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August 6, 2025

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CITY OF

FAITHFUL PERFORMANCE BOND

MENIFEE CITY OF MENIFEE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
(Government Code Section 66499.1)
FOR: Landscape $104,500.00 Tract Map 37408
Total $ 104,500.00 Other Project Ref. IP21-077
Bond No. 02428547:

Premium $ 235.00 / annum
Surety Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Principal Lennar Homes of California, LLC Address 175 Berkeley Street Address 4140 Temescal Canyon Road, Suite 410 City/State Boston, MA City/State Corona, CA
Zip code 02116 Zip 92883
Phone (617) 357-9500 Phone (800) 509-4979
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Menifee, State of California, and Lennar Homes of California, LLC (hereinafter designated as "principal") have entered into, or are about to enter into, the attached agreements) whereby principal agrees to install and complete the above designated public improvements relating to TM37408, which agreements), dated , is/are hereby referred to and made a part hereof; and, WHEREAS, said principal is required under the terms of said agreements) to furnish bond(s) for the faithful performance of said agreements);
NOW, THEREFORE, we the principal and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, as surety, are held and firmly bound unto the City of Menifee in the penal sum of One Hundred Four Thousand Five Hundred and No/100 Dollars _ ($104,500.00) lawful money of the United States, for the payment of which sum will and truly be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, successors, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.

The condition of this obligation is such that if the above bonded principal, his or its heirs, executors, administrators, successors or assigns, shall in all things stand to and abide by, and well and truly keep and perform the covenants, conditions and provisions in the said agreements) and any alteration thereof made as therein provided, on his or their part, to be kept and performed at the time and in the manner therein specified, and in all respects according to their true intent and meaning, and shall indemnify and save harmless the City of Menifee, its officers, agents and employees, as therein stipulated, then this obligation shall become null and void; otherwise, it shall remain in full force and effect.

As a part of the obligation secured hereby and in addition to the face amount specified therefore, there shall be included costs and reasonable expenses and fees, including reasonable attorney's fees, incurred by the City of Menifee in successfully enforcing such obligation, all to be taxed as costs and included in any judgment rendered.

FAITHFUL PERFORMANCE BOND

CITY OF

MENIFEE
The surety hereby stipulates and agrees that no change, extension of time, alteration or addition to the terms of the agreements) or to the work to be performed thereunder or the specifications accompanying the same shall in anywise affect its obligation on this bond, and it does hereby waive notice of any such change, extension of time, alteration or addition to the terms of the agreements) or to the work or to the specifications..

Surety further stipulates and agrees that the provisions of Section 2845 of the Civil Code and commencement of construction are not conditions precedent to surety's obligations hereunder and are hereby waived by surety.

When the work covered by the agreements) is complete, the City of Menifee will accept the work and thereupon, the amount of the obligation of this bond is reduced by 90% with the remaining 10% held as security for the one-year maintenance period provided for in the agreements).

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this instrument has been duly executed by the principal and surety above named, on June 6 2025
NAME OF PRINCIPAL: Lennar Homes of California, LLC, a California limited liability company AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE(S):

By: /
Name: Geoffrey Smith
Title: Vice President
(IF CORPORATION, AFFIX SEAL.)
NAME OF SURETY: Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE: Yaura 2. Suddicth
Its Attorney-in-Fact Title
Laura E. Sudduth, Attorney-in-Fact
(IF CORPORATION, AFFIX SEAL)

ATTACH NOTARIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SIGNATURES OF PRINCIPAL AND ATTORNEY-IN-FACT.

CALIFORNIA ACKNOWLEDGMENT CIVIL CODE § 1189
888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.

State of California
County of Riverside
On June 11, 2025 _ before me, _ Nicole M. Gastelum, Notary Public Date Here Insert Name and Title of the Officer
personally appeared Geoffrey Smith
Name(s) of Signers)
who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose namels) is/aye subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacityli/s), and that by his/her/their signature(p) on the instrument the persongs), or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument.

I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the
NICOLE M. GASTELUM laws of the State of California that the foregoing Notary Public - California paragraph is true and correct.

Riverside County
Commission # 2387032
My Comm. Expires Dec 16, 2025 WITNESS my hand and official seal. chicole botelum
Signature
Place Notary Seal and/or Stamp Above Signature of Notary Public

OPTIONAL
Completing this information can deter alteration of the document or fraudulent reattachment of this form to an unintended document. description of Attached Documen
itle or Type of Document FaithFul PerFormance Bond 024285472 Document Date: Number of Pages:

Signers) Other Than Named Above:

Capacity(ies) Claimed by Signer(s)
Signer's Name: Signer's Name:
• Corporate Officer - Title(s): • Corporate Officer - Title(s):
• Partner - • Limited • General • Partner - D Limited • General • Individual • Attorney in Fact • Individual • Attorney in Fact • Trustee • Guardian or Conservator • Trustee • Guardian or Conservator • Other: • Other:

Signer is Representing: Signer is Representing:

BERS8ERER8RARRARRRARRARREE8E8888888888308BGRARRBBIBREBS88BEB83BBRRIRARERBEEBRBBBB ©2019 National Notary Association
Acknowledgment by Principal if Corporation or Limited Liability Company STATE OF California

COUNTY OF
1, _ a Notary Public in and for the
county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that
who as, signed the foregoing writing for
a corporation/LLC
has this day, in my said county, before me, acknowledged the said writing to be the act and deed of the said corporation/LLC.

Given under my hand this day of
Notary Seal
(Notary Public)
My commission expires:

SS:

June 6, 2025 , before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Laura E. Sudduth
known to me to be Attorney-in-Fact of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company the corporation described in and that executed the within and foregoing instrument, and known to me to be the person who executed the said instrument in behalf of the said corporation, and he duly acknowledged to me that such corporation executed the same.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the day and year stated in this certificate above.

Amanda 2 Vurian - Anina
My Commission Expires January 25, 2026
Amanda R Turman-Avina Notary Public

AMANDA R TURMAN-AVINA
Notary ID #124048654
My Commission Expires
January 25, 2026
Liberty POWER OF ATTORNEY
Certificate No: 8204866
Mutual. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
SURETY The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company
West American Insurance Company
KNOWN ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS: That The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of New Hampshire, that Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Massachusetts, and West American Insurance Company is a corporation dul organized under the laws of the State of Indiana (herein collectively called the "Companies"), pursuant to and by authority herein set forth, does hereby name, constitute and appoint Laura E. Sudduth
all of the city of Houston _, state of TX each individually if there be more than one named, its ue and lawful attorney-in-fact to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver, for and on its behalf as surety and as its act and deed, any and all undertakings, bonds, recognizanc d other surety obligations, in pursuance of these presents and shall be as binding upon the Companies as if they have been duly signed by the president and attested by t secretary of the Companies in their own proper persons.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Power of Attorney has been subscribed by an authorized officer or official of the Companies and the corporate seals of the Companies have been affixed thereto this 1st day of July, 2024.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
The Ohio Casually Insurance Company
INSURANCE INSURANCE West American Insurance Company
MERICAN Math1 L
1912 1919 1991
OHIO By:
114391 INDIANA ANVANS
THI «SEM Nathan J. Zangerle, Assistant Secretary

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA SS

COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY
On this 1st day of July, 2024, before me personally appeared Nathan J. Zangerle, who acknowledged himself to be the Assistant Secretary of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, The Ohio Casualty Company, and West American Insurance Company, and that he, as such, being authorized so to do, execute the foregoing instrument for the purposes therein contained by signing on behalf of the corporations by himself as a duly authorized officer.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my notarial seal at Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, on the day and year first above written.

PASTE,
Commonwealth of Pennsytvania - Notary Seal
Teresa Pastella. Notary Public
Pastello
Montgomery County Mess.

My commission expires March 28. 2029 By:
currency rate, interest rate or residual value guarantees. Commission number 1126044 Teresa Pastella, Notary Public Member, Pennsylvania Association of Notaries or bond and/or Power of Attorney (POA) verification inquiries, Not valid for mortgage, note, loan, letter of credit, please call 610-832-8240 or email [email protected].

This Power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following By-laws and Authorizations of The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and West American Insurance Company which resolutions are now in full force and effect reading as follows:

ARTICLE IV - OFFICERS: Section 12. Power of Attorney.

Any officer or other official of the Corporation authorized for that purpose in writing by the Chairman or the President, and subject to such limitation as the Chairman or the President may prescribe, shall appoint such attorneys-in-fact, as may be necessary to act in behalf of the Corporation to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver as surely any and all undertakings, bonds, recognizances and other surety obligations. Such attorneys-in-fact, subject to the limitations set forth in their respective powers of attorney. shall have full power to bind the Corporation by their signature and execution of any such instruments and to attach thereto the seal of the Corporation. When so executed, such instruments shall be as binding as if signed by the President and attested to by the Secretary. Any power or authority granted to any representative or attorney-in-fact under the provisions of this article may be revoked at any time by the Board, the Chairman, the President or by the officer or officers granting such power or authority.

ARTICLE XIII - Execution of Contracts: Section 5. Surety Bonds and Undertakings.

Any officer of the Company authorized for that purpose in writing by the chairman or the president, and subject to such limitations as the chairman or the president may prescribe, shall appoint such attorneys-in-fact, as may be necessary to act in behalf of the Company to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver as surety any and all undertakings, bonds, recognizances and other surely obligations. Such attorneys-in-fact, subject to the limitations set forth in their respective powers of attorney, shall have full power to bind the Company by their signature and execution of any such instruments and to attach thereto the seal of the Company. When so executed such instruments shall be as binding as if signed by the president and attested by the secretary.

Certificate of Designation - The President of the Company, acting pursuant to the Bylaws of the Company, authorizes Nathan J. Zangerle, Assistant Secretary to appoint such attorneys-infact as may be necessary to act on behalf of the Company to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver as surety any and all undertakings, bonds, recognizances and other surety obligations.

Authorization - By unanimous consent of the Company's Board of Directors, the Company consents that facsimile or mechanically reproduced signature of any assistant secretary of the Company, wherever appearing upon a certified copy of any power of attorney issued by the Company in connection with surety bonds, shall be valid and binding upon the Company with the same force and effect as though manually affixed. 1, Renee C. Llewellyn, the undersigned, Assistant Secretary, of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, and West American Insurance Company do hereby certify that this power of attorney executed by said Companies is in full force and effect and has not been revoked.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seals of said Companies this. 6th _ day of June _ 2025.

INSURANCE INSURA INSURANCE

CORPORATE CORPORATE
1912 1919 1991 Pantween
OHIO By:

ANTONO 1S3M Renee C. Llewellyn, Assistant Secretary
AN
Marsh MSurety POA LMIC OCIC WAIC Multi Co_012025

MENIFEE MATERIAL AND LABOR BOND

CITY OF MENIFEE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
(Government Code Section 66499.2)
FOR: Landscape $ 104,500 Tract Map 37408
Total $_104,500 Other Project Ref. IP21-077L
Bond No. 024285473
Premium $ 235.00 / annum
Surety Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Principal Lennar Homes of California, LLC Address 175 Berkeley Street Address 4140 Temescal Canyon Road, Suite 410 City/State Boston, MA City/State Corona, CA
Zip code _02116 Zip_92883
Phone (617) 357-9500 Phone (800) 509-4979
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Menifee, State of California, and Lennar Homes of California, LLC., (hereinafter designated as "principal") have entered into, or are about to enter into, the attached agreements) whereby principal agrees to install and complete the above designated public improvements relating to IM37408, which agreements), dated is/are hereby referred to and made a part hereof; and,
WHEREAS, under the terms of said agreements), principal is required, before entering upon the performance of the work, to file a good and sufficient payment bond with the City of Menifee to secure the claims to which reference is made in Title 3 (commencing with Section 9000) of Part 6 of Division 4 of the Civil Code of the State of California; NOW, THEREFORE, said principal and the undersigned, as corporate surety, are firmly bound unto the City of Menifee and all contractors, subcontractors, laborers, material suppliers, and other persons employed in the performance of the agreements) and referred to Title 3 (commencing with Section 9000) of Part 6 of Division 4 of the Civil Code in the sum of One Hundred Four Thousand Five Hundred and 0/100 Dollars, ($104,500) for materials furnished or labor thereon of any kind, or for amounts due under the Unemployment Insurance Act with respect to such work or labor, that said surety will pay the same in an amount not exceeding the amount hereinabove set forth, and also in case suit is brought upon this bond, will pay, in addition to the face amount thereof, costs and reasonable expenses and fees, including reasonable attorney's fees, incurred by the City of Menifee in successfully enforcing such obligation, to be awarded and fixed by the court, and to be taxed as costs and to be included in the judgment therein rendered.

It is hereby expressly stipulated and agreed upon that this bond shall inure to the benefit of any and all persons, companies and corporations entitled to file claims under Title 3 (commencing with Section 9000) of Part 6 of Division 4 of the Civil Code, so as to give a right of action to them or their assigns in any suit brought upon this bond.

Should the condition of this bond be fully performed, then this obligation shall become null and void; otherwise, it shall be and remain in full force and effect.

MATERIAL AND LABOR BOND
The surety hereby stipulates and agrees that no change, extension of time, alteration, or addition to the terms of the agreements) or to the specifications accompanying the same shall in anywise affect its obligation on this bond, and it does hereby waive notice of any such change, extension of time, alteration, or addition.

Surety further stipulates and agrees that the provisions of Section 2845 of the Civil Code are not a condition precedent to surety's obligations hereunder and are hereby waived by surety.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this instrument has been duly executed by the principal and surety above named, on June 6 ., 2025
NAME OF PRINCIPAL: Lennar Homes of California, LLC, a California limited liability company AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE(S):

By:

Name: Geoffrey Smith
Title: Vice President
(IF CORPORATION, AFFIX SEAL)
NAME OF SURETY: Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE: Laura E. Suddith
Its Attorney-in-Fact Title
Laura E. Sudduth, Attorney-in-Fact
(IF CORPORATION, AFFIX SEAL)

ATTACH NOTARIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SIGNATURES OF PRINCIPAL AND ATTORNEY-IN-FACT.

CALIFORNIA ACKNOWLEDGMENT CIVIL CODE § 1189
8езяя8аяя388RRRR3383888888888888888388BRRRARI8888888888888888898888AARARHEHE A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.

State of California
County of Riverside
On June 11, 2025 _ before me, Nicole M. Gastelum, Notary Public Date Here Insert Name and Title of the Officer
personally appeared Geoffrey Smith
Name(s) of Signers)
who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the personal whose nameyh islaye subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/yer/t/eir I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the
NICOLE M. GASTELUM laws of the State of California that the foregoing Notary Public - California paragraph is true and correct.

Riverside County
Commission · 2387032
My Comm. Expires Dec 16, 2025 WITNESS my hand and official seal. nicole asteem
Signature
Place Notary Seal and/or Stamp Above Signature of Notary Public

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Description of Attached Document
file or Type of Document Material and Labor Bond, TM 37408 Document Date: Number of Pages:

Signer(s) Other Than Named Above:

Capacity(ies) Claimed by Signer(s)
Signer's Name: Signer's Name:
• Corporate Officer - Title(s): • Corporate Officer - Title(s):
• Partner - O Limited • General • Partner - • Limited • General • Individual • Attorney in Fact • Individual • Attorney in Fact • Trustee • Guardian or Conservator • Trustee • Guardian or Conservator • Other: • Other:

Signer is Representing: Signer is Representing:

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©2019 National Notary Association
Acknowledgment by Principal if Corporation or Limited Liability Company STATE OF California

COUNTY OF
1, , a Notary Public in and for the
county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that
who as, signed the foregoing writing for
a corporation/LLC
has this day, in my said county, before me, acknowledged the said writing to be the act and deed of the said corporation/LLC.

Given under my hand this day of
Notary Seal
(Notary Public)
My commission expires:

Texas
Sal yor. - sS:

Harris
June 6, 2025 _, before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Laura E. Sudduth
known to me to be Attorney-in-Fact of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company he corporation described in and that executed the within and foregoing instrument, and known to me to be the person who execute he said instrument in behalf of the said corporation, and he duly acknowledged to me that such corporation executed the sam IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the day and year stated in this certificate above.

January 25, 2026 Amanda R Untian -Amina
My Commission Expires
Amanda R Turman-Avina Notary Public

AMANDA R TURMAN-AVINA
Notary ID #124048654
y Commission Expir
nuary 25, 20
Liberty POWER OF ATTORNEY
Certificate No: 8204866
Mutual.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
SURETY The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company
West American Insurance Company
KNOWN ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS: That The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of New Hampshire, that Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Massachusets, and West American Insurance Company is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Indiana (herein collectively called the "Companies"), pursuant to and by authority herein set forth, does hereby name, constitute and appoint. each individually if there be more than one named, its
secretary of the Companies in their own proper persons.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Power of Attorney has been subscribed by an authorized officer or official of the Companies and the corporate seals of the Companies have been affixed thereto this 1st day of July, 2024.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company
INSURA West American Insurance Company
TUAL CORPORATEL СОПРОМАТО MERICAN NCE
1912 1919 1991 Math1 L
A49301 SACHUSE THING By:
1S3M Nathan J. Zangerle, Assistant Secretary
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA sS

COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY
On this 1st day of July, 2024, before me personally appeared Nathan J. Zangerle, who acknowledged himself to be the Assistant Secretary of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, The Ohio Casualty Company, and West American Insurance Company, and that he, as such, being authorized so to do, execute the foregoing instrument for the purposes therein contained by signing on behalf of the corporations by himself as a duly authorized officer.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my notarial seal at Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, on the day and year first above written. immomwealth of Pennsylvania - Notary Seal
Teresa Pastella, Notary Public Pastella
Montgomery County Mess
My commission expires March 28. 2029 By:
currency rate, interest rate or residual value guarantees. Commission number 1126044 Teresa Pastella, Notary Public Member. Pennsylvania Association of Notaries
For bond and/or Power of Attorney (POA) verification inquiries, please call 610-832-8240 or email [email protected].

Not valid for mortgage, note, loan, letter of credit, This Power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following By-laws and Authorizations of The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and West American Insurance Company which resolutions are now in full force and effect reading as follows:

ARTICLE IV - OFFICERS: Section 12. Power of Attorney.

Any officer or other official of the Corporation authorized for that purpose in writing by the Chairman or the President, and subject to such limitation as the Chairman or the President may prescribe, shall appoint such attorneys-in-fact, as may be necessary to act in behalf of the Corporation to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver as surely any and all undertakings, bonds, recognizances and other surety obligations. Such attorneys-in-fact, subject to the limitations set forth in their respective powers of attorney, shall have full power to bind the Corporation by their signature and execution of any such instruments and to altach thereto the seal of the Corporation. When so executed, such instruments shall be as binding as if signed by the President and attested to by the Secretary. Any power or authority granted to any representative or attorney-in-fact under the provisions of this article may be revoked at any time by the Board, the Chairman, the President or by the officer or officers granting such power or authority.

ARTICLE XIII - Execution of Contracts: Section 5. Surety Bonds and Undertakings.

Any officer of the Company authorized for that purpose in writing by the chairman or the president, and subject to such limitations as the chairman or the president may prescribe, shall appoint such attorneys-in-fact, as may be necessary to act in behalf of the Company to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver as surety any and all undertakings, bonds, recognizances and other surely obligations. Such attorneys-in-fact, subject to the limitations set forth in their respective powers of attorney, shall have full power to bind the Company by their signature and execution of any such instruments and to attach thereto the seal of the Company. When so executed such instruments shall be as binding as if signed by the president and attested by the secretary.

Certificate of Designation - The President of the Company, acting pursuant to the Bylaws of the Company, authorizes Nathan J. Zangerle, Assistani Secrotary to appoint such attorneys-infact as may be necessary to act on behalf of the Company to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver as surety any and all undertakings, bonds, recognizencas and other surety obligations.

Authorization - By unanimous consent of the Company's Board of Directors, the Company consents that facsimile or mechanically reproduced signature of any assistant secretary of the Company, wherever appearing upon a certified copy of any power of altorney issued by the Company in connection with surety bonus, shall be valid and binding upon the Company with the same force and effect as though manually affixed. 1, Renee C. Llewellyn, the undersigned, Assistant Secretary, of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, and Wast American Insurance Company do hereby certify that this power of attomey executed by said Companies is in full force and effect and has not been revoked.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seals of said Companies this _ 6th day of June _-2025..

INSURA

CORPORATE (CORPORATE CORPORATE
ERI Rentales
1912 1919 1991
OHIO By:_
ANTINO ASEM Renee C. Llewellyn, Assistant Secretary
Marsh MSurety POA LMIC OCIC WAIC Multi Co_012025

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