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<br />P.O. Box 712 • Des Moines, Iowa 50306-0712 INSURANCE
<br />CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY INDIVIDUAL ATTORNEY -IN -FACT
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that:
<br />1. Employers Mutual Casualty Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />2. EMCASCO Insurance Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />3. Union Insurance Company of Providence, an Iowa Corporation
<br />4, Illinois EMCASCO Insurance Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />5. Dakota Fire Insurance Company, a North Dakota Corporation
<br />6. EMC Property & Casualty Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />hereinafter referred to severally as "Company" and collectively as "Companies', each does, by these presents, make, constitute and appoint:
<br />Tracie House
<br />its true and lawful attomey-in-fact, with full power and authority conferred to sign, seal, and execute the following Surety Bond:
<br />Surety Bond Number: Bid Bond
<br />Principal : C & E Excavating, Inc.
<br />Obligee : City Of South Bend
<br />and to bind each Company thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such instruments were signed by the duly authorized officers of each such Company, and all
<br />of the acts of Said attorney pursuant to the authority hereby given are hereby ratifiEid and confirmed.
<br />AUTHORITY FOR POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />This Power-o I -Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by the authority of the following resolution of the Boards of Directors of each of the Companies at the
<br />first regularly scheduled meeting of each company duly called and held in 1399:
<br />RESOLVED: The President and Chief Executive Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer and the Secretary of Employers Mutual Casualty Company shall have
<br />power and authority to it j appoint allomeys•in-fact and authorize them to execute on behalf of each Company and attach the seal of the Company thereto, bonds
<br />and undertakings, recognizances, oontracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof; and (2) to remove any such attorneyIn-fact at any time
<br />and revoke the power and authority given to him or her. Attorneys -in -fact shall have power and authority, subject to the terms and limitations of the power-of-afomey
<br />issued to them. to execute and deliver on behalf of the Company, and to attach the seal of the Company thereto, bonds and undertakings, recognizances, contracts of
<br />indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, and any such instrument executed by any such attorney -in -fact shalt be fully and in al[ respects binding upon
<br />the Company. Certification as to the validity of any power•of•attomey authorized herein made by an officer of Employers Mutual Casualty Company shall be fully and in all
<br />respects binding upon this Company. The facsimile or mechanically reproduced signature of such officer, whether made heretofore or hereafter, wherever appearing upon
<br />a certified copy of any power -of -attorney of the Company, shall be valid and binding upon the Company with the same force and effect as though manually affixed.
<br />IN WITNESS THEREOF, the Companies have caused these presents to be signed for each by their officers as shown, and the Corporate seals to be hereto affixed this
<br />1911 day of September, 2022.
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<br />colt R. Jean, r sident & CEO Todd Strother, Executive Vice President
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<br />On this 19" day of September, 2022 before me a Notary Pubtic in and for the State of Iowa,
<br />personally appeared Scott R. ,lean and Todd Strofher, who, being by me duly sworn, did
<br />say that they are. and are known io me to be the CEO, Chairman, President, Executive Vice
<br />President, Chief Legal Officer andfor Secretary, respectively, of each of the Companies
<br />above, that the seals affixed to this inslrument are the seals of said corporations; that said
<br />inslrument was signed and sealed on behalf of each of the Companies by authority of their
<br />respective Boards of Directors: and that the said Scott R. Jean and Todd Sirother, as such
<br />officers, acknowledged the execution of said instrument to be their vol umary act and deed,
<br />and the voluntary act and deed of each of the Companies.
<br />My Commission Expires October 10, 2025.
<br />"Iwylic in and for the State Iowa
<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />I, Ryan J. Springer, Vice President of the Companies, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution of the Boards of Directors by each of the Companies, and
<br />this Power of Attorney issued pursuant thereto on 19t1 day of September, 2022, are true and correct and are still in full force and effect.
<br />In Testimony Whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the facsimile seal of each Company this 11th day of July 2023
<br />Vice President
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