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HomeMy WebLinkAbout7409 (Res.) missing first pages• • d by the Company and pursuant to a revenue agreement between the City and Company upon such terms and conditions with provisions for revision from time to time as necessary, so as to produce income and revenues sufficient to pay, when due, the principal of and interest on the Revenue Bonds in the maximum aggregate principal amount of $500,000 to be issued pursuant to the Act to finance the acquisition, construction and equipping of the Project; and said agreement may also provide for the entire interest of Company therein to be mortgaged to the purchaser of the Revenue Bonds; and the City hereby undertakes preliminarily to issue its Revenue Bonds in accordance with such terms and conditions; 2. On the basis of information available to this Council it appears, and the Council hereby finds, that the Project constitutes properties, real and personal, used or useful in connection with one or more revenue producing enterprises engaged in any business within the meaning of Subdivision la of Section 474.02 of the Act; that the Project furthers the purposes stated in Section 474.01, Minnesota Statutes; that the Project would not be undertaken but for the availability of industrial bond financing; that the availability of the financing under the Act and willingness of the City to furnish such financing will be a substantial inducement to Company to undertake the Project, and that the effect of the Project, if undertaken, will be to encourage the development of economically sound industry and commerce, to assist in the prevention of the emergence of blighted and marginal land, to help prevent chronic unemployment, to help the City retain and improve the tax base and to provide the range of service and employment opportunities required by the population, to help prevent the movement of talented and educated persons out of the state and to areas within the State where their services may not be as effectively used, to promote more intensive development and use of land within the City and eventually to increase the tax base of the community; 3. The Project is hereby given preliminary approval by the City subject to the approval of the Project by the Minnesota Energy and Economic Development Authority or such other state officer having authority to grant approval (the "Authority"), and subject to final approval by this Council, Company, and the purchaser of the Revenue Bonds as to the ulti- mate details of the financing of the Project; e • • • • J a 4. In accordance with Subdivision 7a of Section 474.01 Minnesota Statutes, the Mayor of the City is hereby authorized and directed to submit the proposal for the Project to the Authority requesting its approval, and other officers, employees and agents of the City are hereby authorized to provide the Authority with such preliminary information as it may require; 5. Company has agreed and it is hereby determined that any and all costs incurred by the City in connection with the financing of the Project whether or not the Project is carried to completion and whether or not approved by the Authority will be paid by Company; 6. Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association, acting as bond counsel is authorized to assist in the preparation and review of necessary documents relating to the Project, to consult with the City Attorney, Company and the purchaser of the Revenue Bonds as to the maturities, interest rates and other terns and provisions of the Revenue Bonds and as to the covenants and other provisions of the necessary documents and to submit such documents to the Council for final approval; 7. Nothing in this resolution or in the documents pre- pared pursuant hereto shall authorize the expenditure of any municipal funds on the Project other than the revenues derived from the Project or otherwise granted to the City for thin purpose. The Revenue Bonds shall not constitute a charge, lien or encumbrance, legal or equitable. upon any property or funds of the City except the revenue and proceeds pledged to the payment thereof, nor shall the City be subject to any liability thereon. The holder of the Revenue Bonds shall never have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the City to pay the outstanding principal on the Revenue Bonds or the interest thereon, or to enforce payment thereof against any property of the City. The Revenue Bonds shall recite in substance that the Revenue Bonds, including interest thereon, is payable solely from the revenue and proceeds pledged to the payment thereof. The Revenue Bonds shall not constitute a debt of the City within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation; 8. In anticipation of the approval by the Authority the issuance of the Revenue Bonds to finance all or a portion of the Project, and in order that completion of the Project will not be unduly delayed when approved, Company is hereby authorized to make such expenditures and advances toward payment of that portior. of the costs of the Project to be • • ILK • • • financed from the proceeds of the Revenue Bonds as Company con- siders necessary, including the use of interim, short-term financing, subject to reimbursement from the proceeds of the Revenue Bonds if and when delivered but otherwise without liability on the part of the City; 9. The actions of the City Clerk in causing public notice of the public hearing and in describing the general nature of the Project and estimating the principal amount of the Revenue Bonds to be issued to finance the Project and in preparing a draft of the proposed application to the Authority, for approval of the Project, which has been available for inspection by the public at the City Hall from and after the publication of notice of the hearing, are in all respects ratified and confirmed. Adopted by the City Council of the City of Stillwater, Minnesota, this 30th day of October, 1984. Published: November 8, 1984 l/ / ayorEta A tte stYivi H0.41.9 —1 Acting City Clerk • • • •