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R-88-585 _ CITY OF CLERMONT _ RESOLUTION NO. 585 A RESOLUTION OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A REFUNDING LOAN AGREEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWING OF $2,200,000 FROM THE GULF BREEZE, FLORIDA, LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOAN PROGRAM FLOATING RATE DEMAND REVENUE BONDS, SERIES 1985B TO FINANCE THE REFUNDING OF THE REFUNDED BONDS HEREIN DEFINED; PROVIDING FOR THE PREPAYMENT OF THE REFUNDED BONDS; AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A GOVERNMENTAL UNIT NOTE TO EVIDENCE THE OBLIGATION OF THE CITY UNDER SUCH REFUNDING LOAN AGREEMENT; AUTHORIZING CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City of Gulf Breeze, Florida, a municipal corporation of the State of Florida (the "Sponsor") has provided a means of financing and refinancing the cost of acquisition and installation of capital projects by certain governmental units to the State of Florida (the "Program") with the proceeds of $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Local Government Loan Program Floating Rate Demand Revenue Bonds, Series 1985 A-E (the "Bonds"); and WHEREAS, the City of Clermont, Florida (the "Issuer") has previously issued the Refunded Bonds, as defined in the Loan Agreement hereafter described, all of which Refunded Bonds are held by the United States Department of Agriculture, Farmers Home Administration (the "Farmers Home Administration"); and WHEREAS, the Farmers Home Administration has established a program (the "Discount Program") to permit the Issuer to payoff the Refunded Bonds at a substantial discount; and WHEREAS, the Issuer has determined that, in addition to the cost savings to be obtained from the refunding of the Refunded Bonds, such refunding would also be advantageous because it will result in a consolidation and simplification of the debt structure pertaining to the Issuer's municipal water and sewer system; and WHEREAS, the Sponsor's Local Government Loan Program Floating Rate Demand Revenue Bonds, Series 1985B (the "Series 1985B Bonds") are now available to be loaned to the Governmental Unit to be used to retire the Refunded Bonds (the "Refunding Loan"); and WHEREAS, such Refunding Loan is being made pursuant to a Refunding Loan Agreement dated as of June 1, 1988 between the Sponsor, the Issuer and Sun Bank, National Association (the "Trustee") and Jackson C. Tuttle, City Manager (the "Administrator") (the "Refunding Loan Agreement"); and LKL-05/24/88-224AA-2752 -1- e e WHEREAS, the parties to the Refunded Loan Agreement desire to prepay the Refunded Bonds pursuant to the terms of said Discount Program, to the extent possible, and further desire to execute and deliver the Refunding Loan Agreement for the purposes set forth above; WHEREAS, to evidence its obligation to repay the Refunding Loan, the Issuer will execute and deliver a fixed rate note (the "Governmental Unit Note"); and WHEREAS, to secure its obligation to repay the Governmental Unit Note and Refunding Loan the Issuer wishes to pledge as security for the Governmental Unit Note the Pledged Revenues, as defined in the Refunding Loan Agreement (the "Pledged Revenues"); NOW, THBREFORB, BE IT RESOLVED by the governing body of the City of Clermont, Florida, as follows: Section 1. DEFINITIONS. Terms defined in the preambles hereof shall have the meanings set forth therein. All capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Refunding Loan Agreement shall have the meanings assigned thereto in the Refunding Loan Agreement, unless the context hereof affirmatively requires otherwise. Section 2. FINDINGS. It is hereby found, determined and declared that: (A) The Refunding Program identified in the attached Refunding Loan Agreement ís an authorized project within the meaning of the Act, and the accomplishment of the Refunding Program is necessary and desirable, is in the public interest and will serve a proper public purpose. (B) It. is necessary and desirable and in the public interest that the Refunding Program be carried out at the earliest possible time; however, the Issuer does not have the resources necessary to pay for the Refunding Program from currently available funds. (C) The financing of the costs of the Refunding Program from funds borrowed from the Series 1985B Bonds is in the best interest of the public and will enable the Issuer to conserve public funds. (D) The estimated receipts of Pledged Revenues are sufficient to pay the principal and interest and all other amounts payable with respect to the Prior Lien Bonds, the Refunding Loan and the Governmental Unit Note. (E) The Pledged Revenues are not pledged, encumbered or hypothecated by any Resolution, Agreement, Indenture, Ordinance or other instrument to which the Issuer is a party or by which it is bound, except as otherwise set forth in the Refunding Loan Agreement. Section 3. REFUNDING PROGRAM AUTHORIZED. The cost of financing of the Refunding Program, as described herein, in the manner provided in the Refunding Loan Agreement (hereinafter defined) is hereby authorized and approved, in the amount of $2,200,000. LKL-05/24/88-224AA -2752 -2- e e Section 4. AUTHORIZATION OF FILING LOAN APPLICATION. The Loan Application with respect to the Program, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit "A", with such changes, alterations and connections as may be approved by the Mayor or Mayor Pro-tern of the Issuer, such approval to be presumed by his execution thereof, is hereby approved by the Issuer, and the Issuer hereby authorizes and directs said Mayor or Mayor Pro-tern to execute the Loan Application and to deliver the Loan Application to the City Manager of the City of Gulf Breeze, Florida, as Administrator, and Sun Bank, National Association, as Trustee under the Program. The provisions of the Loan Application, when executed and delivered by the Issuer as authorized herein, shall be deemed a part of this instrument as fully and to the same extent as if incorporated verbatim herein. Section 5. AUTHORIZATION OF EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF REFUNDING LOAN AGREEMENT. The Refunding Loan Agreement, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit "I", with such changes, alterations and corrections as may be approved by the Mayor or Mayor Pro-tern of the governing board of the Issuer, such approval to be presumed by his execution thereof, is hereby approved by the Issuer, and the Issuer hereby authorizes and directs said Mayor or Mayor Pro-tern to execute, and the City Clerk or Assistant City Clerk of the Issuer to attest under the seal of the Issuer, the Refunding Loan Agreement and to deliver to the Administrator and the Trustee the Refunding Loan Agreement, all of the provisions of which, when executed and delivered by the Issuer as authorized herein and by the Administrator and the Trustee duly authorized, shall be deemed to be a part of this instrument as fully and to the same extent as if incorpor~ted verbatim herein. Section 6. ISSUANCE OF GOVERNMENTAL UNIT NOTE; SECURITY. The Refunding Loan shall be evidenced by the Governmental Unit Note, issued in the amount of $2,200,000. The Mayor or Mayor Pro-tern of the Issuer and the City Clerk or Assistant City Clerk to the Issuer are hereby authorized to issue and deliver the Governmental Unit Note against receipt of the proceeds of the Refunding Loan as provided in the Refunding Loan Agreement. The Governmental Unit Note shall have such terms and provisions, shall bear interest at such rates, adjusted in such manner and payable at such times, and shall mature in such amounts on such dates, all as are set forth in the Refunding Loan Agreement. Upon issuance, the Governmental Unit Note shall be secured by a lien upon and pledge of the Pledged Revenues. The Issuer hereby pledges, and grants a lien upon, the Pledged Revenues, in favor of the Governmental Unit Note, all in the manner set forth in the Refunding Loan Agreement and the Governmental Unit Note. Section 7. NO PERSONAL LIABILITY. No covenant, stipulation, obligation . or agreement herein contained or contained in the Refunding Loan Agreement shall be deemed to be a covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement of any member, agent or employee of the Issuer or its governing body in individual capacity, and neither the members of the governing body of the Issuer nor any official executing the Refunding Loan Agreement or the Governmental Unit Note shall be liable personally thereon or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof. Section 8. NO TffiRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES. Except as herein or in the RefuQding Loan Agreement otherwise expressly provided, nothing in this instrument or in the Refunding Loan Agreement, expressed or implied, is intended or shall be construed to confer upon any person, firm or corporation other than the Issuer, the Administrator, the LKL-05/24/88-224AA-2752 -3- e e Credit Facility Issuer, and the Trustee any right, remedy or claim, legal or equitable, under and by reason of this instrument or any provision thereof or of the Refunding Loan Agreement, this instrument and the Refunding Loan Agreement intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Issuer, the Administrator, the Credit Facility Issuer and the Trustee. Section 9. PREREQUISITES PERFORMED. All acts, conditions and things relating to the passage of this instrument, to the execution of the Refunding Loan Agreement and the Governmental Unit Note required by the Constitution or laws of the State of Florida to happen, exist, and be performed precedent to and in the passage hereof, and precedent to the execution and delivery of the Refunding Loan Agreement and the Governmental Unit Note, have happened, exist and have been performed as so required. ' Section 10. GENERAL AUTHORITY. The members of the governing board of the Issuer an<;1 the Issuer's officers, attorneys, engineers or other agents or employees are hereby authorized to do all acts and things required of them by this instrument, the Refunding Loan Agreement or the Governmental Unit Note, or desirable or consistent with the requirements hereof or the Refunding Loan Agreement or the Governmental Unit Note, for the full, punctual and complete performance of all the terms, covenants and agreements contained in the Refunding Loan Agreement, the Governmental Unit Note, and this instrument. Section 11. TlßS INSTRUMENT CONSTITUTES A CONTRACT. The Issuer covenants and agrees that this instrument shall constitute a contract between the Issuer and the owners from time to time of the Governmental Unit Note and that all covenants and agreements set forth herein and in the Refunding Loan Agreement and the Governmental Unit Note to be performed by the Issuer shall be for the equal and ratable benefit and security of all owners of the Governmental Unit Note. Section 12. RESOLUTION TO CONSTITUTE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. The Refunding Loan Agreement and the Governmental Unit Note incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be an Interlocal Agreement with the City of Gulf Breeze, Florida, within the meaning of Chapter 163, Part I, Florida Statutes, and shall be filed of record in accordance with the provisions of the Florida Intergovernmental Cooperation Law upon acceptance of the Loan Agreement by the Administrator. Section 13. VAUDATION AUTHORIZED. Livermore Klein & Lott, P.A., Bond Counsel, are hereby authorized to file proceedings in the Circuit Court, in and for the County, pursuant to Chapter 75, Florida Statutes, to validate the Refunding Loan Agreement and the Government Unit Note, if such proceedings are deemed necessary by Bond Counselor counsel to the Borrower. Section 14. SPECIAL OBLIGATION OF THE ISSUER. The Refunding Loan and the Governmental Unit Note, and all payments due with respect thereto, shall be a special obligation of the Issuer, payable solely from the Pledged Revenues as herein provided. The Refunding Loan and the Governmental Unit Note does not constitute a general indeb~edness of the Issuer, or a pledge of its faith, credit or taxing power within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision or limitation. Neither the State of Florida nor any political subdivision thereof nor the Issuer shall be obligated (1) to LKL-05/24/88-224AA -2752 -4- e e exercise its ad valorem taxing power or any other taxing power in any form on any real or personal property of the Issuer to pay the principal of the Refunding Loan and the Governmental Unit Note, the interest thereon or other payments or costs incident thereto, or (2) to pay the same from any other funds of the Issuer except from the Pledged Revenues, all in the manner provided herein. Section 15. SEVERABILITY OF INY ALID PROVISIONS. If anyone or more of the covenants, agreements or provisions herein contained shall be held contrary to any express provisions of law or contrary to the policy of express law, though not expressly prohibited, or against public policy, or shall for any reason whatsoever be held invalid, then such covenants, agreements or provisions shall be null and void and shall be deemed separable from the remaining covenants, agreements or provisions and shall in no way affect the validity of any of the other provisions hereof or of the Refunding Loan Agreement or the Governmental Unit Note. Section 16. NEGOTIATED SALE NECESSARY. It is hereby found, ascer- tained, determined and declared by the Issuer that a negotiated borrowing under the Program is in the best interest of the Issuer and is found to be necessary on the basis of the following reasons as to which specific findings are hereby made: (1) A competitive sale of the Governmental Unit Note would in all probability not produce better terms than a negotiated sale particularly in view of the timing of such an offering and the current instability of the bond market. (2)· The Program offers borrowing with the economies of a large scale financing and sophisticated credit and liquidity structure which the Issuer could not command in the market in a solitary financing. Section 17. AUTHORIZATION OF ALL OTHER NECESSARY ACTION. The Mayor, Mayor Pro-tern, City Clerk and Assistant City Clerk to the governing board of the Issuer, counsel to the Issuer, Leonard Baird, Jr., and Livermore Klein & Lott, P.A., Bond Counsel for the Issuer, are designated agents of the Issuer in connection with the issuance and delivery of the Governmental Unit Note and are authorized and empowered, collectively or individually, to take all action and steps to execute and deliver any and all instruments, documents or contracts on behalf of the Issuer which are necessary or desirable in connection with the execution and delivery of the Governmental Unit Note and which are not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this resolution and other actions relating to the Governmental Unit Note heretofore taken by the Issuer. Such individuals are specifically authorized and directed to take all necessary and appropriate actions to prepay and refund the Refunded Bonds with the proceeds of the Refunding Loan when available. Section 18. REPEALING CLAUSE. All resolutions or parts thereof of the Issuer in conflict with the provisions herein contained are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby superseded and repealed. Section 19. EFFECTIVE DATE. This instrument shall take effect immediately upon its adoption. LKL-05/24/88-224AA-2752 -5- (SEAL) Attest: , , ,~'. ::',' , , ,}' ,.JIA" \'~... I' -. ,I ~'1 ""i \ e " j" , ~ , ~ . , i'r 'I . , I r 0'1,. . I' )1 1 '- r.t -., II 11 \- ,.....'. 11r' ') I' I " ',I -, BY:~ ?l ~~ Mayor 6- ,- '---- CITY OF CLERMONT, FLORIDA tyt:!Ø LKL-05/24/88-224AA-2752 -6- · . e e STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF LAKE I, Joseph E. Van Zile , City Clerk of the City Council of the City of Clermont, Florida, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution as the same was duly adopted and passed at a Regular Meeting of the City Council on the 2JI1J!. day of J""'~ , 1988, and as the same appears on record in my office. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and official seal this 2., IJ; day of 7v"'~ , 1988. CITY OF CLERMONT, FLORIDA ßw~efv;P LKL-05/24/88-224AA-2752 -7-