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Menifee City Council
August 20, 2025

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Bond - POC 2
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August 20, 2025
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CITY OF

FAITHFUL PERFORMANCE BOND

MENIFEE CITY OF MENIFEE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
(Government Code Section 66499.1)
Landscape $ 64,000.00 Tract Map 28791
Irrigation $ 73,000.00 Other Proj. Ref IP21-022L
Construction $ 118,000.00 Bond No. 0809008
Contingency $ 51,000.00 Premium $689.00 / annum
Total $ 306,000.00
Surety Harco National Insurance Company Principal Lennar Homes of California, LLC Address One Newark Center, 20t Floor Address 980 Montecito Drive, Suite 302 City/State Newark, NJ City/State Corona, CA
Zip code 07102 Zip 92879
Phone (877) 217-2056 Phone (951) 403-3715
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 Tract 28791 IP21-022L POC2, 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 Harco National Insurance Company, as surety, are held and firmly bound unto the City of Menifee in the penal sum of Three Hundred Six Thousand and No/100, Dollars, ($306,000.00) 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 there under 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 October 25 ., 2022
NAME OF PRINCIPAL: Lennar Homes of California, LLC, a California limited liability company AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE(S):

By: mam belle Smarte
Title: Authorized Agent
(IF CORPORATION, AFFIX SEAL)
NAME OF SURETY: Harco National Insurance Company
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE: Amanda R. Vurman -Quină
Its Attorney-in-Fact Title
Amanda R. Turman-Avina
(IF CORPORATION, AFFIX SEAL)

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

Acknowledgment by Principal if Corporation or Limited Liability Company STATE OF California
COUNTY OF Riverside
1 Melody Jenike _, a Notary Public in and for the
county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that William Sacristo who as, Director of Forward Planning signed the foregoing writing for Lennar Homes of California, LLC 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 1ft LugusT _ 2027 5
мяр
Notary Seal
(Notary Public)
My commission expires: 416•28

MELODY JENIKE
Notary Public - California
Riverside County
Commission# 2487136
My Comm. Expires Apr 16, 2028
State of — Texas
SS:

County of Harris
on 10/25/2002 _ before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Amauda K. lurmau- Hina
known to me to be Atomey in Fact of Harco Notional Unsurance Company the corporation described in and that executed the within and foregoing instrument, and known f 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.

My Commission Expires May 7. 2023 Opackmand
Jessica Richmond Notary Public
9359599999

JESSICA RICHMOND
NOTARY ID #128519389
My Commission Expires
May 07, 2023
POWER OF ATTORNEY Bond # 0809008

HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY

INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY
Member companies of IAT Insurance Group, Headquartered: 4200 Six Forks Rd, Suite 1400, Raleigh, NC 27609 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and having their principal offices located respectively in the cities of Rolling Meadows, Illinois and Newark, New Jersey, do hereby constitute and appoint
JESSICA RICHMOND, MARIO ARZAMENDI, LAURA E. SUDDUTH, STEPHANIE GROSS, JENNIE GOONIE, TEUTA LURI, TANNIS MATTSON, MARY A. GARCIA, AMANDA R. TURMAN-AVINA, BARBARA NORTON Houston, TX
their true and lawful attorneys)-in-fact to execute, seal and deliver for and on its behalf as surety, any and all bonds and undertakings, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, which are or may be allowed, required or permitted by law, statute, rule, regulation, contract or otherwise, and the execution of such instruments) in pursuance of these presents, shall be as binding upon the said HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY, as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been duly executed and acknowledged by their regularly elected officers at their principal offices.

This Power of Attorney is executed, and may be revoked, pursuant to and by authority of the By-Laws of HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY and is granted under and by authority of the following resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY at a meeting duly held on the 13th day of December, 2018 Directors of HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY at a meeting held on the 13th day of December, 2018. "RESOLVED, that (1) the Chief Executive Officer, President, Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President, Vice President, or Secretary of the Corporation shall have the power to appoint, and to revoke the appointments of, Attorneys-in-Fact or agents with power and authority as defined or limited in their respective powers of attorney, and to execute on behalf of the Corporation and affix the Corporation's seal thereto, bonds, undertakings, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other written obligations in the nature thereof or related thereto; and (2) any such Officers of the Corporation may appoint and revoke the appointments of joint-control custodians, agents for acceptance of process, and Attorneys-in-fact with authority to execute waivers and consents on behalf of the Corporation; and (3) the signature of any such Officer of the Corporation and the Corporation's seal may be affixed by facsimile to any power of attorney or certification given for the execution of any bond, undertaking, recognizance, contract of indemnity or other written obligation in the nature thereof or related thereto, such signature and seals when so used whether heretofore or hereafter, being hereby adopted by the Corporation as the original signature of such officer and the original seal of the Corporation, to be valid and binding upon the Corporation with the same force and effect as though manually affixed."
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY have each executed and attested these presents on this 31st day of December, 2021
INSU

TOE STATE OF NEW JERSEY STATE OF ILLINOIS
CORPORAT County of Essex CORPORATE
County of Cook

SEAL SEAL
1904 1984

AW JERS
ANYO Kenneth Chapman
Executive Vice President, Harco National Insurance Company and International Fidelity Insurance Company
On this 31st day of December, 2021 , before me came the individual who executed the preceding instrument, to me personally known, and, being by me duly sworn, said he is the therein described and authorized officer of HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY; that the seals affixed to said instrument are the Corporate Seals of said Companies; that the said Corporate Seals and his signature were duly affixed by order of the Boards of Directors of said Companies.

LE A. OUT IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand affixed my Official Seal, at the City of Newark, New Jersey the day and year first above written.
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PUBLIC
*%: 50079910 Shucke Q. Outrey
NEW JERSE Shirelle A. a Notary Public of New Jersey
My Commission Expires April 4, 2023

CERTIFICATION
I, the undersigned officer of HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of the Power of Attorney and affidavit, and the copy of the Sections of the By-Laws of said Companies as set forth in said Power of Attorney, with the originals on file in the home office of said companies, and that the same are correct transcripts thereof, and of the whole of the said originals, and that the said Power of Attorney has not been revoked and is now in full force and effect.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand on this day, October 25, 2022 A00592
Irene Martins, Assistant Secretary
CITY Op

MENIFEE MATERIAL AND LABOR BOND

CITY OF MENIFEE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
(Government Code Section 66499.2)
Landscape $ 32,000.00 Tract Map 28791
Irrigation 36,500.00 Other Proj. Ref IP21-022L
-
Construction $ 59,000.00 Bond No. 0809008
Contingency $ 25,500.00 Premium Included in Performance Bond Total $ 153,000.00
Surety Harco National Insurance Company Principal Lennar Homes of California, LLC Address One Newark Center, 20th Floor Address 980 Montecito Drive, Suite 302 City/State Newark, NJ City/State Corona, CA
Zip 07102 Zip_ 92879
Phone (877) 217-2056 Phone_ (951) 403-3715
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Menifee, State of California, and Lennar Home 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 Tract 28791 IP21-022L POC2, 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 Fifty-Three Thousand and No/100 Dollars, ($153,000.00) 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 October 25 - 2022
NAME OF PRINCIPAL: Lennar Homes of California, LLC, a California limited liability company AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE(S):

All
By:

James: William Sacriste
Title!
Authorized Agent
(IF CORPORATION, AFFIX SEAL)
NAME OF SURETY: Harco National Insurance Company
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE: Amenda R: Curman- Quiñă
Its Attorney-in-Fact Title
Amanda R. Turman-Avina
(IF CORPORATION, AFFIX SEAL)

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

Acknowledgment by Principal if Corporation or Limited Liability Company STATE OF California
COUNTY OF Riverside
1,. Melody Janike _ a Notary Public in and for the
county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that_ Willam Sacriste who as, Director oF Forward Planning signed the foregoing writing for Lennar Homes of California, LLC 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 15t day of August 2027 MJ
Notary Seal
(Notary Public)
My commission expires: 416.28

TALOLD MELODY JENIKE
Notary Public - California
Comesion 2487136
Rumbai My Comm. Expires Apr 16, 2028
State of Texas
SS:

County of Harris
On_ 10|85|2007 _, before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Amanda K. Turman-Arina
known to me to be Attorney -in Fact of Harco National usurance 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.

My Commission Expires May 7, 2023 cachmand
Jessica Richmond Notary Public

JESSICA RICHMOND
NOTARY ID #128519389
My Commission Expires
May 07, 2023
POWER OF ATTORNEY Bond # 0809008

HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY

INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY
Member companies of IAT Insurance Group, Headquartered: 4200 Six Forks Rd, Suite 1400, Raleigh, NC 27609 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and having their principal offices located respectively in the cities of Rolling Meadows, Illinois and Newark, New Jersey, do hereby constitute and appoint
JESSICA RICHMOND, MARIO ARZAMENDI, LAURA E. SUDDUTH, STEPHANIE GROSS, JENNIE GOONIE, TEUTA LURI, TANNIS MATTSON, MARY A. GARCIA, AMANDA R. TURMAN-AVINA, BARBARA NORTON Houston, TX
their true and lawful attorneys)-in-fact to execute, seal and deliver for and on its behalf as surety, any and all bonds and undertakings, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, which are or may be allowed, required or permitted by law, statute, rule, regulation, contract or otherwise, and the execution of such instruments) in pursuance of these presents, shall be as binding upon the said HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY, as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been duly executed and acknowledged by their regularly elected officers at their principal offices.

This Power of Attorney is executed, and may be revoked, pursuant to and by authority of the By-Laws of HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY and is granted under and by authority of the following resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY at a meeting duly held on the 13th day of December, 2018 and by the Board of Directors of HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY at a meeting held on the 13th day of December, 2018. "RESOLVED, that (1) the Chief Executive Officer, President, Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President, Vice President, or Secretary of the Corporation shall have the power to appoint, and to revoke the appointments of, Attorneys-in-Fact or agents with power and authority as defined or limited in their respective powers of attorney, and to execute on behalf of the Corporation and affix the Corporation's seal thereto, bonds, undertakings, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other written obligations in the nature thereof or related thereto; and (2) any such Officers of the Corporation may appoint and revoke the appointments of joint-control custodians, agents for acceptance of process, and Attorneys-in-fact with authority to execute waivers and consents on behalf of the Corporation; and (3) the signature of any such Officer of the Corporation and the Corporation's seal may be affixed by facsimile to any power of attorney or certification given for the execution of any bond, undertaking, recognizance, contract of indemnity or other written obligation in the nature thereof or related thereto, such signature and seals when so used whether heretofore or hereafter, being hereby adopted by the Corporation as the original signature of such officer and the original seal of the Corporation, to be valid and binding upon the Corporation with the same force and effect as though manually affixed."
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY have each executed and attested these presents on this 31st day of December, 2021
INSU)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY STATE OF ILLINOIS CORPORATI
CORPORATE County of Essex County of Cook
SEAL
1984

KAN JERSE
Kenneth Chapman
ANNS
Executive Vice President, Harco National Insurance Company and International Fidelity Insurance Company
On this 31st day of December, 2021 , before me came the individual who executed the preceding instrument, to me personally known, and, being by me duly sworn, said he is the therein described and authorized officer of HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY; that the seals affixed to said instrument are the Corporate Seals of said Companies; that the said Corporate Seals and his signature were duly affixed by order of the Boards of Directors of said Companies.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand affixed my Official Seal, at the City of Newark, OUT New Jersey the day and year first above written.

NOTARi
PUBLIC
No: 50079910 Shucke Q. Outey
Shirelle A. a Notary Public of New Jersey
My Commission Expires April 4, 2023

CERTIFICATION
I, the undersigned officer of HARCO NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of the Power of Attorney and affidavit, and the copy of the Sections of the By-Laws of said Companies as set forth in said Power of Attorney, with the originals on file in the home office of said companies, and that the same are correct transcripts thereof, and of the whole of the said originals, and that the said Power of Attorney has not baen revoked and is now in full force and effect.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand on this day, October 25, 2022 A00592
Irene Martins, Assistant Secretary

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