Item 41 - Federal Legislative Advocacy Services

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Nicholas Leibham is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Orange County and Washington, D.C., offices, and has 20 years of policy/political. Mr. Leibham's counsel includes aspects of policy development as well as lobbying the legislative and executive branches of government, federal funding and business development initiatives, procurement, �� public -private partnerships, regulatory matters and rulemakings, tax policy issues and company wind -downs where government is a creditor/stakeholder. Before joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Leibham was the Western regional director for the Democratic National Committee as well as a senior aide to Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii). Ed Perlmutter is a government relations attorney and general practitioner. Before joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Perlmutter was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and served eight terms representing the Seventh Congressional District of Colorado, as well as servicing as Colorado State Senate for two terms. He earned a reputation as a ' bipartisan bridge -builder and a champion of renewable energy and smart growth policies. Over the course of his political career, Mr. Perlmutter has developed many relationships at the federal, state and local levels across a broad range of subjects. Dan Maldonado, Chief Executive Officer, DCM Group LLC, has more than 40 years of expertise in federal advocacy services to advance local government project initiatives including infrastructure and economic development, housing, environmental, small business, public safety and public health. Mr. Maldonado served as the Chief of Staff and principal appropriations assistant to former Los Angeles Congressman and national Latino leader Edward Roybal. Mr. Maldonado addressed a spectrum of funding issues and advised on strategies dealing with voting rights amendments, farmworker rights and immigration reform. vi. Disclosure of any and all proposed sub-consultant(s). Mr. Dan Maldonado, Chief Executive Officer, DCM Group LLC, will be working with Holland & Knight to support the City of Santa Ana's lobbying efforts. vii. List of other municipal customers the firm currently serves and explain in what capacity. District of Columbia Bar rules prohibit Holland & Knight from divulging current client relationships because of attorney -client confidentiality requirements and other professional responsibility considerations. This prohibition extends to identifying the names of clients where our representation is not otherwise public knowledge. However, our federal public policy clients are all disclosed on our quarterly filings with the House and Senate pursuant to the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Accordingly, we have listed below the relevant local government clients for whom disclosures are filed and can be found online as of April 2023. Client Board of County Commissioners of Pitkin County, CO Duration 2002- resent Amount $130,000 City and County of San Francisco, CA 2009- resent $6 million City of Atlanta, GA 2007- resent $5 million City of Aurora, CO 2007-present $960,000 City of Charlotte, NC 2004- resent $3.9 million City of Cleveland, OH 2002- resent $600,000 City of Everett, WA 2019- resent $490,000 Holland & Knight Confidential Presentation for City of Santa Ana 112