POWER OF ATTORNEY APPOINTING INDIVIDUAL ATTORNEY -IN -FACT
<br />Know All Nten By These Presents, That Continental Casualty Company. an Illinois insurance company. National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. an
<br />Illinois insurance company, and American Casualty Company of Reading. Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania insurance company (herein called "the CNA Companies"), are
<br />duly organized and existing insurance companies having their principal offices in the City of Chicago. and State of Illinois, and that they do by virtue of the signatures
<br />and seals herein affixed hereby make, constitute and appoint
<br />Angela M. Riley , Individually
<br />of Carmel, IN their true and lawful Attorney(s)-in-Fact with full power and authontt_ • hereby conferred to sign seal and execute for and on their behalf
<br />bonds. undertaknrgs and other obligatory instruments of similar nature
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<br />Principal: Milestone Contractors North, Inc.
<br />Obligee: City of South Bend
<br />and to bind them thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such instruments were signed by a duly authorized officer of their insurance companies and all the acts of
<br />said Attorney. pursuant to the authority hereby given is hereby ratified and confirmed
<br />This Power of Attorney is trade and executed pursuant to and by authority of the By -Laws and Resolutions, printed below, duly adopted, as indicated, by the
<br />Boards of Directors of the insurance companies.
<br />In Witness Whereof the CNA Companies have caused these presents to be signed by their Vice President and their corporate seals to be hereto affixed on this
<br />9th day of January, 2024.
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<br />National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford
<br />American Casualty Company o0�1 f Readin Pennsylvania
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<br />Lary Kasten Vice President
<br />On this 9th day of January, 2024, before me personally came Lam, Kasten to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say. that he resides in the
<br />City of Sioux Falls, State of South Dakota: that he is a Vice President of Continental Casualty Company, an Illinois insurance company, National Fire Insurance
<br />Company of Hartford an Illinois insurance company, and American Casualty Company of Reading. Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania insurance company described in and
<br />which executed the above instrument, that he knows the seals of said insurance compames; that the seals affixed to the said instrument are such corporate seals; that
<br />they were so affixed pursuant to authority given by the Boards of Directors of said insurance companies and that Ire signed his name thereto pursuant to like authority,
<br />and acknowledges same to be the act and deed of said insurance companies.
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<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />1. D Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Continental Casualty Company, an Illinois insurance company, National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, an Illinois
<br />insurance company, and American Casualty Company of Reading. Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania insurance company do hereby certify that the Power of Attorney
<br />hereon above set forth is still in force, and further certify that the By -Laws and Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the insurance companies printed below are still
<br />in force. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said insurance compames this 30th day of September , 2024 .
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<br />ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF EACH OF CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY. NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF
<br />HARTFORD. and AMERICAN CASUALTY COMPANY OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA (as defined above. the "CNA Companies"):
<br />This Power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following resolution duly adopted by the Board of Directors of each of the above CNA
<br />Companies at a meeting held on May 12, 1995:
<br />"RESOLVED: That any Senior or Group Vice President may authorize an officer to sign specific documents. agreements and instruments on behalf of the
<br />Company provided that the name of such authorized officer and a description of the documents. agreements or instruments that such officer may sign will be
<br />provided in writing by the Senior or Group Vice President to the Secretary of the Company prior to such execution becoming effective."
<br />This Power of Attorney is signed by Larry Kasten, Vice President, who has been authorized pursuant to the above resolution to execute power of attorneys on
<br />behalf of each of the CNA Companies.
<br />This Power of Attorney is signed and sealed by facsimile under and by the authority of the following Resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of each of the above
<br />Companies by unanimous written consent dated the 25° day of April, 2012:
<br />"Whereas, the bylaws of time Company or specific resolution of the Board of Duectors has authorized various officers (the "Authorized Officers') to execute
<br />various policies, bonds, undertakings and other obligatory instruments of like nature. and
<br />Whereas, from time to time, the signature of the Authorized Officers, in addition to being prodded in original. hard copy format, may be provided via facsimile or
<br />otherwise in an electronic format (collectively, "Electronic Signatures"),- Now, therefore be it resolved: that the Electronic Signature of any Authorized Officer
<br />shall be maid and binding on the Company."
<br />This Power of Attorney may be signed by digital signature and sealed by a digital or otherwise electronic -formatted corporate seal under and by the authority of the
<br />following Resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of each of the above CNA Companies by unanimous written consent dated the 27th day of April, 2022:
<br />"RESOLVED: That it is in the best interest of the Company to periodically ratify and confirm any corporate documents signed by digital signatures and to ratify
<br />and confirm the use of a digital or otherwise electronic -formatted corporate seal. each to be considered the act and deed of the Company."
<br />Go to www.cnasurety.com > Owner I Obligee Services > Validate Bond Coverage, If you want to verity bond authenticity.
<br />Form F6853-6/2023
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