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2 • My "10 in 10 Leadership and Innovation Update" reaches 7,000 of the most innovative and leading edge thinkers in local government in the nation each week. This position would also be posted in that newsletter and no other search firm has anything similar to reach the real opinion leaders in all fifty states. • I speak at an average of one state or national conference per month providing higher visibility and a stronger network among leading financial and municipal officials than any other firm comes close to. • SGR trains over 1,000 city employees each month in live training classes. • We have online training clients in I 1 states. • SGR has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, American Express Open Forum, Texas Event Planning, and the Ladders among others due to our reputation for dramatic customer service, and our innovative business strategies that are changing the way local government recruits, selects, and develops their executives. • SGR is the only search firm in which the recruiter who will manage every aspect of your search has actually managed a city comparable in complexity and scope to the City of La Porte, which allows us to do a far better job than any other firm of helping you rind the right match. Of course with all of that... only one thing matters... results! We are so confident of our ability to deliver exceptional results that SGR offers the strongest guarantee in the search industry. If a candidate selected in our process leaves in less than two years, for any reason whatsoever, we will conduct the search again for no additional professional fee, no questions asked. SGR is the only search firm that can lay claim to having had only two city manager placements not work out in almost 15 years of conducting searches. This proposal lists all of our clients as well as references, and we welcome you to call any of them blind. The simple fact is that no other firm can touch our reputation for being trusted by both clients and candidates, and for successful long term placements. Alan Taylor and I will serve as Co -Project Managers for your search and will handle all aspects of it related to candidate and client interaction. This includes all onsite interviews with key City staff, ongoing status reports to the City, direct recruitment activities, responses to prospect inquiries, initial triage evaluation of resumes, preliminary interviews with candidates, facilitation of meetings to select Semifinalists and again to select Finalists, and assistance in employment negotiations with the candidate. Recently the Amarillo newspaper editorialized that our search process "approached perfection" and praised the City for the outstanding way the search process was conducted and how it built confidence in the community about the ultimate selection. A simple Google search will reveal that we are the only major search firm that has never had a single article where a city official was critical of SGR. By contrast, our two largest competitors have had elected officials reach such levels of frustration that they have been willing to criticize the firm and their processes in the newspaper in the middle of a search!