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Commitment to Quality Service Personnel Qualifications and Experience Professional Staff Resources Harris, Cotherman, Jones, Price & Associates, Certified Public Accountants - Chartered has a total of 18 professional and administrative staff, including five professional staff with experience serving governmental entities . We are committed to providing service year round, and we are merely a local telephone call away . All work related to your audit engagement will be performed at your location or at our Vero Beach office, located at 5070 North Highway, Suite 250, Vero Beach, Florida. In addition, we have access to over 100 additional professional and administrative personnel through our IGAAF network. As a firm committed to staying on the cutting edge of technology, we employ a full-time Director of Information Technology to support our professionals . He has the skills to support your audit team in analyzing your information system ' s integrity as an information system, not only a general ledger system. With today ' s ever-changing computer, accounting, and auditing environments, we believe that a firm cannot have personnel who are expert in both governmental accounting and computer technology. Therefore, we use the expertise of a computer specialist as part of our team approach in analyzing your computer environment and audit data. We are extremely proud of our firm ' s past accomplishments with the County; however, we realize that GASB 34 is not the end to changes in governmental accounting but only the beginning, as GASB continues to provided guidance in the governmental accounting arena. These changes will continue to require a firm to stay well informed and educated in this constantly changing environment. To that end, we are second to none in our commitment to do so . Our audit team members have well in excess of the required 24 hours continuing professional education requirements for governmental accounting, and they attend on an annual basis various governmental courses presented by governmental experts and recognized industry leaders . The professional staff assigned to your engagement as listed below possesses over 150 years of combined public accounting and governmental experience . All of our audit team members have experience in providing accounting, auditing, and consulting services to Florida governments . We challenge any firm, national or local, to assemble a team more qualified than ours . Resumes of each member of the audit team are included on pages 17 through 28 of this proposal . We currently anticipate your audit team members to include. Years of Name / Title Experience Engagement Responsibility Robert R. Harris 30 Managing Director Robert Harris has 30 years of public Managing Director accounting experience of which 29 years have been spent in Indian River County. He is the past president of the Florida Institute of CPAs and served on the board of directors of the American Institute of CPAs . He will be responsible for ensuring that the County receives high quality service and will manage engagement performance, will coordinate staffing, and will be available to resolve any issues related to management of the engagement. EXHIBIT ._ " D " 14