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RESUMES OF KEY PERSONNEL RONALD A. VINES PRESIDENT LEISURE VISION VICE-PRESIDENT ETC INSTITUTE 1999-PRESENT Education Al s, Leisure Services Administration, University of Illinois, 1975 B.S., History, University of Illinois, 1973 For more than 30 years, Mr. Vine has strategically involved citizens and clients into decision making processes that affect their lives, with these efforts resulting in over $2.5 billion of voter approved initiatives for a wide range of parks and recreation initiatives. Mr. Vine has worked on over 600 public opinion surveys and strategic planning and consulting assignments for a wide variety of open space, parks, trails and recreation master plans, strategic plans and feasibility studies for community centers, family aquatic centers, zoo's, ice-rinks, trails, etc. He has extensive highly successful experience assisting communities with projects leading to sales tax and other tax referendums. Mr. Vine has directed survey efforts in 46 states across the United States, with public sector clients of various sizes ranging up to over 4 million populations. Ron has served as a facilitator for over 500 stakeholder interviews, focus groups, public forums and consensus building workshops. Ron is skilled in both the use of quantitative phone and mail survey research efforts and qualitative research and has managed on-site survey research efforts. Ron is considered one of the nation's leading experts in the use of benchmarking research to assist communities in understanding the results of their citizen survey data, developing realistic performance measurements, and short and long range strategic decision-making and in the development of strategic planning initiatives to successfully pass voter initiatives. Prior to starting work as a private consultant in 1989, Mr. Vine worked for 15 years in a series of high level governmental administrative positions, including serving as the Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Topeka, Kansas where he managed a work force of over 1,200 municipal employees as well as an operations and capital budget in excess of$200 million. In this position, he was one of the first municipal officials in the country to embrace the development of public/private and non-profit partnerships, and the establishment of creative funding strategies such as public foundations as a tool for addressing community needs. Mr. Vine's unique experience in the public, non-profit, and private sectors have proven to be of tremendous benefits to his clients. Leisure Vision Key Personnel- 1