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1.06. Under Section 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), prior to the issuance of the Bonds a public hearing duly noticed must be held by the City Council. 1.07. Under Section 146 of the Code, the Bonds must receive an allocation of the bonding authority of the State of Minnesota. An application for such an allocation must be made pursuant to the requirements of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 474A, as amended (the "Allocation Act") and preliminary approval of the issuance of the Bonds by the Council is sufficient to authorize the submission of an application to the State of Minnesota Management and Budget for an allocation of bonding authority with respect to the Bonds to finance the Project. 1.08. The Act confers upon cities the power to issue revenue bonds to finance or refinance a program for the purposes of planning, administering, making or purchasing loans with respect to one or more multifamily housing developments within the boundaries of the city or under a joint powers agreement with the jurisdiction in which the development is located and pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 471.59, as amended. By the terms of a joint powers agreement entered into through action of their governing bodies, two cities may jointly or cooperatively exercise any power common to the contracting parties or any similar powers, including those which are the same except for the territorial limits within which they may be exercised. Prior to the issuance of the Bonds, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Sections 471.59 and 471.656, as amended, and Section 147(f) of the Code, the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota ("St. Paul") will hold a public hearing on the proposed issuance of the Bonds to, among other things, finance the Project, which is located within the jurisdictional limits of St. Paul, and St. Paul will consider authorizing the issuance of the Bonds to finance the Project and authorizing the execution of a cooperative joint powers agreement between the City and St. Paul or the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "Cooperative Agreement"). Section 2. Preliminary Findings. Based on representations made by the Borrower to the City to date, the Council hereby makes the following preliminary findings, determinations, and declarations: (a) The Project consists of the acquisition, construction, and equipping of a multifamily rental housing development designed and intended to be used for rental occupancy. (b) The proceeds of the Bonds will be loaned to the Borrower and the proceeds of the loan will be applied to: (i) the acquisition, construction, and equipping of the Project; (ii) the funding of one or more reserve funds to secure the timely payment of the Bonds, if necessary; (iii) the payment of interest on the Bonds during the construction of the Project, if necessary; and (iv) the payment of the costs of issuing the Bonds. The City will enter into one or more loan agreements (or other revenue agreement) between the City and the Borrower requiring loan repayments from the Borrower in amounts sufficient to repay the loan when due and requiring the Borrower to pay all costs of maintaining and insuring the Project, including taxes thereon. (c) In preliminarily authorizing the issuance of the Bonds and the financing of the acquisition, construction, and equipping of the Project and related costs, the City's purpose is to further the policies of the Act. (d) The Bonds will be special, limited obligations of the City payable solely from the revenues pledged to the payment thereof under the loan agreements (or other revenue agreement) referred to above, and will not be a general or moral obligation of the City and will not be secured by or payable from revenues derived from any exercise of the taxing powers of the City. Section 3. Public Hearing. The City Council will conduct a public hearing on the Housing Program, the Project, and the issuance of the Bonds by the City at a regular or special meeting on a date SA130-281-810722.v2 2