Res 2017-117/Award a contract for CDBG-DR Housing Case Management and Pre-Construction Services

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4.3 TAXES The Contractor will not include Federal taxes or State of Texas limited sales excise and use taxes in its invoices or vouchers and statement of costs. The City is exempt from payment of such taxes and the Contractor may retrieve a resale certificate for use on this Project from the State of Texas Comptroller's website. ARTICLE 5 CONTRACTOR'S RECORDS 5.1 The Contractor will keep all of its expense records in a recognized accounting format acceptable to the City and these records will be available to the City at mutually convenient times. 5.2 The City, its auditors, federal auditors, and state agencies that have monitoring or auditing responsibilities for this Agreement will have access to any books, documents, papers and records of the Contractor which are directly pertinent to this Agreement for the purpose of making audit, examination, excerpts, copying and transcriptions. 5.3 The Contractor will furnish to the City at such time and in such form as the City may require, financial statements including audited financial statements, records, reports, data and information, as the City may request pertaining to the matters covered by this Agreement. ARTICLE 6 OWNERSHIP AND USE OF DOCUMENTS 6.1 All documents prepared by the Contractor in connection with this Agreement become the property of the City upon proper payment for the Contractor's services, whether any project related to this Agreement is executed or not. The Contractor shall provide all documents to the City upon request by the City at no charge. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Contractor shall bear no liability or responsibility for deliverables that have been modified post-delivery or used for a purpose other than that for which they were prepared under this Agreement. 6.2 The Contractor will retain all of its records and supporting documentation relating to this Agreement for a period of four years after completion of the Project except in the event that the Contractor goes out of business during that period, it will turn over to the City all of its records relating to the Project. 6.3 As applicable, the Contractor will pay all license fees, royalties, and other costs incident to the use of any invention, design, process, product or device subject to a patent right or copyright held by others in performing the work or in the completed project. ARTICLE 7 TERM; TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT 7.1 The term of this Agreement begins on August 1, 2017 and will end no later than July 31, 9