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Legal Services Analysis and Report City of San Leandro <br />February 2013 Municipal Resource Group <br /> <br /> <br /> 20 <br />The benchmark data provides certain insights that may inform this analysis and the City <br />of San Leandro in its review of City Attorney services: <br /> <br />1. The average population, FTE, General Fund budget and operating budgets of the <br />benchmark cities slightly exceeds similar San Leandro data. <br /> <br />2. San Leandro’s overall array and complexity of services is comparable to many of the <br />benchmark cities, exceeding two (Fremont and Union City), less than two (Berkeley <br />and Richmond) and comparable to the remaining five cities. <br /> <br />3. Cities with in‐house City Attorney staff generally still use outside counsel for <br />specialized services, particularly litigation. <br /> <br />4. Cities with in‐house City Attorney staff generally assign risk management <br />responsibilities to the City Attorney Office. <br /> <br />5. Cities with in‐house City Attorney staff do not generally assign workers <br />compensation administration to the City Attorney Office, and instead generally <br />assign this responsibility to the Human Resource Department. Alameda and <br />Livermore do assign workers compensation responsibilities to the City Attorney <br />Office, although both cities contract for workers compensation legal services. <br /> <br />6. For those cities where the benchmark survey was able to separately identify the <br />staff attorneys assigned to City Attorney Office General Services, including <br />RDA/Successor Agency services, the number of in‐house attorneys ranges from 2.7 <br />FTE (Alameda) to 4.9 FTE (Fremont). Alameda and Fremont supplement the <br />attorney staff with paralegals (1.7 FTE and 1.0 FTE, respectively). Administrative <br />staff ranges from 1.0 FTE to 1.7 FTE.