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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 2006-04 NOT ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 2006-04 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE SALE OF $500,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION EQUIPMENT CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS, SERIES 2006A; FIXING THEIR FORM AND SPECIFICATIONS; DIRECTING THEIR EXECUTION AND DELIVERY; AND PROVIDING FOR THEIR PAYMENT BE IT RESOLVED By the City Council of the City of Corcoran, Hennepin County, Minnesota(the "City") as follows: Section 1. Back r� ound; Findings. It is hereby determined that: a) the City is authorized by Minnesota Statutes, Section 412.301 to issue its general obligation certificates of indebtedness (the "Certificates") on such terms and in such manner as the City determines to finance the purchase of items of capital equipment (the "Equipment"), subject to certain limitations contained in the Act; (b) the City will purchase and acquire various items of Equipment, which items and the estimated cost thereof, are listed on Exhibit A, attached hereto and made a part hereof; (c) as required by the Act, (i) the expected useful life of each item of Equipment is or will be at least as long as the term of the Certificates; and (ii) the principal amount of Certificates to be issued in the year 2006 will not exceed 0.25 percent of the market value of taxable property in the City for the year 2005; (d) it is necessary and expedient for the City to issue its Certificates for the purchase of Equipment and related expenses as described in Exhibit A: (e) it is necessary and expedient to the sound financial management of the affairs of the City to issue $500,000 General Obligation Equipment Certificates of Indebtedness, Series 2006A pursuant to the Act to provide financing for the Equipment. Section 2. Sale of Certificates. MNI 274668v1 2 CR100-10 been paid or made available for payment, unless (i) the date of authentication is an interest payment date to which interest has been paid or made available for payment, in which case the Certificate will be dated as of the date of authentication, or (ii) the date of authentication is prior to the first interest payment date, in which case the Certificate will be dated as of the date of original issue. The interest on the Certificates is payable on June 1 and December 1 of each year, commencing June 1, 2006, to the registered owners of record as of the close of business on the fifteenth day of the immediately preceding month, whether or not that day is a business day. 3.03. Re�istration. The City appoints the City Administrator as certificate registrar (Registrar). The effect of registration and the rights and duties of the City and the Registrar with respect thereto are as follows: (a) Re�ster. The Registrar will keep a bond register in which the Registrar will provide for the registration of ownership of Certificates and the registration of transfers and exchanges of Certificates entitled to be registered, transferred or exchanged. (b) Transfer of Certificates. Upon surrender for transfer of a Certificate duly endorsed by the registered owner thereof or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Registrar, duly executed by the registered owner thereof or by an attorney duly authorized by the registered owner in writing, the Registrar will authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates of a like aggregate principal amount and maturity, as requested by the transferor. The Registrar may, however, close the books for registration of any transfer after the fifteenth day of the month preceding each interest payment date and until that interest payment date. (c) Exchange of Certificates. When Certificates are surrendered by the registered owner for exchange the Registrar will authenticate and deliver one or more new Certificates of a like aggregate principal amount and maturity, as requested by the registered owner or the owner's attorney in writing. (d) Cancellation. Certificates surrendered upon any transfer or exchange will be promptly cancelled by the Registrar and thereafter disposed of as directed by the City. (e) Improper or Unauthorized Transfer. When a Certificate is presented to the Registrar for transfer, the Registrar may refuse to transfer the Certificate until the Registrar is satisfied that the endorsement on the Certificate or separate instrument of transfer is valid and genuine and that the requested transfer is legally authorized. The Registrar will incur no liability for the refusal, in good faith, to make transfers which it, in its judgment, deems improper or unauthorized. (� Persons Deemed Owners. The City and the Registrar may treat the person in whose name a Certificate is registered in the certificate register as the absolute owner of the Certificate, whether the Certificate is overdue or not, for the purpose of receiving payment of, or on account of, the principal of and interest on the Certificate and for all MNI 274668v1 4 CR100-10 other purposes, and payments so made to a registered owner or upon the owner's order will be valid and effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability upon the Certificate to the extent of the sum or sums so paid. (g) Taxes. Fees and Charges. The Registrar may impose a charge upon the owner thereof for a transfer or exchange of Certificates sufficient to reimburse the Registrar for any tax, fee or other governmental charge required to be paid with respect to the transfer or exchange. (h) Mutilated, Lost, Stolen or Destroved Certificates. If a Certificate becomes mutilated or is destroyed, stolen or lost,the Registrar will deliver a new Certificate of like amount, number, maturity date and tenor in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation of the mutilated Certificate or in lieu of and in substitution for any Certificate destroyed, stolen or lost, upon the payment of the reasonable expenses and charges of the Registrar in connection therewith; and, in the case of a Certificate destroyed, stolen or lost, upon filing with the Registrar of evidence satisfactory to it that the Certificate was destroyed, stolen or lost, and of the ownership thereof, and upon furnishing to the Registrar an appropriate certificate or indemnity in form, substance and amount satisfactory to it and as provided by law, in which both the City and the Registrar must be named as obligees. Certificates so surrendered to the Registrar will be cancelled by the Registrar and evidence of such cancellation must be given to the City. If the mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost Certificate has already matured or been called for redemption in accordance with its terms it is not necessary to issue a new Certificate prior to payment. (i) Redemption. In the event any of the Certificates are called for redemption, notice thereof identifying the Certificates to be redeemed will be given by the Registrar by mailing a copy of the redemption notice by first class mail (postage prepaid) not more than 60 and not less than 30 days prior to the date fixed for redemption to the registered owner of each Certificate to be redeemed at the address shown on the registration books kept by the Registrar and by publishing the notice if required by law. Failure to give notice by publication or by mail to any registered owner, or any defect therein, will not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of Certificates. Certificates so called for redemption will cease to bear interest after the specified redemption date, provided that the funds for the redemption are on deposit with the place of payment at that time. 3.04. Execution, Authentication and Deliverv. The Certificates will be prepared under the direction of the City Administrator and executed on behalf of the City by the signatures of the Mayor and the City Administrator, provided that all signatures may be printed, engraved or lithographed facsimiles of the originals. If an officer whose signature or a facsimile of whose signature appears on the Certificates ceases to be such officer before the delivery of any Certificate, that signature or facsimile will nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if the officer had remained in office until delivery. Notwithstanding such execution, a Certificate will not be valid or obligatory for any purpose or entitled to any security or benefit MNI 274668v1 5 CR100-10 under this Resolution unless and until a certificate of authentication on the Certificate has been duly executed by the manual signature of an authorized representative of the Registrar. Certificates of authentication on different Certificates need not be signed by the same representative. The executed certificate of authentication on a Certificate is conclusive evidence that it has been authenticated and delivered under this Resolution. When the Certificates have been so prepared, executed and authenticated;the City Administrator will deliver the same to the Purchaser upon payment of the purchase price in accordance with the contract of sale heretofore made and executed, and the Purchaser is not obligated to see to the application of the purchase price. 3.05. Temporarv Certificates. The City may elect to deliver in lieu of printed definitive Certificates one or more typewritten temporary Certificates in substantially the form set forth in Section 4 with such changes as may be necessary to reflect more than one maturity in a single temporary certificate. Upon the execution and delivery of definitive Certificates the temporary Certificates will be exchanged therefor and cancelled. Section 4. Form of Certificate. 4.01. Execution of the Certificates. The Certificates will be printed or typewritten in substantially the following form: No. R- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA $ STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF HENNEPIN CITY OF CORCORAN GENERAL OBLIGATION EQUIPMENT CERTIFICATE OF INDEBTEDNESS, SERIES 2006A � Date of Rate Maturitv Original Issue CUSIP , 20 March 15, 2006 The City of Corcoran, Minnesota, a duly organized and existing municipal corporation in Hennepin County, Minnesota (the"City"), acknowledges itself to be indebted and for value received hereby promises to pay to or registered assigns, the principal sum of$ on the maturity date specified above, with interest thereon from the date hereof at the annual rate specified above, payable June 1 and December 1 in each year, commencing June 1, 2006, to the person in whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the fifteenth day (whether or not a business day) of the immediately preceding month. The interest hereon and, upon presentation and surrender hereof, the principal hereof are payable in lawful money of the United States of America by check or draft by City Adminstrator, Corcoran, MNI 274668v i ( CR100-10 Minnesota, as Certificate Registrar, Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and Authenticating Agent, or its designated successor under the Resolution described herein. For the prompt and full payment of such principal and interest as the same respectively become due, the full faith and credit and taxing powers of the City have been and are hereby irrevocably pledged. The City may elect on December 1, 2012 and on any date thereafter to prepay Certificates due on or after December 1, 2013. Redemption may be in whole or in part and if in part, at the option of the City and in such order as the City will determine and within a maturity by lot as selected by the Registrar. Prepayments will be at a price of par plus accrued interest. The City Council has designated the issue of Certificates of which this Certificate forms a part as "qualified tax exempt obligations"within the meaning of Section 265(b)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the"Code") relating to disallowance of interest expense for financial institutions and within the $10 million limit allowed by the Code for the calendar year of issue. This Certificate is one of an issue in the aggregate principal amount of$500,000 all of like original issue date and tenor, except as to number, maturity date, redemption privilege, and interest rate, all issued pursuant to a resolution adopted by the City Council on February 9, 2006 (the"Resolution"), for the purpose of providing money to defray expenses incurred or to be incurred in purchasing various items of capital equipment, pursuant to and in full conformity with the home rule charter of the City and the Constitution and laws of the State of Minnesota, including Minnesota Statutes, Section 412.301, and the principal hereof and interest hereon are payable primarily from ad valorem taxes, as set forth in the Resolution to which reference is made for a full statement of rights and powers thereby conferred. The full faith and credit of the City are irrevocably pledged for payment of this Certificate and the City Council has obligated itself to levy additional ad valorem taxes on all taxable property in the City in the event of any deficiency, which taxes may be levied without limitation as to rate or amount. The Certificates of this series are issued only as fully registered Certificates in denominations of$5,000 or any integral multiple thereof of single maturities. As provided in the Resolution and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, this Certificate is transferable upon the books of the City at the principal office of the Certificate Registrar, by the registered owner hereof in person or by the owner's attorney duly authorized in writing, upon surrender hereof together with a written instrument of transfer satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar, duly executed by the registered owner or the owner's attorney; and may also be surrendered in exchange for Certificates of other authorized denominations. Upon such transfer or exchange the City will cause a new Certificate or Certificates to be issued in the name of the transferee or registered owner, of the same aggregate principal amount, bearing interest at the same rate and maturing on the same date, subject to reimbursement for any tax, fee or governmental charge required to be paid with respect to such transfer or exchange. The City and the Certificate Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the absolute owner hereof, whether this Certificate is overdue or not, MNI 274668v 1 '] CR100-10 for the purpose of receiving payment and for all other purposes, and neither the City nor the Certificate Registrar will be affected by any notice to the contrary. IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, RECITED, COVENANTED AND AGREED that all acts, conditions and things required by the home rule charter of the Ciry and the Constitution and laws of the State of Minnesota to be done, to exist, to happen and to be performed preliminary to and in the issuance of this Certificate in order to make it a valid and binding general obligation of the City in accordance with its terms, have been done, do exist, have happened and have been performed as sa required, and that the issuance of this Certificate does not cause the indebtedness of the City to exceed any constitutional, statutory or charter limitation of indebtedness. This Certificate is not valid or obligatory for any purpose or entitled to any security or benefit under the Resolution until the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Certificate Registrar by manual signature of one of its authorized representatives. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City of Corcoran, Hennepin County, Minnesota, by its City Council, has caused this Certificate to be executed on its behalf by the facsimile or manual signatures of the Mayor and City Administrator and has caused this Certificate to be dated as of the date set forth below. Dated: CITY OF CORCORAN, MINNESOTA (Facsimile) (Facsimile) City Administrator Mayor PROVISIONS AS TO REGISTRATION The ownership of the principal of and interest on the within Certificate has been registered on the books of the Registrar in the name of the person last noted below. Signature of Date of Registration Registered Owner Citv Administrator Section 5. Pavment; Security; Pledges and Covenants. 5.01. Debt Service Fund. The Certificates are payable from the General Obligation Equipment Certificates of Indebtedness, Series 2006A Debt Service Fund (the"Debt Service MNI 274668v1 g CR100-10 Fund")hereby created, and the proceeds of the ad valorem taxes hereinafter levied are pledged to the Debt Service Fund. If a payment of principal or interest on the Certificates becomes due when there is not sufficient money in the Debt Service Fund to pay the same, the City Administrator will pay such principal or interest from the general fund of the City, and the general fund may be reimbursed for those advances out of the proceeds of the taxes levied by this resolution, when collected. There is hereby appropriated to the Debt Service Fund (i) capitalized interest financed from Certificate proceeds, if any, (ii) any amount over the minimum purchase price of the Certificates paid by the Purchaser, and (iii) the accrued interest paid by the Purchaser upon closing and delivery of the Certificates. 5.02. Pledge of Taxes. For the purpose of paying the principal of and interest on the Certificates, there is levied a direct annual irrepealable ad valorem tax upon all of the taxable property in the City, which will be spread upon the tax rolls and collected with and as part of other general taxes of the City. Such tax will be credited to the Debt Service Fund above provided and will be in the years and amounts as follows (year stated being year of levy for collection the following year): Year Lev (See E�ibit B) 5.03. Certification to County Auditor as to Debt Service Fund Amount. It is determined that the estimated collection of the faregoing taxes will produce at least five percent in excess of the amount needed to meet when due, the principal and interest payments on the Certificates. The tax levy herein provided is irrepealable until all of the Certificates are paid, provided that at the time the City makes its annual tax levies, the City Administrator may certify to the Taxpayer Services Division Manager of Hennepin County the amount available in the Debt Service Fund to pay principal and interest due during the ensuing year, and the Taxpayer Services Division Manager will thereupon reduce the levy collectible during such year by the amount so certified. 5.04. Countv Auditor Certificate as to Registration. The City Administrator is authorized and directed to file a certified copy of this resolution with the Taxpayer Services Division Manager and to obtain the certificate required by Minnesota Statutes, Section 475.63. Section 6. Tax Covenant. 6.01. Tax-Exempt Certificates. The City covenants and agrees with the holders from time to time of the Certificates that it will not take or permit to be taken by any of its officers, employees or agents any action which would cause the interest on the Certificates to become subject to t�ation under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the"Code"), and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, in effect at the time of such actions, and that it will take or cause its officers, employees or agents to take, all affirmative action within its power that may be necessary to ensure that such interest will not become subject to taxation under the MNI 274668v 1 9 CR100-10 Code and applicable Treasury Regulations, as presently existing or as hereafter amended and made applicable to the Certificates. 6.02. No Rebate Required. (a) The City will comply with requirements necessary under the Code to establish and maintain the exclusion from gross income of the interest on the Certificates under Section 103 of the Code, including without limitation requirements relating to temporary periods for investments, limitations on amounts invested at a yield greater than the yield on the Certificates, and the rebate of excess investment earnings to the United States, if the Certificates (together with other obligations reasonably expected to be issued in calendar year 2006) exceed the small-issuer exception amount of$5,000,000. (b) For purposes of qualifying for the small issuer exception to the federal arbitrage rebate requirements, the City finds, determines and declares that the aggregate face amount of all tax-exempt certificates (other than private activity certificates) issued by the City (and all subordinate entities of the City) during the calendar year in which the Certificates are issued and outstanding at one time is not reasonably expected to exceed $5,000,000, all within the meaning of Section 148(fl(4)(D) of the Code. 6.03. Not Private Activitv Certificates. The City further covenants not to use the proceeds of the Certificates or to cause or permit them or any of them to be used, in such a manner as to cause the Certificates to be "private activity bonds" within the meaning of Sections 103 and 141 through 150 of the Code. 6.04. 4ualified Tax-Exempt Obli at�� ions. In order to qualify the Certificates as "qualified tax-exempt obligations"within the meaning of Section 265(b)(3) of the Code, the City makes the following factual statements and representations: (a) the Certificates are not "private activity bonds" as defined in Section 141 of the Code; (b) the City designates the Certificates as "qualified tax-exempt obligations" for purposes of Section 265(b)(3) of the Code; (c) the reasonably anticipated amount of tax-exempt obligations (other than private activity bonds that are not qualified 501(c)(3) bonds) which will be issued by the City (and all subordinate entities of the City) during calendar year 2006 will not exceed $10,000,000; and (d) not more than $10,000,000 of obligations issued by the City during calendar year 2006 have been designated for purposes of Section 265(b)(3) of the Code. 6.05. Procedural Requirements. The City will use its best efforts to comply with any federal procedural requirements which may apply in order to effectuate the designations made by this section. MNI 274668v 1 1� CR100-10 Section 7. Authentication of Transcript. 7.01. City Proceedings and Records. The officers of the City are authorized and directed to prepare and furnish to the Purchaser and to the attorneys approving the Certificates, certified copies of proceedings and records of the City relating to the Certificates and to the financial condition and affairs of the City, and such other certificates, affidavits and transcripts as may be required to show the facts within their knowledge or as shown by the books and records in their custody and under their control, relating to the validity and marketability of the Certificates, and such instruments, including any heretofore furnished, will be deemed representations of the City as to the facts stated therein. 7.02. No Official Statement or Prospectus. It is determined that no official statement or prospectus has been prepared or circulated by the City in connection with the sale of the Certificates and that the Purchaser has made its own investigations concerning the City as set forth in an investment letter of even date,receipt of which is hereby acknowledged. 7.03. Pavment of Costs of Issuance. The City authorizes the Purchaser to forward the amount of Bond proceeds allocable to the payment of issuance expenses (other than amounts payable to Kennedy & Graven, Chartered as Bond Counsel) to Northland Trust Services, Inc. on the closing date for further distribution as directed by the City's financial adviser, Northland Securities, Inc. Section 8. Continuing Disclosure. 8.01. Limited Continuing Disclosure. Participating Underwriters need not comply with the continuing disclosure requirements of Rule 15c2-12 promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Rule"), because the offering is in a principal amount less than $1,000,000. Consequently, the City will not enter into any undertaking to provide continuing disclosure of any kind with respect to the Certificates. Section 9. Defeasance. 9.01. Pledges, Covenants, and Other Rights to Cease. When all Certificates and all interest thereon, have been discharged as provided in this section, all pledges, covenants and other rights granted by this resolution to the holders of the Certificates will cease, except that the pledge of the full faith and credit of the City for the prompt and full payment of the principal of and interest on the Certificates will remain in full force and effect. The City may dischazge all Certificates which are due on any date by depositing with the Registrar on or before that date a sum sufficient for the payment thereof in full. If any Certificate should not be paid when due, it may nevertheless be discharged by depositing with the Registrar a sum sufficient for the payment thereof in full with interest accrued to the date of such deposit. MNI 274668v 1 11 CR100-10 The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by Member , and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: and the following voted against the same: whereupon the resolution was declared duly passed and adopted. MNI 274668v I 12 CR100-10 STATE OF MINNESOTA ) ) COLJNTY OF HENNEPIN ) SS. ) CITY OF CORCORAN ) I, the undersigned, being the duly qualified and acting Administrator of the City of Corcoran, Hennepin County, Minnesota, do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the attached and foregoing extract of minutes of a regular meeting of the City Council of the City held on February 9, 2006 with the original minutes on file in my office and the extract is a full, true and correct copy of the minutes insofar as they relate to the issuance and sale of$500,000 General Obligation Equipment Certificates of Indebtedness, Series 2006A of the City. WITNESS My hand officially as such Administrator and the corporate seal of the City this day of February, 2006. City Administrator Corcoran, Minnesota (SEAL) MNI 274668v1 CRt 00-10 STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY AUDITOR'S CERTIFICATE AS TO COUNTY OF HENNEPIN TAX LEVY AND REGISTRATION I, the undersigned County Auditor of Hennepin County, Minnesota, hereby certify that a certified copy of a resolution adopted by the governing body of Corcoran, Minnesota, on February 9, 2006, levying taxes for the payment of $500,000 General Obligation Equipment Certificates of Indebtedness, Series 2006A of said municipality dated March 15, 2006, has been filed in my office and said certificates have been entered on the register of obligations in my office and that such tax has been levied as required by law. WITNESS My hand and official seal this day of , 2006. County Auditor Hennepin County,Minnesota (SEAL) Deputy MNI 274668v1 CR100-10 EXHIBIT A Equipment and Description of Costs Estimated Price Public Works&Parks Tandem Dump Truck(replaces 1996)—Reflects Trade in $150,000 Pick Up 3/Ton(replaces 2001) 30,000 Plow 4,000 Backhoe 95,000 Skid Loader&Trailer(replaces 2000) 30,000 Technology CC Chamber Sound System $12,000 Server Update 10,000 GIS Software 6,000 Hardware& Soflware 4,000 Desktop Computer 11,000 Police Squad Car(replace 2000) $32,500 Software Upgrade(will be done in 2yrs) � 15,000 Civil Defense Sirens(1 %2- share) 22,500 Support/Protection Equipment 15,000 Mobil Command Post Improvements 6,000 Software Upgrade 15,000 Squad(replace 2003) 33,000 Total Equipment: $491,000 Costs of Issuance: $9,000 Total Issue: $500,000 MNI 274668v 1 A-1 CR100-10 EXHIBIT B TAX LEVY SCHEDULE YEAR * TAX LEVY $ * Year tax levy collected. MNI 274668v 1 A-1 CR100-10