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BickerstafF Heath Delgado Acosta LLP Served as Lead Counsel in the successful defense of voting rights and constitutional against Waller County, Texas. Johnson v. Waller County, NO. 4:18-CV-03985, 2022 WL 873325 (S.D. Tex. March 24, 2022). Led the current -cycle redistricting for the cities of Mesquite, McKinney, Killeen, Temple, Taylor, and Port Arthur, among others. Sherry McCall, Senior GIS Specialist Sherry McCall is the Firm's senior redistricting and GIS specialist. She manages the technical drawings of maps and works closely with our attorneys and elections specialist to compile the various technical reports and maps required for redistricting clients. Sherry also has considerable knowledge and experience related to the GIS applications that are utilized to develop redistricting plans for the Firm's clients. In addition, she regularly works with the American Community Survey dataset and special tabulation files that include citizenship data. Prior to joining the Firm 25 years ago, Sherry was a research analyst at the Texas Education Agency, where she helped implement the agency's first GIS system. She has data programming experience and has worked extensively with data from the Texas Education Agency, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Texas Legislative Council. Sherry is responsible for the preparation of all data used for a redistricting project. She assists our attorneys in analyzing population/voting data and relevant historical elections and developing the analyses needed for redistricting projects. She also provides analyses, exhibits, and support for the Firm's redistricting and other litigation. Sherry received her B.A. from the University of North Texas in 1991. (She is not an attorney and is not licensed to practice law.) Scope of Services The following information outlines the Firm's proposed approach to providing redistricting services for the City. Our team of redistricting attorneys, GIS staff, and legal assistants will work together to complete each task listed below. Initial schedule planning. The Firm will consult with the City Council and establish a schedule for performance of the various tasks for which the Firm has been engaged. This would include scheduling council meetings, work sessions, and public meetings; establishing target dates for presentation of the proposed plans for City Council consideration and/or for public discussion; and establishing target deadlines for City Council adoption of a redistricting plan. The Firm will advise the City Council and clearly define the Council's responsibility in the redistricting process. Preliminary tasks. We will collect data for current boundaries and other factors and verify the accuracy of this data with the City. Current data for council districts and boundaries will be input into the Firm's GIS software. Ia