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■i help. memy seemungh impossible financings have been accomplished That is creative fmatumg and together nr have accomplished our share. O There are many other professional persons to thank. This im luJes tocai attorneys, engineers^ architect.,, accountants and planners. Withtna them there would be no projects and no financings. What an effort they make to get things done! a Special thoughts go to P,d>erT Ehlers. Sr. who hired me fo^ a jtyb tlmt paid enough so i could afford suits'*. He also taught me most of what ! know ah<mt local government finance . . . and work ethic . . . and how to watch my traiel expenses. Q At Ehlers ! ha\r always worked with great people. The clients huTw me so / take most of the credit, hut mu4 h of the work gets done by our fine supiwrt staff. O \khen the empUnees purchased the company from Bob Ehlers. Sr. in 19^5. / had the lu^ru^r of serv ing as Chairman of the Board. / had a w onderful board to work with. Q Uke all successful people. / have enjoyed strong family sup Thanks Tat. Cd M\ namesake first horn asked as a jumor high student. "M fuii should I tell ms frieruis when ihev ask what kind of work you do '" " fell them when they decide to horroH a million Im. k.s to call me. " was ms answer. iJ When I first started work at Thiers Mr Robert Thler\ rsplained that the msnicipal bond indtestry $aw few changes. Local govemrwus had been borrow ing money by issuing bonds for two hundred years, ami most things were done traditumally. a With the IRS and SEC. my. how things have changed Who would base thought that the Federal Reserse Bunk would conirtd the i^rld s economy by raising and lowering interest rates like a yv-yv. O When I first started with Ehlers. most of my work was with school districts. Declining enrollment gave »*ay to the Clean Water Act. and put us in the business of selling sewer bonds. Sow we are working with schtwls again. O When meeting a traveling salesman, I often challenged him with. 7 bet my product is harder to sell than yours. It wsm me a few dinners and Bob thought / w as doing a good Job watching mv travel expenses. ^ The company was a pioneer in Minnesota III so / had the drop on my Miscimsin TIE competitors. We did about 70 districts in 1979 and I9S0 alone. .A ssi.sted by m\ w ije and daughter. / wrote custom software programs that enabled us to meet all the deadlines with lOO<\ of the districts receiving W/)()R approval Li It IS mv conviction that a principal reason ^k isconsin w as spared from the 90s recession w as that the many forward looking communities' TIE pif>gram.s were working uf that time. Li Well, It 's been fun Thanks to the forward planning of the Ehlers team, ^isc, msin is now well served hv □ Sieve Apfelbacker, DmvidAndertou, Mike HmtriguH, David Wagner. Kent Johnson and Sean !.entz And they have a great supp,m staff of experiemed professtonals Icoukki t have done sm h a gosdjob for so Itmg without vnmr sup/H>rt Thanks Seegar Swan son CONGRATULATIONS Gene Ranieii was awarded NAHkO’s Housing and Conununuy Dcvciopmcni Achtevemrnf Award at ihc May meeting at Atrowwuod m Alexandria. MN The award is given for significant contnbuiions in the areas of housing and community development in the State of Minnrsoui. CONFERENCES/CONVEN TIONS We hwvk forward to seeing you at the upcoming conferences including the fol lowing: • Minnesou Association of Small Cities (MAOSC) • Minnesota County Auditor/Trrasurer's Conference • Minnesota National Asstxrialion Housing and Redevelopment Officials (MN NAHRO) ‘ Minnesota Government Finance Officers Assoc iation (MGFOA) » Minnestita Assivialion of School Administrators (MASA) ' League of Iowa Municipalities (LIM). x' / Carolyn Drude Board Chairman