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APPENDIX C • TRUST AGREEMENT WITH THE ICMA RETIREMENT CORPORATION AGREEMENT made by and between the Employer named in the attached resolution and the International City Management Association Retirement Corporation (hereinafter the "Trustee" or "Retirement Corporation"), a nonprofit corporation organized and existing underthe laws of the State of Delaware, for the purpose of investing and otherwise administering the funds set aside by Employers in connection with deferred compensation plans established under section 457 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (the"Code"). This Agreement shall take effect upon acceptance by the Trustee of its appointment by the Employer to serve as Trustee in accordance herewith as set forth in the attached resolution. WHEREAS, the Employer has established a deferred compensation plan under section 457 of the Code (the "Plan"); WHEREAS, in order that there will be sufficient funds available to discharge the Employer's contractual obligations under the Plan, the Employer desires to set aside periodically amounts equal to the amount of compensation deferred; WHEREAS, the funds set aside, together with any and all assets derived from the investment thereof, are to be exclusively within the dominion, control, and ownership of the Employer, and subject to the Employer's absolute right of withdrawal, no employees having any interest whatsoever therein: OW, THEREFORE, this Agreement witnesseth that (a) the Employer ill pay monies to the Trustee to be placed in deferred compensation accounts for the Employer; (b) the Trustee covenants that it will hold said sums, and any other funds which it may receive hereunder, intrust for the uses and purposes and upon the terms and conditions hereinafter stated; and (c) the parties hereto agree as follows: ARTICLE 1. General Duties of the Parties. Section 1.1. General Duty of the Employer. The Employer shall make regular periodic payments equal to the amounts of its employees' compensation which are deferred in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan to the extent that such amounts are to be invested under the Trust. Section 1.2. General Duties of the Trustee. The Trustee shall hold all funds received by it hereunder, which, together with the income therefrom, shall constitute the Trust Funds. It shall administer the Trust Funds, collect the income thereof, and make payments therefrom, all as hereinafter provided. The Trustee shall also hold all Trust Funds which are transferred to it as successor Trustee by the Employer from existing deferred compensation arrangements with its Employees under plans described in section 457 of the Code. Such Trust Funds shall be subject to all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement. ARTICLE II. Powers and Duties of the Trustee in Investment, Administration, and Disbursement of the Trust Funds. Section 2.1. Investment Powers and Duties of the Trustee. The Trustee shall have the power to invest and reinvest the principal and income of the Trust Funds and keep the Trust Funds invested, without distinction between principal and income, in securities or in other property, real or personal, wherever situated, including, but not limited to, stocks, common or preferred, bonds, retirement annuity and surance policies, mortgages, and other evidences of indebtedness or wnership, investment companies. common or group trust funds, or separate and different types of funds (including equity, fixed income) which fulfill requirements of state and local governmental laws, provided, however, that the Employer may direct investment by the Trustee among available investment alternatives in such proportions as the Employer authorizes in connection with its deferred compensation agreements with its employees. For these purposes, these Trust Funds may be commingled with Trust Funds set aside by other Employers pursuant to the terms of the ICMA Retirement Trust. Investment powers vested in the Trustee by the Section may be delegated by the Trustee to any bank, insurance or trust company, or any investment advisor, manager or agent selected by it. Section 2.2. Administrative Powers of the Trustee. The Trustee shall have the power in its discretion: (a) To purchase, or subscribe for, any securities or other property and to retain the same in trust. (b) To sell, exchange, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of any securities or other property held by it, by private contract, or at public auction. No person dealing with the Trustee shall be bound to see the application of the purchase money or to inquire into the validity, expediency, or propriety of any such sale or other disposition. (c) To vote upon any stocks, bonds, or other securities; to give general or special proxies or powers of attorney with or without power of substitution; to exercise any conversion privileges, subscription rights, or other options, and to make any payments incidental thereto; to oppose, or to consent to, or otherwise participate in, corporate reorganizations or other changes affecting corporate securities, and to delegate discretionary powers, and to pay any assessments or charges in connection therewith: and generally to exercise any of the powers of an owner with respect to stocks, bonds, securities or other property held as part of the Trust Funds. (d) To cause any securities or other property held as part of the Trust Funds to be registered in its own name, and to hold any investments in bearer form, but the books and records of the Trustee shall at all times show that all such investments are a part of the Trust Funds. (e) To borrow or raise money for the purpose of the Trust in such amount, and upon such terms and conditions, as the Trustee shall deem advisable; and, for any sum so borrowed, to issue its promissory note as Trustee, and to secure the repayment thereof by pledging all, or any part, of the Trust Funds. No person lending money to the Trustee shall be bound to see the application of the money lent or to inquire into its validity, expediency or propriety of any such borrowing. (f) To keep such portion of the Trust Funds in cash or cash balances as the Trustee, from time to time, may deem to be in the best interest of the Trust created hereby, without liability for interest thereon. (g) To accept and retain for such time as it may deem advisable any securities or other property received or acquired by it as Trustee hereunder, whether or not such securities or other property would normally be purchased as investment hereunder. (h) To make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver any and all documents of transfer and conveyance and any and all other instruments that may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the powers herein granted.