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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial
Disclosure
None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to
be disclosed in the Company's reports Ñled under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded,
processed, summarized and reported within the time periods speciÑed in the SEC's rules and forms and that such
information is accumulated and communicated to the Company's management, including its Chief Executive OÇcer and
Chief Financial OÇcer, as appropriate, to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and
evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter
how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and
management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-beneÑt relationship of possible controls and
procedures.
As required by SEC Rule 13a-15(b), the Company carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the
participation of the Company's management, including the Company's Chief Executive OÇcer and Chief Financial
OÇcer, of the eÅectiveness of the design and operation of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures as of the end
of the period covered by this report. Based on the foregoing, the Company's Chief Executive OÇcer and Chief Financial
OÇcer concluded that the Company's disclosure controls and procedures were eÅective to provide reasonable assurance
that the Company would meet its disclosure obligations.
There has been no change in the Company's internal controls over Ñnancial reporting during the Company's most
recent Ñscal quarter that has materially aÅected, or is reasonably likely to materially aÅect, the Company's internal controls
over Ñnancial reporting.
Item 9B. Other Information
None.
PART III
Item 10. Directors and Executive OÇcers of the Registrant
There is incorporated herein by reference the information required by this Item included in the Company's Proxy
Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which will be Ñled with the Securities and Exchange
Commission no later than 120 days after the close of the Ñscal year ended July 2, 2004, except that the information
required by this Item 10 concerning executive oÇcers is set forth in Part I of this report under ""Item 1. Business Ì
Executive OÇcers of the Registrant.''
Item 11. Executive Compensation
There is incorporated herein by reference the information required by this Item included in the Company's Proxy
Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which will be Ñled with the Securities and Exchange
Commission no later than 120 days after the close of the Ñscal year ended July 2, 2004.
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain BeneÑcial Owners and Management and Related
Stockholder Matters
There is incorporated herein by reference the information required by this Item included in the Company's Proxy
Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which will be Ñled with the Securities and Exchange
Commission no later than 120 days after the close of the Ñscal year ended July 2, 2004.
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