - <br />Understanding the labor law issues identified in the <br />MWD lawsuit gets significantly more complex and <br />correspondingly the risks to municipalities becomes <br />increasingly more significant with assignments that <br />are longer than six months. This combined with <br />the fact that many engineering related needs, often <br />exceed six months can complicate the situation and <br />pose a dilemma for cities. <br />Fortunately Project Partners can be the solution. <br />Cooperatively with. the MWD case lawyers, we <br />have developed a detailed operational procedure <br />that significantly reduces the public sector's risk <br />and exposure from labor law issues. Our <br />operations would allow the City to use our on -site <br />technical services on longer term projects without <br />being exposed to the risks and issues highlighted <br />in the lawsuit. The MWD lawsuit, its potential <br />impacts to the City, and the Project Partners' <br />operational procedures are explained in greater <br />detail in Section 1.2 and 1.3. <br />✓ High Quality Professionals - Project Partners <br />excels in attracting high quality professionals. In <br />complex engineering projects, it is the caliber of the <br />people involved that can determine the degree of <br />Project Partners Proposal for Temporary Engineering and Technical Support Services <br />City of Santa Ana <br />Section 1 Page 2 <br />