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• • r providing public safety - related aid and assistance to law enforcement organizations throughout the greater Saint Paul- Minneapolis metropolitan area that have entered into an agreement with the City, similar to this Agreement, provided that such aid and assistance is actually and directly related to the 2008 RNC, and only if such aid and assistance is warranted by extraordinary circumstances, all as more fully set forth in Section 3.6 herein. NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority contained in Minnesota Statutes Section 471.59, commonly known as the Joint Powers Act, and/or Minnesota Statutes, Sections 626.76 and 626.77, and in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained and the benefits that each party hereto shall derive hereby, the Parties agree as follows: 1 PURPOSE OF THE AGREEMENT; BASIC CRITERIA OF LPOs AND NON - LPOS 1.1 The purpose of this Agreement is to set forth the terms and conditions whereby the Provider will provide the City with the professional services of those certain licensed peace officers identified on Attachment A attached hereto (such licensed peace officers identified on Attachment A shall be collectively referred to herein as the "LPOs ") to assist the SPPD with the Security Event, and to set forth the terms and conditions in which the Provider, subject to Section 3.6 herein, can avail itself of the aid and assistance of the RRT. 1.1.1 Subject to the prior written approval of the SPPD, the Provider may also provide the City with persons who are employed and actively utilized by the Provider in a public safety capacity who do not meet the criteria of an LPO as set forth in this Agreement but whose special public safety training and experience may enable such persons to provide further assistance to the SPPD with regard to the Security Event (hereinafter such persons are identified on Attachment B attached hereto, and shall be collectively referred to herein as the "Non- LPOs ") (an example of a Non -LPOs might include parking enforcement and/or traffic control officers, detention staff, special deputies, and emergency center dispatchers). If the SPPD, in its sole discretion, desires to use any Non -LPOs, the SPPD will so notify the Provider in writing of the conditions by which the Non -LPOs will be used, and such writing will be incorporated as an addendum to this Agreement. 1.1.2 Provider will exercise its best efforts to assist with the Security Event. The parties acknowledge and agree that resource availability requires Provider to exercise its best judgment in prioritizing and responding to the public safety needs of its jurisdiction including, but not limited to, the Security Event. That prioritization decision belongs solely to Provider. This Agreement does not entitle City or the Security Event to a higher priority or special consideration during Provider's prioritization process. Further, Provider may, at any time, recall its LPOs when, it is considered to be in Provider's best interest to do so. 1.2 Each of the LPOs must meet the following criteria as defined in Minnesota Statutes, 2