#82-114 11-16-82 Issue Revenue Bonds Development Project440 Resolution 82-114
November 16, 1982
Member Johnson introduced and read the following resolution and moved its
adoption:
RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF REVENUE BOND
PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 474, MINNESOTA STATUTES, TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO BE
LOANED TO H. I. ENTERPRISES, INC. FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Golden Valley, Minnesota
(the "City"), as follows:
1. Authority. The City is, by the Constitution and laws of the State of
Minnesota, including Chapter 474, Minnesota Statutes, as amended (the "Act"),
authorized to issue and sell its revenue bonds for the purpose of undertaking
authorized projects and to enter into contracts necessary or convenient in the
exercise of the powers granted by the Act and to pledge revenues of such projects.
and otherwise secure such bonds.
2. Authorization of Project. The City Council hereby determines that it
is desirable and expedient to authorize, and the City Council does hereby
authorize, the issuance and sale of a revenue bond of the City pursuant to the
Act to provide funds to be loaned to H. I. Enterprises, Inc., a Minnesota
corporation (the "Borrower"), in order for the Borrower to partially finance the
acquisition, construction and equipping of a building to be used as a retail
convenience store and automobile service station facility (the "Project", as
more fully defined in the Loan Agreement hereinafter mentioned").
3. Documents Presented. Forms of the following documents relating to the
Project and the financing thereof have been submitted to and examined by the
City Council and are now on file in the office of the City Clerk:
(a) Loan and Purchase Agreement (the "Loan Agreement") dated as of December
1, 1982, by and among the City, the Borrower and The Fifth Northwestern National
Bank of Minneapolis (the "Lender"), whereby among other things, the City agrees
to sell and the Lender agrees to purchase the City's $370,000 Industrial
Development Revenue Bond (H. I. Enterprises, Inc. Project) (the "Bond"), the
City agrees to make a loan to the Borrower of the proceeds of the sale of the
Bond, and the Borrower covenants to pay amounts sufficient to provide for the
full and prompt payment when due of the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on the Bond; and
(b) Loan Agreement Assignment (the "Loan Agreement Assignment") dated as
of December 1, 1982, from the City to the Lender, whereby the City assigns to
the Lender all of its interest in the Loan Agreement and Loan Repayments of the
Borrower thereunder (except its rights under Sections 5.02, 7.01, 8.04 and 8.05
thereof relating to idemnity, expenses and advances of the City), for the purpose
of securing the full and prompt payment of the Bond; and
(c) Combination Mortgage, Security Agreement and Fixture Financing Statement
(the "Mortgage") dated as of December 1, 1982, from the Borrower to the Lender,
whereby the Borrower grants a mortgage lien on and security interest in the
Mortgaged Property, as defined therein, as further security for the full and
prompt payment of the Bond (this document not to be executed by the City); and
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(d) Guaranty Agreement (the "Guaranty") dated as of December 1, 1982, from
Vasilios Bill Kottas and Beverly A. Kottas, as guarantors, to the Lender, whereby
the guarantors unconditionally guarantee payment of the principal of, premium,
if any, and interest on the Bond as the same become due and payable (this document
not to be executed by the City); and
(e) Combination Mortgage, Security Agreement and Fixture Financing Statement
(the "Guarantors' Mortgage") dated as of December 1, 1982, from Vasilios Bill
Kottas and Beverly A. Kottas, as mortgagors, to the Lender, whereby further
security is granted for the obligations of the said mortgagors under the Guaranty
(this document not to be executed by the City).
4. Findings. It is hereby found, determined and declared that:
(a) The Project, as described in paragraph 2 hereof and in the Loan
Agreement, constitutes a revenue-producing enterprise and is a project authorized
by and described in Section 474.02, Subd. la, of the Act.
(b) The purpose of the Project is and the effect thereof will be to promote
the public welfare by: preventing the emergence of blighted and marginal lands
and areas of chronic unemployment; preventing economic deterioration; the
development of sound industry and commerce to use the available resources of the
community, in order to retain the benefit of the community's existing investment
in educational and public service facilities; and halting the movement of talented,
educated personnel to other areas and thus preserving the economic and human
resources needed as a base for providing governmental services and facilities;
and adding to the tax base of the City and the County and School District in
which the Project will be located.
(c) The Project has been approved by a preliminary resolution of the City
Council duly adopted on March 16, 1982, and by the Commissioner of Energy,
Planning and Development of the State of Minnesota, as tending to further the
purposes and policies of the Act.
(d) The issuance and sale of the Bond, the execution and delivery of the
Loan Agreement and the Loan Agreement Assignment and the performance of all
covenants and agreements of the City contained in the Bond, the Loan Agreement
and the Loan Agreement Assignment and of all other acts and things required to
make the Bond, the Loan Agreement and the Loan Agreement Assignment valid and
binding obligations of the City in accordance with their terms, are permitted by
the Act.
(e) There is no litigation pending or, to the best of its knowledge
threatened, against the City relating to the Project or to the Bond, the Loan
Agreement or the Loan Agreement Assignment or questioning the organization of
the City or its power or authority to issue the Bond or execute and deliver the
Loan Agreement and the Loan Agreement Assignment.
(f) The execution, delivery and performance of the City's obligations
under the Bond, the Loan Agreement and the Loan Agreement Assignment have been
fully authorized by all requisite action, including the adoption of this
resolution, and do not and will not violate any order or judgment of any court
or other agency of government in any litigation to which the City is a party or
by which it is bound, or any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which
the City is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound, or be in
conflict with, result in a breach of, or constitute (with due notice or lapse of
time or both) a default under any such indenture, agreement or other instrument.
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(g) The Loan Agreement provides for payments by the Borrower to the Lender
for the account of the City of such amounts as will be sufficient to pay the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bond when due. No reserve
funds are deemed necessary for this purpose. The Loan Agreement obligates the
Borrower to provide for the operation and maintenance of the Project Facilities,
including provision for adequate insurance, taxes and special assessments.
(h) As required by the provisions of Section 474.10 of the Act, and the
Bond shall recite that, the Bond is not to be payable from nor charged upon any
funds other than amounts payable by the Borrower pursuant to the Loan Agreement,
which are pledged to the payment thereof, and, in an event of default, moneys
derived from foreclosure or other enforcement of the Mortgage, the Guaranty or
the Guarantors' Mortgage; the City is not subject to any liability thereon; no
Holder of the Bond shall ever have the right to compel the exercise of the
taxing power of the City to pay the Bond or the interest thereon, nor to enforce
payment thereof against the general funds or property of the City; the Bond
shall not constitute a charge, lien or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any
property of the City; and the Bond does not constitute an indebtedness of the
City within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.
(i) No member of the City Council (i) has a direct or indirect interest in
the Project, the Loan Agreement, the Loan Agreement Assignment or the bond, (ii)
owns any capital stock of or other interest in the Project or the Borrower, (iii)
is an officer, employee or director of the Borrower, (iv) will be involved in
supervising the completion of the Project, or (v) will receive any commission,
bonus or other remuneration for or in respect of the Project, the Loan Agreement,
the Loan Agreement Assignment or the Bond.
5. Approval and Execution of Documents. The forms of Loan Agreement, Loan
Agreement Assignment, Mortgage, Guaranty and Guarantors' Mortgage referred to in
paragraph 3 hereof are approved. The Loan Agreement and Loan Agreement Assignment
shall be executed in the name and on behalf of the City by the Mayor and the
City Manager, or shall be executed by other appropriate officers of the City
authorized to execute documents on behalf of such officers, in substantially the
form on file, but with all such changes therein, not inconsistent with the Act
or other law, as may be approved by the officers executing the same, which
approval shall be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mortgage,
the Guaranty and Guarantors' Mortgage may contain such revisions as may be
approved by the Lender and the Borrower.
6. Approval of Terms and Sale of Bond. The City shall proceed forthwith
to issue the Bond in authorized principal amount of $370,000, substantially in
the form, maturing, bearing interest, payable in the installments and otherwise
containing the provisions set forth in the form of Bond attached to the Loan
Agreement as Exhibit B, which terms and provisions are hereby approved and
incorporated in this Resolution and made a part hereof.
A single fully registered bond, substantially in the form of Exhibit B to
the Loan Agreement, shall be issued and delivered to the Lender in the
authorized principal amount of $370,000 as authorized by the Act. Principal of
and interest on the Bond shall be payable at the office of the registered owner
thereof as it appears on the registration records maintained by the City Clerk
in lawful money of the United States. The proposal of the Lender to purchase
the Bond at a price of $370,000 (100% of the principal amount thereof) is hereby
found and determined to be reasonable and is hereby accepted.
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7. Execution, Delivery and Endorsement of Bond. The Bond may be in
typewritten or printed form and shall be executed by the manual signatures of
the Mayor and the City Manager, or other appropriate officers of the City
authorized to execute instruments on their behalf, and the official seal of the
City shall be affixed thereto. When so prepared and executed, the Bond shall be
delivered to the Lender upon payment of the purchase price therefor, and upon
receipt of the signed legal opinion of Faegre & Benson, of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, bond counsel, pursuant to the Loan Agreement. The Bond shall contain
a recital that the Bond is issued pursuant to the Act, and such recital shall be
conclusive evidence of the validity and regularity of the issuance thereof.
8. Registration Records. The City Clerk, as bond registrar, shall keep a
bond register in which the City shall provide for the registration of the Bond
and for transfers of the Bonds. The City Clerk is authorized and directed to
deliver a certified copy of this Bond Resolution to the County Auditor of
Hennepin County, together with such other information as the County Auditor may
require, and obtain the certificate of the County Auditor as to entry of the
Bond on his bond register as required by the Act and Section 475.63, Minnesota
Statutes.
9. Mutilated, Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Bond. If the Bond is mutilated,
lost, stolen or destroyed, the City may execute and deliver to the Holder a new
Bond of like amount, date, number and tenor as that mutilated, lost, stolen or
destroyed; provided that, in the case of mutilation, the mutilated Bond shall
first be surrendered to the City, and in the case of a lost, stolen or destroyed
bond, there shall be first furnished to the City and the Borrower evidence of
such loss, theft or destruction satisfactory to the City and the Borrower,
together with indemnity satisfactory to them. The City and Borrwer may charge
the Holder with their reasonable fees and expenses in replacing any mutilated,
lost, stolen or destroyed Bond.
10. Transfer of Bond; Person Treated as Holder. The Bond shall be
transferable by the Holder on the bond register of the City, upon presentation
of the Bond for notation of such transfer thereon at the office of the City
Clerk, as bond registrar, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the City Clerk and the City Attorney duly executed by the
Holder or its attorney duly authorized in writing. The Holder seeking to
transfer ownership of the Bond shall also give written notice thereof to the
Borrower. The Bond shall continue to be subject to successive transfers at the
option of the Holder of the Bond. No service charge shall be made for any such
transfer, but the City Clerk may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The person in
whose name the Bond shall be issued or, if transferred, shall be registered from
time to time shall be deemed and regarded as the absolute Holder thereof for all
purposes, and payment of or on account of the principal of and interest on such
Bond shall be made only to or upon the order of the Holder thereof, or its
attorney duly authorized in writing, and neither the City, the City Clerk, the
Borrower, nor the Lender shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All
such payments shall be valid and effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability
upon the Bond to the extent of the sum or sums so paid. The Bond shall be
initially registered in the name of the Lender.
11. Amendments, Changes and Modifications to Loan Agreement and Bond
Resolution. Except pursuant to Section 9.03 of the Loan Agreement, the City
shall not enter into or make any change, modification, alteration or termination
of the Loan Agreement, the Loan Agreement Assignment or this Bond Resolution.
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12. Pledge to Holder. Pursuant to the Loan Agreement Assingment, the City
shall pledge and assign to the Lender and its successor Holders of the Bond all
interest of the City in the revenues of the Project and the Project Facilities,
including all Loan Repayments to be made by the Borrower under the Loan Agreement.
All collections of moneys by the City in any proceeding for enforcement of the
obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Agreement, the Mortgage, the Guaranty
or the Guarantors' Mortgage shall be received, held and applied by the City for
the benefit of the Holder of the Bond.
13. Covenants with Holder; Enforceability. All provisions of the bond and
of this Resolution and all representations and undertakings by the City in the
Loan Agreement and the Loan Agreement Assignment are hereby declared to be
covenants between the City and the Lender and its successor Holders of the Bond
and shall be enforceable by the Lender or any Holder in a proceeding brought for
that purpose, provided that no such covenant, representation or undertaking
shall ever give rise to any pecuniary liability of the City, its employees,
officers or agents or constitute a charge against its general credit or taxing
powers.
14. Authorized Representative. The City Clerk is hereby designated as the
Authorized Municipal Representative for all purposes of the Loan Agreement with
full authority to do on behalf of the City all those things required or authorized
by the Loan Agreement to be done by action or certificate of the Authorized
Municipal Representative.
15. Definitions and Interpretation. Terms not otherwise defined in this
Resolution ut de ined in t e Loan Agreement shall have the same meanings in
this Resolution and shall be interpreted herein as provided therein. Notices
may be given as provided in Section 9.01 of the Loan Agreement. In case any
provision of this Resolution is for any reason illegal or invalid or inoperable,
such illegality or invalidity or inoperability shall not affect the remaining
provisions of this Resolution, which shall be construed or enforced as if such
illegal or invalid or inoperable provision were not contained herein.
16. Certifications. The Mayor, City Manager, City Clerk and other officers
of the City are authorized and directed to prepare and furnish to Faegre &
Benson, bond counsel, to the Borrower, to the Lender and to counsel for the
Borrower and counsel for the Lender, certified copies of all proceedings and
records of the City relating to the Project and the Bond, and such other
affidavits and certificates as may be required to show the facts appearing from
the books and records in the officer's custody and control or as otherwise known
to them; and all such certified copies, certificates and affidavits, including
any heretofore furnished, shall constitute representations of the City as to the
truth of all statements contained therein.
ary E. nderson, Mayor Pro Tem
ATTEST:
John Murphy, ,ty Clerk
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The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was seconded by Member
Stockman and upon a vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor
thereof: Anderson, Johnson, Mitchell and Stockman, and the following was
absent: Thorsen, and the following voted against the same: none, whereupon
said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted, signed by the Mayor Pro
Tem and her signature attested by the City Clerk.
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