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Page 6 PROJECT ORGANIZATION AND KEY PERSONNEL If selected for this project, John Bliss, President of SCI, would serve as the Assessment Engineer of Record and principal-in-charge of the annual levy administration. Melanie Lee would serve as the day-to-day project manager and levy administrator. Such a collaborative, team-based approach helps to assure the City's objectives are well understood and accomplished, and all technical and procedural requirements are met.This team will remain in effect for a minimum of sixty (60) days after the submittal date of July 25, 2018. John Bliss, M.Eng., P.E., President, License No. C052091 John Bliss, a professional engineer and President of SCI, specializes in assessment engineering, special and general benefit analysis, crafting legally compliant, robust Engineer's Reports, levy administration, cost estimating and budgeting, database design and implementation, regulatory compliance, and revenue measure formations. He has 15 years of experience in this field of expertise. Moreover, John is a recognized expert assessment engineer and Proposition 218 compliance specialist who has served as an expert witness and technical authority. He also has worked with most of the leading Proposition 218 specialized attorneys in the State, which has further expanded his professional and technical expertise. During his tenure at SCI, John has served as the responsible Assessment Engineer on over 300 Engineer's Reports for new or increased assessments,comprising more post-Proposition 218 new assessment engineering than any other assessment engineer in the State. John also has served as the project lead for the California Statewide Fire Benefit Fee assessment. John led SCI's successful effort to identify every parcel in Counties throughout the State in State Responsibility Areas and, thus, subject to this new annual assessment fee on property tax bills. (SCI was selected sole-source for this project, based on the State's determination of our unmatched levy administration capabilities.)John also lead SCI's time-compressed and successful assessment calculation efforts and our creation of a highly-integrated information exchange system with the GIS/spatial analysis firm based in India and the State of California for this new statewide fee. John also has extensive programming and database expertise.John has materially contributed to the specialized and proprietary computer and database programs we utilize as part of our levy administration procedures. Prior to joining SCI,John co-founded several information technology companies that focused on database and infrastructure management including ConstructionPrice, and US Components, and worked as field construction engineer for Shimmick Construction Company and the U.S. Department of Transportation. John graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering and holds a Master of Civil Engineering from The University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Regent's Scholar. He is a licensed professional Civil Engineer in the State of California and is a LEED accredited professional.