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Corporate Background JMS is Indiana's leader in Guaranteed Energy Savings involving roof top solar projects. As such, we take a very methodical. approach as the roof's condition is closely tied to the solar performance. The Central Fire Station's roof is 15 years old and it will be out of warranty on 9/6/19. Likewise, the warranty only covered wind speeds up to 55 mph. Unfortunately, your roofs need to be addressed before the solar panels are installed. If roof work is not part of the solar installation, the project will inevitably fail as the roof will leak and the Fire Department leadership will be very disappointed in the results and the GESC process, Shambaugh/EMCOP made this critical mistake on a roof top solar project, at Elwood Schools, after they installed solar panels on a roof that should have been replaced or rehabilitated. The roofs leak and the customer has been extremely disappointed. Goshen HS is a second) example of incompetent solar installation as panels were placed on top of a poor condition roof. The good news is that your roofs can be rehabilitated/restored and will not need to be torn off and disposed of in a land fill, Likewise, with our solution, we will try to utilize a local roofer such as Midland Engineering or a minority/woman owned contractor. Once the roof is rehabilitated, we will install a non -roof penetrating, roof top solar (PV) array that will annually produce 160,877 kWh. We will also provide a 0-year warranty that includes the roof and the solar array. Also, our warranty covers wind speed up to 74 mph, not 55 mph. On the South Bend Fire Department Solar PV Project, JMS will utilize the technical expertise of a six -member team with over 116 years of experience in order to ensure total project excellence and success. The team is comprised of solar management, engineering, GESC management, project management, financial management and a roof consultant. Our price for the solar (PV) array is approximately $350,860 and approximately $300,000 for the roof. We cannot give exact pricing, at this points as we still have many questions about budgets, financing -options, phasing of the project, timing„ access to the Fire Station, etc. However, we hope the approximate prices reflect the fact that we're serious about partnering with tare South Bend Fire Department and the City of South Bend. Please let Doug Copley know if you have any questions as we truly would like to earn your business. This is a very straight forward project and it's similar to projects we've successfullly completed many times. We're confident in our ability to exceed the City of South Bend's expectations and, truly appreciate the opportunity to serve the South Bend Fire Department. acV, 4