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CONSULTANT BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE HEIDI VOORHEES Ms. Voorhees has recently joined The PAR Group as a Vice President, working on both executive search and general management consulting assignments. She has 19 years of local government management experience, including service with the cities of Wilmette and Schaumburg, Illinois, and Kansas City, Missouri. From 1990 to 2001, Ms. Voorhees served as the Village Manager for Wilmette, Illinois, one of Chicagoland's notable residential suburbs located on Lake Michigan's lakeshore. During her tenure, Ms. Voorhees focused on delivering high quality services and responsiveness to a recognized interactive cornmuniìy, streamlining administrative and management functions and team building throughout the organization that employed 200 individuals. Under her leadership, the organization developed a collaborative budget process, formalized its long range capital improvement program and developed budget and financial policies that led to the achievement of a AAA bond rating for the community. Wilmette has also received the Government Finance Officers' Association prestigious certificate for Budget Presentation the last three years. In addition, Ms. Voorhees worked closely with community leaders on addressing issues pertaining to diversity, multiculturalism and racism. She was active in regional governmental organizations as well, serving as the Program Services Chair and the Utilities Regulation Chair for the Northwest Municipal Conference which represents the interests of 48 municipalities in northern Illinois. She also served as co-chair of the Chicago Metropolitan Mayors' Caucus Task Force on Electric Reliability, an organization influential in improving electric services and reliability throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. Ms. Voorhees holds a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University where she was a fellow in the Eli Lilly State and Local Government Fellowship Program, Ms. Voorhees was recognized as the distinguished Alumnus for the School in 1998. She earned her undergraduate degree from Illinois State University where she majored in Political Science. Ms. Voorhees has served on the Boards of Directors of numerous professional associations including the Chicago Metropolitan Managers' Association and the Illinois City and County Management Association. For two years, she was the Illinois representative to the ICMA University, the professional development arm of the International City and County Management Association. In 1999, she was selected to participate in the Leadership Greater Chicago Program and has been an active Rotarian for ten years. She was recently selected "Top City Manager" in Illinois by the Illinois Association of Municipal Management Assistants. THE PAR GROUP Paul A. Reaume, Ltd.