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The Council hereby indicates its preliminary intent to undertake the Project pursuant to the Act and the Housing Program and to issue the Revenue Bonds in the maximum aggregate principal amount of $'10,000,000 pursuant to the Act to finance the Project. 2. On the basis of information available to the City it appears, and the City hereby finds, that the Project constitutes a multi- family housing development within the meaning of Section 462C.05 of the Act; that the availability of financing under the Act and the willingness of the City to furnish such financing will be a substantial inducement to the Borrower to undertake the Project, and that the effect of the Project, if undertaken, will be to encourage the provision of multi - family senior rental housing opportunities to residents of the City at a reasonable cost. 3. The City hereby gives preliminary approval of the Housing Program and the issuance of the Revenue Bonds. The City staff is hereby authorized, upon receipt of the City from the Borrower of the application deposit, to submit an application to the Minnesota Department of Financing for an allocation of tax exempt bonding authority for the Project from the housing allocation pool. The City staff is also authorized to cause to be prepared and published a notice of public hearing with respect to the Housing Program. 4. The issuance of the Revenue Bonds by the City is subject to, among other things, receipt of an allocation of tax exempt bonding authority from the Minnesota Department of Finance, final approval by this Council, the Borrower, and the purchaser of the Revenue Bonds as to the ultimate details of the financing of the Project. 5. Borrower 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 City will be paid by Borrower. 6. Nothing in this resolution or in the documents prepared 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 this purpose. The Revenue Bonds shall not constitute a charge, lien or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property or finds 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. 7. It is the purpose of this resolution to evidence the commitment of the parties and their intentions with respect to the proposed Project in order that the Borrower may proceed without delay with the commencement of the acquisition, construction and equipping of the Project with the assurance that there has been sufficient "official action" within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, to allow for the issuance of senior housing revenue bonds (including, if deemed appropriate, any interim note or notes to provide temporary 1425528 vi 3 6