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<br />P.A. Box 712 • Des Moines, Iowa 50306-0712 INSURANCE
<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY APPOINTING 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 />S. Dakota Fire Insurance Company, a North Dakota Corporation
<br />6. EMC Property & Casualty Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />7. Hamilton Mutual Insurance 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 />Kristen Schmidt
<br />its true and lawful attornoy-in-fact, with full power and authority conferred to sign, seal, and execute the following Surety Bond:
<br />Surely 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 />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 attomey-in-fact at any time
<br />and revoke the power and authority given to him or her. Attorneys -in -fact shall have power and authority, subject to the terms and limitations of the power-of-atforney
<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, recognizances, 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 />My oarrmfssfon Expires
<br />October 10, 20119
<br />Bruce G. Kelley, Chairman
<br />of Companies 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6; President
<br />of Company 1; Vice Chairman and
<br />CEO of Company 7
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<br />Todd Slrolher
<br />Vice President
<br />On this 18 day of AWril, 2217 before me a Notary Public in and forthe State of Iowa, personally
<br />appeared Bruce G. Kelley and Todd Strother, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that they
<br />are, and are known to me to be the Chairman, President, Vice Chairman and CEO, and/or
<br />Vice President, respectively, of each of the Companies above; that the seals affixed to this
<br />Instrument are the seals of said corporations; that said instrument was signed and sealed
<br />on behalf of each of the Companies by authority of their respective Boards of Directors;
<br />and that the said Bruce G. Kelley and Todd Strother, as such officers, acknowledged the
<br />execution of said instrument to be their voluntary act and deed, and the voluntary act and
<br />deed of each of the Companies.
<br />My Commission Expires October 10, 2019.
<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />Notary P Ilc in and for the State 61 Iowa
<br />I, James D. Clough, 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 N day of W, 2Q17, 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 10th day of April 201$
<br />Vice President
<br />7853 (4-17) "For verification of the authenticity of the Power of Attorney you may call (515) 345.2689."
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