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QUALIFICATIONS, RELATED EXPERIENCE AND REFERENCES OF <br />FIRM PROFILE <br />Donna Desmond Associates is a business valuation firm specializing in valuing goodwill <br />loss in eminent domain proceedings pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure <br />section 1263.510. Donna Desmond has been providing condemning agencies and private <br />parties throughout California with goodwill loss appraisal services since 1987. The firm <br />was founded in 1997 and since that time has worked closely with condemning agencies <br />and their consultants to provide comprehensive, well researched and defensible goodwill <br />loss appraisals. The firm is organized as a California corporation and is a certified DBE. <br />It has one office located at 265 S. Beverly Glen Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. <br />Donna Desmond is the firm's sole employee. <br />Goodwill loss appraisal services provided by Donna Desmond Associates include: <br />❑ Preliminary Estimates for Budgetary Purposes <br />❑ Goodwill Loss Appraisals <br />• Litigation Support <br />• Appraisal Review <br />• Court Testimony <br />DESCRIPTION OF FIRM'S FINANCIAL CONDITION <br />Donna Desmond Associates is in excellent financial condition, with considerable cash on <br />hand and no debt. The firm has never filed for bankruptcy protection nor is involved in <br />any pending litigation. No conditions exist that could impede DDA's ability to complete <br />the project. <br />COMPARABLE EXPERIENCE <br />The following is a partial list of Donna Desmond Associates' public agency clients and <br />assignments from the last four years: <br />Alameda Corridor East (ACE) — 2008 - 2011, provided goodwill loss appraisal services <br />for a number of businesses impacted by separation of grade projects. <br />BART — 2008 - 2012, provided goodwill loss appraisal services for the BART Seismic <br />Retrofit Project relative to a damage claim being made by the World Trade Club of San <br />Francisco and for several businesses impacted by the Fremont Station Project. <br />City of Bakersfield — 2007 - 2013, provided goodwill loss appraisal services for various <br />public works and redevelopment projects in the City. <br />3of10 <br />Response to the City of Santa Ana's RFP for On -Call Right of Way Specialty Services lwk <br />25F -151 <br />