Please see below for details of this proposal, which will be open for comment for the standard two-week period:

NAME: Chuck Sipple
TITLE: Senior Financial Advisor
COMPANY: Merrill Lynch
PHONE: 912-598-3805
FAX: 912-228-4349
EMAIL: charles_sippleiv@ml.com
YEARSTARTED: 1988
CLASSIFICATION: Stocks & Bonds
PROPOSED BY: Vernon Buchman
COMMENTS: Gents, I’d like to propose Chuck Sipple, my partner here at Merrill Lynch, to be my alternate, in the event I cannot attend a meeting. Ed Gamble, Nino, Brian Foster, Mike McCarthy, Rick Monroe, Danny Nelson can all sign for him. Have not secured signatures as of this writing. Can you approve this at the September board meeting? Many thanks, Vernon Buchman
RECOMMENDE BY: Nino Aliotta, Ed Gamble