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Proposal to Prot Ide WSB's Philosophy on Providing Municipal Engineering Services WSB has a sincere passion for Municipal Engineering. Effective municipal engineering requires: • A local, hands on approach • Understanding of the issues • Communicating in a common sense fashion with residents, City staff, and elected officials • Understanding the impact of projects on level of service, maintenance, and financing • Making certain project are creative, cost effective, and sustainable, which includes developing incremental solutions • Relationships with other governmental agencies and community stakeholders Engineering clients we have attained over the past two years. Municipal engineering is the foundation of our business and is at the core of all that we do. As Municipal Engineers, we adopt each City that we represent as our own and focus on the needs of the City first. One example of putting the needs of our municipal clients first is regarding our compensation for general engineering duties. We understand that the City's General Fund is typically used for many of the general engineering duties. In today's challenging economic times, the General Fund is a precious commodity. With those considerations in mind, WSB has developed a Customized City Engineering Program that provides a reduced cost retainer option for general engineering services that provides an easy to manage budgeting process. You will leam more about this in the Compensation Portion of this proposal. It is only through clear communication and collaboration that a City will not only survive in this economy, but thrive. Our company leaders have a thorough understanding of what it takes to be a City Engineer. In fad, our President, Bret Weiss, remains active in this facet of the business and is the City Engineer for the City of Rogers. We hire individuals who have the skills necessary to be effective City Engineers and provide internal and external training to enhance both their technical and communication skills. We have also established an internal focus group of our City Engineers that meets monthly to discuss City Engineering issues to ensure that our collective experience and "lessons learned" are shared across the group. WSB provides Municipal Engineering services in over 50 communities and are the City/Township Engineer in 21 communities. Of these communities, five are new City WSB & Associates, Inc. Commitment to Provide Staff Listed WSB commits to providing the aforementioned staff to the City of Lino Lakes. We further commit that they will have the capacity to successfully complete any engineering assignments. WSB has developed a business culture that is employee- focused. Employee - managed initiatives such as the WSB Way and WSB University are examples of internal structures that focus on employee education, development and achievement in our industry. As a result of this culture, WSB enjoys turnover rates that are far below industry averages. We feel confident that the team we are proposing will be employed at WSB for the foreseeable future and therefore available to serve the City of Lino Lakes. Identification and Qualifications of Assigned Personnel AM