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<br />Exhibit "A" <br /> <br />Barney L. Knighe <br />Knight & Partners <br />At torneys at Law <br />Executive Office Terrace, 223 West Anderson Lane, Suite A105, Austin, Texas 78752 <br />Telephone: (5l2) 323-5778 Fax: (5l2) 323-5773 Email attorneys@cityattorneytexas.com <br /> <br />Education: <br /> <br />Temple Junior College (A.A.) <br />The University of Texas at Austin (B.A., J.D.) <br />Southwest Texas State University (M.P.A.) <br /> <br />Professional Experience: <br /> <br />Knight & Partners, Attorneys at Law, is a sole proprietorship engaged in the <br />practice of municipal and 19cal government law. Primary clients include <br />numerous cities served as city attorney, a number of cities served as <br />assistant city attorney, counties, a municipal retirement system, groundwater <br />district, special districts and related public entities. The firm began as <br />a solo practice and became Knight & Partners in 2005. [June 1995 to Present] <br /> <br />Bickerstaff, Heath & Smiley, Austin. Partner engaged in the representation <br />of cities, counties and other local governments on a state-wide basis. [Oct. <br />1989 to June 1995J <br /> <br />City of Austin, Texas 1985 to 1989. Deputy City Attorney [March 1985 - <br />October 1986]; Acting Assistant City Manager [June 1985 -July 1986]; City <br />Attorney [October 1986 September 1989]; Acting Assistant City Manager <br />[November 1987 - January 1989]; Acting City Manager [January 1989 - March <br />1989J; Acting Assistant City Manager [March 1989 - August 1989] ; served as <br />Interim Director of Emergency Medical Services, Interim Administrator of <br />Brackenridge Hospital, and as a member of the Hospital Board. <br /> <br />City of Temple, Texas -- 1974 to 1985. City Attorney <br />1978J; Assistant City Manager [Mar. 1977 - Dec. 1978J; <br />1978 - Mar. 1985] <br /> <br />[March 1974 - March <br />City Manager [Dec. <br /> <br />Monteith, Baring and Nester, Houston. <br />Engaged in real estate, mortgage <br />litigation. <br /> <br />Attorney <br />lending, <br /> <br />[July 1969 to Mar. <br />construction and <br /> <br />1974J . <br />related <br /> <br />Leqal Experience: <br /> <br />Extensive experience In municipal law and local government, home-rule <br />charters, economic development, public contracting and procurement, real <br />estate, construction, finance, ethics, open meetings and records; utilities, <br />working experience in every phase of municipal finance, bonds, short term <br />notes, certificates of participation and obligation, conduit financings, <br />assessments and industrial revenue bonds; and other public financing, <br />including lease-purchase financing, establishing that home-rule cities can <br />finance low and moderate income housing with tax obligations, and utilizing <br />tax increment financing to finance industrial parks and development. <br /> <br />Litigation in every level of state court, federal district court, and the <br />appeals courts in a variety of cases has included the litigation of complex <br />construction cases on subjects from roadways, to water and sewage treatment <br /> <br />r'.~ <br />