HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Meeting - Council - Agenda - 12/13/1995 SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
OF DECEMBER 13, 1995
Kent City Counc' Meeting
Date Decemb 12 1995
Category Ot r Business
1. SUBJECT: WATER REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS
2 . SUMMARY STATEMENT: At their November 22 eting, the
Operations Committee recommended adoption o an ordinance for
the refunding of all outstanding water sys m revenue bonds.
Today's positive interest rates will prow' e a savings total of
approximately $469, 000 or 6.8 percent of he refunded principal
which amortizes to approximately $90, 00 annually in debt
service savings for the next nine year Authorization is
requested for the Mayor to sign the R unding Trust Agreement
and Refunding Bond Purchase Agreemen May Miller from the
Finance Department and Dick King fr Lehman Brothers will
review the Water Refunding Proposa and Bond Market.
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3 . EXHIBITS: Memo, letters, ordi nce, and Bond Purchase
Agreement °
4. RECOMMENDED BY: 0 era ion ommittee 3-0 11 22 95
(Committee, Staff, Exa er, Commission, etc. )
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5. UNBUDGETED FISCAL PERS EL IMPACT: NO X YES
6. EXPENDITURE RE DIRE $
SOURCE OF FUNDS•
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7 . CITY COUNCIL ACT
Councilmember moves, Councilmember
seconds
to adopt Ordin ce No. _� relating to the refunding of all
water revenue onds and authorizing the Mayor to sign the
Refund Trust reement and Water Revenue Bond Purchase
Agreement.
DISCUSSION•
ACTION•
Council Agenda
Item No. 4A
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LEHMAN BROTHERS
MEMORANDUM
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To: May Miller
FROM: Richard B. King
_ DATE: December 8, 1995
SUBJECT: Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1995
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Attached please find a two schedules describing the current pricing estimates for the City's
upcoming Water Revenue Refunding Bonds. The sources and uses of funds describes how the
bond proceeds will be spent to advance refund all of the currently outstanding Water Revenue
Bonds. The next schedule describes the net debt service savings that will result from the
transaction. Based on current interest rates, total savings are an estimated $881,253, which
translates to $530,183 on a present value basis. The present value savings are just under 7% of
the principal of the refunded bonds, a level significantly greater than the 3%-5% threshold many
issuers apply to advance refunding transactions.
This pricing is based on the use of AMBAC bond insurance, which will provide ratings of
Aaa/AAA. As you know, Standard & Poor's has rated the Bonds A with a stable outlook. We
anticipate hearing from Moody's later today. It is worth noting the AMBAC premium for bond
insurance is aggressive; AMBAC bid 0.22% of total debt service, while MBIA bid 0.40% of total
debt service. Interestingly, for the refinancing of the Golf Course Revenue Bonds the bond
insurance premium totaled 0.234% of total debt service. You will recall LTGO Bonds are
viewed as stronger credits than revenue bonds, so the AMBAC bid for insurance is a strong one.
The savings level discussed above and detailed in the attached schedules will change slightly
depending on the final interest rates and issuance costs. We plan to price the issue first thing on
Monday morning at these yields, assuming no dramatic changes in the market occur over the
weekend. These savings levels are net of issuance expenses, currently estimated at $65,000. as
well as the proposed underwriting discount of 0.875% of the principal amount.
Finally, I would like to confirm the amounts shown on the sources and uses schedule as being in
the Existing Reserve and the Principal and Interest Accounts are accurate. I have more
confidence in the latter than the former, since John gave me the Principal and Interest Account
balance yesterday. Please call me with any questions.
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SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS
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Par Pius: Less:
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Sources of Funds Amount Accrued Discount Total
Bond Proceeds:
Serial Bonds 7,800,000.00 18,083.33 24,601.35 7,793,481.98
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Other Sources of Funds:
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Existing Reserve Balance 1,374,673.00 - 1,155,416.66
Principal Account Contribution 155,416.66 - .
Y_ Interest Account Contribution 70,989.36 70.98989.38
1,601,079.04 - 1,601,079.C4
9,401,079.C4 18,OB3.33 24,601.35 9,394,561.02
Par Plus: Less:
Uses of Funds Amount Accrued Discount Total
Refunding Escrow Deposits:
Cash Deposit 1,416.27 1,416.27
SLG Purchases 7,009,000.00 7,009,000.CO
Open Market Purchases 824,000.00 12.199.18 189.73 836,009.45
7,834,416.27 12,199.18 189.73 7,846,425.72
Other Fund Deposits:
New Reserve Balance 780,000.00 180,000.00
Capital Projects 594,673.00 - 594,673.00
P&I Account 18,083.33 - 18,083.33
1,392,756.33 - 1,392,756.33
Delivery Date Expenses:
Cost of Issuance 65,000.00 - 65,000.00
Underwriter's Discount 68,250.00 - 68,250.00
Bond Insurance Premium 20,347.56 - 20,347.56
153,597.56 - 153,597.56
j Other Uses of Funds:
1,781.41
1,781.41
Contingency -
9,382,551.57 12,199.18 189.73 9,394,561.02
Note: P&I Account includes deposit of 18,083.33 of bond accrued interest.
CS-Dec-95 8:08 am Prepared by Lehman Brothers (Finance 2.305 KENT:WATER,WATER-1995)
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GAVINGS
City of Kent, Washington
i Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1995
Present Value
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Prior Refunding Refunding Refunding to 12/21/1995
Date Debt Service Debt Service Receipts Net Cash flow Savings a 4.4004088%
Dec 31, 1995 - 18,083.33 (18,083.33) 18,083.33 18,083.33
Dec 31, 1996 1,358,155.00 1260,500.00 1,260,500.00 97,655.00 100,862.86
Dec 31, 1997 1,361,890.00 1:268,100.00 1,268,100.00 93,790.00 92,937.44
1 273,900.00 96,415.00 91,238.02
Dec 31, 1998 1,367,927.50 1,272,900.00 1,272,900-00 95,027.50 85,815.15
Dec 31, 1999 1,367,927.50 1,272,900.00 -
Dec 31, 2000 1,363,070.00 1,264,235.00 1,264,235.00 98,835.00 83,504.96
Dec 31, 2001 1,364,110.00 1,268,035.00 1,268,035.00 96,075.00 77,514.49
Dec 31, 2002 1,308,077.50 1,213,585.00 1,213,585.00 94,492.50 72,418.11
Dec 31, 2003 308,505.00 213,205.00 213,205.00 95,300.00 67,597.62
Dec 31, 2004 310,010.00 214,430.00 - 214,430.00 95,580.00 64,835.67
i 10,112,060.00 9,248,890.00 18,083.33 9,230,806.67 881,253.33 754,807.66
Savings Sc:mmary
Dated Date 12/01/1995
j Delivery Date 12/21/1995
PV of savings from cash flow 754,807.66
Less: Prior funds on hand (226,406.04)
Plus: Refunding funds on hand 1,751.41
Net PV Savings 530,183.03
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V.. Date: November 16. 1995
To: Operations Committee
From; Mayene Mille., Finance Division Director
V Subj: Water Revenue Refunding Bonds
Authorization is requested to refund ail of the outstanding water system revenue bonds. The
interest rate is very positive in today's market and the refinancing will'provide a savings total of
1 approximately S469,000, or 6.18% of the refunded principal. This exceeds the 3- % threshold
and will. save in today's market over 5800,000, or nearly 590.000 annually in debt service for the
1 next nine years.
In additiom this provides an opportunity to update our 197 vintage water system bond
ordinances to accommodate changes within the industry during the last 20 vears. I, will 'owes
the debt service coveraQe requirement of 1.325X to 1.2 5X_ will substitute a sure,-,! bond -,- meet
debt service requirements. and will include a rate stabilization fund. This wiil provide t: e
necessary structure as we anticipate the Pipeline Five Proiect. The attached memo and financial
analysis from Dick Lung of Lehman Brothers further explains the timeline, details, and savings.
Council Action:
Authorize the Cite to negotiate the sale of water revenue refunding bonds with Lehman Brothers.
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LEBMAN BROTHERS
To: lvlavene Miller
FROM: Richard B. King Z
November 13. 1995
SUBJECT: `,Vat--. Revenue Refunding Bonds
AS we hinted at the last Operations Committee Ineetin_ in October. _at C:r: has an otr,ormni '
to advance refund all of its outstanding dater Revenue Bonds. v✓hic w-i11 rovice :wc 'oener'.
First. the CIN can reQrlCe 1 S debt SeTytCC reaturemenls sign ',We', e eStimate Cebl SerylCe
savings in today's market wouid exceed S800,000. or nearly S90.000 a uaii}' or each of e
ne- dine years. On a present value basis. the savings .oral aDproximat-: J-69.000. `.vrLCn Is
eauivaient to 6.:18% of the refunded ttirincical. It 1s important i0 mote t.�t 211 vi i_CeSC un0l n 5
a net OI issuance expenses, SO they tnity represent =financial benefit t0 tC.e ' ii,''s NaI" �ysrem.
Manv issuers establish threshold Savings levels to indlcare w'neri it lS apprcorlate t0 rti-nanc,_
outstanding debt. �ically rangang iTOIr -5°o le: DreS2nt v31U S2'v n S, t ISI - SnOlds
provide guidance on decisions to rennance. T; s issue guaKnes e en oat stringent
tests, although issuers Sometimes will waive des--berlc marks li -re re JT.her bC:ier=S to the
re-mdng- as described blow.
Second. refTinancmg all oi:ne outstanding Ware- `ystem de-l: enables the l.:N to retiT.'se ::S
Ordinance to accommodate change's wit iri The Irdn=-v during the pas, 7weniv ve.'.SS. it ':s 7n.;
view. and 1 believe Don Wickstrom supports this perspective, that the munnicipai water 'business
7 .:n this area increasingly `.vili rely on regional cooperation. The �Cit,"'S !9:= vn`43�e ZVat :
Svstem Bond Ordinance does not contemplate --,ie :`;Des oI agreements .rd con.acts the
may pursue. 1 he Pipeline 5 Prolect, for example, 'would be awkwuard to accommodate milder the
existing ordinance. Furthe.more. a new bond ordinance will provide the C:,.' a Good opportunity
to Lower the debt service coverage requirement :tom 1. 5x to '._5x: to subs ute a s re:_ bent to
meet the debt service reserve requirement; end to include a rate stabilization amd as a
mechanism to ,,in,m e rare rate increases.
"he current sc;:eduie calls --'or pric;ng the proposed Refunding Bonds On Monday. Dece.:,o"
ith_ w$h -he Courcii considering and acloodnE: the Bond Ordinance .re ;oilewlnC e�'e ^?
Desuire the current w•ol-ies over the debt ceiling and budget in the nation's capital, ✓e an c pate
interest rates will ---main stable and DerhaDs even trend downward during tine next several wee!cs.
T"ne City's opportunity to generate significant debt service savings and increase the Water
System's flexibility for the future seems excellent. is --
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Water Revenue Refuncing BOraS, 1995
(�orrolete Refunding of al'. .Dater Revenue Bcncs;
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Prior 3efuncing Refuncirg 3erurcing 12/21;19.Y
Cate Debt Ser•/Ice Debt Service ReCeIOtS Net =asn fiou savings a
.... Dec 31, 1995-- - - - .9,216.31 ',9,21.5.81)
Dec 31, 1996 1,358,155.00 1,270,902.50 ",270,902.50 37,252 50
Dec 31, 1997 1,361,890.00 1,273,902.33 ,-;,902.zo d7,937.50
Dec 31, 1998 1,370,315.00 1,283,372.50 ",283,37-4.5C 26,?4"c.50
Dec 31, 1999 1 367,927.50 ,279,727.50 - ,279,7=.50 m,200.00
_ Dec 31, 2000 1,363,070.00 ,2722,780.00 - .,2i_,780.70 90 2SO.00 75.757._.,
Dec 31, 2001 1,364,11C.00 277,957.50
.-.. Dec 31, 2002 1,3C8,077.5C 1,219,482.50
Dec 31, 2CO3 308,905.00 220,095.00 - 220,095.0G 38,:i0.00 »85.c3
Dec 31, 2004 310,01C.00 220,395.00 220,395.00 39, 1:. 0 9,•:-_--
.... 10,11z,060.00 9,318,615.00 9, 16.3i 9,299,398.19 312.-51.31 59
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Dates Date ',Z;01i;995
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ass: Prior -uses on han 226, 06..4;
=!-:s: Refuncing 'Limas on harrr: 2 �•;a
.vet Pv Savings 468.T7.34
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Gity Of Kent, 'dasningtcn
-dater Revenue Refuncing Sonds, 1995
(Ccaiplete Refunding of all '.later Revenue Scnds)
Dar Plus: -ess:
Sources of =uncs Amount Accrued Discount -,ctal
Bond Proceeds:
Serial Bonds 7,760,000.OG 19,216-91 - 7,-119,216.31
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Other Sources of Funds:
Principal Account contrinuzicn 155,416.66 - - 1S,415.66
interest Account Centrinuzion 70,989.38 - - 70,989.38
226,406.04 - - 226,406.04
7,986,406.04 19,216.31 - 8,G05,622.35
Plus:
.Uses or Funs Amcunc Accrced Disccu r,t -.
Refunding Escrow Deposits:
Cash Decosit 535•=� - - ;��.:9
Sl-G Purchases 7,150,»OC.00
573,000. %.-
Coen MarKet PUrChaSeS GC 5 �1
7,323,935.5-9 9,577.3-1 _41.]R 7 332,271.3C
Other Fund Deposits:
General Fund 19,216.p1
Delivery Date Expenses:
Cost of issuance 50,000.00
Uneruriter's Discount 77,60C.30 77,600.00
Bono. insurance Premitar '-;•=96.54 -- Zc6.54
150 390.54 50,896.54
Other Uses of Funcs:
Contingency
oc7,23'.1? ,577.31 ..58 3,005,622.sc .....
Note: General Ford incl:.eles deoosit ar i9,216-31. -❑ond accr_ec in:eres:. .-..
31-Oct-95 12:27 pm Prepared by Lehman Brothers (Firence. 2.305 KEHT:WAT7R,WATER-1995) -.
CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON
WATER REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS, 1995
BOND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
December 12, 1995
City of Kent
220 Fourth Avenue South
Kent, Washington 98032
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned (the "Underwriter") hereby offers to enter into this Bond
Purchase Agreement (the "Bond Purchase Agreement") with City of Kent, Washington
(the "City"), which upon the City's acceptance hereof will be binding upon the City
and the Underwriter. This offer is made subject to the City's acceptance by execution
of this Bond Purchase Agreement and its delivery to the Underwriter on or before
11:59 P.M., Pacific Standard Time, December 12, 1995, and, if not so accepted, will be
subject to withdrawal by the Underwriter upon notice delivered by the Underwriter to
the City at any time prior to the acceptance hereof by the City. All capitalized terms
not otherwise defined herein shall be as defined in Ordinance No. , adopted by
the City Council on December 12, 1995 (the "Ordinance") and the Official Statement
(as hereafter defined).
1. Purchase and Sale. Subject to the terms and conditions and upon the
basis of the representations, warranties and agreements hereinafter set forth, the
Underwriter hereby agrees to purchase from the City for offering to a public, and the
City hereby agrees to sell to the Underwriter for such purpose, all (but not less than all)
or the City's $ Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1995 (the "Bonds"). The
Bonds shall be dated December 1, 1995, shall have the maturities, shall bear interest at
the rates and shall be subject to redemption as set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto,
such interest being payable commencing June 1, 1996, and semiannually thereafter on
each December 1 and June 1 to the date such Bonds mature. The aggregate purchase
price of the Bonds shall be the purchase price set forth in Exhibit A hereto, plus
interest accrued (as described in Exhibit A) on the Bonds from their date to the Closing
Date (as hereinafter defined).
2. The Official Statement and Authorizing Instruments. The Bonds shall
be otherwise as described in the Official Statement of the City, dated the date hereof,
relating to the Bonds, which, together with all appendices thereto, and with such
changes therein and supplements thereto that are consented to in writing by the
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Underwriter, is herein called the "Official Statement," and shall be issued and secured
under the Ordinance. The City authorizes the use of the Official Statement in
connection with the public offering and sale of the Bonds. The City also approves the
use by the Underwriter, before the date hereof, of the preliminary Official Statement,
dated December 1995, relating to the Bonds, which together with the appendices
attached thereto, is herein referred to as the "Preliminary Official Statement," in
connection with the public offering of the Bonds.
Promptly after the acceptance hereof by the City, the City shall cause to be
delivered to the Underwriter copies of the final Official Statement (together with the
appendices attached thereto) dated the date hereof.
The City hereby authorizes the Underwriter, and the Underwriter agrees at its
own expense, to file one copy of the Official Statement, together with any supplement
or amendment thereto, with at least one of the nationally recognized municipal
securities information repositories designated by the Securities and Exchange
Commission and two copies of the Official Statement (with any required forms) to the
Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board ("MSRB") or its designee pursuant to MSRB
Rule G-36 no later than ten business days following the date hereof.
3. Public Offering. The Underwriter agrees to make a bona fide public
offering of all the Bonds initially at the public offering prices (or yields) set forth on
the cover page of the Official Statement, provided that the initial public offering prices
(or yields) may be changed, from time to time, by the Underwriter as it deems
necessary in connection with the marketing of the Bonds.
4. Representations, Covenants and 'Warranties. The City represents.
covenants and warrants :c ,he LTndenvae: LIAUL.
(a) The Ordinance and this Bond Purchase Agreement are legal. valid
and binding obligations of the City enforceable against the City in accordance
with their terms except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting
creditors' rights or contractual obligations uenerally and by the exercise of
judicial discretion in appropriate cases and no authorization or approval is
required for the execution and delivery of the Ordinance or this Bond Purchase
Agreement by the City, except such authorizations or approvals as shaii have
been obtained at or prior to the Closing, copies of which shall be delivered to
the Underwriter at the Closing.
(b) Except for the omission of such information that is dependent
upon the final pricing of the Bonds for completion, all as permitted to be
excluded by Rule 15c2-12, the Preliminary Official Statement was, as of its
date, true and correct in all material respects and did not contain any untrue
- statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make
the statements and information therein contained, in light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) The Official Statement is, and at all times subsequent hereto u ;
and including the Closing Date will be, true and correct in all material respects
and does not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or oini"
to state any material fact necessary to make the statements and nforr;;ati, -
therein contained, in light of the circumstances under which they were
not misleading.
(d) The City has duly authorized and approved the execution of the
Official Statement by the Mayor or his designee, including any amendrnc-nt>
thereto under the terms of this Bond Purchase Agreement.
(e) The City covenants and agrees to cause sufficient quantities of tl-.:
Official Statement to be delivered to the Underwriter to enable the UnderwT-
to comply with the requirements of Rule 15c2-12 of the Securities Excham_e
Commission promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is
amended ("Rule 15c2-12"), and with the requirements of MSRB Rule G-7-',
without charge, within seven business days of the date hereof and, if the Closing
Date is less than seven business days after the date hereof, upon request of the
Underwriter, in sufficient time to accompany any confirmation requesting
payment from any customers of the Underwriter.
(f) The City further covenants and agrees that if, after the date hereof
and until 25 days after the "end of the underwriting period" (as described
below), any event shall occur as a result of which it is necessary to amend or
supplement the Official Statement to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances under which they were made when the Official Statement is
delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if it is necessary to amend or
supplement the Official Statement to comply with law, the City shall notify the
Underwriter and provide the Underwriter with such information as it may from
time to time request, and to forthwith prepare and furnish, at its own expense (ul
a form and manner approved by the Underwriter), a reasonable number of
copies of either amendments or supplements to the Official Statement so that the
statements in the Official Statement as so amended and supplemented will not,
in light of the circumstances under which they were made when the Official
Statement is delivered to a purchaser. be misleading or so that the Official
Statement will comply with applicable law. Unless otherwise notified in writing
by the Underwriter, the City can assume that the "end of the underwriting
period" for purposes of Rule 15c2-12 shall be the Closing Date. If such notice is
ify the City
so given in writing by the Underwriter, the Underwriter agrees to not
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in writing following the occurrence of the "end of the underwriting period" as
defined in Rule 15c2-12.
(g) The City will advise the Underwriter promptly of the institution of
any proceedings known to it by any governmental agency prohibiting or
otherwise affecting the use of the Official Statement in connection with the
offering, sale or distribution of the Bonds.
(h) When delivered to The Depository Trust Company ("DTC") for
the account of the Underwriter and paid for in full in accordance with the terms
of this Bond Purchase Agreement, the Bonds (i) will have been duly authorized,
executed, issued and delivered by the City, and (ii) will constitute valid, legally
binding obligations of the City except as enforceability may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws
affecting creditors' rights or contractual obligations generally to the extent
constitutionally applicable and by the exercise of judicial discretion in
appropriate cases.
(i) As of the time of acceptance hereof and as of the Closing, and
except as disclosed in the Official Statement, to the knowledge of the City, no
litigation is pending or is threatened in any court that (i) seeks to restrain or
enjoin the issuance, sale or delivery of any of the Bonds, (ii) contests or affects
the validity of the Bonds, the Ordinance, this Bond Purchase Agreement or the
City's pledge of the Net Revenue of its Water System to the payment of the
Bonds, (Ili) contests in any way, the completeness, accuracy or fairness of the
Official Statement, or (iv) in any material respect might affect adversely the -
transactions contemplated herein, in the Ordinance or in the Official Statement.
0) The City will furnish such information, execute such instruments
and take such other action in cooperation with the Underwriter as they may
reasonably request to qualify the Bonds for offer and sale under the Blue Sky or
other securities laws and regulations of such states and other jurisdictions of the
United States as the Underwriter may designate, except the City shall not be
required in connection therewith or as a condition thereof to execute a general
consent to service of process or to qualify to do business as a foreign
corporation in any state.
5. The Closing. at 9:00 A. t., Pacific Standard Time, on December 21.
1995, or at such other time or on such earlier or later business day as shall have been
mutually agreed upon by the City and the Underwriter (the "Closing Date"), the City
will deliver to the Underwriter the Bonds, duiv executed and authenticated, through the
facilities of DTC in New York, New York or such other place to be mutually agreed
upon by the City and the Underwriter, and shall deliver to the Underwriter the
documents mentioned in Section 6 hereof, at such place in Seattle, Washington, as may
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be mutually agreed upon by the City and the Underwriter. The Underwriter will accept
such delivery and pay the purchase price of the Bonds as set forth in Section 1 hereof
by certified check or by wire in immediately available federal funds. The payment and
delivery of the Bonds, together with the delivery of the aforementioned documents, is
herein called the "Closing". The Bonds shall be made available to the Underwriter at
the offices of DTC at least one business day before the Closing for purposes of
inspection, and are to be left with DTC for safekeeping until release at Closing. The
Underwriter acknowledges that the City is to have no responsibility for such
safekeeping of the Bonds.
6. Closing Conditions. The Underwriter has entered into -this Bond
Purchase Agreement in reliance upon the representations and warranties herein and the
performance by the City of its obligations hereunder, both as of the date hereof and as
of the Closing Date. The Underwriter's obligations under this Bond Purchase
Agreement are and shall be subject to the performance by the City of its obligations to
be performed hereunder and under the documents mentioned in this Section 6, at or
prior to the Closing, and also shall be subject to the following conditions:
(a) The representations and warranties of the City contained herein
shall be true, complete and correct in all material respects at the date hereof and
on the Closing Date, as if made on and as of the Closing Date.
(b) At or prior to the Closing, the Underwriter shall receive three
copies of the final Official Statement manually executed on behalf of the City
by the Mayor; provided, that as promptly as practicable after the Closing Date,
such reasonable number of certified or conformed copies of the foregoing as the
Underwriter may request.
(c) At or prior to the Closing, the Underwriter shall receive (i) a copy
of the approving opinion of Foster Pepper & Shefelman, Bond Counsel to the
City, as to the Bonds, dated the Closing Date and substantially in the form
included in the Official Statement as Appendix A, (ii) a letter of Bond Counsel
addressed to the Underwriter staring that the Underwriter can rely on said
opinion as if it were addressed to the Underwriter, and (iii) an opinion of Bond
Counsel addressed to the Underwriter stating that the Ordinance is a legal, valid
and binding obligation of the City enforceable against the City in accordance
with its terms except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting
creditors' rights or contractual obligations generally and by the exercise of
judicial discretion in appropriate cases.
(d) At or prior to the Closing, the Underwriter shall receive an
opinion of Perkins Cole, counsel to the Underwriter, dated the Closing Date and
in a form acceptable to the Underwriter.
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[(e) At or prior to the Closing, the Underwriter shall receive a
municipal bond insurance policy issued by insuring the payment of
the principal of and interest on the Bonds, together with an opinion of counsel
to regarding (i) the enforceability of the municipal bond insurance
policy and (ii) the adequacy of the information regarding and the
municipal bond insurance policy set forth in the Official Statement.]
(f) At or prior to the Closing, the Underwriter shall receive evidence,
satisfactory to the Underwriter, that the Bonds are rated "_" by Moody's
Investors Service, Inc. and "_" by Standard & Poor's Ratings Group.
(g) At or prior to the Closing, the Underwriter shall receive a report
of Grant Thornton, LLP, verifying the arithmetical accuracy of the forecasted
receipts of principal and interest on the Government Obligations, the payment
of the principal of and interest on the Refunded Bonds, the yields on the Bonds
and the yields on the Government Obligations.
(h) At or prior to the Closing, the Underwriter shall receive such
additional certificates, instruments and other documents as the Underwriter may
reasonably deem necessary to evidence the truth and accuracy as of the time of
the Closing of the representations of the City and the due performance or
satisfaction by the City at or prior to such time of all agreements then to be
performed and all conditions then to be satisfied by the City.
7. 'Termination of Contract. In recognition of the desire of the City and the
Underwriter to effect a successful public offering of the Bonds, the Underwriter shall
have the absolute right to terminate this Bond Purchase Agreement by notification to
the City if at any time at or prior to the Closing an event occurs that, in the reasonable
judgment of the t_Tnderwriter, materially and adversely affects (i) the market price or
marketability of the Bonds or (ii) the ability of the Underwriter to enforce contracts for
sale of the Bonds. If the City is unable to satisfy the conditions contained in this Bond
Purchase Agreement or if the obligations of the Underwriter shall be terminated for
any reason permitted by this Bond Purchase Agreement, this Bond Purchase
Agreement shall terminate and neither the Underwriter nor the City shall be under a
further obligation hereunder, except as set forth in Section 8 hereof.
8. Expenses. The City shall pay or cause to be paid from the proceeds of
the Bonds or other funds of the City available to it. the expenses incident to the
performance of its obligations hereunder, including, but not limited to: (a) the fees and
disbursements of the Bond Registrar in connection with the issuance of the Bonds: (b)
the fees and disbursements of Bond Counsel and any other experts or consultants
retained by the City in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby; (c) the
cost of obtaining ratings on the Bonds. and (d) the cost of printing the Preliminary
Official Statement and the final Official Statement.
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The Underwriter shall pay the cost of delivering the purchase price of the Bonds
in immediately available federal funds and all other expenses it incurs in conil-ction
with its public offering and distribution of the Bonds, including the fees and
disbursements of its counsel.
9. Notice. Any notice or other communication to be given to the City- under
this Bond Purchase Agreement may be given by delivering the same in writing j: 1-ity
of Kent, 220 Fourth Avenue South, Kent, Washington 98032, Attention: }` �:.-;ace
Division Director with a copy to the City Attorney, and any notice or tiaer
communication to be given to the Underwriter under this Bond Purchase �ent
may be given by delivering the same in writing to Richard B. King, Senior" ice
President, Lehman Brothers, 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 7101, Seattle, Wash.:,- ron
98104.
10. Entire Agreement. This Bond Purchase Agreement shall consniT - � the
entire agreement between the City and the Underwriter and is made solely C : the
benefit of the City and the Underwriter (including the successors or assigns the
Underwriter). This Bond Purchase Agreement shall become effective when ac:_ _0ted
by the City in writing as heretofore specified, shall constitute the entire agr-,. ""lent
between the City and the Underwriter and may not be amended or modified exs.i ,t in
writing. No other person shall acquire or have any right hereunder by virtue henc-,-j. All
the City's representations, warranties and agreements in this Bond Purchase Agi-ement
shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of (a) any investigation
made by or on behalf of the Underwriter, (b) delivery of and payment for the '3 ,nds
hereunder, and (c) any termination of this Bond Purchase Agreement.
LEHMAN BROTHERS INC.
Richard B. King
Senior Vice President
Accepted and agreed to as of the date first above written:
CITY OF KENT "
King County, Washington .
Jim White, Mayor
ATTEST:
Brenda Jacober, Clerk
( SEAL )
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Exhibit A
DESCRIPTION OF CERTAIN TERMS
OF THE BONDS
Principal Amount: $
less original issue discount: ( )
less underwriter's discount: ( )
Purchase Price: $
*plus accrued interest from December 1, 1995 to the Closing Date.
Maturity Dates and Interest Rates
Interest
Due Dec. 1 Principal Amount Rate Yield Price
1996
1997
1998
1999 -
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
No Optional Redemption
The Bonds are not subject to redemption prior to their stated maturity dates.
A-1
DRAFT DATED DECEMBER 7 . 1995
CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Kent, Washington,
relating to the water supply and distribution system of
the City; authorizing the issuance of water revenue
refunding bonds in the aggregate principal amount of
$ to provide the funds with which to pay part
of the cost of refunding, paying and retiring all of the
City's outstanding Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1973 ,
Water Revenue Bonds, 1976, Water Revenue Bonds, 1978 ,
Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1985, and Water Revenue
Refunding Bonds, 1987, and to pay the administrative
costs of such refunding and the costs of issuance and
sale of the bonds; fixing the date, form, maturities,
interest rates, terms and covenants of the bonds;
creating certain funds and accounts of the City;
providing for and authorizing the purchase of certain
- obligations out of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds
herein authorized and for the use and application of the
money derived from those investments; authorizing the
execution of an agreement with First Trust Washington of
Seattle, Washington, as refunding trustee; providing for
the call, payment and redemption of the outstanding bonds
to be refunded; and approving the sale and providing for
the delivery of the bonds to Lehman Brothers Inc. of
Seattle, Washington.
Prepared by:
Foster Pepper & Shefelman
1111 Third Avenue, Suite 3400
Seattle, Washington 98101
(206) 447-4400
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WATER REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS, 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Recitals . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 1. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Section 2. Authorization and Description of Bonds . . 17
Section 3 . Registration and Transfer or Exchange 18
ofBonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Section 4 . Mutilated, Lost, Stolen and Destroyed Bonds 18
Section 5. Payment of Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 6. Redemption and Open Market Purchase of Bonds - 20
Section 7 . Notice of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 8. Failure to Redeem Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Section 9 . Form and Execution of Bonds . . . . . . . . . 22
Section 10. Bond Registrar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Section 11. Refunding of the Refunded Bonds . . . . . . . 24
(a) Appointment of Refunding Trustee . . . . 24
(b) Use of Bond Proceeds; Acquisition
and Substitution of Acquired
Obligations • . . . . . . . . 24
(c) Administration of Refunding Plan . . 27
(d) Authorization for Refunding Trust
Agreement and Related Agreements . . . . . 27
Section 12 . Call for Redemption of the Refunded Bonds 28
Section 13 . City Findings with Respect to Refunding . . . 29
Section 14 . Bond Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Section 15. Rate Stabilization Fund . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Section 16 . Finding as to Sufficient of Gross Revenue 34
Section 17 . Pledge of Net Revenue and Lien Position . . . 35
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Section 18 . Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
(a) Operation and Maintenance . . . . . . . . 35
(b) Establishment and Collection of
Rates and Charges . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
(c) Sale, Transfer or Disposition
of the Water System . . . . . . . . . .. 36
(d) No Free Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
(e) Liens Upon the Water System . . . . . . . 38
(f) Books and Accounts . . . . . . . . . 1 38
(g) Collection of Delinquent Accounts . . . . 39
(h) Maintenance of Insurance . . . . . . 39
(i) Condemnation Awards and Insurance
Proceeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Section 19 . Flow of Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Section 20 . Provisions for Future Parity Bonds . . . . 41
Section 21. Reimbursement Obligations . . . . . . . . . 43
Section 22 . Separate Utility System . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Section 23 . Contract Resource Obligations . . . . . . . . 44
Section 24 . Preservation of Tax Exemption for
Interest on Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Section 25 . Bonds Negotiable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Section 26 . Refunding or Defeasance of the Bonds 46
Section 27 . Deposit of Bond Proceeds . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Section 28 . Approval of Bond Purchase Contract . . . . 48
Section 29 . Preliminary Official Statement Deemed Finai 49
Section 30. Undertaking to Provide Continuing Disclosure 49
(a) Undertaking to Provide Annual
Financial Information and Notice of
Material Events . . . . . . . . 50
(b) Type of Annual Financial Information
Undertaken to be Provided . . . . . . . . 50
(c) Amendment of Undertaking . . . . . . . . 51
(d) Beneficiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
(e) Termination of Undertaking . . . . . . . 52
(f) Remedy for Failure to Comply with
Undertaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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(g) Designation of official Responsible 52
to Administer Undertaking . • • •
Section 31. Temporary Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Section 32 . Amendatory and Supplemental Ordinances . . . 53
Section 33 . Defaults and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
(a) Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
(b) Bondowners' Trustee • • • • • • • • • • • 57
(c) Suits at Law or in Equity . . . . . • .
(d) Application of Money Collected by
Bondowners' Trustee . . . . . . . 60
(e) Duties and Obligations of 61
Bondowners' Trustee . . . . . . .
(f) Suits by Individual Bondowners 62
Restricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(g) Payment Solely From Net Revenue
and Certain Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 34 . Payment Agreements and Parity Payment 63
Agreements . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • • •
(a) Calculation of Debt Service on
Parity Bonds with Respect to Which
a Payment Agreement Is in Force . . . . . 63
(b) Debt Service on Parity Payment
Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Section 35 . Ratification of Prior Acts . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 36 . Section Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 37 . Effective Date of Ordinance . . . . . . . . . 66
Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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_., CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Kent, Washington,
relating to the water supply and distribution system of
the City; authorizing the issuance of water revenue
refunding bonds in the aggregate principal amount of
$ to provide the funds with which to pay part
of the cost of refunding, paying and retiring all of the
City's outstanding Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1973 ,
Water Revenue Bonds, 1976, Water Revenue Bonds, 1978 ,
Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1985, and Water Revenue
Refunding Bonds, 1987 , and to pay the administrative
costs of such refunding and the costs of issuance and
sale of the bonds; fixing the date, form, maturities,
interest rates, terms and covenants of the bonds;
creating certain funds and accounts of the City;
providing for and authorizing the purchase of certain
obligations out of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds
herein authorized and for the use and application of the
money derived from those investments; authorizing the
execution of an agreement with First Trust Washington of
Seattle, Washington, as refunding trustee; providing for
the call, payment and redemption of the outstanding bonds
to be refunded; and approving the sale and providing for
the delivery of the bonds to Lehman Brothers Inc. of
Seattle, Washington.
WHEREAS, the City of Kent, Washington (the "City") , owns and
operates a water supply and distribution system (the "Water
System") ; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to ordinance No. 1822 , the City heretofore
issued its $1, 005, 000 par value Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1973
(the 111973 Bonds") , of which $670, 000 par value presently are
outstanding maturing on September 1 of each of the years 1996
through 1999 , and bearing interest at the rate of 5 . 70% per annum,
- and by that ordinance reserved the right to redeem the 1973 Bonds
prior to their maturity on March 1, 1986, or on any interest
payment date thereafter, at a price of par plus accrued interest to
the date fixed for redemption; and
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WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 1967, the City heretofore
issued its $11000, 000 par value Water Revenue Bonds, 1976 (the
111976 Bonds") , of which $325, 000 par value presently are
outstanding maturing on June 1 of each of the years 1996 through
1999, and bearing interest at various rates ranging from 6.75% to
6 .80% per annum, and by that ordinance reserved the right to redeem
the 1976 Bonds prior to their maturity on June 1, 1986, or on any
interest payment date thereafter, at a price _of 102% of par, -
reducing 1/2 of 1% annually to par on or after June 1, 1990, plus
accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 2118, the City heretofore
issued its $2 , 000, 000 par value Water Revenue Bonds, 1978 (the
111978 Bonds") , of which $1, 470, 000 par value presently are
outstanding maturing on October 1 of each of the years 1996 through
2002 , and bearing interest at various rates ranging from 6 . 15% to
6. 40% per annum, and by that ordinance reserved the right to redeem
the 1978 Bonds prior to their maturity on October 11 1988 , at a
price of 102% of par, reducing 1/2 of 1% annually to par on or
after October 11 1992 , plus accrued interest to the date fixed for
redemption; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 1985, the City heretofore
issued its $5 , 545 , 000 par value Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1985
(the 111985 Bonds") , of which $3 , 100, 000 par value presently are
outstanding maturing on December 1 of each of the years 1996
through 2002, and bearing interest at various rates ranging from
8 . 15% to 8.75% per annum, and by that ordinance reserved the right
to redeem the 1985 Bonds prior to their maturity on June 1, 1996,
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at a price of 102% of par plus accrued interest to the date fixed
for redemption; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 2713 , the City heretofore
issued its $3 , 135, 000 par value Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1987
(the 111987 Bonds") , of which $2 , 020, 000 par value presently are
-- outstanding maturing on December 1 of each of the years 1996
through 2004 , and bearing interest at various rates ranging from
6. 05% to 6. 90% per annum, and by that ordinance reserved the right
to redeem the 1987 Bonds prior to their maturity on December 11
1997 , at a price of par plus accrued interest to the date fixed for
redemption; and
WHEREAS, other than the Refunded Bonds, the City has no other
outstanding water revenue bonds of the Water System; and
WHEREAS, after due consideration, it appears to the City
Council that all of the outstanding 1973 Bonds, 1976 Bonds, 1978
Bonds, 1985 Bonds and 1987 Bonds (collectively, the "Refunded
Bonds") may be refunded by the issuance and sale of the water
revenue refunding bonds authorized herein (the "Bonds") to effect
a savings to the City and its ratepayers and to allow desirable
changes in the covenants and other terms applicable to the revenue
obligations of the Water System; and
WHEREAS, to effect that refunding in the manner that will be
most advantageous to the City it is found necessary and advisable
that certain Acquired Obligations (hereinafter defined) bearing
interest and maturing at such time or times as necessary to
a:.complish the refunding as aforesaid be purchased out of a portion
of the proceeds of the Bonds and other money of the City; and
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WHEREAS, the City Council deems it to be in the best interests
of the City to issue and sell the Bonds to pay part of the cost of
refunding the Refunded Bonds and to pay the administrative costs of
such refunding and the costs of issuance and sale of the Bonds; and
WHEREAS, Lehman Brothers Inc. of Seattle, Washington, has
offered to purchase the Bonds on the terms and conditions set forth
in this resolution; NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON, DOES ORDAIN
as follows:
Section 1. Definitions. As used in this ordinance and for
the purposes of this ordinance the following words shall have the
following meanings:
"Accreted Value" means:
(a) with respect to any Capital Appreciation Bonds, as
of the time of calculation, the sum of the amount representing the
initial principal amount of such Capital Appreciation Bonds as set
forth in the applicable Parity Bond Authorizing Ordinance plus the
interest accumulated, compounded and unpaid thereon as of the most
recent compounding date, or
(b) with respect to original issue discount bonds under
the Code, as of the time of calculation, the amount representing
the initial public offering price of such original issue discount
bonds plus the amount of the discounted principal which has
accreted since the date of issue, determined in accordance with the
provisions of the applicable Parity Bond Authorizing Ordinance.
"Acquired Obligations" means those United States Treasury
Certificates of Indebtedness, Notes and Bonds--State and Local
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Government Series and other direct, noncallable obligations of the
United States of America purchased to accomplish the refunding of
the Refunded Bonds as authorized by this ordinance.
"Annual Debt Service" means, for any fiscal year of the
Water System, all amounts required to be paid in respect of
interest on and principal of Parity Bonds (excluding interest
payments capitalized by Parity Bonds and excluding the accrued
interest paid to the City upon the issuance of Parity Bonds) and
Payment Agreement Payments in respect of Parity Payment Agreements,
subject to the following:
(a) Debt Service on Term Bonds. For purposes of
calculating debt service on Term Bonds, only the scheduled
mandatory redemption amounts payable in respect of principal of
Term Bonds shall be taken into account in any fiscal year prior to
the Term Bond Maturity Year, and only the principal amount
scheduled to remain outstanding after payment of all prior
mandatory redemption amounts shall be taken into account in the
Term Bond Maturity Year;
(b) Interest on Parity Bonds. For purposes of
determining compliance with the Coverage Requirement, the Reserve
Requirement and the conditions for the issuance of Future Parity
Bonds or the creation of Contract Resource Obligations,
(1) Generally. Except as otherwise provided by
subparagraph (b) (2) with respect to Variable Interest Rate Bonds
and by subparagraph (b) (3) with respect to Parity Bonds with
respect to which a Payment Agreement is in force, interest on any
issue of Parity Bonds payable in a fiscal year shall be calculated
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based on the actual amount of accrued, accreted or otherwise
accumulated interest that is payable in that fiscal year in respect
of that issue taken as a whole, at the rate or rates set forth in
the Parity Bond Authorizing Ordinance;
(2) Interest on Variable Interest Rate Bonds. The
amount of interest deemed to be payable on any issue of Variable
Interest Rate Bonds shall be calculated on the assumption that the
interest rate on those bonds would be equal to the rate (the
"assumed RBI-based rate") that is go% of the average Bond Buyer
Revenue Bond Index or comparable index during the fiscal quarter
preceding the quarter in which the calculation is made; except
that, for purposes of determining actual compliance with the
Coverage Requirement under Section 18 (b) (2) in any past fiscal
year, the actual amount of interest paid on any issue of Variable
Interest Rate Bonds shall be taken into account;
(3) Interest on Parity Bonds With Respect to Which
a Payment Agreement or Parity Payment Agreement is in Force. Debt
service on Parity Bonds with respect to which a Payment Agreement
or Parity Payment Agreement is in force shall be based on the net
economic effect on the City expected to be produced by the terms of
the Parity Bonds and the terms of the Payment Agreement, including
but not limited to the effects set forth in Section 34 of this
ordinance.
"Average Annual Debt Service" means the sum of the Annual
Debt Service for the remaining years to the last scheduled maturity
of the applicable issue or issues of Parity Bonds divided by the
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-- number of those years, with any partial year treated as one year
for this purpose.
"Bond Counsel" means a firm of lawyers nationally
recognized and accepted as bond counsel and so employed by the City
for any purpose under this ordinance applicable to the use of that
term.
"Bond Fund" means that special fund of the City known as
the Water Revenue Bond Fund created by this ordinance for the
payment of the principal of, mandatory sinking fund payments and
interest on the Parity Bonds.
"Bond Insurance" means any bond insurance, letter of
credit, guaranty, surety bond or similar credit enhancement device
providing for or securing the payment of all or part of the
principal of and interest on any Parity Bonds.
"Bond Insurer" means any provider of Bond Insurance
approved by the City Council by ordinance.
"Bond Register" means the books or records maintained by
the Bond Registrar on which are recorded the names and mailing
addresses of the owners of each of the Bonds and the principal
amount and number of each of the Bonds held by each owner.
"Bond Registrar" means the Fiscal Agency.
"Bonds" means the Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1995,
authorized to be issued by this ordinance.
111973 Bonds" means the City's Water Revenue Refunding
Bonds, 1973 , authorized to be issued by Ordinance No. 1822 , passed
March 5, 1973 .
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111976 Bonds" means the City's Water Revenue Bonds, 1976,
authorized to be issued by Ordinance No. 1967 , passed June 7, 1976.
111978 Bonds" means the City's Water Revenue Bonds, 1978,
authorized to be issued by Ordinance No. 2118, passed October 2 ,
1978.
111985 Bonds" means the City's Water Revenue Refunding
Bonds, 1985, authorized to be issued by Ordinance No. 2570, passed
July 1, 1985.
111987 Bonds" means the city's Water Revenue Refunding
Bonds, 1987 , authorized to be issued by Ordinance No. 2713 , passed
March 17, 1987 .
"Capital Appreciation Bonds" means any Parity Bonds, all
or a portion of the interest on which is compounded and accumulated
at the rates or in the manner, and on the dates, set forth in the
applicable Parity Bond Authorizing Ordinance and is payable only
.upon redemption or on the maturity date of such Parity Bonds.
Parity Bonds that are issued as Capital Appreciation Bonds, but
later convert to obligations on which interest is paid
periodically, shall be Capital Appreciation Bonds until the
conversion date and thereafter shall no longer be Capital
Appreciation Bonds, but shall be treated as having a principal
amount equal to their Accreted Value on the conversion date.
"City" means the City of Kent, Washington.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, and applicable rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
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"Contract Resource Obligation" means an obligation of the
City, designated as a Contract Resource Obligation and entered into
pursuant to Section 23 of this ordinance, to make payments for
water supply, transmission or other commodity or service to another
person or entity (including without limitation a separate utility
system created pursuant to Section 22 of this ordinance) .
"Coverage Requirement" in any fiscal year of the Water
System means an amount of Net Revenue of the Water System equal to
at least 1. 25 times the Annual Debt Service payable in that year on
all Parity Bonds and in no event less than an amount of Net Revenue
of the Water System equal to at least Annual Debt Service plus any
amounts required to be deposited in the Reserve Account and/or paid
as reimbursement to the provider of Reserve Insurance. For
purposes of determining the Coverage Requirement for the issuance
of Future Parity Bonds having variable interest rates, such bonds
shall be assumed to bear interest at a fixed rate equal to the
average variable rate borne by any outstanding variable rate water
revenue bonds of the City during the preceding 12 months, or if no
such variable rate bonds are outstanding at the time of calculation
but are then proposed to be issued, the rate borne by other
variable rate debt the interest rate for which is determined by
reference to an index comparable to the index to be used to
determine the interest rate on the Future Parity Bonds.
"Fiscal Aqency" means either of the fiscal agencies of
the State of Washington located in Seattle, Washington, and New
York, New York, or any other paying agent/registrar of the City, as
the same may be designated from time to time.
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"Future Parity Bonds" means all revenue bonds and other
obligations (including Parity Payment Agreements) of the City
issued or entered into after the date of the issuance of the Bonds
and then outstanding, the payment of which constitutes a charge and
lien on the Net Revenue of the Water System equal in rank with the
charge and lien upon such revenue required to be paid into the Bond
Fund to pay and secure the payment of the principal of and interest
on the Bonds.
"Government obligations" means direct obligations of, or
obligations the principal of and interest on which are
unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America.
"Gross Revenue of the Water system" or "Gross Revenue"
means in any fiscal year of the Water System all of the revenues of
the Water System, including but not limited to revenue from the
sale or transmission of water; the sale, lease or furnishing of
other commodities, services, properties or facilities; the
imposition of connection, capital improvement or other charges;
utility local improvement district assessments that are pledged to
Parity Bonds; and earnings from the investment of money in the
Water Fund. However, Gross Revenue shall not include (1) earnings
of a separate utility system that may be acquired or constructed by
the City pursuant to Section 22 hereof, (2) principal proceeds of
Parity Bonds or other borrowing, (3) grants or other capital
contributions, or (4) earnings or proceeds from any investments in
a trust, defeasance or escrow fund created to defease or refund
Water System obligations (until commingled with other earnings and
revenues of the Water System defined as Gross Revenue) or held in
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a special account for the purpose of paying a rebate to the United
States Government under the Code.
"Independent utility Consultant" means either (1) an
independent licensed professional engineer experienced in the
design, construction or operation of municipal utilities of
comparable size and character to the Water System, or (2) an
independent certified public accountant or other professional
consultant experienced in the development of rates and charges for
municipal utilities of comparable size and character to the Water
System.
"Maximum Annual Debt Service" means at the time of
calculation, the maximum amount of Annual Debt Service that will
mature or come due in the current year or any future year on the
Parity Bonds.
"Net Revenue of the Water System" or "Net Revenue" means
the Gross Revenue minus (1) Operation and Maintenance Expenses, (2)
proceeds from the sale of property of the Water System and (3)
deposits into the Rate Stabilization Fund, and plus withdrawals
from the Rate Stabilization Fund.
"Operation and Maintenance Expenses" means all expenses
incurred by the City in causing the Water System of the City to be
operated and maintained in good repair, working order and
condition, including without limitation: deposits, premiums,
assessments or other payments for insurance, if any, on the Water
System; payments into pension funds; State-imposed taxes; amounts
due under Contract Resource Obligations (but only at the times
described in Section 23 of this ordinance) ; payments made to any
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other person or entity for the receipt of water supply or
transmission or other right, commodity or service; payments made to
any other person or entity that are required in connection with the
operation of the Water System or the acquisition or transmission or
water and that are not subordinate to the lien of the Parity Bonds;
and payments with respect to any other expenses of the Water System
that are properly treated as operation and maintenance expenses
under generally accepted accounting principles applicable to
municipal corporations. operation and Maintenance Expenses does
not include any depreciation or taxes levied or imposed by the
City, Payment Agreement Payments, or payments to the City in lieu
of taxes, or capital additions or capital replacements to the Water
System.
"Parity Bonds" means the Bonds and any Future Parity
Bonds.
"Parity Bond Authorizing ordinance" means the ordinance
of the City that authorizes the issuance and sale and establishes
the terms of a particular issue of Parity Bonds and other matters
relating to the same plan of finance.
"Parity Payment Agreement" means a Payment Agreement
under which the City's payment obligations are expressly stated to
constitute a charge and lien on the Net Revenue of the Water System
equal in rank with the charge and lien upon such revenue required
to be paid into the Bond Fund to pay and secure the payment of the
principal of and interest on Parity Bonds.
"Payment Agreement" means a written agreement, for the
purpose of managing or reducing the City's exposure to fluctuations
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or levels of interest rates, currencies or commodities or for other
interest rate, investment, asset or liability management purposes,
entered into on either a current or forward basis by the City and
a Qualified Counterparty, all as authorized by any applicable laws
of the State.
"Payment Agreement Payments" means the amounts
periodically required to be paid by the City to the Qualified
Counterparty pursuant to a Payment Agreement.
"Payment Agreement Receipts" means the amounts
periodically required to be paid by the Qualified Counterparty to
the City pursuant to a Payment Agreement.
"Permitted Investment" means any investment that is a
legal investment for cities in the State of Washington.
"Principal and Interest Account" means the account of
that name created in the Bond Fund for the payment of the principal
of and interest and mandatory redemption requirements, if any, on
the Parity Bonds.
"Qualified Counterparty" means a party (other than the
City or a party related to the City) who is the other party to a
Payment Agreement and who qualifies under RCW 39 . 96 . 040 or
successor statute, but in no event a party the use of whom will
result in a downgrade of the credit rating on the Water system
assigned by the Rating Agencies.
"Rate Stabilization Fund" means the fund of that name
created in the Water Fund for the purposes described in this
ordinance.
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"Rating Acrencies" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ,
and Standard & Poor's, and their successors, and any other
nationally-recognized securities rating agency or agencies rating
Parity Bonds at the request of the City.
"Refunded Bonds" means the outstanding 1973 Bonds
maturing in the years 1996 through 1999, inclusive; the outstanding
1976 Bonds maturing in the years 1996 through 1999, inclusive; the
outstanding 1978 Bonds maturing in the years 1996 through 2002,
inclusive; the outstanding 1985 Bonds maturing in the years 1996
through 2002 ; and the outstanding 1987 Bonds maturing in the years
1996 through 2004, the refunding of which has been provided for by
this ordinance.
"Refunded Bond Ordinances" means Ordinances Nos. 1822,
1967, 2118, 2570 and 2713 authorizing the 1973 Bonds, 1976 Bonds,
1978 Bonds, 1985 Bonds and 1987 Bonds, respectively.
"Refunding Plan" means:
(a) the placement of sufficient proceeds of the
Bonds which, with other money of the City, if necessary,
will acquire the Acquired Obligations to be deposited,
with cash, if necessary, with the Refunding Trustee;
(b) the call, payment and redemption on March 1,
1996, of all of the outstanding 1973 Bonds at a. price of
par plus accrued interest;
(c) the payment of the principal of and interest on
the 1976 Bonds when due up to and including June 1, 1996,
and the call, payment and redemption on June 1,. 1996, of
all of the then-outstanding 1976 Bonds at a price of par;
(d) the call, payment and redemption on April 1,
1996, of all of the outstanding 1978 Bonds at a price of
par plus accrued interest;
(e) the call, payment and redemption on June 1,
1996, of all of the outstanding 1985 Bonds at a price of
102% of par plus accrued interest;
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(f) the payment of the principal of and interest on
the 1987 Bonds when due up to and including December 1,
1997, and the call, payment and redemption on December 1,
1997 , of all of the then-outstanding 1987 Bonds at a
price of par; and
(g) the payment of the costs of issuing the Bonds
and the costs of carrying out the foregoing elements of
the Refunding Plan.
"Refunding Trust Agreement" means a Refunding Trust
Agreement between the City and the Refunding Trustee substantially
in the form of that which is on file with the City Clerk and by
this reference incorporated herein.
"Refunding Trustee" means First Trust Washington of
_ Seattle, Washington, serving as trustee or escrow agent or any
successor trustee or escrow agent.
"Reserve Account" means the account of that name created
in the Bond Fund for the purpose of securing the payment of the
principal of and interest on the Parity Bonds.
"Reserve Insurance" means any bond insurance, letter of
credit, guaranty, surety bond or similar credit enhancement device
obtained by the City equal to part or all of the Reserve
Requirement for any Parity Bonds which is issued by an institution
which has been assigned a credit rating at the time of issuance of
the device in one of the two highest rating categories of each of
the Rating Agencies.
"Reserve Requirement" means as of any date the lesser of
Maximum Annual Debt Service or 125% of Average Annual Debt Service
on all the outstanding Parity Bonds, but in no event to exceed 10%
of the original proceeds of the Parity Bonds.
"State" means the State of Washington.
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"state Auditor" means the office of the Auditor of the
State or such other department or office of the State authorized
and directed by State law to make audits.
"Term Bond Maturity Year" means any calendar year in
which Term Bonds are scheduled to mature.
"Term Bonds" means those Parity Bonds designated as such
in the applicable Parity Bond Authorizing Ordinance.
"Variable Interest Rate" means. any variable interest rate
or rates to be borne by any Parity Bonds. The method of computing
such a variable interest rate shall be as specified in the
applicable Parity Bond Authorizing Ordinance, which ordinance also
shall specify either (1) the particular period or periods of time
or manner of determining such period or periods of time for which
each value of such variable interest rate shall remain in effect or
(2) the time or times upon which any change in such variable
interest rate shall become effective. A Variable Interest Rate
may, without limitation, be based on the interest rate on certain
bonds or may be based on interest rate, currency, commodity or
other indexes.
"Variable Interest Rate Bonds" means, for any period of
time, any Parity Bcnds that bear a Variable Interest Rate during
that period, except that Parity Bonds shall not be treated as
Variable Interest Rate Bonds if the net economic effect of interest
rates on particular Parity Bonds of an issue and interest rates on
other Parity Bonds of the same issue, as set forth in the
applicable Parity Bond Authorizing Ordinance, or the net economic
effect of a Payment Agreement with respect to particular Parity
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Bonds, in either case is to produce obligations that bear interest
at a fixed interest rate; and Parity Bonds with respect to which a
Payment Agreement is in force shall be treated as Variable Interest
Rate Bonds if the net economic effect of the Payment Agreement is
to produce obligations that bear interest at a Variable Interest
r
-- Rate.
"Water Fund" means Water Fund No. 410 of the City, or any
successor fund or funds, into which is paid the Gross Revenue of
the Water System.
"Water System" means the water system of the City as it
now exists, and all additions thereto and betterments and
extensions thereof at any time made for so long as any of the
Parity Bonds are outstanding. The Water System shall not include
any water supply or service or other facilities that may be
created, acquired or constructed by the City as a separate utility
system as provided in Section 22 of this ordinance.
Section 2 . Authorization and Description of Bonds. For the
purpose of providing all or a part of the money required to
(1) carry out the Refunding Plan; (2) provide a reserve for the
Bonds; and (3) pay the costs of issuance of the Bonds, the City
shall issue the Bonds in the principal amount of $ The
Bonds shall be designated Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1995;
shall be in the aggregate principal amount of $ ; shall be
dated December 1, 1995; shall be in the denomination of $5, 000 or
any integral multiple thereof within a single maturity; shall be
numbered separately in the manner and with any additional
designation as the Bond Registrar deems necessary for purposes of
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identification; shall bear interest (computed on the basis of a
36o-day year of twelve 30-day months) payable semiannually on each
June 1 and December 11 commencing June 1, 1996, to the maturity of
the Bonds; and shall mature on December 1 in years and amounts and
bear interest at the rates per annum as follows:
Maturity Interest
Years Amounts Rates
[Insert maturity schedule]
Section 3 . Registration and Transfer or Exchange of Bonds.
The Bonds shall be issued only in registered form as to both
principal and interest and shall be recorded on the Bond Register.
Bonds surrendered to the Bond Registrar may be exchanged for
Bonds in any authorized denomination of an equal aggregate
principal amount and of the same interest rate and maturity. Bonds
may be transferred only if endorsed in the manner provided thereon
and surrendered to the Bond Registrar. Any exchange or transfer
shall be without cost to the owner or transferee. The Bond
Registrar shall not be obligated to exchange or transfer any Bond
during the 15 days preceding any principal payment or redemption
date.
Section 4 , Mutilated Lost Stolen and Destroyed Bonds. In
case any Bonds issued hereunder shall become mutilated or be
destroyed, stolen or lost, the City shall, if not then prohibited
by law, cause to be executed and delivered a new Bond of like
amount, interest rate, maturity date, series and tenor in exchange ,
and substitution for and upon cancellation of such mutilated Bonds,
or in lieu of and in substitution for such destroyed, stolen or
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- lost Bonds, upon payment by the owner thereof of the reasonable
expenses and charges of the City and the Bond Registrar in
connection therewith, and in the case of a Bond destroyed, stolen
or lost, the filing with the Bond Registrar of evidence
satisfactory to it that such Bond was destroyed, stolen or lost,
and of the ownership thereof, and furnishing the City and the Bond
Registrar with indemnity satisfactory to each of them. If the
mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost Bond already has matured or
been called for redemption in accordance with its terms it shall
not be necessary to issue a new Bond prior to payment. If the
provisions of State law at any time differ from the provisions of
this Section 4 with respect to the requirements or procedures for
replacing or otherwise handling mutilated, lost, stolen or
destroyed Bonds, then the provisions of State law shall prevail.
Section 5. Payment of Bonds. Both principal of and interest
on the Bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States
of America. Interest on the Bonds shall be paid by checks or
drafts of the Bond Registrar mailed on the interest payment date to
the registered owners at the addresses appearing on the Bond
Register on the last business day of the month preceding the
interest payment date or, if requested in writing by a registered
owner of $1, 000, 000 or more in aggregate principal amount of -Bonds
at least 10 days before an interest payment date, by wire transfer
on the interest payment date. Principal of the Bonds shall be
payable upon presentation and surrender of the Bonds by the .
registered owners at either of the principal offices of the Bond
Registrar at the option of the owners. The Bonds shall be payable
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solely out of the Bond Fund and shall not be general obligations of
the City.
Section 6. Redemption and open Market Purchase of Bonds. The
Bonds shall be issued without the right or option of the City to
redeem the Bonds prior to their stated maturity dates.
[Bonds maturing in are Term Bonds and, if not purchased
in the open market under the provisions set forth below, shall be
called for redemption by lot (in such manner as the Bond Registrar
shall determine) at par plus accrued interest on December 1 in
years and amounts as follows:
Mandatory Mandatory
Redemption Redemption
Years Amounts
(Insert redemption schedule]
[If the City shall purchase Term Bonds in the open market as
set forth below, the par amount of the Term Bonds so purchased -
(irrespective of their actual purchase price) shall be credited
against one or more scheduled mandatory redemption amounts for
those Term Bonds (as allocated by the City) beginning not earlier
than 60 days after the date of the purchase, and the City shall
promptly notify the Bond Registrar in writing of the manner in
which the credit for the Term Bonds so purchased has been
allocated. ]
(Portions of the principal amount of any Bond,. in installments
of $5, 000 or any integral multiple thereof, may be redeemed. If .
less than all of the principal amount of any Bond is redeemed, upon
surrender of that Bond at either of the principal offices of the
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Bond Registrar, there shall be issued to the registered owner,
without charge therefor, a new Bond (or Bonds, at the option of the
registered owner) of the same maturity and interest rate in any of
the denominations authorized by this ordinance in the aggregate
principal amount remaining unredeemed. ]
The City reserves the right and option to purchase any or all
of the Bonds in the open market at any time at any price plus
accrued interest to the date of purchase.
All Bonds purchased under this section shall be canceled.
Section 7 . Notice of Redemption. The City shall cause notice
of any intended redemption of Bonds to be given not less than
30 nor more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption by
- first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the registered owner of any
Bond to be redeemed at the address appearing on the Bond Register
at the time the Bond Registrar prepares the notice, and the
requirements of this sentence shall be deemed to have been
fulfilled when notice has been mailed as so provided, whether or
not it is actually received by the owner of any Bond. Interest on
Bonds called for redemption shall cease to accrue on the date fixed
for redemption unless the Bond or Bonds called are not redeemed
when presented pursuant to the call. In addition, the redemption
notice shall be mailed within the same period, postage prepaid, to
each of the Rating Agencies at their offices in New York, New York,
or their successors, to Lehman Brothers Inc. at its principal
office in Seattle, Washington, or its successor, and to such other
persons and with such additional information as the City Finance
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Division Director shall determine, but these additional mailings
shall not be a condition precedent to the redemption of Bonds.
Section 8 . Failure to Redeem Bonds. If any Bond is not
redeemed when properly presented at its maturity date, the City
shall be obligated to pay interest on that Bond at the same rate
provided in the Bond from and after its maturity until that Bond,
both principal and interest, is paid in full or until sufficient
money for its payment in full is on deposit in the Principal and
Interest Account and the Bond has been called for payment by giving
notice of that call to the registered owner of each of those unpaid
Bonds.
Section 9 . Form and Execution of Bonds. The Bonds shall be
printed or lithographed on good bond paper in a form consistent
with the provisions of this ordinance and state law and shall be
signed by the Mayor and City Clerk, either or both of whose
signatures may be manual or in facsimile, and the seal of the City
or a facsimile reproduction thereof shall be impressed or printed
thereon.
Only Bonds bearing a Certificate of Authentication in the
following form, manually signed by the Bond Registrar, shall be
valid or obligatory for any purpose or entitled to the benefits of
this ordinance:
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This Bond is one of the fully registered City of
Kent, Washington, Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1995,
described in the Bond Ordinance.
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WASHINGTON STATE FISCAL AGENCY
Bond Registrar
By
Authorized Signer
The authorized signing of a Certificate of Authentication shall be
conclusive evidence that the,Bonds so authenticated have been duly
executed, authenticated and delivered and are entitled to the
benefits of this ordinance.
If any officer whose facsimile signature appears on the Bonds
ceases to be an officer of the City authorized to sign bonds before
the Bonds bearing his or her facsimile signature are authenticated
or delivered by the Bond Registrar or issued by the City, those
Bonds nevertheless may be authenticated, issued and delivered and,
when authenticated, issued and delivered, shall be as binding on
the City as though that person had continued to be an officer of
the City authorized to sign bonds. Any Bond also may be signed on
behalf of the City by any person who, on the actual date of signing
of the Bond, is an officer of the City authorized to sign bonds,
although he or she did not hold the required office on the date of
issuance of the Bonds.
Section 10. Bond Registrar. The Bond Registrar shall keep,
or cause to be kept, at its principal corporate trust office,
sufficient books for the registration and transfer' of the Bonds, .
which shall be open to inspection by the City at all times. The
Bond Registrar is authorized, on behalf of the City, to
authenticate and deliver Bonds transferred or exchanged in
accordance with the provisions of the Bonds and this ordinance, to
serve as the City's paying agent for the Bonds and to carry out all
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of the Bond Registrar's powers and duties under this ordinance and
City Ordinance No. 2418 establishing a system of registration for
the city's bonds and obligations.
The City reserves the right in its discretion to appoint
special paying agents, registrars or trustees in connection with
the payment of some or all of the principal of or interest on the
Bonds. If a new Bond Registrar is appointed by the City, notice of
the name and address of the new Bond Registrar shall be mailed to
the registered owners of the Bonds. The notice may be mailed
together with the next interest payment due on the Bonds, but, to
the extent practicable, shall be mailed not less than 15 days prior
to a maturity date of the principal or a mandatory redemption date
of any Bond.
The Bond Registrar shall be responsible for its
representations contained in the Bond Registrar's Certificate of
Authentication on the Bonds. The Bond Registrar may become the
owner of Bonds with the same rights it would have if it were not
the Bond Registrar and, to the extent permitted by law, may act as
depository for and permit any of its officers or directors to act
as members of, or in any other capacity with respect to, any
committee formed to protect the rights of Bond owners.
Section 11. Refunding of the Refunded Bonds.
(a) Appointment of Refunding Trustee. First Trust Washington
of Seattle, Washington, is appointed Refunding Trustee.
(b) Use of Bond Proceeds • Acquisition and Substitution of
Acauired Obligations. A sufficient amount of the proceeds of the
sale of the Bonds, together with any other money to be used to
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carry out the Refunding Plan, shall be deposited immediately upon
the receipt thereof with the Refunding Trustee and used to
discharge the obligations of the City relating to the Refunded
Bonds under Refunded Bond Ordinances by providing for the payment
of the amounts required to be paid by the Refunding Plan. To the
extent practicable, such obligations shall be discharged fully by
the Refunding Trustee's simultaneous purchase of the Acquired
Obligations, bearing such interest and maturing as to principal and
interest in such amounts and at such times so as to provide,
together with a beginning cash balance, if necessary, for the
payment of the amount required to be paid by the Refunding Plan.
The Acquired Obligations are listed and more particularly described
in Schedule A attached to the Refunding Trust Agreement between the
City and the Refunding Trustee, but are subject to substitution as
set forth below. Any Bond proceeds deposited with the Refunding
Trustee that are not needed to purchase the Acquired Obligations
and provide a beginning cash balance, if any, and pay the costs of
issuance of the Bonds shall be returned to the City at the time of
delivery of the Bonds for deposit in the Principal and Interest
Account.
Prior to the purchase of any such Acquired Obligations, the
City reserves the right to substitute other Government Obligations
for any of the Acquired Obligations and to use any savings created
thereby for any lawful City purpose if, (a) in the opinion of
Foster Pepper & Shefelman, the City's bond counsel, the interest on
the Bonds and the Refunded Bonds City will remain excluded from
gross income for federal income tax purposes under Sections 103 ,
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148 and 149 (d) of the Code, and (b) such substitution shall not
impair the timely payment of the amounts required to be paid by the
Refunding Plan, as verified by a nationally recognized firm of
independent certified public accountants.
After the purchase of the Acquired Obligations by the
Refunding Trustee, the City reserves the right to substitute
therefor cash or Government Obligations subject to the conditions
.that such money or securities held by the Refunding Trustee shall
be sufficient to carry out the Refunding Plan, that such
substitution will not cause the Bonds and the Refunded Bonds to be
arbitrage bonds within the meaning of Section 148 of the Code and
regulations thereunder in effect on the date of such substitution
and applicable to obligations issued on the issue date of the
Bonds, and that it obtain, at its expense: (1) verification by a
nationally recognized independent certified public accounting firm
acceptable to the Refunding Trustee confirming that the payments of
principal of and interest on the Government Obligations, if paid
when due, and any other money held by the Refunding Trustee will be
sufficient to carry out the Refunding Plan; and (2) an opinion from
Foster Pepper & Shefelman, bond counsel to the City, its successor,
or other nationally recognized bond counsel to the City, to the
effect that the disposition and substitution or purchase of such
securities, under the statutes, rules and regulations then in force
and applicable to the Bonds, will not cause the interest on the
Bonds or the Refunded Bonds to be included in gross income for
federal income tax purposes and that such disposition and
substitution or purchase is in compliance with the statutes and
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regulations applicable to the Bonds. Any surplus money resulting
from the sale, transfer, other disposition or redemption of the
Acquired Obligations and the substitutions therefor shall be
released from the trust estate and transferred to the City to be
used for any lawful City purpose.
(c) Administration of Refunding Plan. The Refunding Trustee
is authorized and directed to purchase the Acquired Obligations (or
substitute obligations) and to make the payments required to be
made by the Refunding Plan from the Acquired Obligations (or
substitute obligations) and money deposited with the Refunding
Trustee pursuant to this ordinance. All Acquired Obligations (or
substitute obligations) and the money deposited with the Refunding
Trustee and any income therefrom shall be held irrevocably,
invested and applied in accordance with the provisions of Refunded
Bond Ordinances, this ordinance, chapter 39 . 53 RCW and other
applicable statutes of the State of Washington and the Refunding
Trust Agreement. All necessary and proper fees, compensation and
expenses of the Refunding Trustee for the Bonds and all other costs
incidental to the setting up of the escrow to accomplish the
refunding of the Refunded Bonds and costs related to the issuance
and delivery of the Bonds, including bond printing, verification
fees, bond counsel's fees and other related expenses, shall be paid
out of the proceeds of the Bonds.
(d) Authorization for Refunding Trust Agreement and Related
Agreements. To carry out the Refunding Plan provided for by this
ordinance, the Mayor of the City is authorized and directed to
execute and deliver to the Refunding Trustee a Refunding Trust
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Agreement substantially in the form on file with the City Clerk and
by this reference made a part hereof setting forth the duties,
obligations and responsibilities of the Refunding Trustee in
connection with the payment, redemption and retirement of the
Refunded Bonds as provided herein and stating that the provisions
for payment of the fees, \ compensation and expenses of such
Refunding Trustee set forth therein are satisfactory to it. The
Mayor also is authorized to execute and deliver other agreements
required to carry out the Refunding Plan, including, without
limitation, any forward purchase or similar agreement relating to
the Acquired Obligations. Prior to executing the Refunding Trust
Agreement or other such agreements, the Mayor of the City is
authorized to make such changes therein which do not change the -
substance and purpose thereof or which assure that the escrow
provided therein and the Bonds are in compliance with the
requirements of federal law governing the exclusion of interest on
the Bonds and Refunded Bonds from gross income for federal income
tax purposes.
Section 12 . Call for Redemption of the Refunded Bonds. The
City calls for redemption on March 1, 1996, all of the outstanding
1973 Bonds at a price of par plus accrued interest; on June 1,
1996, all then-outstanding 1976 Bonds at a price of par plus
accrued interest; on April 1, 1996, all of the outstanding 1978
Bonds at a price of par plus accrued interest; on June 1, 1996, of
the outstanding 1985 Bonds at a price of 102% of par plus accrued
interest; and on December 11 1997 , all of the then-outstanding 1987
Bonds at a price of par plus accrued interest. Such call for
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redemption shall be irrevocable after the delivery of the Bonds to
the initial purchaser thereof. The dates on which the Refunded
Bonds are called for redemption are the earliest dates respectively
on which the those bonds may be called for redemption.
The proper officials of the City are authorized and directed
to give or cause to be given such notices as required, at the times
and in the manner required pursuant to the respective Refunded Bond
Ordinance in order to effect the redemption prior to their maturity
of each issue of the Refunded Bonds.
Section 13 . City Findings with Respect to Refunding. The
City Council finds and determines that the issuance and sale of the
Bonds at this time will effect a savings to the City and its
ratepayers and will allow desirable changes in the covenants and
other terms applicable to revenue bonds of the Water System and
will be in the best interest of the City and in the public
interest. In making such findings and determinations, the City
Council has given consideration to the fixed maturities and
scheduled redemptions of the Bonds and the Refunded Bonds, the
costs of issuance of the Bonds and the known earned income from the
investment of the proceeds of the issuance and sale of the Bonds
and other money of the City used in the Refunding Plan pending
payment and redemption of the Refunded Bonds.
The City Council further finds and determines that the money
to be deposited with the Refunding Trustee for the Refunded Bonds
in accordance with Section 11 of this ordinance will discharge and
satisfy the obligations of the City under Refunded Bond Ordinances
with respect to the Refunded Bonds, 'and the pledges, charges,
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trusts, covenants and agreements of the City therein made or
provided for as to the Refunded Bonds, and that the Refunded Bonds
shall no longer be deemed to be outstanding under such ordinances
immediately upon the deposit of such money with the Refunding
Trustee.
Section 14 . Bond Fund. The Bond Fund is created in the Water
Fund to be known as the Water Revenue Bond Fund, and is further
divided into two accounts: the Principal and Interest Account and
the Reserve Account. So long as any Parity Bonds are outstanding,
the City shall set aside and pay into the Bond Fund on or before
the 20th day of each month, out of the Net Revenue, certain fixed
amounts without regard to any fixed proportion, namely:
(a) Into the Principal and Interest Account,
beginning with the month of January, 1996, and continuing
through May, 1995, 1/5 of the interest due on the Bonds
on June 1, 1996, and continuing until the Bonds, both
principal and interest, are paid in full, 1/6 of the next
ensuing six months' requirements for interest on the
Bonds; and, beginning with the month of January, 1996,
and continuing through November, 1995, 1/11 of the
principal due on the Bonds on December 11 1996, and,
continuing until the Bonds, both principal and interest,
are paid un full, 1/12 of the next ensuing twelve months'
principal requirement of the Bonds; and
(b) Into the Reserve Account an amount transferred
from the reserve account for the Refunded Bonds to meet
the initial Reserve Requirement for the Bonds, and
thereafter into the Reserve Account, in approximately
equal monthly payments, amounts necessary to fund the
Reserve Requirement within three years from the date of
issuance of any other Parity Bonds after taking into
account the capitalization of all or any part of the
Reserve Requirement. The City may at any time provide
all or any part of the Reserve Requirement through
Reserve Insurance, and the amount available to be drawn
upon under that Reserve Insurance shall be credited
against the Reserve Requirement, subject to the
following: _
The Reserve Insurance shall not be cancelable on less
than 3 years' notice.. On receipt of a notice of
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cancellation of any Reserve Insurance or upon notice that
the entity providing the Reserve Insurance no long�:r
meets the requirements specified herein, the City shall
substitute Reserve Insurance in the amount required to
make up the deficiency created in the Reserve Account or
in the alternative shall create a special account in t`.4
Water Fund and deposit therein, on or before the 25th day
of each of the 36 succeeding calendar months (commencing
with the 25th day of the calendar month next following
the date of the notice) one 1/36th of the amount
sufficient, together with other money and investments
deposit in the Reserve Account, to equal the Reserve
Requirement in effect as of the date the cancellation or
disqualification of the entity becomes effective. Those
amounts shall be deposited in the special account from
money in the Water Fund after making provision
payment of operation and Maintenance Expenses and for
required payments into the Bond Fund. Amounts on deposit
in that special account shall not be available to "')ay
debt service on Parity Bonds or for any other purpose o
the City, and shall be transferred to the Reserve Acco_:. 1t.
on the effective date of any cancellation of a Rese-- ';:_
Insurance to make up all or part of the deficiency caused
thereby. Amounts in that special account or in c:;:e
Reserve Account may be transferred back to the Water Furs-.
and used for any purpose if and when qualifyina Reser•:-=J
Insurance is obtained.
Except for withdrawals therefrom and payments over -J me as
authorized herein, the Reserve Account shall be maintained the
Reserve Requirement, as it is adjusted from time to time, a,-- all
times so long as any Parity Bonds are outstanding. For the nu..~pcse
of determining the amount credited to the Reserve Account,
obligations in which money in the Reserve Account has been invested
shall be valued at fair market value.
If there shall be a deficiency in the Principal and Int -r-est
Account to meet maturing installments of either principal or
interest or mandatory redemption requirements, as the case may be,
that deficiency shall be -Wade up from the Reserve Account first by
the withdrawal of cash from the Reserve Account and next by drawing
upon any Reserve Insurance (and by drawing pro rata upon more than
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one policy or other instrument of Reserve Insurance then in effect)
for that purpose. Any deficiency created in the Reserve Account by
reason of any such withdrawal shall within 12 months be made up
from Net Revenue available after making necessary provisions for
the required payments into the Principal and Interest Account.
The money in the Reserve Account may be applied to the payment
of the last outstanding bonds payable out of the Bond Fund, except
that any money in the Reserve. Account (including investment
earnings) in excess of the Reserve Requirement may be withdrawn and
deposited in the Principal and Interest Account and spent for the
purpose of retiring Parity Bonds or may be deposited in any other
fund or account and spent for any other lawful Water System
purpose. When the total amount in the Bond Fund (including
investment earnings) shall equal the total amount of principal and
interest for all Parity Bonds to the last maturity thereof, no
further payment need be made into the Bond Fund.
The city may provide for the purchase, redemption or
defeasance of any Parity Bonds by the use of money on deposit in
any account in the Bond Fund as long as the money remaining in
those accounts is sufficient. to satisfy the required deposits in
those accounts for the remaining Parity Bonds.
All money in the Bond Fund may be kept in cash or invested in
legal investments maturing, for investments in the Principal and _.
Interest Account, not later than the dates when the funds are
required for the payment of principal of or interest on the Parity
Bonds and, for investments in the Reserve Account, maturing (or
subject to redemption, or repurchase and redemption, at the option
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of the City) on a date not later than 15 years from the date of
investment.
Earnings from investments in the Principal and Interest
Account shall be deposited in that account, except that when the
Reserve Requirement for all Parity Bonds is fully funded, any
earnings from investments in the Principal and Interest Account may
be transferred to the Water Fund and treated as Gross Revenue of
the Water System. Earnings from investments in the Reserve Account
shall be deposited in that account. Notwithstanding the provisions
for the deposit of earnings, any earnings that are subject to
federal arbitrage rebate requirements may be withdrawn from the
Bond Fund for deposit into a separate fund or account created for
the purpose of compliance with those rebate requirements.
If the City provides for all or part of the Reserve
Requirement by Reserve Insurance, excess amounts in the Reserve
Account may be withdrawn from that account and deposited either in
the Principal and Interest Account and/or in the Water Fund,
subject to applicable state law and Section 24 of this ordinance.
The City may create sinking fund accounts or other accounts in
the Bond Fund for the payment or securing the payment of Parity
Bonds as long as the maintenance of such accounts does not conflict
with the rights of the owners of such Parity Bonds.
Section 15 . Rate Stabilization Fund. There is hereby
established in the Water Fund a Rate Stabilization Fund. The City
may at any time, as determined by the City and as consistent with
Section 19 of this ordinance, deposit in the Rate Stabilization
Fund Gross Revenue and any other money received by the Water System
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and available to be used therefor, excluding principal proceeds of
Parity Bonds or other borrowing. The City may withdraw money from
the Rate Stabilization Fund for inclusion in the Net Revenue for
any fiscal year of the Water System, except that (a) the total
amount withdrawn from the Rate Stabilization Fund in any fiscal
r
year of the Water System may not exceed the total debt service of
the Water System in that year; and (b) the Net Revenue in that
fiscal -year, calculated without regard to the amounts withdrawn
from the Rate Stabilization Fund for that fiscal year, must equal
at least 1. 0 times the Annual Debt Service that year on all Parity
Bonds. Such deposits or withdrawals may be made up to and
including the date 90 days after the end of the fiscal year for
which the deposit or withdrawal will be included as Net Revenue for -
that fiscal year.
Earnings from investments in the Rate Stabilization Fund shall
be deposited in that fund and shall not be included as Net Revenue
unless and until withdrawn from that fund as provided herein.
No deposit of Gross Revenue shall be made into the Rate
Stabilization Fund to the extent that such deposit would prevent
the City from meeting the Coverage Requirement in the relevant
fiscal year.
Section 16. Finding as to Sufficiency of Gross Revenue. The
City finds and determines that the Gross Revenue and benefits to be
derived from the operation and maintenance of the Water System of
the City at the rates to be charged for water and other services
and commodities from the Water System will be more than sufficient
to meet all Operation and Maintenance Expenses and to permit the
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setting aside into the Bond Fund out of the Gross Revenue of
a-nounts sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the
Bonds (and any mandatory redemption requirements) when due. The
City further declares that in creating the Bond Fund and in fixing
the amounts to be paid into the Bond Fund it has exercised due
regard for Operation and Maintenance Expenses, and the City has not
bound and obligated itself to set aside and pay into the Bond Fund
a greater amount or proportion of the Gross Revenue than in the
judgment of the City will be available over and above the Operation
and Maintenance Expenses.
Section 17 . Pledge of Net Revenue and Lien Position. The Net
Revenue of the Water System and all money and investments held in
the Bond Fund and the Rate Stabilization Fund (except money and
investments allocated by the City to comply with the rebate
requirement under the Code) is pledged to the payment of the Parity
Bonds and Parity Payment Agreements and to make payments into the
Reserve Account required by this ordinance and Parity Bond
Authorizing Ordinances, and this pledge shall constitute a lien and
charge upon the Net Revenue prior and superior to any other charges
whatsoever. The right of the City to issue additional bonds on a
parity of lien with the Refunded Bonds is cancelled and terminated.
Section 18 . Covenants. The City covenants and agrees with
the owner of each Bond at any time outstanding, as follows:
(a) Operation and Maintenance. It will at all
times maintain, preserve and keep the properties of the
Water System in good repair, working order and condition,
will make all necessary and proper additions,
betterments, renewals and repairs thereto, and
improvements, replacements and extensions thereof, and
will at all times operate or cause to be operated the
properties of the Water System and the business in
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connection therewith in an efficient manner and at a
reasonable cost.
(b) Establishment and Collection of Rates and
Charges. It will establish, maintain and collect rates
and charges for services and- facilities provided by the
Water System which will be fair and equitable, and will
adjust those rates and charges from time to time so that:
(1) The Gross Revenue will be sufficient to
(i) pay all Operation and Maintenance Expenses,
(ii) pay when due all amounts that the City is
obligated to pay into the Bond Fund and the
accounts therein, and (iii) pay all taxes,
assessments or other governmental charges lawfully
imposed on the Water System or the revenue
therefrom or payments in lieu thereof and any and
all other amounts which the City may now or
hereafter become obligated to pay from the Gross
Revenue by law or contract; and
(2) The Net Revenue of the Water System in
each fiscal year of the Water System will be at
least equal to the Coverage Requirement; and
The failure of the City to comply with
subparagraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph (b)
shall not be an Event of Default as defined in
Section 33 of this ordinance if the City promptly
retains an Independent Utility Consultant to
recommend to the City Council adjustments in the
rates of the Water System necessary to meet the -
requirements of those subparagraphs and if the City
Council adopts the recommended modifications within
180 days of the date the failure became known to
the City Council.
(c) Sale Transfer or Disposition of the Water
System. It will sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of
any of the works, plant, properties, facilities or other
part of the Water System or any real or personal property
comprising a part of the Water System only upon approval
by ordinance and only consistent with one or more of the
following:
(1) The City may exchange any of the works,
plant, properties, facilities or other part of the
Water System for works, plant, properties -�r
facilities of substantially the same type, use and
value; or
(2) The City in its discretion may carry out
such a sale, transfer or disposition (each, as used
in this subparagraph, a "transfer") if the
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facilities or property transferred are not material
to the operation of the Water System, or shall have
become unserviceable, inadequate, obsolete or unfit
to be used in the operation of the Water System or
are no longer necessary, material or useful to the
operation of the Water System; or
(3) The City in its discretion may carry out
such a transfer if the aggregate depreciated cost
value of the facilities or property being
transferred under this subparagraph (3) in any
fiscal year of the Water System comprises no more
than three percent (3%) of ,the total assets of the
Water System; or
(4) The City may sell, lease, mortgage or
otherwise dispose of any of the works, plant,
properties, facilities or other part of the Water
System, including all additions to and betterments
and extensions thereof at any time made, that are
used, useful or material in the operation of the
Water System, if provision is made for the
replacement thereof or if the City receives from
the purchaser or transferee an amount equal to or
greater than the greatest of the following:
(A) An amount which will be in the same
proportion to the net amount of Parity Bonds
then outstanding (defined as the total amount
of the Parity Bonds less the amount of cash
and investments in the Bond Fund and accounts
therein) that the Gross Revenue of the Water
System from the portion of the Water System
sold or disposed of for the preceding year
- bears to the total Gross Revenue of the Water
Svstam fc_ that --rind; or
(B) An amount which will be in the same
proportion to the net amount of Parity Bonds
then outstanding (as defined above) that the
Net Revenue from the portion of the Water
System sold or disposed of for the preceding
year bears to the total Net Revenue of the
Water System for such period; or
(C) An amount which will be in the same
proportion to the net amount of Parity Bonds
then outstanding (as defined above) that the
depreciated cost value of the portion of the
Water System sold or disposed of bears to the
depreciated cost value of the entire Water
System immediately prior to such sale or
disposition.
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The amount required to be paid to the City under
this paragraph may be reduced by any "equity
credits" or similar amounts based on prior capital
contributions or other payments to the City which,
under any contract between the City and the
purchaser or transferee, are allowed as a setoff
against the purchase or transfer price that would
otherwise be payable to the City.
The City may accept from the purchaser or
transferee the amount calculated as described in
this paragraph, payable, with interest, amortized
over the number of years of remaining life of the
portion of the Water System sold or disposed of or
such shorter period of time as determined by the
City. However, the contract of transfer or sale
must provide that the payments to the City shall be
either superior to or equal to the lien on the
revenues of the purchaser or transferee of all
other obligations of the pur claser or transferee;
or
(5) The City in its discretion may transfer
to a separate system created under Section 22 any
plans, works, plant, property, facilities or other
part of the Water System financed with proceeds of
Parity Bonds if:
(A) No Event of Default as defined in Section
33 of this ordinance has occurred and is
continuing, and
(B) There shall be on file a certificate of
an Independent Utility Consultant stating that the
Net Revenue for the five fiscal years following the
year in which the transfer is made, as such Net
Revenue is estimated by the Independent Utility
Consultant (with such estimate based on such
factors as he or she considers reasonable) , will be
at least equal to the Coverage Requirement.
(d) No Free Service. Except to aid the poor or
.infirm end for fire-fighting purposes, it will .not
furnish or supply or permit the furnishing or supplying
of any service or facility in connection with the
operation of the Water Svstem free of charge to any
person, firm or corporation, public or private.
(e) Liens Upon the Water System. Except as
otherwise provided in this ordinance, it will not at any
time create or permit to accrue or to exist any lien or
other encumbrance or indebtedness upon the Gross Revenue
or any part therecf, prior or superior to the lien
thereon for the payment of the Parity Bonds, and will pay
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and discharge, or cause to be paid and discharged, any
and all lawful claims for labor, materials or supplies
which, if unpaid, might become a lien or charge upon the
Gross Revenue or any part thereof, prior or superior to,
or on a parity with, the lien of the Parity Bonds, or
which might impair the security of the Parity Bonds.
(f) Books and Accounts. It will keep proper books,
records and accounts with respect to the operations,
income and expenditures -of the Water System in accordance
with generally accepted accounting practices relating to
the municipal utilities and any applicable rules and
regulations prescribed by the State, and will cause those
books, records and accounts to be audited on an annual
basis by the State Auditor (or, if such audit is not made
by the State Auditor within one year after the close of
any fiscal year of the Water System, by a certified
public accountant selected by the City) . It will prepare
annual financial and operating statements as soon as
practicable after the close of each fiscal year of the
Water System showing in reasonable detail the financial
condition of the Water System as of the close of the
previous year, and the income and expenses for such year,
including the amounts paid into the Bond Fund and into
any and all special funds or accounts created pursuant to
the provisions of this ordinance, the status of all funds
and accounts as of the end of such year, and the amounts
expended for maintenance, renewals, replacements and
capital additions to the Water System. Such statements
shall be sent to the owner of any Parity Bonds upon
written request therefor being made to the City. The
City may charge a reasonable cost for providing such
financial statements.
(g) Collection of Delinquent Accounts. On at least
an annual basis, it will determine all accounts that are
delinquent and will take such actions as the City
determines are reasonably necessary to enforce payment of
those delinauent accounts.
(h) Maintenance of Insurance. It at all times will-
carry fire and extended coverage, public liability and
property damage and such other forms of insurance with
responsible insurers and with policies payable to the
City on such of the buildings, equipment, works, plants,
facilities and properties of the Water System as are
ordinarily carried by municipal or privately owned
_. utilities engaged in the operation of like systems, and
against such claims for damages as are ordinarily carried
by municipal or privately owned utilities engaged in the
operation of like systems, or it will self-insure or will
participate in an insurance pool or pools with reserves
adequate, in the reasonable judgment of the City, to
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protect the Water system and the owners of the Parity
Bonds against loss.
(i) Condemnation Awards and Insurance Proceeds. If
the City receives any condemnation awards or proceeds of
an insurance policy in connection with any loss of or
damage to any property of the Water System, it shall
apply the condemnation award or insurance proceeds, in
the City's sole discretion, either (i) to the cost of
replacing or repairingsthe lost or damaged properties,
(ii) to the payment, purchase or redemption of Parity
Bonds and/or Parity Payment Agreements, or (iii) to the
cost of improvements to the Water System.
Section 19 . Flow of Funds. The Gross Revenue of the Water
System shall be used for the following purposes only and shall be
applied in the following order of priority:
(a) To pay the Operation and Maintenance Expenses;
(b) To pay interest on Parity Bonds and net
payments on Parity Payment Agreements when due;
(c) To pay the principal of Parity Bonds as it
comes due at maturity or as the principal is required to
be paid pursuant to mandatory redemption requirements
applicable to Term Bonds, and to make payments due under
any reimbursement agreement with a Bond Insurer which
agreement requires those payments to be treated on a
parity of lien with the Parity Bonds;
(d) To make all payments required to be made into
the Reserve Account, all payments required to be made -
under any agreement relating to the provision of Reserve
Insurance, and payments due under any reimbursement
agreement with a Bond Insurer which agreement requires
those payments to be treated on a parity of lien with the
payments required to be made into the Reserve Account;
(e) To make all payments required to be made into
any revenue bond, note, warrant or other revenue
obligation redemption fund, debt service account or
reserve account created to pay or secure the payment of
the principal of and interest on any revenue bonds,
notes, warrants or other obligations of the City having
a lien upon the revenue of the Water System junior and
inferior to the lien thereon for the payment of the
principal of and interest on the Parity Bonds; and
(f) To retire by redemption or purchase in the open
market any outstanding revenue bonds or other revenue
obligations of the Water System, to make necessary
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additional betterments, improvements and repairs to or
extensions and replacements of the Water System, to make
deposits into the Rate Stabilization Fund, or for any
other lawful Water System purposes.
The city may transfer any money from any funds or accounts or
the Water System legally available therefor, except bond redempticn
funds, refunding escrow funds or defeasance funds, to meet
required payments to be made into the Bond Fund.
Section 20. Provisions for Future Parity Bonds. The City
reserves the right to issue Future Parity Bonds and to enter ..n•_.,
Parity Payment Agreements for purposes of the Water System or t_
refund a portion of the Parity Bonds if the following conditions
are met and complied with at the time of the issuance of tc.cs
Future Parity Bonds or entering into the Parity Payment Agreem,2nt:
(a) There shall be no deficiency in the Bond Fund
and no Event of Default as defined in Section 33 hereof
shall have occurred and be continuing.
(b) The Parity Bond Authorizing Ordinance shall
provide that all assessments and interest thereon that
may be levied in any utility local improvement district
created for the purpose of paying, in whole or in part,
the principal of and interest on those Future Parity
Bonds, shall be paid directly into the Bond Fund, except
for any prepaid assessments permitted by law to be paid
into a construction fund or account.
(c) The Parity Bond Authorizing Ordinance shall.
provide for the payment of the principal thereof and
interest thereon out of the Bond Fund.
(d) The Parity Bond Authorizing Ordinance shall
provide for the -ayment of amounts into the Bond Fund to
meet mandatory redemption requirements applicable to any
Term Bonds to be issued and for regular payments to be
made for the payment of the principal of such Term Bonds
on or before their maturity, or, as an alternative, the
mandatory redemption of those Term Bonds prior to their
maturity date from money in the Principal and Interest
Account.
(e) The Parity Bond Authorizing ordinance shall
provide for the deposit into the Reserve Account of (i)
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an amount, if any, necessary to fund the Reserve
Requirement upon the issuance of those Future Parity
Bonds from Future Parity Bond proceeds or other money
legally available, or (ii) Reserve Insurance or an amount
plus Reserve Insurance necessary to fund the Reserve
Requirement upon the issuance of those Future Parity
Bonds, or (iii) amounts necessary to fund the Reserve
Requirement from Net Revenue within three years from the
date of issuance of those Future Parity Bonds, in 36
approximately equal monthly payments.
(f) There shall be on file with the City either:
(1) a certificate of the City Finance
Division Director demonstrating that during any
twelve consecutive calendar months out of the
immediately preceding 24 calendar months Net
Revenue was at least equal to 1. 25 times the
projected Maximum Annual Debt Service for all
Parity Bonds plus the Future Parity Bonds proposed
to be issued; or -
(2) a certificate of an Independent Utility
Consultant that in his or her opinion the Net
Revenue will be at least equal to 1. 25 times the
projected Maximum Annual Debt Service for all
Parity Bonds plus the Future Parity Bonds proposed
to be issued. In providing that certificate, the
Independent Utility Consultant may take into
account the following adjustments:
(i) Any changes in rates in effect and
being charged, or rates expected to be charged
in accordance with a program of specific
rates, rate levels or increases in overall
rate revenue approved by ordinance or
resolution;
(ii) Net revenue from customers of the
Water System who have become customers during
the 12 consecutive month period or thereafter,
and their estimate of net revenue from any
customers to be connected to the Water System
who have paid the required connection charges,
adjusts y^ .of� oCt one year's net revenue
from those customers;
(iii) The Independent Utility Consultant's
estimate of net revenue from customers
anticipated to be served by facilities or
improvements financed in substantial part by
those Future Parity Bonds (or additional
Parity Bonds expected to be issued during the
five-year period) ; and
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(iv) Net revenue from any person, firm,
corporation or municipal corporation under any
executed contract for water or other utility
service, which revenue was not included in the
historical Net Revenue of the Water System.
If the Future Parity Bonds proposed to be issued are
for the sole purpose of refunding outstanding bonds
payable from the Bond Fund, no such coverage
certification shall be required if the Annual Debt
Service on the Parity Bonds after the issuance of the
Future Parity Bonds is not, for any year in which Parity
Bonds are to be outstanding, more than $5, 000 over the
Annual Debt Service on the Parity Bonds prior to the
issuance of those Future Parity Bonds.
Nothing contained herein shall prevent the City from issuing
Future Parity Bonds to refund maturing Parity Bonds, money for the
payment of which is not otherwise available; issuing revenue bonds
that are a charge or lien upon the Gross Revenue subordinate to the
charge or lien of the Parity Bonds; or pledging the payment of
utility local improvement district assessments into a bond
redemption fund created for the payment of the principal of and
interest on those junior lien bonds as long as such utility local
improvement district assessments are levied for improvements
constructed from the proceeds of those junior lien bonds.
Section 21. Reimbursement Obligations. If the City elects to
meet the Reserve Requirement or any portion thereof through the use
of Reserve Insurance or elects to secure any issue of Parity Bonds
through the use of Bond Insurance, the City may contract with the
entity providing such Reserve Insurance or Bond Insurance to the
effect that the City's reimbursement obligation, if any, to such
entity ranks on a parity of lien with the Parity Bonds.
Section 22 . Separate Utility Systems. The City may create,
acquire, construct, finance, own and operate one or more additional
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systems for water supply, transmission, treatment or other
commodity or service. The revenue of that separate utility system
shall not be included in the Gross Revenue of the Water System and
may be pledged to the payment of revenue obligations issued to
purchase, construct, condemn or otherwise acquire or expand the
separate utility system. Neither the Gross Revenue nor the Net
Revenue of the Water System shall be pledged by the City to the
payment of any obligations of a separate utility system except
(1) as a Contract Resource Obligation upon compliance with
Section 23 hereof and/or (2) , with respect to the Net Revenue, on
a basis subordinate to the lien of the Parity Bonds on that Net
Revenue.
Section 23 . Contract Resource Obligations. The City may at
any time enter into one or more contracts or other obligations for
the acquisition, from facilities to be constructed or from existing
facilities, of water supply, transmission, treatment or other
commodity or service relating to the Water System. The City may
determine that such contract or other obligation is a Contract
Resource Obligation, and may provide that all payments under that
Contract Resource Obligation (including payments prior to the time
that water supply, transmission, treatment or other commodity or
service is being provided, or during a suspension or after
termination of supply or service) shall be Operation and
Maintenance Expenses if the following requirements are met at the
time such Contract Resource Obligation is entered into:
(a) No Event of Default as defined in
Section 33 of this ordinance has occurred and is
continuing.
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(b) There shall be on file a certificate of an
Independent Utility Consultant stating that (i) the
payments to be made by the City in connection with the
Contract Resource Obligation are reasonable for the
supply, transmission, treatment or other service
rendered; (ii) the source of any new supply, and any
facilities to be constructed to provide the supply,
transmission, treatment or other service, are sound from
a water or other commodity supply or transmission
planning standpoint, are technically and economically
feasible in accordance with prudent utility practice, and
are likely to provide supply or transmission or other
service no later than a date set forth in the Independent
Utility Consultant' s certification; and (iii) the Net
Revenue (further adjusted by the Independent Utility
Consultant's estimate of the payments to be made in
accordance with the Contract Resource Obligation) for the
five fiscal years following the year in which the
Contract Resource Obligation is incurred, as such Net
Revenue is estimated by the Independent Utility
Consultant (with such estimate based on such factors as
he or she considers reasonable) , will be at least equal
to the Coverage Requirement.
Payments required to be made under Contract Resource
Obligations shall not be subject to acceleration.
Nothing in this Section 23 shall be deemed to prevent the City
from entering into other agreements for the acquisition of water
supply, transmission, treatment or other commodity or service from
existing facilities and from treating those payments as Operation
and Maintenance Expenses of the Water System. Nothina in this
Section 23 shall be deemed to prevent. the City from entering into
other agreements for the acquisition of water supply, transmission,
treatment or : her commodity or service from facilities to be
constructed and from agreeing to make payments with respect
thereto, such payments constituting a lien and charge on Net
Revenue subordinate to that of Parity Bonds.
Section 24 . Preservation of Tax Exemption for Interest on
Bonds. The City covenants that it will take all actions necessary
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to prevent interest on the Bonds from being included in gross
income for federal income tax purposes, and it will neither take
any action nor make or permit any use of proceeds of the Bonds or
other funds of the City treated as proceeds of the Bonds at any
time during the term of the Bonds which will cause interest on the
Bonds to be included in gross income for federal income tax
purposes. The City also covenants that it will, to the extent the
arbitrage rebate requirement of Section 148 of the Code, is
applicable to the Bonds, take all actions necessary to comply (or
to be treated as having complied) with that requirement in
connection with the Bonds, including the calculation and payment of
any penalties that the City has elected to pay as an alternative to
calculating rebatable arbitrage, and the payment of any other
penalties if required under Section 148 of the Code to prevent
interest on the Bonds from being included in gross income for
federal income tax purposes. The City certifies that it has not
been notified of any listing or proposed listing by the Internal
Revenue Service to the effect that it is a bond issuer whose
arbitrage certifications may not be relied upon.
Section 25. Bonds Negotiable. The Bonds shall be negotiable
instruments to the extent provided by RCW 62A. 8-102 and 62A. 8-105.
Section 26 . Refunding or Defeasance of the Bonds. The City
may issue refunding bonds pursuant to the laws of the State of
Washington or use money available from any other lawful source to
pay when due the principal of and interest on the Bonds, or any
portion thereof included in a refunding or defeasance plan, and to
redeem and retire, refund or defease all such then-outstanding
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Bonds (hereinafter collectively called the "defeased Bonds") and to
pay the costs of the refunding or defeasance. If money and/or
Government Obligations maturing at a time or times and bearing
interest in amounts (together with money, if necessary) sufficient
to redeem and retire, refund or defease the defeased Bonds in
accordance with their terms are set aside in a special trust fund
or escrow account irrevocably pledged to that redemption,
retirement or defeasance of defeased Bonds (hereinafter called the
"trust account") , then all right and interest of the owners of the
defeased Bonds in the covenants of this ordinance and in the funds
and accounts obligated to the payment of the defeased Bonds shall
cease and become void. The owners of defeased Bonds shall have the
right to receive payment of the principal of and interest on the
defeased Bonds from the trust account. The City shall include in
the refunding or defeasance plan such provisions as the City deems
- necessary for the random selection of any defeased Bonds that
constitute less than all of a particular maturity of the Bonds, for
notice of the defeasance to be given to the owners of the defeased
Bonds and to such other persons as the City shall determine, and
for any required replacement of Bond certificates for defeased
Bonds. The defeased Bonds shall be deemed no longer outstanding as
of the date such money and/or Government Obligations are set aside
in the trust account, and the City may apply any money in any other
fund or account established for the payment or redemption of the
defeased Bonds to any lawful purposes as it shall determine.
If the refunding plan provides that the refunding bonds to be
issued are to be secured by money and/or Government Obligations
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pending the prior redemption of the defeased Bonds and if such
refunding plan also provides that certain money and/or Government
Obligations are pledged irrevocably for the prior redemption of the
defeased Bonds included in that refunding plan, then only the debt
service on the Bonds which are not defeased Bonds and the refunding
bonds, the payment of which is not so secured by the refunding
plan, shall be included in the computation of the Coverage
Requirement for the issuance of Future Parity Bonds and the annual
computation of the Coverage Requirement for determining compliance
with the rate covenants.
Section 27. Deposit of Bond Proceeds. The principal proceeds
received from the issuance and sale of the Bonds shall be deposited
with the Refunding Trustee and used to fund the Reserve Requirement
and carry out the provisions of. the Refunding Plan. The accrued
interest on the Bonds, if any, received at the time the Bonds are
delivered to the initial purchaser shall be deposited in the
Principal and Interest Account of the Bond Fund.
Section 28. Approval of Bond Purchase Contract. Lehman
Brothers Inc. of Seattle, Washington, has presented a purchase
contract (the "Bond Purchase Contract") to the City offering to
purchase the Bonds under the terms and conditions provided in the
Bond Purchase Contract, which written Bond Purchase Contract is on
file with the City Clerk and is incorporated herein by this -
reference. The City Council finds that entering into the Bond
Purchase Contract is in the City's best interest and therefore
accepts the offer contained therein and authorizes its execution by
City officials.
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The Bonds will be printed at City expense and will be
delivered to the purchaser in accordance with the Bond Purchase
Contract, with the approving legal opinion of Foster Pepper &
Shefelman, municipal bond counsel of Seattle, Washington, regarding
the Bonds printed on each Bond. Bond counsel shall not be required
to review and shall express no opinion concerning the completeness
or accuracy of any official statement, offering circular or other
sales material issued or used in connection with the Bonds, and
bond counsel's opinion shall so state.
The proper City officials are authorized and directed to do
everything necessary for the prompt delivery of the Bonds to the
purchaser and for the proper application and use of the proceeds of
the sale thereof.
Section 29 . Preliminary official Statement Deemed Final. The
City Council has been provided with copies of a preliminary
official statement dated December 41 1995 (the "Preliminary
official Statement") , prepared in connection with the sale of the
Bonds. For the sole purpose of the Bond purchaser's compliance
with United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") Rule
15c2-12 (b) (1) , the City "deems final" that Preliminary official
Statement as of its date, except for the omission of information as
to offering prices, interest rates, selling compensation, aggregate
principal amount, - principal amount per maturity, maturity dates,
options of redemption, delivery dates, ratings and other terms of
the Bonds dependent on such matters.
Section 30. Undertaking to Provide Continuing Disclosure. To
meet the requirements of SEC Rule 15c2-12 (b) (5) (the "Rule") , as
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applicable to a participating underwriter for the Bonds, the City
makes the following written undertaking (the "Undertaking") for the
benefit of holders of the Bonds:
(a) Undertakin to Provide Annual Financial
Information and Notice of Material Events. The City
undertakes to provide or cause to be provided, either
directly or through a designated agent:
(i) To each nationally recognized municipal
securities information repository designated by the
SEC in accordance with the Rule ("NRMSIR") and to
a state information depository, if any, established
in the state of Washington (the "SID") annual
financial information and operating data of the
type included in the final official statement for
the Bonds and described in Section 30 (b) ("annual
financial information") ;
(ii) To each NRMSIR or the Municipal
Securities Rulemaking Board ("MSRB") , and to the
SID, timely notice of the occurrence of any of the
following events with respect to the Bonds, if
material: (1) principal and interest payment
delinquencies; (2) non-payment related defaults;
(3) unscheduled draws on debt service reserves
reflecting financial difficulties; (4) unscheduled
draws on credit enhancements reflecting financial
difficulties; (5) substitution of credit or
liquidity providers, or their failure to perform;
(6) adverse tax opinions or events affecting the
tax-exempt status of the Bonds; (7) modifications
to rights of holders of the Bonds; (8) Bond calls
(other than scheduled mandatory redemptions of Term
Bonds) ; (9) defeasanc:es; (10) release,
substitution, or sale -roperty securing
repayment of the Bonds; and (11) rating changes;
and
(iii) To each NRMSIR or to the MSRB, and to
the SID, timely notice of a failure by the City to
provide required annual financial information on or
before the date specified in Section 30 (b) .
(b) Type of Annual Financial Information Undertaken
to be Provided. The annual financial infor_1lation that
the City undertakes to provide in Section 30 (a) :
(i) Shall consist of [ (1) annual financial
statements (2) a statement of authorized, issued
and outstanding bonded debt secured by the Gross
Revenue of the Water System (3) debt service
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statistics for the Water System
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(ii) Shall be prepared in accordance with
applicable generally accepted accounting principles
promulgated by the Government Accounting Standards
Board ("GASB") , as such principles may be changed
from time to time by GASB or its successor;
(iii) Shall not be audited, except, however,
that if and when audited financial statements are
otherwise prepared and available they will be
provided to each NRMSIR and the SID;
(iv) Shall be provided to each NRMSIR and
the SID, not later than the last day of the ninth
month after the end of each fiscal year of the City
(currently, a fiscal year ending December 31) , as
such fiscal year may be changed as required or
permitted by State law, commencing with the City's
fiscal year ending December 31, 1996; and
(v) May be provided in a single or multiple
documents, and may be incorporated by reference to
other documents that have been filed with each
NRMSIR and the SID, or, if the document
incorporated by reference is a "final official
statement" with respect to other obligations of the
City, that has been filed with the MSRB.
(c) Amendment of Undertaking. The Undertaking is
subject to amendment after the primary offering of the
Bonds without the consent of any holder of any Bond, or
of any broker, dealer, municipal securities dealer,
participating underwriter, rating agency, NRMSIR, the SID
or the MSRB, under the circumstances and in -he manner
permitted by the Rule.
The City will give notice to each NRMSIR or the
MSRB, and the SID, of the substance (or provide a copy)
of any amendment to the Undertaking and a brief statement
of the reasons for the amendment. If the amendment
changes the type of annual financial information to be
provided, the notice also will include a narrative
explanation of the effect of that change on the type of
- information to be provided.
(d) Beneficiaries. The Undertaking evidenced by
this Section 30 shall inure to the benefit of the City
and any holder of Bonds, and shall not inure to the
benefit of or create any rights in any other person.
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(e) Termination of Undertaking. The City's
obligations under this Undertaking shall terminate upon
the legal defeasance of all of the Bonds. In addition,
the City's obligations under this Undertaking shall
terminate if those provisions of the Rule which require
the City to comply with this Undertaking become legally
inapplicable in respect of the Bonds for any reason, as
confirmed by an opinion of Bond Counsel or other counsel
familiar with federal securities laws delivered to the
City, and the City provides timely notice of such
termination to each NRMSIR, or the MSRB, and the SID.
(f) Remedy for Failure to Comply with Undertaking.
As soon as practicable after the City learns of any
failure to comply with the Undertaking, the City will
proceed with due diligence to cause such noncompliance to
be corrected. No failure by the City to comply with the
Undertaking shall constitute a default in respect of the
Bonds. The sole remedy of any holder of a Bond shall be
to take such actions as that holder deems necessary,
including seeking an order of specific performance from
an appropriate court, to compel the City to comply with
the Undertaking.
(g) Designation of Official Responsible to
Administer Undertaking. The City Finance Division
Director or his or her designee (or such other officer of
the City who may in the future perform the duties of the
Finance Division Director) is authorized and directed in
his or her discretion to take such further actions as may
be necessary, appropriate or convenient to carry out the
Undertaking of the City in respect of the Bonds set forth
in this Section 30 and in accordance with the Rule,
including, without limitation, the following actions:
(i) Preparing and filing the annual
financial information undertaken to be provided;
(ii) Determining whether any event specified
in Section 30 (a) has occurred, assessing its
materiality with respect to the Bonds, and, if
material, preparing and disseminating notice of its
occurrence;
(iii) Selecting, engaging and compensating
designated agents and consultants, including but
not limited to financial advisors and legal
counsel, to assist and advise the City in carrying
out the Undertaking; and
(iv) Effecting any necessary amendment of
the Undertaking.
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Section 31. Temporary Bond. Pending the printing, execution
and delivery to the purchaser of definitive Bonds, the City may
cause to be executed and delivered to the purchaser a single
temporary Bond in the total principal amount of the Bonds. The
temporary Bond shall bear the same date of issuance, interest
rates, principal payment dates and terms and covenants as the
definitive Bonds, shall be issued as a fully registered Bond in the
name of the purchaser, and otherwise shall be in .a form acceptable
to the purchaser. The temporary Bond shall be exchanged for
definitive Bonds as soon as they are printed, executed and
available for delivery.
Section 32 . Amendatory and Supplemental Ordinances.
(a) This ordinance shall not be modified or amended in
any respect subsequent to the initial issuance of the Bonds, except
as provided in and in accordance with and subject to the provisions
of this section.
(b) The City, from time to time, and at any time,
without the consent of or notice to the registered owners of the
Bonds, may pass supplemental or amendatory ordinances as follows:
(1) To cure any formal defect, omission,
inconsistency or ambiguity in this ordinance in a manner
not adverse to the owner of any Parity Bond;
(2) To impose upon the Bond Registrar (with
its consent) for the benefit of the registered owners of
the Bonds any additional rights, remedies, powers,
authority, security, liabilities or duties which may
lawfully be granted, conferred or imposed and which are
not contrary to or inconsistent with this ordinance as
theretofore in effect;
- (3) To add to the covenants and agreements of,
and limitations and restrictions upon, the City in this
ordinance, other covenants, agreements, limitations and
restrictions to be observed by the City which are not
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contrary or inconsistent with this ordinance as
theretofore in effect; '
(4) To confirm, as further assurance, any
pledge under, and the subjection to any claim, lien or
pledge created or to be created by this ordinance of any
other money, securities or funds;
(5) To modify, alter, amend or supplement this
ordinance in any other respect which is not materially
adverse to the registered owners of the Parity Bonds and
which does not involve a change described in paragraph
(c) of this Section 32;
(6)- If a change is required to maintain the
exclusion of the interest on the Bonds from gross income
for federal income tax purposes and such change is
otherwise not materially adverse to the registered owners
of the Bonds; and
(7) To add to the covenants and agreements of,
and limitations and restrictions upon, the City in this
ordinance, other covenants, agreements, limitations and
restrictions to be observed by the City which are
requested by a Bond Insurer or provider of Reserve -
Insurance and which are not materially adverse to the
registered owners of the Parity Bonds.
Before the City shall pass any such supplemental ordinance
pursuant to this subsection, there shall have been delivered to the
City and the Bond Registrar an opinion of Bond Counsel, stating
that such supplemental ordinance is authorized or permitted by this
ordinance and, upon the execution and delivery thereof, will be
valid and binding upon the City in accordance with its terms and
will not adversely affect the exclusion from gross income for
federal income tax purposes of interest on the Bonds.
(c) (1) Except for any supplemental ordinance entered
into pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section 32 , subject to the
terms and provisions contained in this paragraph (c) and not
otherwise, registered owners of not less than 60% in aggregate
principal amount of the Parity Bonds shall have the right from time
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to time to consent to and approve the passage by the City of any
supplemental ordinance deemed necessary or desirable by the City
for the purpose of modifying, altering, amending, supplementing or
rescinding, in any particular, any of the terms or provisions
contained in this ordinance; except that, unless approved in
h
writing by the registered owners of all Parity Bonds, nothing
contained in this section shall permit, or be construed as
permitting:
(i) A change in the times, amounts or
- currency of payment of the principal of or interest
on any outstanding Parity Bond, or a reduction in
the principal amount or redemption price of any
outstanding Parity Bond or a change in the
redemption price of any outstanding Parity Bond or
a change in the method of determining the rate of
interest thereon, or
(ii) A preference of priority of any Parity
Bond or Bonds or any other bond or bonds, or
(iii) A reduction in the aggregate principal
amount of Parity Bonds, the consent of the
registered owners of Parity Bonds of which is
required for any such supplemental ordinance.
(2) If at any time the City shall pass any
supplemental ordinance for any of the purposes of this subsection
(c) , the Bond Registrar shall cause notice of the proposed
supplemental ordinance to be given by first-class United States
mail to all registered owners of the Parity Bonds, to any Bond
Insurer, and to the Rating Agencies if the Bonds are rated by those
agencies. Such notice shall briefly set forth the nature of the
proposed supplemental ordinance and shall state that a copy thereof
is on file at the office of the Bond Registrar for inspection by
all registered owners of the Parity Bonds.
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(3) Within two years after the date of the mailing
of such notice, the City may adopt such supplemental ordinance in
substantially the form described in such notice, but only if there
shall have first been delivered to the Bond Registrar (i) the
required consents, in writing, of the registered owners of the
Parity Bonds, and (ii) an opinion of Bond Counsel stating that such
supplemental ordinance is authorized or permitted by this ordinance
and, upon the execution and delivery thereof, will be valid and
binding upon the City in accordance with its terms and will not
adversely affect the exclusion from gross income for federal income
tax purposes of interest on the Parity Bonds.
(4) If registered owners of not less than the
percentage of Parity Bonds required by this paragraph (c) shall
have consented to and approved the execution and delivery thereof
as herein provided, no owner of the Parity Bonds shall have any
right to object to the passage of such supplemental ordinance, or
to object to any of the terms and provisions contained therein or
the operation thereof, or in any manner to question the propriety
of the passage thereof, or to enjoin or restrain the City or the
Bond Registrar from passing the same or from taking any action
pursuant to the provisions thereof.
(d) Upon the execution and delivery of any supplemental
ordinance pursuant to the provisions of this Section 32 , this
ordinance shall be, and be deemed to be, modified and amended in
accordance therewith, and the respective rights, duties and
obligations under this ordinance of the City, the Bond Registrar
and all registered owners of Parity Bonds, shall thereafter be
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determined, exercised and enforced under this ordinance subject in
all respects to such modifications and amendments.
Section 33 . Defaults and Remedies.
(a) Events of Default. The following shall constitute
"Events of Default" with respect to the Parity Bonds:
(1) If a default is made in the payment of the
principal of or interest on any of the Parity Bonds when
the same shall become due and payable; or
(2) If the City defaults in the observance and
performance of any other of the covenants, conditions and
agreements on the part of the City set forth in this
ordinance or any covenants, conditions or agreements on
the part of the City contained in any Parity Bond
Authorizing Ordinance and such default or defaults have
continued for a period of six months after the City has
received from the Bondowners' Trustee (as defined below)
or from the registered owners of not less than 25% in
principal amount of the Parity Bonds then outstanding, a
written notice specifying and demanding the cure of such
default. However, if the default in the observance and
performance of any other of the covenants, conditions and
agreements is one which cannot be completely remedied
within the 6 months after written notice has been given,
it shall not be an Event of Default with respect to the
Bonds as long as the City has taken active steps within
the six months after written notice has been given to
remedy the default and is diligently pursuing such
remedy.
(3) If the City files a petition in bankruptcy or
is placed in receivership under any
bankruptcy or insolvency law.
(b) Bondcwners' Trustee. So long as such Event of Default
has not been remedied, a bondowners' trustee (the "Bondowners'
Trustee") may be appointed by the registered owners of 25% in
principal amount of the Parity Bonds then outstanding, by an
instrument or concurrent instruments in writing signed and
acknowledged by such registered owners of the Parity Bonds or by
their attorneys-in-fact duly authorized and delivered to such
Bondowners' Trustee, notification thereof being given to the City.
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That appointment shall become effective immediately upon acceptance
thereof. by the Bondowners' Trustee. Any Bondowners' Trustee
appointed under the provisions of this Subsection 33 (b) shall be a
bank or trust company organized under the laws of the State of
Washington or the State of New York or a national banking
association. The bank or trust company acting as Bondowners'
Trustee may be removed at any time, and a successor Bondowners'
Trustee may be appointed, by the registered owners of a maj.ority in
principal amount of the Parity Bonds then outstanding, by an
instrument or concurrent instruments in writing . signed and
acknowledged by such registered owners or by their attorneys-in-
fact duly authorized. The Bondowners' Trustee may require such
security and indemnity as may be reasonable against the costs,
expenses and liabilities that may be incurred in the performance of
its duties.
If any Event of Default in the sole judgment of the
Bondowners' Trustee is cured and the Bondowners' *Trustee furnishes
to the City a certificate so stating, that Event of Default shall
be conclusively deemed to be cured and the City, the Bondowners'
Trustee and the registered owners of the Parity Bonds shall be
restored to the same rights and position which they would have held
if no Event of Default had occurred.
The Bondowners' Trustee appointed in the manner herein
provided, and each successor thereto, is declared to be a trustee
for the registered owners of all the Parity Bonds and is empowered
to exercise all the rights and powers herein conferred on the
Bondowners' Trustee.
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(c) Suits at Law or in Equity. Upon the happening of an
Event of Default and during the continuance thereof, the
Bondowners' Trustee may, and upon the written request of the
registered owners of not less then 25% in principal amount o the
Parity Bonds outstanding shall, take such steps and institute, such
suits, actions or other proceedings, all as it may deem appropriate
for the protection and enforcement of the rights of the registered
owners of the Parity Bonds, to collect any amounts due and ow?.Tlg to
or from the City, or to obtain other appropriate relief, and may
enforce the specific performance of any covenant, agreement or
condition contained in this ordinance or in any of the Parity
Bonds.
Nothing contained in this Section 33 shall, in any event or
under any circumstance, be deemed to authorize the acceleration of
maturity of principal on the Parity Bonds, and the remedy of
acceleration is expressly denied to the registered owners of the
Parity Bonds under any circumstances including, without limitation,
upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default.
Any action, suit or other proceedings instituted by the
Bondowners' Trustee hereunder shall be brought in its name as
trustee for the Bondowners and all such rights of action upon or
under any of the Parity Bonds or the provisions of this ordinance
may be enforced by the Bondowners' Trustee without the possession
of any of those Parity Bonds and without the production of the same
at any trial or proceedings relative thereto except where otherwise
required by law. Any such suit, action or proceeding instituted by
the Bondowners' Trustee shall be brought for the ratable benefit of
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all of the registered owners of those Parity Bonds, subject to the
provisions of this ordinance. The respective registered owners of
the Parity Bonds, by taking and holding the same, shall be
conclusively deemed irrevocably to appoint the Bondowners' Trustee
the true and lawful trustee of the respective registered owners of
those Parity Bonds, with authority to institute any such action,
suit or proceeding; to receive as trustee and deposit in trust any
sums becoming distributable on account of those Parity Bonds; to
execute any paper or documents for the receipt of money; and to do
all acts with respect thereto that the registered owner himself or
herself might have done in person. Nothing herein shall be deemed
to authorize or empower the Bondowners' Trustee to consent to
accept or adopt, on behalf of any registered owner of the Parity
Bonds, any plan of reorganization or adjustment affecting the
Parity Bonds or any right of any registered owner thereof, or to
authorize or empower the Bondowners' Trustee to vote the claims of
the registered owners thereof in any receivership, insolvency,
liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization or other proceeding to
which the city is a party.
(d) Application of Money Collected by Bondowners' Trustee.
Any money collected by the Bondowners' Trustee at any time pursuant
to this Section 33 shall be applied in the following order of
priority:
First, to the payment of the charges, expenses,
advances and compensation of the Bondowners' Trustee and
the charges, expenses, counsel fees, disbursements and
compensation of its agents and attorneys; and
Second, to the payment to the persons entitled
thereto of all installments of interest then due on the
Parity Bonds in the order of maturity of such
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installments and, if the amount available shall not be
sufficient to pay in full any installment or installments
maturing on the same date, then to the payment thereof
ratably, according to the amounts due thereon to the
persons entitled thereto, without any discrimination or
preference; and
Third, to the payment to the persons entitled
thereto of the unpaid principal amounts of any Parity
Bonds which shall have become due (other than Parity
Bonds previously called for redemption for the payment of
which money is held pursuant to the provisions hereto) ,
whether at maturity or by proceedings for redemption or
otherwise, in the order of their due dates and, if the
amount available shall not be sufficient to pay in full
the principal amounts due on the same date, then to the
payment thereof ratably, according to the principal
amounts due thereon to the persons entitled thereto,
without any discrimination or preference.
(e) Duties and Obligations of Bondowners' Trustee. The
Bondowners' Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance
of such duties as are specifically set forth herein. During an
Event of Default, the Bondowners' Trustee shall exercise such of
the rights and powers vested in it hereby, and shall use the same
degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or
her own affairs. The Bondowners' Trustee shall have no liability
for any act or omission to act hereunder except for the Bondowners'
Trustee's own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or
its own willful misconduct. The duties and obligations of the
Bondowners' Trustee shall be determined solely by the express
provisions of this ordinance, and no implied powers, duties or
obligations of the Bondowners' Trustee shall be read into this
ordinance.
The Bondowners' Trustee shall not be required to expend or
risk its own funds or otherwise incur individual liability in the
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performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its
rights or powers as the Bondowners' Trustee, except as may result
from its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or
its own willful misconduct.
The Bondowners' Trustee shall not be bound to recognize any
person as a registered owner of any Parity Bond until his title
thereto, if disputed, has been established to its reasonable
•satisfaction.
The Bondowners' Trustee may consult with counsel and the
opinion of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization
and protection in respect of any action taken or suffered by it
hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such
counsel. The Bondowners' Trustee shall not be answerable for any
neglect or default of any person, firm or corporation employed and
selected by it with reasonable care.
(f) Suits by Individual Bondowners Restricted. Except to the
extent recourse is provided by law with respect to any failure by
the City to set aside and pay into the Bond Fund the amounts
required by Section 14 and as provided in Section 30 (f) , neither
the registered owner nor the beneficial owner of any one or more of
Parity Bonds shall have any right to institute any action, suit or
proceeding at law or in equity for the enforcement of same unless:
(1) an Event of Default has happened and is
continuing; and
(2) a Bondowners' Trustee has been appointed;
and
(3) such owner previously shall have given to
the Bondowners' Trustee written notice of the Event
of Default on account of which such suit, action or
proceeding is to be instituted; and
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(4) the registered owners of twenty-five
percent (25%) in principal amount of the Parity
Bonds then outstanding, after the occurrence of
such Event of Default, has made written request of
the Bondowners' Trustee and have afforded the
Bondowners' Trustee a reasonable opportunity to
institute such suit, action or proceeding; and
(5) there have been offered to the
Bondowners' Trustee security and indemnity
satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby; and
(6) the Bondowners' Trustee has refused or
neglected to comply with such request within a
reasonable time.
No registered owner or beneficial owner of any Parity Bond shall
have any right in any manner whatever by his action to affect or
impair the obligation of the City to pay from the Net Revenue the
principal of and interest on such Parity Bonds to the respective
owners thereof when due.
(g) Payment Solely From Net Revenue and Certain Funds.
Nothing in this Section 33 shall be deemed to require payment to
Bondowners from any source other than the Net Revenue and money and
investments in the funds pledged in Section 17 of this ordinance.
Section 34 . Payment Agreements and Parity Payment Agreements.
(a) Calculation of Debt Service on Parity Bonds With
Respect to Which a Payment Agreement Is in Force. Debt service on
Parity Bonds with respect to which a Payment Agreement is in force
shall be calculated based on the net economic effect on the City
expected to be produced by the terms of the Parity Bonds and the
terms of the Payment Agreement, including but not limited to the
effects that (i) Parity Bonds that would, but for a Payment
Agreement, be treated as obligations bearing interest at a Variable
Interest Rate instead shall be treated as obligations bearing
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interest at a fixed interest rate, and (ii) Parity Bonds that
would, but for a Payment Agreement, be treated as obligations
bearing interest at a fixed interest rate instead shall be treated
as obligations bearing interest at a Variable Interest Rate-
(b) Debt Service on Parity Payment Agreements. No
additional debt service shall be taken into account with respect to
a Parity Payment Agreement for any period during which Payment
Agreement Payments on that Parity Payment Agreement are taken into
account in determining Annual Debt Service on related Parity Bonds
under Section 34 (a) . However, for any period during which Payment
Agreement Payments are not taken into account in calculating Annual
Debt Service on any outstanding Parity Bonds because the Parity
Payment Agreement is not then related to any outstanding Parity
Bonds, debt service on that Parity Payment Agreement shall be taken
into account by assuming:
(1) City Obligated to Make Payments Based on Fixed
Rate. If the City is obligated to make Payment Agreement Payments
based on a fixed rate and the Qualified Counterparty is obligated -
to make payments based on a variable rate index, that payments by
the City will be based on the fixed rate specified by the Parity
Payment Agreement, and that payments by the Qualified Counterparty
will be based on a rate equal to the average rate determined by the
variable rate index specified by the Parity Payment Agreement -
during the fiscal quarter preceding the quarter in which the
calculation is made, and
(2) City Obligated to Make Payments Based on
Variable Rate Index. If the City is obligated to make Payment
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Agreement Payments based on a variable rate index and the Qualified
Counterparty is obligated to make payment based on a fixed rate,
that payments by the City will be based on a rate equal to the
average rate determined by the variable rate index specified by the
Parity Payment Agreement during the fiscal quarter preceding the
- quarter in which the calculation is made, and that the Qualified
Counterparty will make payments based on the fixed rate specified
by the Parity Payment Agreement.
Section 35 . Ratification of Prior Acts. Any action taken
consistent with the authority and prior to the effective date of
this ordinance is ratified, approved and confirmed.
Section 36. Section Headings. The section headings in this
ordinance are used for convenience only and shall not constitute a
substantive portion of this ordinance.
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Section 7 , Effective Date of Ordinance. This ordinance
shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and
five (5) days following publication as required by law.
By
JIM WHITE, Mayor
ATTEST:
BRENDA JACOBER, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Special Counsel and Bond
Counsel for the City
Passed the day of 1995.1995.
Approved the day of 1995.
Published the day of
I certify that this is a true copy of Ordinance No.
passed by the City Council of the City of Kent, Washington, and
approved by the Mayor of the City of Kent as hereon indicated.
(SEAL)
BRENDA JACOBER, City Clerk
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