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CHARLES E. ZECH Mr. Zech specializes in municipal, contract, and local government law. Prior to his joining Denton, Navarro, Rocha and Bernal P.C., Charlie represented the City of New Braunfels as its sole in-house City Attorney. In addition to his experience with the wide variety of complex issues facing cities today, Mr. Zech continues to handle the day-to-day questions that arise for our city clients including purchasing, bidding, open meetings, open records, discipline, termination and other employment issues, contract review, drafting and negotiating with telecommunication companies, developers, and builders and their attorneys, and all the other myriad of issues which city staff, governmental bodies and appointed representatives face every single day. Mr. Zech is also accomplished in the area of economic development. As general counsel for 4B corporations and in concert with his representation of the municipalities, he has helped negotiate and draft numerous incentive agreements, industrial district agreements, tax abatements and other economic development packages which are so vital to the support of a municipality's tax base. In this context, he is well versed in the areas of tax increment financing, tax abatements, reinvestment zones, development agreements, industrial districts, Chapter 380 agreements, and other alternative urban renewal and economic development laws. While still maintaining his responsibilities as City Attorney for the City of New Braunfels, Mr. Zech was promoted to the position of Deputy City Manager. As Deputy City Manager, his duties included supervisory responsibility over the offices of Finance, Human Resources, Municipal Court, Information Technology, and the City Secretary's Office. This unique dual position of City Attorney and Deputy City Manager gave Mr. Zech a unique perspective into the issues that city employees have to face when interacting with other employees, citizens, and elected and appointed officials. Mr. Zech is a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas City Attorneys Association (TCAA). This Board consists of 10 city attorneys from various regions of the state whose primary responsibility is to prepare the continuing legal education programs for the Texas City Attorneys Association. He is a 2007 International Municipal Lawyers Association (INCA) Local Government Fellow and previously served as Chair of its Ethics Section and is a member of the San Antonio Bar Association, Comal County Bar Association, Texas City Managers Association, Phi Alpha Delta International Legal Fraternity, The College of the State Bar Association, and has served as Faculty speaker to the Suing and Defending Governmental Entities State Bar Program. Mr. Zech is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and the first Gulf War. He received his J.D. from St. Mary's School of Law in 1998, and a BBA in Economics and Finance from Southwest Texas State University in 1995