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*OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY
<br />*'**�'* POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY, a Wisconsin stock insurance corporation, does make, constitute and
<br />appoint: NICOLE L BICKNELL, MEGAN E RIESENBERG, MARK EDWARD WOeBE, BARBARA E PEARSON, JENNIFER L KASZNIA, SANORA L JUNK, WILLIAM J CERNEY, III,
<br />WESLEY MANTOOTH, THERESA BURNS, JORDAN SCHEIBER, LISA M THOMAS, FAITH HUNT, PAMELA S. HIGGINBOTHAM of SOUTH BEND, IN
<br />its true and lawful Attorneys) -in -Fact, with full power and authority for and on behalf of the company as surety, to execute and
<br />deliver and affx the seal of the company thereto (if a seal is required), bonds, undertakings, recognizances or other written obligations in the nature thereof,
<br />(other than ball bonds, bank depository bonds, mortgage deficiency bonds, mortgage guaranty bonds, guarantees of installment paper and note
<br />guaranty bonds, self-insurance workers compensation bonds guaranteeing payment of beneTits, or black lung bonds), as follows:
<br />ALL WRITTEN INSTRUMENTS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWENTY MILLION ($20,000,000) FOR ANY SINGLE OBLIGATION
<br />and to bind OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY thereby, and all of the acts of said Attorneys -in -Fact, pursuant to these presents, are ratified and confirmed.
<br />This appointment is made under and by authority of the board of directors al a special meeting held on February 18, 1982.
<br />This Power of Attorney is signed and sealed by facsimile under and by the authority of the following resolutions adopted by the board of directors of the OLD
<br />REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY on February 18,1982.
<br />RESOLVED that, the president, any vice-president or assistant vice president, in conjunction with the secretary or any assistant secretary, may appoint
<br />attorneys -in -fad or agents with authority as defined or limited in the instrument evidencing the appointment in each case, for and on behalf of the company to
<br />execute and deliver and affix the seal of the company to bonds, undertakings, recognizances, and suretyship obligations of all kinds; and said offcers may
<br />remove any such attorney -in -fact or agent and revoke any Power of Attorney previously granted to such person.
<br />RESOLVED FURTHER, that any bond, undertaking, recognizance, or suretyship obligation shall be valid and binding upon the Company
<br />(i) when signed by the president, any vice president or assistant vice president, and attested and sealed (if a seal be required) by any secretary or assistant
<br />secretary; or
<br />(ii) when signed by the president, any vice president or assistant vice president, secretary or assistant secretary, and countersigned and sealed (if a seal be
<br />required) by a duly authorized attorney -in -fact or agent; or
<br />(iii) when duly executed and sealed (if a seal be required) by one or more attorneys -in -fact or agents pursuant to and within the limits of the authority
<br />evidenced by the Power of Attorney issued by the company to such person or persons.
<br />RESOLVED FURTHER that the signature of any authorized officer and the seal of the company may be affixed by facsimile to any Power of Attorney or
<br />certification thereof authorizing the execution and delivery of any pond, undertaking, recognizance, or other suretyship obligations of the company; and such
<br />signature and seal when so used shall have the same force and effect as though manually affixed.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY has caused these presents to be signed by its proper officer, and its corporate seal to be
<br />affixed this 30th day of November 2022 ,
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<br />STATE OF VNSCONSIN, COUNTY OF WAUKESHA - SS o ,
<br />On this 30th day of November 2022 ,personally came before me, Alan Pavlir _
<br />and Karen J Haffner , to me known to be the individuals and officers of the OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY
<br />who executed the above Instrument, and they each acknowledged the execution of the same, and being by me duly sworn, did severally depose and say: that
<br />they are the said officers of the corporation aforesaid, and that the seal affixed to the above instrument is the seal of the corporation, and that said corporate seal
<br />and their signatures as such officers were duly affxed and subscribed to the said instrument by the authority of the board of directors of said corporation.
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<br />1••. AU01.�,r1 Notary Public
<br />My Commission Expires: September 28 2026
<br />CERTIFICATE (Expiration of notary's commission does not invalidate this instrument)
<br />I, the undersigned, assistant secretary of the OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY, a Wisconsin corporation, CERTIFY that the foregoing and attached
<br />Power of Attorney remains in full force and has not been revoked; and furthermore, that the Resolutions of the board of directors set forth in the Power of
<br />Attorney, are now in force.
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<br />5th December 2024
<br />45-5314 90; SEAL�� � Signed and sealed at the City of Brookfield, WI this !'I[d/a\y of —
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<br />GIBBON INSURANCE AGENCY, INC.
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