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CONSULTANT BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE ROBERT A. BEEZAT Robert Beezat has over thirty-five years of private and public sector management, consulting, training, and teaching experience. For twenty of those years, he has been a member of The PAR Group. He recently purchased the company and serves as President. During that time, he has provided a variety of management consulting services to over 175 municipalities and public agencies nationwide, The public jurisdictions which he has served range in size from 3,000 to 3,000,000 in population, As part of The PAR Group consulting team, Mr. Beezat has conducted and participated in over 100 executive search assignments. He has successfully undertaken and completed over 125 consulting assignments in the areas of human resource management; i.e., dassification and compensation systems, total cost employee compensation analysis, employee personnel manuals, performance evaluation systems, and employee/labor relations improvement programs. In particular, he served as the principal staff to several regional consortiums of municipalities addressing the rapid increases in municipal employee salaries and benefits. These consortiums involved over 70 municipalities in the Chicago area, downstate Illinois, and out-state Minnesota. Mr. Beezat has also performed a number of management studies which have reviewed the organizational structure and management operations of municipalities. Studies have ranged from individual departments including Fire, Police, and Public Works Departments to the operations of entire municipal organizations. He is very proud that one of the cities he worked with implemented many of the recommendations in his report and eventually won the prestigious "All American City" award. He has designed and conducted a number of management and supervisory training programs for municipalities, He has also conducted a number of long-range, strategic planning, and goal-setting processes for municipalities and not-for-profit organizations. These processes have involved over 125 "live" participants as weli as dose to a thousand citizens through the innovative use of cable television. Beside his consulting experience, Mr. Beezat has served as a City Manager, Village Manager, and Town Administrator for over fourteen years. He has worked in suburban and independent cities which have induded the full range of municipal services induding the not too common functions of a municipal hospital and electric utility. He has done a great deal of work in the economic development fieid. This work has earned him and the municipalities he worked for recognition from local businesses for innovative, cooperative approaches to addressing economic development issues. Finally, Mr. Beezat has been very active in working with and developing programs that benefit lower socio-economic segments of the population. He has been successful in putting together the municipal, educational, and business resources in a municipality to address the diverse needs of a low-income, immigrant population. As an individual, he has organized and led a number of community-based groups which have worked to resolve neighborhood problems and issues. Mr. Beezat is a graduate of Loyola University, Chicago, iilinois and has a Master's degree in Public Administration from Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is an adjunct faculty member at Lewis University in the Chicago area where he teaches business management courses. He has also been an adjunct faculty member at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Mr. Beezat is a member of the International City/County Management Association. THE PAR GROUP Paui A. Reaume, Ltd.