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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 attorney -in -fact, with full power and authority conferred to sign, seal, and execute the following Surety Bond:
<br />Surety Bond Number: Bid Bond
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<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 />This Power-of-Attomey 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 (1) appoint attorneys -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, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof; and (2) to remove any such attorney -in -fact at anytime
<br />and revoke the power and authority given to him or her. Attomeys-in-fact shall have power and authority, subject to the terms and limitations of the power -of -attorney
<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, reoognizances, contracts of
<br />indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, and any such instrument executed by any such attorney -in -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 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
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<br />On this 19-' 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 />say that they are, and are known 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 seals affixed to this instrument are the seals of said corporations; that said
<br />instrument 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 Strother, as such
<br />officers, acknowledged the execution of said instrument to be their voluntary act and deed,
<br />and the voluntary act and deed of each of the Companies.
<br />My Commission Expires October 10, 2025,
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<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 19"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 22nd__ day of _ April _ 2025
<br />Vice President
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