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LAW OFFICES OF BEST, BEST & KRIEGER Mr. Jerry Young March 14, 1990 Page 2 clients' informed written consent. Rule 3-310 further provides that an attorney shall not concurrently represent clients whose interests conflict, except with their informed written consent. In this instance, as counsel to the City of Redlands, our firm is and will be providing advice to the City of Redlands concerning the foregoing matters. The City of Colton also has an interest in the foregoing matters, since it has territory within its boundaries which is subject to Assembly Bill No. 419, and because the City of Colton has recently executed that certain Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement and Amended Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement applicable to the Inland Valley Development Agency. The City of Redlands has to date not executed said Agreements and has interests and concerns which may very well be different from and adversarial to the interests and concerns of the City of Colton concerning the foregoing matters. For example, among other possibilities, the City of Redlands may decide to defend any validation action filed by the Inland Valley Development Agency to validate that certain Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement or Amended Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement. Alternatively, the City of Redlands may decide to commence litigation seeking to invalidate those Agreements (to which the City of Colton is a party). The City of Colton may be an adversarial party in any such action. Our firm proposes to provide legal services concerning the foregoing matters to the City of Redlands. We note that we have not heretofore been asked to provide legal services to the City of Colton concerning these matters and do not anticipate that the City of Colton will ask us to do so in the future. However, since we are presently Counsel to the Colton Redevelopment Agency and have enjoyed a very warm ongoing professional relationship with the Agency and the City of Colton, we would like to obtain the informed written consent of the City of Colton for purposes of our provision of legal services to the City of Redlands concerning the above matters, pursuant to Rule 3-310 of the Rules of Professional Conduct. You should be aware that our firm is submitting separate correspondence to City of Redlands informing the City of Redlands of the matters described in this correspondence, and requesting the informed written consent of the City of Redlands to our provision of legal services