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DocuSign Envelope ID:9D75147C-A6EF-4E54-94F5-57200035C54F JONES HALL PROPOSAL OF JONES HALL OVERVIEW Jones Hall is the largest California-based law firm that focuses its practice exclusively in the area of municipal finance as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter's counsel, issuer's counsel and special tax counsel. This specialization allows us to orient our practice to the peculiar requirements of public finance, without the need to suit other, unrelated areas of the legal business. The firm has consistently ranked as one of the top three bond counsel and disclosure counsel firms in California (based on the number of transactions) over the last ten years. Given our relatively small size compared to the firms that rank above us, we are extremely proud of this achievement. We are particularly proud of our Closing Department, as it fully demonstrates the firm's commitment to tailor our practice to the requirements of the municipal bond business. Our closing coordinators assist the attorneys in all pre-closing, closing and post-closing logistics, and greatly alleviate the stress and strain that is typical of many bond closings. As each bond issuance approaches a closing, we would assign one of the paralegals from our Closing Department to assist in handling the logistics of closing the financing, in a seamless manner. Jones Hall has extensive experience in nearly all areas of public finance, and is well suited to provide bond counsel and disclosure counsel services to the City of Pleasanton in connection with its planned water system financing, as well as any other municipal bond matters that may be undertaken by the City in the future. A. SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION OF FIRM'S RECENT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Jones Hall has reviewed the "Scope of Services" described in the Request for Proposal and confirms that it can perform all the selected activities, all of which are a part of our everyday practice — consultation, advice, and document drafting related to municipal bonds. We pride ourselves in recommending advantageous public financing mechanisms and prioritizing options in the best interest of the City from a legal, financial, and practical perspective. As requested, our services for you would include counsel and legal work for proper debt authorization; rendering legal opinions as to validity of bond issuances (including issuing and approving legal opinions on taxability of bonds and determining qualified tax-exempt obligation status); preparing bond resolutions; preparing and finalizing bond disclosure statements; and providing general advice as to financing public works and other related work you may request. In particular, we understand the City anticipates undertaking a debt financing of 11 million to 13 million in March/April 2024 to finance water projects in connection with per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Assigned Personnel. Our approach to providing the Bond Counsel and Disclosure Counsel services described above would be to rely on our years of experience and collaborative staffing approach to provide two shareholder-partners on the City's bond financing matters (James Wawrzyniak and Dave Fama). Working as a team, the City would have two sets of 1