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� �'THE PAR GROUP CHICAGO Paul A. Reaume, �td. 100 North Waukegan Road,Suite 200 Public Lake Bluff, Iliinois 60044-1694 • Management Consultants TEL 847/234-0005 FAX 847/234-8309 March 12, 1996 VIA COURIER DELIVERY The Honorable Terry Howley,Mayor and Members of the City Council City of Decatur 1 Civic Center Plaza Decatur,IL 62523 Dear Mayor Howley and Council Members: We are pleased to respond to your request for our firm to propose how we can assist the City of Decatur in the successful recruitment, screening, interviewing and selection of Candidates from which the City Council may appoint a City Manager. The PAR Group - Paul A. Reaume, Ltd. is an Illinois corporation which consults exclusively in the public sector, serving the needs of local government nationwide with corporate offices located in suburban Chicago,and with Regional Managers in Hartford and Los Angeles.The PAR Group is headed by Paul A. Reaume, a former City Manager who has provided consulting search services to local governments nationwide continuously for twenty-three years—since 1972. Our Principals have over 180 years' cumulative operations and consulting experience in the field of local government, and have conducted a large number and variety of local govemment and not-for-profit recruitments for a national clientele. Clients have included local governments of under 5,000 to one million population, with budget responsibilities exceeding a billion dollars. The firm's quality of work and sensitivity to Clients' needs and concerns are recognized hallmarks—our firm was a pioneer in local government recruitment and is considered a leader in the public management consulting field. We have never failed to recommend a group of qualified Candidates for Client consideration. • We have conducted executive recruitments throughout the United States and have successfully completed more local governxnent recruitments in the Midwest than any other firm(please see enclosed Executive Search Client List). We have worked successfully with a wide variety of elected and appointed Officials in local government. For example, we have recently conducted recruitments for the Illinois municipalities of Bensenville, Champaign, Country Club Hills, Countryside, Elgin, Grayslake, Gurnee, Hoffman Estates, Lake Bluff, Moline, Rolling Meadows, Skokie, Winfield, and Wood Dale. We are currently conducting recruitments for Maywood, Park Ridge, Plainfield, Waukegan, Wood Dale, and for Township Officials of Illinois. In addition to our extensive experience in recruitment of public management professionals for local governments, we have also assisted related public interest associations in recruitment of top staff, Assisting in the Achievement of Excellence in the Public Service Since 1972