55A - RESO - PUBLIC AGENCY RETIREMENT SRVS

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that the investment manager is a fiduciary with respect to the Plan and Trust. If the foregoing conditions are met, the investment manager shall have the power to manage, acquire, retain, or dispose of any Trust Assets subject to the investment manager's management and direction. The Trustee shall not be liable for the acts or omissions of such investment manager, or be under an obligation to review the investments of, or to invest or otherwise manage any asset of the Trust that is subject to the management and direction of such investment manager. 2.5 Participant Directed Accounts. The Agency may, by written resolution and execution of the Adoption Agreement, terminate the Plan Administrator's right to direct the investment and management of all or any portion of the Assets of the Trust and allow Participants to direct their own account balances ("Participant Directed Accounts"). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement, for Participant Directed Accounts, the Trustee shall be entitled to act upon proper directions of the Plan Administrator, Record-keeper, and Participants including directions in writing, or oral instructions which Trustee in its discretion may follow without receipt of written instructions, instruction given by photostatic teletransmission using facsimile signature, or those instructions which are digitally recorded on the Union Bank Voice Response Unit ("VRU") or internet website. Trustee is hereby authorized to record conversations and transmissions made in connection with the Trust. Trustee's recording or lack of recording of any such oral, internet or digital instructions, and/or receipt or lack of receipt of facsimile transmissions, as reflected in the Trustee's records maintained in the ordinary course of business shall constitute conclusive proof of Trustee's receipt or non-receipt of such instructions. The Trustee and/or Record-keeper shall not be liable in any manner for investment or other losses or other liability attributable to Participant's directions, or lack thereof, or exercise of control over the investments of their Participant Directed Accounts. Likewise, the Trustee and/or Record-keeper shall have no duty or responsibility to review, monitor or make recommendations regarding investments made at the direction of the Participants or the Plan Administrator. In order for Agency to be relieved of investment fiduciary liability, the requirements of California law including Section 53213.5 of the California Government Code must be met. The Plan Administrator shall establish uniform and nondiscriminatory rules for the operation of the Participant Directed Accounts, including whether the Participant shall direct the Trustee or direct the Plan Administrator who then directs the Record-keeper and the Record-keeper forwards such directions to the Trustee. Agency shall designate whether Participant Directed Accounts are to be established pursuant to the provisions of section 2.5(a) or 2.5(b), below: (a) Participant Direction in Individually Directed Accounts. If the Agency has so elected, Participants may have investment direction power over their own segregated account balances ("Individually Directed Account" or "IDA"). Investments may be directed by Participants into assets administratively acceptable to Trustee, as limited by guidelines developed by the Plan Administrator (the "Permissible Investment Guidelines"). Plan Administrator shall notify Participants of the Plan's Permissible Investment Guidelines as in effect from time to time. In the absence of directions from a Participant, the Plan Administrator may direct the investment of the IDA. The Trustee may refuse to comply with the directions of the Participant to invest in assets other than those listed in its Permissible Investments Guidelines or with directions which the Trustee deems to be improper or contrary to the provisions of the Plan and Trust or the Internal Revenue Code and shall have no liability for such refusal. (b) Participant Directed Account within Plan Administrator Selected Investment Options ("Directed Accounts"): If the Agency so elects, and directs the Trustee to execute appropriate legal 55A-24