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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 4537 . . . RESOLUTION NO. 4537 RESOLUTION INITIATING THE PROCESS FOR THE SALE OF THE CITY'S TAXABLE GENERAL OBLIGATION TAX INCREMENT REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 1994B BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL (the "Council") of the City of Mounds View, Minnesota (the "City"), as follows: 1. The Council hereby finds and determines the following: (a) The Council believes it to be in the City's best interest to consider a refunding of the callable bonds of the City's Taxable General Obligation Tax Increment Bonds, Series 1988A, dated February 1, 1988, issued in the original principal amount of $6,000,000 (the "Prior Bonds"). (b) The Prior Bonds which mature after February 1, 1996, are in the aggregate principal amount of $4,725,000 and are subject to prepayment on said date at the option of the City at the redemption price of par plus accrued interest. (c) The refunding of the callable Prior Bonds is consistent with covenants made with the holders thereof and is necessary and desirable for and will result in the reductin of debt service cost to the City. (d) It is necessary and expedient to issue the City'S Taxable General Obligation Tax Increment Refunding Bonds, Series 1994B (the "Bonds"), to provide moneys for a refunding of the callable Prior Bonds. The necessary principal amount of the Bonds is currently estimated to be $4,970,000, but in offering the Bonds for sale, the City will reserve the right to increase or decrease the amount of the Bonds by not more than $150,000, and accordingly the maximum principal amount of the Bonds would be $5,120,000. (e) The City has retained springsted Incorporated, in st. Paul, Minnesota, as its independent financial advisor for the Bonds and is therefore authorized to sell the bonds by a competitive negotiated sale in accordance with Minnesota statutes, section. 475.60, Subdivision 2 (9). (f) It is necessary and desireable to the sound financial management of the affairs of the City that the City issue the Bonds pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 475.67, Subdivision . .' . RESOLUTION NO. 4537 PAGE TWO OF TWO ATTEST: (SEAL) 13, in order to provide financing for the refunding described above, and the Council hereby states its intention to authorize and issue the Bonds accordingly. 2. The terms and conditions of the Bonds and the sale thereof are set forth in the "Terms of Proposal" attached hereto as Exhibit A, and the Council shall meet at the time and place specified therein for the purposes of opening and considering sealed bids for the purchase of the Bonds and considering the award of sale of the Bonds. Adopted this 28th day of March, 1994.