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Open Meeting Law, the Uniform Municipal Contracting Law, and is well suited, in Mr. Bachman's absence, to attend City Council meetings on an as- needed basis. From 1988 to the present, Ellen's practice has been almost exclusively in the areas of employment law and litigation, government relations and general governmental advice. Richard H. "Rich Martin, principal co-counsel for tax increment financing and public finance matters. Rich is a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York and of the University of Wisconsin Law School, cum laude. He has specialized in public finance since 1977, and is one of the foremost recognized and respected bond counsel in the metropolitan area. Rich's public finance experience includes extensive specific experience in tax increment financing both through the issuance of bonds or notes to finance tax increment eligible costs and through "pay as you go" tax increment reimbursement arrangements. He has also been involved in drafting amendments to Minnesota's Tax Increment Financing Law and in the development of proposals to use tax increment financing for the remediation of environmental contamination. In addition to tax increment financing experience, Rich has participated as bond counsel and /or issuer's counsel in connection with the general obligation and revenue bond financing for general municipal purposes, infrastructure, housing development, economic development and environmental projects for a large number of municipalities and governmental bodies in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. From 1988 to the present, Rich has spent approximately 90% of his time on tax increment financing and municipal finance matters. Bradley J. "Brad Gunn graduated from Carleton College with a degree in economics in 1978 and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1981. After a one -year judicial clerkship, Brad entered private practice. Since that time, he has practiced primarily in the field of condemnation and eminent domain. He is a recognized authority in the field and has spoken at general continuing legal education seminars on the topic. In addition, he has been appointed by the District Court to serve as a condemnation commissioner. Martha C. Brand. Ms. Brand practices in the areas of environmental and trade regulation law at LS &D. She is a leading expert in environmental matters involving municipal, state and federal compliance of leaking underground storage tanks and is a frequent lecturer and author on the topic. Ms. Brand is also well known for her expertise in legal matters involving asbestos removal and wetlands preservation. She is a past member of the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB) and served as Chair of the EQB's Water Resources Committee from 1985 to 1990. Prior to joining LS &D, Ms. Brand was an Attorney Advisor to the Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 1976 to 1977, Assistant to the Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition from 1975 to 1976 and a Trial Attorney for the FTC from 1974 to 1975. Ms. Brand is a graduate of Wellsley and Boston University Law School. We believe this team of lawyers is ideally suited to fulfill the City's legal needs. We have endeavored to keep the team as small as possible to ensure cost effective, 12