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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. Unlon Insurance Company of Providence, an Iowa Corporation
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<br />4. Illinois EMCASCO Insurance Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />S. 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, constik,te and appoint:
<br />Tracie House
<br />its true and lawful attorney -in -fad, 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 -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 1999:
<br />RE50LVED: 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 attomeys•in-fact and authorize them to execute on behalf of each Company and attach the seal of the Company thereto, bonds
<br />and undertakings, reooxgnizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof; and (2) to remove any such attomeyin•fact at any time
<br />and revoke the pourer and authority given to him or her, Attomeys-in-fact shall have power and authority, subject to the terms and limitations of the power-at-adomey
<br />issued to them, to execute and deIlver on behalf of the Company, and to attach the seal of the Company thereto, bonds and undertakings, reoognlzances, contracts of
<br />indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, and any such instrument executed by any such attomey-in-fact shah 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 otlieer, whether made heretofore or hereafter, wherever appearing upon
<br />a certified copy of any power-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 sighed for each by their officers as shown, and the Corporate seals to be hereto affixed this
<br />19'' day of September, 2022. /!
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<br />On this 19" day of September. 2022 before me a Nolary Publicin and for the Slate of Iowa,
<br />personally appeared Scott R. Jean and Todd Strother, who, being by me duly svmorn, did
<br />say that they are, and are known to me to be the CEO, Chairman, Presidenl, Executive Vice
<br />President, Chief Legal Officer andlor Secretary, respectively, of each of the Companies
<br />above, that the seals affixed to this instrument are the seats of said corporations; that said
<br />instrument was signed and sealed on behalf of each of the Companies by authority of their
<br />respedlve Boards of Directors; and that the said Scott A. Jean and Todd Sirother, as such
<br />officers, acknowledged the execution of said instrument to be their voluntary act and dead,
<br />and the voluntary act and deed of each of the Companies.
<br />My Commission Expires October 10, 2025.
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<br />Notary Public in and for the State lowa
<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />I, Ryan J. Springer, Vice President of the Companies, do hereby certify :nat the foregoing resolution of the 9oards of Directors by each of the Companies, and
<br />this Power of Axcirey rued pursuant thereto on 191, day of September, 2022, are true and correct and are still in lull farce and effect.
<br />In Testimony Whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the facsimile seal of each Company this 27th day of May , 2025
<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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