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CM-13-03-059Item Caption: Consider executing Bank, NA 13- o3-oS% RECEIVED City Manager Approval Form MAR 2 0 2013 a Chase Access Prepaid Card Program Client Service Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Approval Date: Department Name: March 22, 2013 Finance Department Project Manager: Cheryl Delaney Assigned Attorney: J.Kav Gayle Item Summary: The City is looking for ways to streamline the HR/Payroll processes. Each summer, the City pre -notes the summer hire new accounts for direct deposit to verify the account information. We typically have several each year that take a few payrolls to get correctly set up, which has caused some difficulty for both the employee and payroll department. This agreement will allow for payroll cards to be issued to the seasonal summer employees for those employees who currently are not set up for direct deposit. The payroll cards do not require any prenote, as each deposit goes to a unique card number set up for each individual employee. Payroll cards provide employees access to their funds at ATMs, at point of sale terminals (for a retail purchase as a debit card), or at teller assisted windows at a Visa Bank member. No. of Originals Submitted: Project Name: Cost: Source of Funds: 2 Payroll Card Agreement N/A General & Utility Funds Source of Funds (if applicable): Select Source Fund Account Number: Finance Director Approval: LO for C. Delaney Department Director Approval: LO for C. Delaney **Electronic signature by the Director is acceptable. Please only submit ONE approval form per item. ** Date: 03-20-2013 Date: 03-20-2013 CIP I I Budget N/A OK El El N/A OK Purchasing El N/A OK Accounting N/A OK ITEMS WILL NOT BE PLACED ON THE COUNCIL OR CM AGENDA W/OUT PRIOR FINANCE AND/OR LEGAL APPROVAL REV. 6/20/11 CHASE ACCESS PREPAID CARD PROGRAM - CLIENT SERVICE AGREEMENT This Chase Access Prepaid Card Program Client Service Agreement ("Agreement") is entered into as of the _ day of March 2013, ("Effective Date") by and between the (the "Client"), having a place of business at 221 E. Main Street, Round Rock, TX 78664 and JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA, a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States ("Chase"), having a place of business at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, New York 10081. WHEREAS, the Client desires to offer individuals an alternative to receiving pay or other disbursements by check or cash; and WHEREAS, Chase offers a program ("Program") to entities whereby individuals ("Individuals") can have certain disbursements deposited to an account (a "Chase Card Account') at Chase; and WHEREAS, from that account Individuals can withdraw funds at their convenience through use of a debit card (a "Chase Access Prepaid Card") which can be used at automated teller machines ("ATMs") and at point of sale ("POS") terminals; and WHEREAS, the Client desires to offer the Program to qualifying Individuals, and Chase is willing to provide the Program to the Client upon the terms and conditions set forth herein. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual consideration set forth herein, the parties hereto agree as follows: 1. Cardholder Enrollment and Chase Access Prepaid Cards. (a) Chase will require each Individual desiring to participate in the Program to be enrolled by the Client in a manner consistent with Chase policy ("Enrollment") and to receive a copy of the Cardholder Terms and Conditions ("Terms & Conditions"). Chase shall not accept any deposit of payments ("Entries") by the Client to a Chase Access Prepaid Card Account of any Individual prior to accepting an Enrollment. (b) Upon receipt and acceptance by Chase of the Enrollment, the Individual shall be deemed enrolled in the Program (a "Cardholder"). Chase shall open a Chase Access Prepaid Card Account in the Cardholder's name and issue a Chase Access Prepaid Card to the Cardholder. The Chase Access Prepaid Card will give the Cardholder electronic access to his or her Chase Access Prepaid Card Account, as described in the attached Schedule of Fees and Services ("Attachment A"). (c) The Client shall send funds to be deposited to the Chase Access Prepaid Card Accounts. Chase shall place such funds in the designated Chase Access Prepaid Card Account. The Client shall instruct Chase, in a manner that the Client and Chase agree upon, regarding how to deposit funds to the Chase Access Prepaid Card Accounts. (d) The Client shall coordinate between Chase and the Cardholders all matters related to enrollment in the Program. (e) Chase will issue all necessary new and replacement Chase Access Prepaid Cards to the Cardholders, in such form as Chase determines, and with such ATM, POS and other marks or logos on them as Chase determines. Chase may change its affiliation with any ATM or POS networks at any time. In the event that it does so, however, Chase shall not be obligated to issue replacement Chase Access Prepaid Cards to then -existing Cardholders. (f) In the event that any Cardholder terminates his or her participation in the Program or such Cardholder's participation is terminated for any reason, the Client will cease funding the Chase Access Prepaid Card Account for that Cardholder. The Cardholder shall continue to have Iry � 13 --o3 --oS access to his or her funds in the Chase Access Prepaid Card Account until the funds are depleted or the Chase Access Prepaid Card Account is closed. The Cardholder may instruct Chase to close his or her Chase Direct Card Account and return his or her funds by check. (g) If a Cardholder's Chase Access Prepaid Card Account has a negative balance or overdraft, Chase shall apply the next available deposit to the Cardholder's Chase Access Prepaid Card Account to recover such overdrawn funds, if such deposit occurs. The Client shall not be responsible for the amount of any overdraft in any Chase Access Prepaid Card Account, or for losses that result from fraud or from lost or stolen Chase Access Prepaid Cards, except to the extent that the Client's security administrator causes such overdrafts or losses. (h) The Client shall be bound by and comply with this Agreement and applicable state and federal laws and regulations and the National Automated Clearing House Association rules ("NACHA Rules"), to the extent that the NACHA Rules are applicable (collectively, the "Rules"). 2. Credit of Entries to Chase Card Accounts. (a) The Client shall fund the Chase Access Prepaid Card Accounts by sending funds by a method mutually agreed upon by the Client and Chase. (b) In the event that the Client fails to deliver, in a timely manner or otherwise, the Entries to its Originating Depository Financial Institution ("ODFI"), or otherwise fails to deliver, in a timely manner or otherwise, funds to Chase, the Client shall be solely responsible for notifying its Cardholders that funds may not be credited to their Chase Access Prepaid Card Accounts until the Entries are received and fully reconciled as set forth in the Rules. (c) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Rules, and the respective Terms & Conditions, Chase will credit the designated Chase Access Prepaid Card Account in the amount of each corresponding Entry received by Chase. Chase shall have no liability for failure to effect credit to the Chase Access Prepaid Card Accounts due to the failure of the Client, the ODFI or its Automated Clearing House ("ACH") to deliver those Entries to Chase. (d) Chase may reject any Entries received on behalf of the Client. The Client shall have no right to reverse an Entry after Chase has received such Entry, except in accordance with applicable Rules. 3. Correction of Errors. (a) Chase will use commercially reasonable efforts to act upon the Client's request to cancel or amend an Entry. If the Client exercises its rights under the NACHA Rules other than for duplications or errors, then, to the extent allowed by applicable federal or state laws, the Client shall remain liable to Chase, which may seek immediate payment from the Client, for any Entries already credited to a Chase Access Prepaid Card Account. (b) Chase, at its expense, shall correct any errors due primarily to malfunctions of its equipment or to acts of omission or commission of Chase's personnel or failure of its software. The Client agrees to promptly notify Chase of the error but in any event not later than thirty (30) days after such error first comes to the attention of the Client. If such notification is made orally, the Client must send a written confirmation to Chase within five (5) days. 4. Client Warranties. The Client warrants that barring error, each Entry shall be for an amount (i) due to the Cardholder and not subject to any claims by the Client or (ii) duly authorized to be disbursed to the Cardholder. If the Chase Access Prepaid Card is used for the payment of wages, the Client further warrants that it is in compliance with all applicable Rules governing the payment of wages, and it complies with Section 6 below. 5. Chase Warranties. Chase warrants that it will perform its obligations under this Agreement in a professional manner. 2 6. Individual Validation. The Client certifies that Individuals have completed and complied with all appropriate Enrollments and associated procedures, and that the Client has verified each Individual's identification. Chase has the right to audit Cardholder files for purposes of verifying how the Client conducted the identity verification. 7. Limitations on Damages. Neither Chase nor the Client shall be liable (no matter what the cause of action) for any indirect, special or consequential damages of any kind, even in the event that it is advised of the possibility that such damages may arise, occur or result. Chase's liability to the Client for direct damages shall be limited solely to actions in which Chase has acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct. 8. Back -Up of Data. The Client agrees to maintain adequate records of the Entries delivered to Chase to enable the Client to regenerate any of the information supplied by the Client to Chase. 9. Force Majeure. (a) Chase undertakes to use commercially reasonable efforts to help assure the continued delivery of services under this Agreement in the event of any unplanned interruption of the operations of or the inaccessibility of Chase's primary facilities for the delivery of services hereunder due to any cause, such as those set forth in Paragraph (b) below. (b) Notwithstanding the undertakings in Paragraph (a) above, neither Chase nor the Client shall be responsible for any errors, delays or nonperformance due to events beyond its commercially reasonable control, including, but not limited to acts of God; failure, delay or unavail- ability of power, communications or transportation; changes in law or regulation or other acts of governmental authority; strike; or weather conditions. 10. Confidentiality. (a) Chase shall treat all information and data received from the Client, the Cardholder or any third party with regard to a Cardholder as confidential and shall use reasonable care to safeguard all such information. (b) Neither Chase nor the Client may, except as required by the Rules or applicable federal or state laws, disclose any confidential information of the other party (or, if Chase, of the Client's Cardholders), without the prior written approval of such party, provided that in the event of a planned disclosure under the Rules, the disclosing party shall notify the other party as promptly as possible and cooperate with that party (at that party's expense) in protecting the confidential information from disclosure. (c) Chase's and the Client's obligations hereunder shall survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement. 3 11. Publicity and Marketing Material. (a) Neither Chase nor the Client shall make any advertising or promotional use of any name, logo or trademark of the other without the prior written consent of the other. "Advertising or promotional use" includes but is not limited to the use of a party's name on a customer or reference list. (b) The Client shall not disclose or distribute any materials related to the Program to any Individuals, Cardholders or others without the prior written consent of Chase. 12. Financial Records. Unless the Client is publicly traded, it will produce or allow Chase to inspect financial data reasonably relating to the financial condition of the Client within a reasonable time after the request of Chase. 13. Fees. The Client agrees to pay Chase for its services rendered in accordance with the Fee Schedule in Attachment A. Chase will also charge the Cardholders for its services rendered in accordance with the Fee Schedule in Attachment A, which Chase may change with no less than thirty (30) days notice to the Cardholder and to the Client, except that Chase may not change the fees within the first twelve months from the Effective Date of the Agreement. All pricing is based upon certain assumptions that exist at the time of the effective date of the Contract. Changes in federal or state law and regulations may change these assumptions causing change in the financial performance of the program to Chase. In the event that this occurs, the parties shall review such pricing and determine an agreeable solution to effectuate a change in the pricing structure, and the contract shall be amended accordingly by the parties. If the parties cannot agree to such an amendment, either party may terminate the Contract by thirty (30) days written notice to the other party. 14. Term and Termination. (a) The term of this Agreement shall run from the Effective Date written above and shall remain in effect until either party gives the other party at least ninety (90) days' written notice of termination. (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement, either Chase or the Client may terminate this Agreement immediately, without notice, in the event that (i) the other materially breaches any of its material obligations under this Agreement; (ii) a bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership, insolvency or other similar proceeding for the arrangement of such party's obligations is instituted by the other, or involuntarily against the other and is not dismissed within ninety (90) days; (iii) the other is unable to pay its debts as they become due or admits in writing its inability to pay its debts generally; or (iv) the other becomes subject to any statutory, administrative or court order or other official action which prevents it from continuing to provide or receive (respectively) Program services in the manner contemplated hereby. 15. Notice. Any notice required or permitted under this Agreement shall be in writing. Each such notice shall be effective when delivered by hand or, if mailed, shall be mailed postage prepaid, return receipt requested, and shall be effective when received. Each such notice shall be addressed or delivered, if to the Client, at: or, if to Chase, at: City of Round Rock 221 E. Main Street Round Rock, TX 78664 JPMorgan Chase 300 South Riverside Plaza, IL1-0092 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Attn: Tracy Dangott or at such other address as Chase or the Client shall specify in a notice to the other in accordance herewith. 4 16. Miscellaneous. (a) This Agreement is binding upon Chase, the Client and their respective successors and permitted assigns. Neither Chase nor the Client may assign this Agreement in whole or in part without the prior written consent of the other, except that Chase may assign this Agreement to another financial institution upon written notice to the Client and at its own expense. Either Chase or the Client may assign this Agreement to any affiliate upon written notice to the other. (b) Either Chase or the Client may delay or forego exercising any of its rights under this Agreement without waiving any of its rights. (c) If any part or parts of this Agreement are held to be invalid, the remaining parts of this Agreement shall continue to be valid and enforceable. (d) This Agreement and performance hereunder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to the choice of law provisions thereof. (e) This Agreement represents the complete and exclusive statement of the agreement between Chase and the Client with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement and supersedes any prior understanding between them with respect to such subject matter. This Agreement may not be modified or altered except by a written instrument duly executed by both Chase and the Client. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Chase and the Client have caused this Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized representatives on the date or dates set forth above. CITY OF ROUND ROCK, TEXAS By: Printed Name: Title: Date: (Authorized Signature) eve No(wood CA. ,1\keavklek 3/07x-//3 5 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NA By: A IU(JJ.( LZ Y)1,4t s/ J (Authorize Signature) Printeda: La rnP. (I Cary--u<)Name: Title: Sol Ci- -bank r Date: 3 13 ATTACHMENT A SCHEDULE OF FEES AND SERVICES Program Description: Electronic Payment Card program for the Agency's payees who choose to receive their entitlement and/or other receipts via the Chase Access Prepaid Card. Enrollment Method: The Client will enroll Cardholders in the program via Web. Card Attributes: • Currency of Issue - US Dollar • Card Type - Primary Cards: The Cardholder will have access to the funds in the Chase Card Account through his or her Chase Access Prepaid Card. • Card Design — Standard Chase Access Prepaid Card. • Card Acceptance — Cardholder may access funds by using his or her Chase Access Prepaid Card for signature -based transactions at participating retail locations as specified in the fee schedule; and for PIN -based transactions at participating retail locations and Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) supporting the program. Primary Cardholder may also use his or her Chase Access Prepaid Card to access funds surcharge -free at ATMs displaying the Chase or Allpoint logo(s) as specified in the fee schedule. Cardholders may request cash back through PIN -based transactions at participating retail locations and obtain over-the-counter cash advances at participating member bank branches. • Fraud Prevention —Chase reserves the right to restrict card usage and limit the types of transactions available on the Access Prepaid Card to prevent money laundering or restrict cardholders from engaging in other card related fraud. In addition, Chase may also take such further actions as it deems necessary to prevent or minimize fraudulent activity. The actions which Chase takes may not substantially hinder the cardholder's use of his/her Card. • Card Package — Primary Cardholder will receive the Chase Access Prepaid Card, Card Carrier, Terms & Conditions and Cardholder Guide. Activation Process: Primary Cardholder can activate his or her card via Chase's toll-free customer service number or by first use of his or her PIN (for replacement cards after the first card has been activated). Statements: Cardholder will have access to monthly statements of his or her activity by Web or telephone. Mailed statements will be provided to Cardholders at a cost upon Cardholder's request. Statements may not be provided if a Chase Card Account is inactive. Customer Service: Primary Cardholder may obtain Chase Access Prepaid Card Account balance information, transaction history, PIN services, lost or stolen card assistance, and initiate transaction claims via the Web or by calling Chase's toll-free customer service number 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If a Chase Access Prepaid Card is lost or stolen, Primary Cardholder can mitigate his or her fund losses due to fraud by calling Chase immediately. -6- Chase Access Prepaid Fee Schedule Fee Fees Paid by Agency —Program Setup Fee $1,500, waived —New Cardholder Enrollment Waived —Monthly Maintenance $100/month, waived in months with >100 transacting cards Fees Paid by Cardholder —Account Enrollment N/A —Account Maintenance N/A ATM Cash Withdrawal) —At Chase ATMs Free —At non -Chase ATMs in the US 2 free per deposit; then $1.00 each —At ATMs International $3.00 each , ATM Balance Inquiry — At Chase ATMs Free —At non -Chase ATMs in the US 2 free per deposit; then $0.50 each —At ATMs, International $1.00 each Retail Purchase —with signature Free —with PIN (includes cash back) Free Teller -assisted Withdrawal at Visa Member Bank 1 free per deposit; then $5.00 each Online Bill Payment at www.myaccount.chase.com $0.75 per bill payment Transaction Denied for Insufficient Funds2 2 free per deposit, then $0.50 each Customer Service — web Free Customer Service — phone 8 free calls per month; then $0.25 each My Alerts Notification Service Free Card Replacement — standard delivery 1 free per year; then $7.50 each Card Replacement — expedited delivery $17.50 per card ACH Transfer to Chase Account Free ACH Transfer to non -Chase Account $0.25 each Account statement — web Free Account statement — mail $1.00 per month, upon request only International Transaction Fee 3.0% of transaction Inactive Account3 $1.50 per month Account Closure with Check Issuance Free 1 Some ATM owners and operators may charge an additional fee per transaction, called a surcharge. There are no surcharges at Chase or Allpoint ATMs. 2 This fee will be assessed if a POS or ATM transaction is denied due to insufficient funds in your Account. 3 A monthly fee will be assessed on each Account that has been inactive for 365 days. Fee is not assessed during periods of activity. Account activity is defined as a deposit, withdrawal, purchase or any type of financial activity. -7-