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8 <br />In Montana, TA is an expert witness for the Bozeman Hamebuilders Association in litigation <br />against the City. (On the other hand, TA has just begun impact fee wark for the City and County <br />of Missoula.) <br />Paul Tischler was an expert witness in two recent lawsuits. In the first, he was the expert witness <br />for the Dayton Homebuilders Association against the City of Beavercreek, Ohio. The court found <br />for the Homebuilders Association in ruling against a road impact fee. The City is liable to refund <br />over $2.S million. Mr: Tischler was also an expert witness for the Des Moines Homebuilders <br />Association. The court ruled in .favor of the Homebuilders in its suit regarding a pazk impact fee <br />in the City of West Des Moines. The City is liable to refund over $2 million. <br />TA has impact fee and fiscal analysis experience in a number of North Carolina communities. <br />The impact fee experience includes preparation of school impact fees in Chatham County and <br />helping to prepare a number of impact fees in Nags Head: Fiscal impact issues were conducted by <br />TA for the North Carolina jurisdictions of Cabarrus County, Currituck County, Wilmington-New <br />Hanover County, Raleigh, Cary, Holly Springs, Salisbury, Davidson and Greenville. (Please see a <br />very recent letter in Appendix I from a North Carolina Economic Developnrment Administration <br />member regarding TA's work in Holly Springs.) <br />B. Freilich, Lehner & Carlisle (FLC) <br />FLC is working with TA on several impact fee assignments. Very germane to this RFP is the fact <br />that Marty Lehner, Mark White and the FLC lawyers also have a planning background. FLC, <br />which has 9 employees, has extensive knowledge regarding impact ordinances and case law <br />throughout the country. Mark White is licensed to practice in North Carolina. FLC's legal <br />background will be of benefit in addressing the policy issues that arise in this assignment as well <br />as reviewing the County's current impact fee ordinance. <br />II. BACKGROUND OF RELEVANT STAFF <br />Paul Tischler and Dwayne Guthrie will be the principal participants for TA. They have over 40 <br />years of collective experience in fiscal impact, capital facility and impact fee evaluations. Paul <br />Tischler and Dwayne Guthrie have more collective impact fee experience than any other <br />consultant team. Dwayne spends over 9p% of his time solely on impact fee work. <br />Mr. Tischler, who has a BA in Economics and MBA in Real Estate and Urban Development, has <br />spoken to a variety of groups on .impact fees, including the American Planning Association, <br />Nataanal Association of Homebuilders, Urban Land Institute and Government Finance Officers <br />Association. He has also authored a number of articles on impact fees and fiscal analysis. Two of <br />these articles were printed in the American Planning Association Plannin Magazine and the <br />National Association of Homebuilders Land Develo ment Magazine. The titles were " 20 Points <br />ta' Know About Impact Fees" and "Impact Fees -Understand Them or Be Sorry". Please see <br />Appendix I for these reprints. Paul has given workshops on impact fees and revenue exactions. <br />