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(5) Effectiveness in the courtroom <br /> (6)Attorney or Rule 9 caseload <br /> The internal monitoring program shall be submitted to the Agreement Administrator within 60 <br /> days after the execution of this Agreement. RALJ Public Defender shall certify no less than <br /> annually that monitoring has occurred in conformity with this Agreement and the monitoring <br /> program. <br /> 1.5 The RALJ Public Defender will promptly notify the City if any <br /> circumstance, including change in rule or law,renders it difficult or impossible to provide service <br /> in compliance with the Decision and/or the Standards. <br /> 1.6 The City places a very high value, expectation and importance on the level <br /> of service and professional interaction from RALJ Public Defender.RALJ Public Defender will <br /> meet with the City for compliance meetings on as needed basis as determined by the City. For the <br /> first year of this Agreement and until the City determines otherwise, this compliance meeting will <br /> occur quarterly. The purpose of the compliance meeting will be to discuss the compliance of RALJ <br /> Public Defender since the last compliance meeting. <br /> If Municipal Court staff receive one or more complaints from others who interact with <br /> RALJ Public Defender, Municipal Court staff will make reasonable efforts to document the <br /> specifics of the complaint(s) and will notify RALJ Public Defender in writing. The RALJ Public <br /> Defender has an internal complaint process that is handled by the Attorney Administrator. The <br /> Attorney Administrator investigates and responds to all written complaints. The RALJ Public <br /> Defender will then promptly attempt to resolve the complaint(s) directly with the complainant. <br /> The RALJ Public Defender will document its attempts at resolution. If RALJ Public Defender <br /> cannot achieve resolution,the matter may be added by the City or by RALJ Public Defender to the <br /> agenda of the next contract compliance meeting. If so added,the RALJ Public Defender will no <br /> later than five days before the meeting provide to the Municipal Court Administrator and City <br /> Purchasing Manager a written description of the status of the unresolved complaint(s) and a <br /> corrective action plan. <br /> If during the quarter after a compliance meeting, a RALJ Public Defender compliance item <br /> (including without limitation complaints set forth in the previous paragraph) on the agenda of the <br /> previous compliance meeting remains unresolved, the City may convene an ad hoc committee to <br /> further consider the matter. The ad hoc committee will if possible consist of a minimum the City's <br /> Public Defense Overseer, the City Purchasing Manager, , a member of the City Administration <br /> and other non-interested parties if such a member agrees to serve. A decision by a majority of the <br /> ad hoc committee will be fmal. <br /> 2. Compensation. Effective the date of execution of this Agreement, , the City shall <br /> pay to the RALJ Public Defender for services rendered under this Agreement the sum of$110 per <br /> hour, up to $2,500 per RALJ case assigned. The City may allow additional compensation for <br /> extraordinary cases where it is determined by the City that further compensation is reasonable and <br /> necessary under the circumstances of the case. Upon written documentation by the RALJ Public <br /> Defender,the City shall consider additional compensation based upon the complexity of the case, <br /> 3 <br />