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JOANN C. BUTLER
LAUREN MAIERS REYNOLDSON
MICHAEL T. SPINK
(20B) 388" 1 093
JBUTLER@SB"ATTORNEYS.COM
Via Facsimile and US Mail
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M;o\'[ 3 F 2006
May 25, 2006
. Mayor Tanuny de Weerd.
Councilman Joe W. Borton
Councilman Keith Bird
Councilman Charlie Rountree
Councilman Sha.unW ardle
City of Meridian
33 East Idaho Avenue
Meridian, ID 83642
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Re: City of Meridian! Area of Impact (BBC Research)
SB File No.: 22187.3
'Dear Mayor and Council Members:
We thank you for asking our firm to serve the City of Meridian as a subcontractor with BBC
Research & Consulting ("BBCn) in connection with the preparation oEan impact fee analysis
and revisions to Meridian's existingimpactfee ordinance. We are pleased to represent the City
. of Meridian in its endeavors, however, there is an item that we must address.
As the City knows, our firm has represented and; irl the future, will represent persons and
property owners before the City, typically in cOlmection with land use entitlements and land
use appeals. With the City's consent, our firm will agree to work with the City in connection
with the impact fee analysis and ordinancetnodification but only with the U11derstanding that
this work not be treated, now or in the future, as creating a conflict of irlterest with property
owners and/ or persons represented by Spink Butler, LLF, and appearirlg before the City of
'Meridian. This consent would not be construed as consent to represent persons appearirlg
before the City who areprotestirtg any aspect of the impact fee analysis or ordinance prepared
by BBe..
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Mayor and City Council
May 25, 2006
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We would appreciate it if the City would consider/sign, and return to us, the
acknowledgment on the enclosed photocopy of this letter indicating the City's consent
to Spirlk Butler; LLP's present and future representation of persons and/ or property
owners appearirlg before the City of Meridian in connection with land use entitlements
and/ or land use appeals, not irlcluding protests of the impact fee analysis and ordirlance
in the process of preparation by BBe.
Sincerely,
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JoAnne. Butler
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c: Ted Baird
1, T anuny de Weerd, Mayor of the City of Meridian, on behalf of the City of Meridian
and its City Council, expressly consent to Spink Butler, LLP's representation of persons
and/ or property owners appearing before tl1e City of Meridian in connection withJand
use entitlements and/ or land use appeals, and acknowledge and agree that any such
representation is not, and shall not be, a conflictdf interest as a result of the work being
performed for the parties described on the previous page; provided, however, such
consent shall not extend to persons and/ or property owners appearirlg before the City .
in protest of the impact fee analysis and ordinance in the process of preparation by BBC
Research & Consulting. ' , .
CITY OF MERIDIAN
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