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March 24, 2026 -One Broadway Plaza Addendum Peer Review- Page 4 QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE EPD has a long history of over 10 years of providing environmental documentation on behalf of both public agencies and private developers in California. EPD staff collectively have many decades of experience managing and preparing all types of CEQA/NEPA documentation, including categorical and 15183 exemptions, initial studies, negative declarations, mitigated negative declarations(MNDs),environmental impact reports (EIRs), and mitigation monitoring and reporting programs (MMRPs), as well as National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental assessments, Findings of No Significant Impact (FON51s), and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs). PROJECT TEAM The following key staff members lead the EPD Project Management Team. The City's primary day-to-day contact and CEQA Project Managerwould be Meaghan Truman.Qualifications and resume summaries for these and other staff are provided below. Resumes for all staff assigned to the project are included in Appendix A to this proposal. ■ Konnie Dobreva,JD,Vice President of Environmental Planning—Quality Assurance/Quality Control ■ Jeremy Krout,AICP, President/CEO—Client Services ■ Meghan Macias,TE, Director of Technical Services—Traffic Impact Analysis Peer Review ■ Alex Garber,Technical Manager—Air Quality, GHG and Energy Analysis Peer Review ■ Meaghan Truman, Senior Environmental Planner — Project Management, Technical Study Peer Review, and CEQA Document Peer Review Konnie Dobreva,JD, Vice Presidentof Environmental Planning. Konnie's more than 25 years of public and private sector planning and legal experience have made her an expert in entitlements,environmental and policy planning, a keen analyst and an effective writer of environmental documents. She has managed and prepared environmental documents for a diverse range of projects and clients;small-scale residential and large planned communities, commercial office, industrial, mixed-use, and schools. In law school, Konnie specialized in alternative dispute resolution. She clerked for two private law firms and the Thousand Oaks City Attorney's Office. She was also a full-time extern for the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Konnie has been a planner with the City of Lake Forest and a planning consultant for the cities of Irvine, Anaheim, and Rancho Santa Margarita. Her duties included project management, evaluating development proposals, presenting staff reports and resolutions before the Zoning Administrator and Planning Commission, evaluating grading and building plans, and environmental review and documentation. Konnie's diverse planning and legal experience provides her with a unique understanding of planning and zoning law, and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). She is a frequent lecturer on CEQA for the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP) Advanced CEQA Workshop and CEQA Basics Workshop, which provides training to many of the area developers, agency planners and attorneys. Konnie currently serves on Board of Directors for AEP as the organization's Executive Vice President.