P.O. Box 712 • Des Moines, Iowa 50306-0712
<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
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<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 afforney-in-fact, with full power and authority conferred to sign, seal, and execute the following Surety Bond:
<br />Surety Bond Number: SO12109
<br />Principal C & E Excavating, Inc.
<br />Obligee City Of South Bend, Board of Public Works
<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 />Tips Power-of•Altomey 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 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 (i ) appoint attorneys -in -fact and authorize them to execute on behalf of each Company and attach the seat of the Company thereto, hands
<br />and undertakings, reoognizances. contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof: and (2) to remove any such attomey-m-fact at any lime
<br />and revoke the pourer and authority given to him or her. Attomeys-in-fact stulI have power and authority, suNect to the terms and limitations of the power -of -attorney
<br />issued to them, to execute and deliver on behalf cf the Company, and to attach the seat 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 atto mey-i n-fact shall be fully and in all respects binding upon
<br />the Company. Certification as to the validity of any power -of -attorney authorized herein made by an officer of Employers Mutual Casualty Company shall be fully and in all
<br />respects Minding upon this Company. The Iacsimile or mechanically reproduced signalufe of such officer, whether made heretofore or hereafter, wherever appearing upon
<br />a certified copy of any power-of-attomey of the Company, shall be vatfd and binding upon the Company with the same force and effect as though manualk 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 />On this 1 g" day of September, 2022 before me a Notary Pubiic in ar(i for the State of Iowa,
<br />personally appeared Scots R. Jean and Todd Strother, who, being by me duly swom, did
<br />say that they are, and are knmvn to me to be the CEO. Chairman, President, Executive Vice
<br />President, Chief Legal officer and/or Secretary, respectively, of each of the Companies
<br />above; that the seats affixed to this instrument are the seals of said corporations: Ihat said
<br />instrumerfl 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 Strcther, as such
<br />officers. acknowledged the execution of said instrument to be their votuntary act and deed,
<br />and the voluntary act and deed of each of the Companies.
<br />My Commission Expires October 10, 2025.
<br />Notary ublic in and for the State Iowa
<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />I, Ryan J. Springer, Vice President of the Companies, do hereby celify that the foregoing resolution of the Boards of Directors by each of the Companies, and
<br />this Power of Attorrey issued pursuant thereto on 19" day of September, 2022, are true and correct and are still in lull force and effect.
<br />In Testimony Whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the facsimile seal of each Company this 14th day of June 2024
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<br />Vice President
<br />7853 (9-22) 0000000-NA 00000 000 SSS 000000 "For verification of the authenticity of the Power of Attorney you may call (515) 345-7548."
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