AIFEMC.
<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 ratified and confirmed.
<br />AUTHORITY FOR POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />This Power-of-Attomey is matte 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 1999:
<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 (1) appoint allomeys•in•fact and authorize them to execule on behalf of each Company and attach the seal of the Company thereto, bonds
<br />and undertakings, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof; and (2) to remove any such afforneyin-fact at any time
<br />and revoke the power and authority given to him or her. Altorneys•in•fact shall have power and authority, subject to the terms and fimitations of the power-of-attomey
<br />issued io them, to execute and deliver on behalf of the Company, and to attach the seal of the Company thereto. bonds and undertakings, reoognixances, contracts of
<br />indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, and any such instrument executed by any such attomey-in-fact shall be fully and in all respects binding upon
<br />the Company. Certification as to the validity of any povrer•of-attomey authorized herein made by an officer of Employers Mutual Casualty Company shall be fully and in all
<br />respects Minding upon this Company. The facsimile or mechanically reproduced signature of such officer, whether made heretofore or hereafter, wherever appearing noon
<br />a certified copy of any Mver•of•attomey 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 />191 day of September, 2022. r
<br />Seals
<br />colt R. Jean, sfdent & CEO Todd Strother, Executive Vice President
<br />of Company 1 C airman, President Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of
<br />M CEO of Co nies 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 Companies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
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<br />•"+ .�"%�'�'jO:�B' *, On this 19w day of September. 2022 before me a Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa.
<br />. personally appeared Scott R. Jean and Todd Strother, who, being by me duly sworn, did
<br />q;,su'rF' ' w •; ';wxc;�•. say that they are, and are known to me to be the CEO, Chairman, President, Executive Vice
<br />,�••°� �;` ''� *�°�:'°��, :`+ra : President, Chief Legal Officer and/or Secretary. respectively. of each of the Companies
<br />:32 SEAL ilz SEAL _ 2i SEAS. above: that the seals affixed to this instrument are the seals of said corporations; that said
<br />• instrument was signed and sealed on behalf at each of the Companies by authority of their
<br />.';ow$- : ,.• ' ;,,''-� a`�.' respective Beards of Directors: and that the said Scott R. Jean and Todd Strolher, as such
<br />officers, acknowledged ffte execul[on of said instrument to be their voluntary act and deed.
<br />and the voluntary act and deed o1 each of the Companies.
<br />KATHY LOVERIDGE My Commission Expires October 10, 2025.
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<br />Notary VubF-
<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />I, Ryan J. Springer, Vice President of the Companies, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolulion of the Boards of Directors by each of the Companies, and
<br />this Power of Attorney issued pursuant thereto on 19'h 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 26th day of . March 2024
<br />Vice President
<br />7853 (9-22) 0000000-NA 00000 000 SSS 000000 "For verification of the authenticity or the Power or Attorney you may can to i o) awn-rawo.
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