HomeMy WebLinkAboutNo. 2390 a bond resolution authorizing the issuance of City of South Bend, Indiana, Redevelopment District Tax Increment Revenue Bonds of 2007 (Douglas Road Economic Development Area project)•
RESOLUTION NO. 2390
A BOND RESOLUTION OF THE SOUTH BEND REDEVELOPMENT
COMMISSION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF CITY OF SOUTH
BEND, INDIANA, REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT TAX INCREMENT
REVENUE BONDS OF 2007 (DOUGLAS ROAD ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AREA PROJECT)
WHEREAS, the South Bend Redevelopment Commission (the "Commission"),
the governing body of the City of South Bend, Indiana, Department of Redevelopment (the
"Department") and the Redevelopment District of the City of South Bend, Indiana (the
"Redevelopment District"), exists and operates under the provisions of Indiana Code 36-7-14, as
amended from time to time (the "Act"); and
WHEREAS, the Commission previously adopted and approved a resolution (the
"Declaratory Resolution") designating and declaring an area known as the Douglas Road
Economic Development Area (the "Area") to be an economic development area within the
meaning of the Act, designating the Area as an allocation area (the "Allocation Area") under
• Section 39 of the Act, for the purpose of tax increment financing, and approving an economic
development plan for the Area entitled (the "Economic Development Plan"); and
WHEREAS, the Area Plan Commission of St. Joseph County (the "Plan
Commission"), which is the duly designated and acting planning body of the City of South Bend,
Indiana (the "City"), previously adopted and approved a resolution determining that the
Declaratory Resolution and the Economic Development Plan conform to the plan of
development for the City and approving, ratifying and confirming the Declaratory Resolution
and the Economic Development Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City (the "Common Council") adopted a
resolution which approved the resolution of the Plan Commission; and
WHEREAS, after notice and a public hearing thereon, the Commission confirmed
the Declaratory Resolution by the adoption of a Confirmatory Resolution (the Declaratory
Resolution, as confirmed by the Confirmatory Resolutions, shall hereinafter be referred to as the
"Declaratory Resolution"); and
WHEREAS, the Commission now finds that all conditions precedent to the
adoption of a final bond resolution authorizing the issuance of tax increment revenue bonds to
provide necessary funds to be applied to the costs of the Project and all authorized costs relating
thereto, have been complied with in accordance with the provisions of the Act; and
WHEREAS, the Commission, pursuant to the Declaratory Resolution and in
accordance with the Act, has previously established the City of South Bend, Indiana, Department
BDDBOI 4912282v3
rea Allocation Fund the
of Redevelopment, Douglas Road Econom>c Development Allocation A
"Allocation Fund"); and
WHEREAS, with regard to taxes levied on real property in the Allocation Area,
property tax proceeds in excess of those attributable to the lesser of:
(a) The assessed value of the property for the assessment date with
respect to which the allocation and distribution is made; or
(b) The base assessed value, as defined in the Act;
shall be allocated to the Redevelopment District and, when collected, paid into the
Allocation Fund, and may be used by the Redevelopment District only to do one or more of the
following:
(a) Pay the principal of and interest on any obligations payable solely
from allocated tax proceeds which are incurred by the Redevelopment District for the
purpose of financing or refinancing the redevelopment and economic development of the
Allocation Area;
(b) Establish, augment or restore the debt service reserve for bonds
payable solely or in part from allocated tax proceeds in the Allocation Area;
(c) Pay the principal of and interest on bonds payable from allocated
tax proceeds in the Allocation Area and from the special tax levied under Section 27 of
the Act;
(d) Pay the principal of and interest on bonds issued by the City to pay
for local public improvements in or serving the Allocation Area;
(e) Pay premiums on the redemption before maturity of bonds payable
solely or in part from allocated tax proceeds in the Allocation Area;
(f) Make payments on leases payable from allocated tax proceeds in
the Allocation Area under Section 25.2 of the Act;
(g) Reimburse the City for expenditures made by it for local public
improvements (which include buildings, parking facilities and other items described in
Section 25.1(a) of the Act) in or serving the Allocation Area;
(h) Reimburse the City for rentals paid by it for a building or parking
facility in or serving the Allocation Area under any lease entered into under Indiana
Code 36-1-10;
(i) Pay all or a portion of a property tax replacement credit to
taxpayers in the Allocation Area as determined by the Commission, pursuant to
Section 39 of the Act;
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 2 -
(j) Pay expenses incurred by the Commission for local public
improvements that are in the Allocation Area or serving the Allocation Area (including
buildings, parking facilities and other items described in Section 25.1(a) of the Act); or
(k) Reimburse public and private entities for expenses incurred in
training employees of industrial facilities that qualify under the Act;
provided, however, that if further uses of property tax proceeds allocated to the Allocation Fund
are authorized or permitted by amendment to the Act, including Indiana Code 36-7-14-39, those
uses shall also be authorized or permitted for property tax proceeds allocated to the Allocation
Fund; and
WHEREAS, the Act authorizes the issuance of bonds of the Redevelopment
District payable solely from allocated tax proceeds; and
WHEREAS, the Commission now further determines that the issuance of tax
increment revenue bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed One Million Three
Hundred Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($1,300,000.00) is necessary in order to provide funds for
the payment of all or a portion of the cost of property acquisition, redevelopment and economic
development in or serving the Allocation Area pursuant to the Act and subject to and dependent
upon the terms and conditions hereinafter forth; and
WHEREAS, the Act authorizes the issuance of bonds of the Redevelopment
District payable solely from allocated tax proceeds; and
WHEREAS, the Commission finds that, in order to provide funds for the payment
of the cost of redevelopment and economic development in the Area, it will be necessary and in
the best interest of the Redevelopment District and the property and inhabitants thereof to issue
bonds of the Redevelopment District which shall be payable from taxes on real property located
in the Area allocated and deposited in the Allocation Fund pursuant to Section 39 of the Act and
proceeds from the sale or leasing of property in the Area under Section 22 of the Act deposited in
the Allocation Fund as required by Section 26 of the Act (the "Tax Increment"), and such other
revenues that may be made available to the Commission for such purpose (with such other
revenues being treated for all purposes herein as Tax Increment), in an aggregate principal
amount not to exceed One Million Three Hundred Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($1,300,000.00)
(the "Bonds") and which amount does not exceed the cost of redevelopment and economic
development in or serving the Allocation Area, including, without limitation, the expansion and
improvement of Douglas Road from two (2) lanes to four (4) lanes from just west of the State
Road 23 and Douglas Road intersection to the Mishawaka City limits and for other related
improvements, including but not limited to additional turn lanes near intersections, curbing and
other streetscape in the right-of--way along the expanded stretch of Douglas Road and
improvements to provide for additional storm water drainage resulting from the expanded road
improvements (collectively, the "Project"), together with a sum sufficient to pay the estimated
cost of all expenses reasonably incurred in connection with the redevelopment and economic
development in or serving the Allocation Area, including the total cost of all reasonable and
necessary architectural, engineering, legal, financing, accounting, advertising, bond discount, and
BDDB01 4912282v3 - 3 -
the extent
supervisory expenses, capitalized interest and a debt service reserve for the bonds (to
that the Commission determines that capitalized interest and/or a reserve is reasonably required),
together with the expenses in connection with the issuance of bonds therefor; and
WHEREAS, to pay additional costs relating to the Project, the City is expected to
make a loan of a portion of its Major Moves funds in the amount not to exceed $1,000,000 (the
"Major Moves Loan") which Major Moves Loan would be paid from available Tax Increment;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the South Bend Redevelopment
Commission as follows:
SECTION 1. The Bonds. For the purpose of procuring funds to pay for the cost
of redevelopment and economic development in the Area, together with a sum sufficient to pay
the estimated cost of all expenses reasonably incurred in connection with the redevelopment and
economic development in or serving the Allocation Area, including the total cost of all
reasonable and necessary architectural, engineering, legal, financing, accounting, advertising,
bond discount and supervisory expenses, capitalized interest and a debt service reserve for the
Bonds as set forth herein, together with the expenses in connection with or on account of the
issuance of the Bonds, the City acting for and on behalf of the Redevelopment District, shall
make a loan in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed One Million Three Hundred
Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($1,300;000.00).
In order to procure funds for said loan, the City Controller (the "Controller") is
hereby authorized and directed to have prepared and to issue and sell the negotiable bonds of the
Redevelopment District, which Bonds shall be issued in the name of the City, for and on behalf
of the Redevelopment District and which shall be designated "City of South Bend, Indiana,
Redevelopment District Tax Increment Revenue Bonds of 2007" in an aggregate principal
amount not to exceed One Million Three Hundred Thousand and 00/100 Dollars
($1,300,000.00), and which amount (together with investment earnings thereon in the estimated
amount of Thirty-two Thousand Five Hundred and 00/100 Dollars ($32,500.00) does not exceed
the cost, as estimated by the Commission, of redevelopment and economic development in or
serving the Allocation Area, including, without limitation, the Project, together with a sum
sufficient to pay the estimated cost of all expenses reasonably incurred in connection with the
redevelopment and economic development in or serving the Allocation Area, including the total
cost of all reasonable and necessary architectural, engineering, legal, financing, accounting,
advertising, bond discount and supervisory expenses, capitalized interest and a debt service
reserve for the Bonds as provided herein, together with the expenses in connection with or on
account of the issuance of the Bonds therefor.
The Bonds shall not constitute a corporate obligation or indebtedness of the City,
but shall constitute an obligation of the Redevelopment District. The Bonds, together with
interest thereon, shall be payable out of the Tax Increment and such other revenues that may be
available to the Commission for such purpose.
The Bonds shall be issued in fully registered form in the denomination of Five
Thousand Dollars ($5,000) or an integral multiple thereof (the "Authorized Denomination") not
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 4 -
' i 1 amount of Bonds maturin in an one 1 ear. The Bonds
exceeding the aggregate prmc pa g y O y
shall be numbered consecutively from 2007R-1 upwards and shall bear interest payable
semiannually commencing August 1, 2008, or such later date as may be set forth in the Issuer's
Certificate, defined herein, and each February 1 and August 1 thereafter, at a rate or rates not to
exceed six and one half percent (6.500%) (the exact rate or rates of interest to be determined by
competitive bidding or by negotiated sale as set forth in Section 9 hereof) or such lower rate or
rates for such maturities as may be determined by the President of the Commission and the
Controller and set forth in a certificate of the Redevelopment District executed by the President
of the Commission and the Controller prior to the sale of the Bonds, establishing certain
provisions and details with respect to the Bonds (hereinafter referred to as the "Issuer's
Certificate"). Interest shall be calculated on the basis of twelve (12) thirty (30)-day months for a
three hundred sixty (360)-day year. The Bonds are subject to optional redemption and may be
subject to mandatory sinking fund redemption, as set forth in Section 2 hereof.
The Bonds shall mature semi-annually on each February 1 and August 1
beginning on August 1, 2008, or such later date as may be set forth in the Issuer's Certificate, and
thereafter on each February 1 and August 1 through and including August 1, 2028, or such
earlier final maturity date and in such annual principal amounts set forth in the Issuer's
Certificate.
A Registrar and Paying Agent (the "Registrar" or the "Paying Agent" or in both
such capacities as the "Registrar and Paying Agent") shall be appointed by the Controller. The
Controller is hereby authorized to solicit and receive proposals with regard to the services of a
registrar and paying agent. The Registrar and Paying Agent is hereby charged with and shall by
appropriate agreement undertake the performance of all of the duties and responsibilities
customarily associated with each such position, including without limitation authenticating the
Bonds. The Registrar shall keep and maintain at its principal office books for the registration
and for the transfer of the Bonds (the "Bond Register"). The President of the Commission and
the Controller are hereby authorized and directed, on behalf of the Commission, to enter into
such agreements or understandings with the Registrar and Paying Agent as will enable the
Registrar and Paying Agent to perform the services required of a registrar and a paying agent,
and is authorized and directed to pay the Registrar and Paying Agent for its services out of
available funds.
The principal of and premium, if any, on the Bonds shall be payable at the
principal office of the Paying Agent for the Bonds. Interest on the Bonds shall be paid by check
or draft mailed or delivered to the registered owners thereof at the address as it appears on the
Bond Register as of the 15`" day of the month immediately preceding the interest payment date
or at such other address as is provided to the Paying Agent in writing by such registered owners.
All payments on the Bonds shall be made in any coin or currency of the United States of
America which on the dates of such payments shall be legal tender for the payment of public and
private debts.
The Bonds shall bear an original date which shall be the date upon which the
Bonds are to be delivered (the "Original Date") and each Bond shall also bear the date of its
authentication. Bonds authenticated on or before July 15, 2008, shall be paid interest from the
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 5 -
Original Date. Bonds authenticated after July 15, 2008, shall pay interest from the interest
payment date immediately preceding the date of authentication of such Bonds unless the Bonds
are authenticated between the fifteenth day of the month preceding an interest payment date and
the interest payment date, in which case interest thereon shall be paid from such interest payment
date.
Each Bond shall be transferable or exchangeable only upon the Bond Register by
the registered owner thereof in person, or by his attorney duly authorized in writing, upon
surrender of such Bond together with a written instrument of transfer or exchange satisfactory to
the Registrar duly executed by the registered owner or his attorney duly authorized in writing,
and thereupon a new fully registered Bond or Bonds in the same aggregate principal amount and
of the same maturity shall be executed and delivered in the name of the transferee or transferees
or the registered owner, as the case may be, in exchange therefor. Bonds may be transferred or
exchanged without cost to the registered owner, except for any tax or governmental charge
required to be paid with respect to the exchange. The Registrar shall not be required to transfer
or exchange any Bond called for redemption or during the period from the fifteenth day of any
calendar month immediately preceding an interest payment date to such interest payment date.
The City, the Commission, the Registrar and the Paying Agent may treat and consider the person
in whose name such Bonds are registered as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes
including for the purpose of receiving payment of, or on account of, the principal thereof and
interest due thereon.
In the event any Bond is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the City may execute
on behalf of the Redevelopment District and the registrar may authenticate a new Bond of like
date, maturity and denomination as that mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, which new Bond
shall be marked in a manner to distinguish it from the Bond for which it was issued; provided,
that in the case of any mutilated Bond, such mutilated Bond shall first be surrendered to the
Registrar, and in the case of any lost, stolen or destroyed Bond there shall be first furnished to
the City and the Registrar evidence of such loss, theft or destruction satisfactory to the City and
the Registrar, together with indemnity satisfactory to them. In the event any such lost, stolen or
destroyed Bond shall have matured, instead of issuing a duplicate Bond, the City and the
Registrar may, upon receiving indemnity satisfactory to them, pay the same without surrender
thereof. The City and the Registrar may charge the owner of such Bond with their reasonable
fees and expenses in connection with the above. Every substitute Bond issued by reason of any
Bond being lost, stolen or destroyed shall, with respect to such Bonds, constitute a substitute
contractual obligation of the City, acting for and on behalf of the Redevelopment District,
whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Bond shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled
to all the benefits of this Resolution, equally and proportionately with any and all other Bonds
duly issued hereunder.
The Registrar or the Paying Agent may at any time resign as Registrar or Paying
Agent by giving thirty (30) days' written notice to the Commission and by first-class mail to each
registered owner of Bonds then outstanding, and such resignation will take effect at the end of
such thirty (30) days or upon the earlier appointment of a successor Registrar or Paying Agent,
as the case may be, by the Commission. Such notice to the Commission may be served
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 6 -
personally or be sent by registered mail. The Registrar or Paying Agent may be removed at any
time as Registrar or Paying Agent by the Commission, in which event the Commission may
appoint a successor Registrar or Paying Agent as the case may be. The Commission shall notify
each registered owner of Bonds then outstanding by first-class mail of the removal of the
Registrar or Paying Agent. Notices to registered owners of Bonds shall be deemed to be given
when mailed by first-class mail to the addresses of such registered owners as they appear on the
Bond Register. Any predecessor Registrar shall deliver all the Bonds in its possession and the
Bond Register to the successor Registrar and any predecessor Paying Agent shall deliver all the
cash in its possession to the successor Paying Agent.
The Bonds shall be executed in the name of the City, acting for and on behalf of
the Redevelopment District, by the manual or facsimile signature of the Mayor attested by the
manual or facsimile signature of the City Clerk, who shall cause the official seal of the City to be
impressed or a facsimile thereof to be printed on each of the Bonds. Subject to the provisions for
registration, the Bonds shall be negotiable under the laws of the State of Indiana.
The Bonds shall be authenticated with the manual signature of an authorized
representative of the Registrar, and no Bonds shall be valid or obligatory for any purpose or be
entitled to any security or benefit under this Resolution until the certificate of authentication on
such Bond shall have been so executed.
SECTION 2. Redemption of Bonds.
(a) Optional Redemption. The Bonds maturing on or after February 1,
2019, are subject to optional redemption at a redemption price equal to 100% of the
principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest to the redemption date and without
premium.
(b) Mandatory Sinking Fund Redemption. At the option of the
successful purchaser of the Bonds, all or a portion of the Bonds may be aggregated into
one (1) or more term bonds payable from mandatory sinking fund redemption payments
(the "Term Bonds") required to be made as set forth below. The Term Bonds shall have a
stated maturity or maturities on February 1 and August 1 of the years beginning not
earlier than 2008 through and including August 1, 2028, or such other years as may be set
forth in the Issuer's Certificate.
In the event that the purchaser opts to aggregate certain Bonds into Term
Bonds, such Term Bonds shall be subject to mandatory sinking fund redemption prior to
maturity at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus
accrued interest to the redemption date, but without premium, on February 1 and
August 1 of each year and in the principal amounts corresponding to and consistent with
the maturity schedule for the Bonds set forth in the Issuer's Certificate.
The Registrar and Paying Agent shall credit against the current mandatory
• sinking fund requirement for a Term Bond of a particular maturity, any Bonds of such
maturity delivered to the Registrar and Paying Agent for cancellation or purchased for
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 7 -
cancellation by the Registrar and Paying Agent and canceled by the Registrar and Paying
Agent and not theretofore applied as a credit against any mandatory sinking fund
requirement. Each Bond so delivered or purchased shall be credited by the Registrar and
Paying Agent at 100% of the principal amount thereof against the mandatory sinking
fund redemption requirements for the applicable Term Bond in order of mandatory
sinking fund redemption (or final maturity) dates determined by the Board, and the
principal amount of such Term Bond to be redeemed on such mandatory sinking fund
redemption dates by operation of the mandatory sinking fund requirements shall be
reduced accordingly; provided, however, the Registrar and Paying Agent shall only credit
Bonds against the mandatory sinking fund requirements to the extent such Bonds are
received on or before 45 days preceding the applicable mandatory sinking fund
redemption date.
The Registrar shall determine by lot (treating each $5,000 principal
amount of each Bond as a separate Bond for such purpose) the Bonds within a Term
Bond of a particular maturity to be redeemed pursuant to the mandatory sinking fund
redemption requirements on February 1 and August 1 of each year.
In the event any of the Bonds are issued as Term Bonds, the form of the
Bond set forth in Section 3 of this Resolution shall be modified accordingly.
Any reference to payment of principal on the Bonds shall include payment
of scheduled mandatory sinking fund redemption payments described in this Section 2.
(c) Notice of Redemption. Unless waived by any holder of Bonds to
be redeemed, official notice of any such redemption shall be given by the Registrar on
behalf of the Commission identifying the Bonds, by mailing a copy of an official
redemption notice by registered or certified mail at least thirty (30) days and not more
than sixty (60) days prior to the date fixed for redemption to the registered owner of the
Bond or Bonds to be redeemed at the address shown on the Bond Register or at such
other address as is furnished in writing by such registered owner to the Registrar;
provided, however, that failure to give such notice by mailing, or any defect therein, with
respect to any Bond shall not affect the validity of any proceedings for the redemption of
other Bonds.
All official notices of redemption shall be dated and shall state:
(1) the redemption date,
(2) the redemption price,
(3) if less than all outstanding Bonds are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective
principal amounts) of the Bonds to be redeemed,
•
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - g -
(4) that on the redemption date the redemption price will become due
and payable upon each such Bond or portion thereof called for
redemption, and that interest thereon shall cease to accrue from
and after said date, and
(5) the place where such Bonds are to be surrendered for payment of
the redemption price, which place of payment shall be the place
provided for the payment of the principal of and premium, if any,
on the Bonds.
Prior to any redemption date, the Commission shall deposit with the
Paying Agent an amount of money sufficient to pay the redemption price of all the Bonds
or portions of Bonds which are to be redeemed on that date.
Official notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Bonds or
portions of Bonds so to be redeemed shall, on the redemption date, become due and
payable at the redemption price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Commission shall default in the payment of the redemption price) such Bonds or portions
of Bonds shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of such Bonds for redemption in
accordance with said notice, such Bonds shall be paid by the Paying Agent at the
redemption price. Bonds redeemed in part may be exchanged for a Bond or Bonds of the
same maturity in Authorized Denominations equal to the remaining principal amount. In
addition to the foregoing notice, further notice may be given by the Registrar as it deems
appropriate by mail, publication or otherwise to registered securities depositories,
national information services or others containing the above information and such further
information as the Registrar may deem appropriate, but no defect in said further notice,
nor any failure to give all or any portion of such further notice shall in any manner defeat
the effectiveness of a call for redemption if notice thereof is given as above described.
SECTION 3. Form of Bond. The form and tenor of the Bonds shall be
substantially as follows (all blanks to be properly completed prior to the preparation of the
Bonds):
(Form of Bond)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State of Indiana St. Joseph County
No. 07R-
•
CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
TAX INCREMENT REVENUE BONDS OF 2007
(DOUGLAS ROAD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AREA PROJECT)
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 9 -
i
•
Interest Maturity Original Authentication
Rate Date Date Date CUSIP
Registered Owner:
Principal Sum:
The City of South Bend, Indiana (the "City"), acting for and on behalf of the City of
South Bend, Indiana, Redevelopment District (a special taxing district having the same boundaries as the
City) (the "Redevelopment District"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to the Registered Owner
stated above, or registered assigns, but solely from (i) taxes on real property located in the Douglas Road
Economic Development Area (the "Allocation Area") allocated and deposited in the allocation fund for
the Allocation Area (the "Allocation Fund") pursuant to Indiana Code 36-7-14-39, and proceeds from the
sale or leasing of property in the Area under Indiana Code 36-7-14-22 deposited in the Allocation Fund as
required by Indiana Code 36-7-14-26 (the "Tax Increment"), and (ii) such other revenues that may be
made available to the South Bend Redevelopment Commission (the "Commission") for such purpose, the
Principal Sum stated above, on the Maturity Date stated above and to pay interest on said Principal Sum,
on behalf of the Redevelopment District, to the Registered Owner of this bond until the City's obligation
with respect to the payment of said Principal Sum shall be discharged, at the rate per annum specified
above from the interest payment date next preceding the date of authentication of this bond, unless this
bond is authenticated on or before , 20 in which case the interest shall be paid from the
Original Date stated above or unless this bond is authenticated between the fifteenth day of the month
preceding an interest payment date and the interest payment date, in which case interest shall be paid
from such interest payment date. Interest is payable on 20 ,and semiannually
thereafter on and of each year by check or draft. Interest shall be
calculated on the basis of twelve (12) thirty-day months for a three hundred sixty (360)-day year.
The principal of and premium, if any, on this bond are payable at the principal office of
in ,Indiana, as Paying Agent (which term shall include any successor
Paying Agent). Interest on this bond shall be paid by check or draft mailed or delivered to the Registered
Owner hereof at the address as it appears on the books kept by in ,Indiana,
as Registrar (which term shall include any successor Registrar), for the registration and for the transfer of
the bonds (the "Bond Register") as of the fifteenth day of the month immediately preceding the interest
payment date or at such other address as is provided to the Paying Agent in writing by the Registered
Owner. All payments on this bond shall be made in lawful money of the United States of America.
This bond, together with interest thereon, does not constitute a corporate obligation or
indebtedness of the City, but the same is a limited obligation of the Redevelopment District, which is a
special taxing district having the same boundaries as the City and is payable solely out of the Tax
Increment. Subject to the provisions for registration, this bond is negotiable under the laws of the State of
Indiana.
This bond is one of an authorized issue of bonds of the Redevelopment District in the
aggregate principal amount of One Million Three Hundred Thousand and 00/100 Dollars
($1,300,000.00), numbered consecutively from 2007R-1 upwards, issued pursuant to a resolution entitled
"A BOND RESOLUTION OF THE SOUTH BEND REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - IO -
AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, REDEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT TAX INCREMENT REVENUE BONDS OF 2007" (the "Resolution") adopted by the South
Bend Redevelopment Commission (the "Commission"), on November 8, 2007, and in strict compliance
with Indiana Code 36-7-14, for the purpose of procuring funds to pay for the cost of redevelopment and
economic development in or serving the Allocation Area, together with a sum sufficient to pay the
estimated cost of all expenses reasonably incurred in connection with the redevelopment and economic
development in or serving the Allocation Area, including the total cost of all reasonable and necessary
architectural, engineering, legal, financing, accounting, advertising, bond discount and supervisory
expenses, capitalized interest and a debt service reserve for the bonds as set forth in the Resolution,
together with the expenses in connection with or on account of the issuance of the bonds, all as described
in the Resolution. Reference is hereby made to the Resolution for a description of the nature and extent
of the rights, duties and obligations of the owners of the bonds, the City and the Commission and the
terms on which this bond is issued, and to all the provisions of the Resolution to which the owner hereof
by the acceptance of this bond assents.
The Bonds -naturing on or after February 1, 2019, are subject to optional redemption
prior to their maturity at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus
accrued interest to the redemption date and without premium.
In addition, and subject to the provisions of the Resolution permitting amounts to be
credited toward a part or all of mandatory sinking fund requirements in order of mandatory redemption
dates determined by the Commission, the Bonds maturing and
(the "Term Bonds"), are subject to redemption in part through application of mandatory
sinking fund payments as provided in the Resolution beginning on and in the
years and respectively, and on each and
thereafter to maturity, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof,
plus accrued interest to the redemption date, but without premium, on the dates and in the principal
amounts indicated below:
Rnnrls Dne
Date: Principal Amount:
* Final Maturity
Unless waived by any holder of bonds to be redeemed, official notice of any such
redemption shall be given by the Registrar on behalf of the Commission by mailing a copy of an official
redemption notice by registered or certified mail at least thirty (30) days and not more than sixty (60)
days prior to the date fixed for redemption to the registered owner of the bond or bonds to be redeemed at
the address shown on the Bond Register or at such other address as is furnished in writing by such
registered owner to the Registrar; provided, however, that failure to give such notice, or any defect
therein, with respect to any bond shall not affect the validity of any proceedings for the redemption of
other bonds.
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - l) -
•
Official notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the bonds, or portions of
bonds so to be redeemed shall, on the redemption date, become due and payable at the redemption price
therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Commission shall default in the payment of the
redemption price) such bonds or portions of bonds shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of such
bonds for redemption in accordance with said notice, such bonds shall be paid by the Paying Agent at the
redemption price. Bonds redeemed in part may be exchanged for a bond or bonds of the same maturity in
Authorized Denominations equal to the remaining principal amount.
The principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this bond and all other bonds of the
issue of which this bond is a part are payable out of the Tax Increment and such other revenues that may
be made available to the Commission for such purpose.
This bond is transferable or exchangeable only upon the Bond Register by the Registered
Owner hereof in person, or by his attorney duly authorized in writing, upon surrender of this bond
together with a written instrument of transfer or exchange satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by
the Registered Owner or his attorney duly authorized in writing and thereupon a new fully registered
bond or bonds in the same aggregate principal amount and of the same maturity shall be executed and
delivered in the name of the transferee or transferees or the Registered Owner, as the case may be, in
exchange therefor. This bond may be transferred or exchanged without cost to the Registered Owner,
except for any tax or governmental charge required to be paid with respect to the exchange. The
Registrar shall not be required to transfer or exchange this bond if it has been called for redemption or
during the period from the fifteenth day of any calendar month immediately preceding an interest
payment date to such interest payment date.
The City, the Commission, the Registrar and Paying Agent may treat and consider the
person in whose name this bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for all purposes including for
the purpose of receiving payment of, or on account of, the principal hereof and interest due hereon.
In the manner provided in the Resolution, the Resolution and the rights and obligations of
the Commission and of the owners of the bonds may (with certain exceptions as stated in the Resolution)
be modified or amended with the consent of the owners of at least sixty percent (60%) in aggregate
principal amount of outstanding bonds exclusive of bonds, if any, owned by the Commission or the City.
Additional bonds ranking on a parity with the Bonds authorized by the Resolution and other bonds, junior
to the Bonds authorized by the Resolution, may be issued in accordance with the terms of the Resolution.
In the event this bond is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the City may execute and the
Registrar may authenticate a new bond of like date, maturity and denomination as this bond, which new
bond shall be marked in a manner to distinguish it from this bond; provided, that in the case of this bond
being mutilated, this bond shall first be surrendered to the City and the Registrar, and in the case of this
bond being lost, stolen, or destroyed, there shall first be furnished to the City and the Registrar evidence
of such loss, theft or destruction satisfactory to the City and the Registrar, together with indemnity
satisfactory to them. In the event that this bond, being lost, stolen or destroyed, shall have matured,
instead of issuing a duplicate bond the City and the Registrar may, upon receiving indemnity satisfactory
to them, pay this bond without surrender hereof. The City and the Registrar may charge the owner of this
bond with their reasonable fees and expenses in connection with the above. Every substitute bond issued
by reason of this bond being lost, stolen or destroyed shall, with respect to this bond, constitute a
substitute contractual obligation of the City, acting for and on behalf of the Redevelopment District,
whether or not this bond, being lost, stolen or destroyed shall be found at any time and shall be entitled to
all the benefits of the Resolution, equally and proportionately with any and all other bonds duly issued
thereunder.
BDDB01 4912282v3 - I2 -
The Registrar or Paying Agent may at any time resign as Registrar or Paying Agent by
giving thirty (30) days' written notice to the Commission and by first-class mail to the registered owners
of bonds then outstanding, and such resignation will take effect at the end of such thirty (30) days or upon
the earlier appointment of a successor Registrar or Paying Agent, as the case may be, by the Commission.
Such notice to the Commission may be served personally or be sent by registered mail. The Registrar or
the Paying Agent may be removed at any time as Registrar or Paying Agent by the Commission, in which
event the Commission may appoint a successor Registrar or Paying Agent, as the case may be. The
Commission shall cause the registered owner of this bond to be notified, if then outstanding, by first-class
mail, of the removal of the Registrar or Paying Agent. Notices to registered owners of bonds shall be
deemed to be given when mailed by first-class mail to the addresses of such registered owners as they
appear in the registration books kept by the Registrar.
If this bond or a portion thereof shall have become due and payable in accordance with its
terms or shall have been duly called for redemption or irrevocable instructions to call this bond or a
portion thereof for redemption shall have been given, and the whole amount of the principal or and
premium, if any, and interest, so due and payable upon all of this bond or a portion thereof then
outstanding shall be paid or (i) sufficient monies for such purpose, or (ii) direct obligations of, or
obligations the principal of and interest a~ which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of
America, the principal of and the interest on which when due will provide sufficient monies for such
purpose, or (iii) time certificates of deposit fully secured as to both principal and interest by obligations of
the kind described in (ii) above of a bank or banks, the principal of and interest on which when due will
provide sufficient monies for such purpose, shall be held in trust for such purpose, and provision shall
also have been made for paying all fees and expenses in connection with the redemption, then and in that
case this bond or such portion thereof shall no longer be deemed outstanding or an indebtedness of the
Redevelopment District.
It is hereby certified and recited that all acts, conditions and things required by law and
the Constitution of the State of Indiana to be done precedent to and in the execution, issuance, sale and
delivery of this bond have been properly done, happened and performed in regular and due form as
prescribed by law, and that the issuance of this bond by the Redevelopment District does not cause any
constitutional or statutory limitation of indebtedness to be exceeded.
This bond shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose or be entitled to any
security or benefit under the Resolution authorizing this Bond until the certificate of authentication
hereon shall have been duly executed by an authorized representative of the Registrar.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the South Bend Redevelopment Commission has caused this
bond to be executed in the name of the City of South Bend, Indiana, acting for and on behalf of the City
of South Bend, Indiana, Redevelopment District, by the manual or facsimile signature of the Mayor of the
City and attested by the manual or facsimile signature of the Controller, who has caused the seal of the
City to be impressed or a facsimile thereof to be printed hereon.
CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA
Mayor
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - I3 -
(Seal of the City)
ATTEST:
Controller
REGISTRAR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This bond is one of the bonds described in the within mentioned Resolution.
as Registrar
sy:
Authorized Representative
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription of the face of this bond,
shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or
regulations:
TEN COM as tenants in common
TEN ENT as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT
MIN ACT
(Gust.)
Custodian
(Minor)
under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of
(State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used although not in the above list.
r~
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 14 -
ASSIGNMENT
For value received, the undersigned hereby sells and transfers unto
(Please print or typewrite name and address of transferee)
•
this bond and all rights hereunder and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
attorney, to transfer this bond on the books kept for the
registration hereof with full power of substitution in the premises.
Date:
Signature Guaranteed:
NOTICE: Signature(s) must be guaranteed by
an eligible guarantor institution participating in a
Securities Transfer Association recognized
signature guarantee program.
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must
correspond with the name of the Registered Owner as it
appears on the face of the within bond in every
particular, without alteration or enlargement or any
change whatsoever.
(End of Bond Form)
SECTION 4. Application of Revenues. There are hereby established in the
Allocation Fund a Tax Increment Revenue Account, into which all Tax Increment received
(including any Tax Increment on deposit in the Allocation Fund as of the date of delivery of the
Bonds) shall be deposited and held in reserve for payment of debt service on the Bonds pursuant
to this Resolution and Indiana Code 36-7-14-39, a Bond Principal and Interest Account and a
General Account, each of which the Controller, the Commission and the Department hereby
covenant and agree to cause to be kept and maintained. On July 15, 2008, and each January 15
and July 15 thereafter, all monies in the Tax Increment Revenue Account shall be set aside in the
following accounts within the Allocation Fund, in the following order of priority:
(a) Bond Principal and Interest Account. There shall be set aside
within the Allocation Fund and deposited into the Bond Principal and Interest Account
from the Tax Increment Revenue Account, to the extent available, an amount of money
which, together with any money contained therein, is equal to the aggregate amount of
the principal and interest due during that bond year with respect to the Bonds. For this
purpose, a "bond year" shall be deemed to be a year from August 2 to and including the
following August 1. No deposit need be made into the Bond Principal and Interest
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - I5 -
Account if the amount contained therein is at least equal to the aggregate amount of
principal and interest due and payable with respect to the Bonds during the remainder of
that bond year. All money in the Bond Principal and Interest Account shall be used and
withdrawn solely for the purpose of paying the interest on and the principal of the Bonds
as it shall become due and payable to the extent it is required therefor (including accrued
interest on any Bonds purchased or redeemed prior to maturity).
(b) Reserve Account. At the closing on the Bonds, a letter of credit
issued by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., (the "Letter of Credit), will be made available to
satisfy the Debt Service Reserve requirement (defined herein) of the Reserve Account
which Letter of Credit will be obtained for and on behalf of the Commission for such
purpose by Douglas Road Partners L.P. (the "Developer"). The terms and conditions of
the Letter of Credit and the basis upon which it may be issued shall be set forth in the
Issuer's Certificate. In the event that said letter of credit or acceptable alternate letter of
credit is not in place to satisfy the requirements of the Reserve Account, and to the extent
there are sufficient revenues available, there shall be set aside from the Allocation Fund
and deposited in the Reserve Account from the Tax Increment Revenue Account an
amount of money until the amount on deposit therein is equal to the full amount of the
Debt Service Reserve Requirement (as defined below). No deposit need be made in the
Reserve Account if there is on deposit there a sum equal to the least of (i) the maximum
annual debt service on the bonds, or (ii) one and one-quarter (1'/4) times the average
annual debt service on the Bonds, or (iii) ten percent (10%) of the proceeds of the Bonds
within the meaning of Section 148(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(the "Code") (the "Debt Service Reserve Requirement"). All money in the Reserve
Account shall be used and withdrawn by the City solely for the purpose of making
deposits into the Bond Principal and Interest Account, in the event of any deficiency at
any time in such account, or for the purpose of paying the interest on or principal of or
redemption premiums, if any, on the Bonds in the event that no other money is lawfully
available therefor, except that so long as there is no default hereunder, any amount in the
Reserve Account in excess of the Debt Service Reserve Requirement shall be withdrawn
from the Reserve Account and deposited in the General Account. Money in the Reserve
Account shall also be available to the final payments of interest and principal on the
Bonds. No deposit shall be required into the Reserve Fund if sufficient revenues are not
available after deposits are made into the Bond Principal and Interest Account and the
General Account as set forth in subparagraph (a) set forth above. The amount of the
Letter of Credit shall be reduced correspondingly on a pro rata basis in the event deposits
into the Reserve Account are made from the General Account as set forth below.
(c) General Account. The remaining amounts in the Tax Increment
Revenue Account shall be deposited into the General Account of the Allocation Fund.
Such remaining amounts shall be applied as follows in the following order of priority:
(i) first, to pay, up to $30,000 annually, the interest on the
Major Moves Loan;
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 16 -
•
(ii) second, to deposit into a Reserve Subaccount of the
General Account, which is hereby established within the General Account, as an
additional reserve for the purposes of making deposits into the Bond Principal and
Interest Account in the event of any deficiency at any time in such account and to
the extent that there is not sufficient funds available on deposit in the Reserve
Account for such purpose which deposits into the Reserve Subaccount of the
General Account shall continue until the amount on deposit therein is equal to
$100,000;
(iii) third, any such remaining amounts shall be deposited into
the Reserve Account for the purpose of reducing the amount of the Letter of
Credit which deposits into the Reserve Account shall continue until the Debt
Service Reserve Requirement is satisfied with such deposit and the Letter of
Credit has been terminated as a result of such deposits;
(iv) fourth, to pay principal on the Major Moves Loan that is
owed;
(v) fifth, to reimburse the Developer for the principal amount
of any payments previously paid as a result of the Letter of Credit;
(vi) sixth, to reimburse the Developer for any payments made
on the Major Moves Loan ;and
(vii) seventh, any remaining amounts deposited into the General
Account from the Tax Increment Revenue Account shall be available only to do
one or more of the following:
(1) pay the principal of and interest on any obligations
(including the Bonds) payable solely from allocated tax proceeds which
are incurred by the Redevelopment District for the purpose of financing or
refinancing the redevelopment or economic development of the Allocation
Area;
(2) establish, augment, or restore the debt service
reserve for bonds (including the Bonds) payable solely or in part from
allocated tax proceeds in the Allocation Area;
(3) pay the principal of and interest on bonds payable
from allocated tax proceeds in the Allocation Area;
(4) pay the principal of and interest on bonds issued by
the City to pay for local public improvements in or serving the Allocation
Area;
•
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 17 -
(5) pay premiums on the redemption before maturity of
bonds payable solely or in part from allocated tax proceeds in the
Allocation Area;
(6) make payments on leases payable from allocated
tax proceeds in the Allocation Area under Section 25.2 of the Act;
(7) reimburse the City for expenditures made by the
City for local public improvements (which include buildings, parking
facilities, and other items described in Section 25.1(a) of the Act) within
or serving the Allocation Area;
(8) reimburse the City for rentals paid by the City for a
building or parking facility within or serving the Allocation Area under
any lease entered into under IC 36-1-10;
(9) pay all or a portion of a property tax replacement
credit to taxpayers in the Allocation Area as determined by the
Commission pursuant to Section 39 of the Act;
(10) pay expenses incurred by the Commission for local
public improvements that are in the Allocation Area or serving the
Allocation Area. Public improvements include buildings, parking
facilities, and other items described m Section 25.1(a) of the Act; or
(11) reimburse public and private entities for expenses
incurred in training employees of industrial facilities that qualify under the
Act;
provided however, that if further uses of property tax proceeds allocated to the Allocation
Fund are authorized or permitted by amendment to the Act, including Section 39 of the
Act, those uses shall also be authorized or permitted for property tax proceeds allocated
to the Allocation Fund.
(d) When the money in the Allocation Fund is sufficient to pay when
due all principal and interest payments for that year on bonds (including the Bonds)
described in subsection (c), and is not needed for that year for the other purposes
described in subsection (c) (including without limitation the maintaining of property
taxes collected in a given year in the Allocation Fund as a reserve to pay principal and
interest on the Bonds payable in the year following such year of collection in the manner
and at the times specified herein), money in the Allocation Fund in excess of that amount
(the "Excess Funds") shall be paid to the Controller who shall, during the time a part of
the Area is located in an enterprise zone created under IC 4-4-6.1, deposit such Excess
Funds in a special fund created for the enterprise zone and used as required by law;
provided, however, to the extent portions of the Allocation Area are not within the
enterprise zone, the Excess Funds deposited into the special fund shall be reduced on a
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 1 g -
pro rata basis based on the percentage of the enterprise zone contained in the Allocation
Area as provided in Section 39(g) of the Act. When no part of the Allocation Area is
located in an enterprise zone then the Excess Funds shall be deposited as provided in
subsection (e).
(e) Except as provided in subsection (d), before July 15 of each year,
the Commission shall (I) determine the amount, if any, of Excess Funds in the following
year; and (2) notify the Auditor of St. Joseph County of the amount, if any, of the Excess
Funds that the Commission has determined may be paid to the respective taxing units
entitled thereto, provided that the Commission may not authorize a payment to the
respective taxing units under this subsection if to do so would endanger the interests of
the holders of the bonds (including the Bonds) described in subsection (c) of this
Section 4.
(f) The Tax Increment, other than the excess funds shall be
irrevocably pledged for the purpose set forth in this Section 4.
(g) All money in each of the accounts in the Allocation Fund shall be
held in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Bonds and shall be applied, used and
withdrawn only for the purposes authorized in this Section 4. The proceeds of the
Allocation Fund shall be deposited with a legally qualified depository or depositories for
funds of the City as now provided by law and shall be segregated and kept separate and
apart from all other funds of the City and may be invested as permitted by law. Interest
earned in each account or fund established under this Resolution shall be credited thereto.
SECTION 5. Additional Bonds and Pledges of Tax Increment.
(a) The Redevelopment District reserves the right to authorize and
issue additional bonds ("Parity Bonds"), payable out of the Tax Increment, ranking on a
parity with the Bonds authorized by this Resolution and payable ratably from the Tax
Increment for the purpose of raising money for future property acquisition,
redevelopment and economic development in or serving the Allocation Area or for
refunding any previously issued and outstanding Bonds. In the event any Parity Bonds
are issued pursuant to this Paragraph No. 5(a), the term "Bonds" in this Resolution shall,
unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to refer to the bonds authorized to be
issued by this Resolution and such Parity Bonds. The authorization and issuance of
Parity Bonds shall be subject to the following conditions precedent:
(i) All interest and principal payments with respect to all
obligations payable from the Tax Increment shall be current to date with no
payment in arrears.
(ii) The balance in the Reserve Account shall equal the Debt
Service Reserve Requirement.
•
BDDB01 4912282v3 - 19 -
(iii) The Commission shall have received a certificate prepared
by an independent certified public accountant or an independent financial
consultant ("Certifier") certifying that the Tax Increment estimated to be received
in each succeeding year, adjusted as provided below, is estimated to be equal to at
least 165% of the principal and interest requirements of all obligations of the
Commission payable from Tax Increment for each respective year during the term
of the bonds with respect to the Bonds and the Parity Bonds. In estimating the Tax
Increment to be received in any future year, the Certifier shall base his calculation
on assessed valuation actually assessed or to be assessed as of the assessment date
immediately preceding the issuance of the Parity Bonds; provided, however, the
Certifier shall adjust such assessed values for the current and future reductions of
real property tax abatements granted to property owners in the Allocation Area.
No increase in the Tax Increment to be received in any future year shall be
assumed which results from projected inflation in property values.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Parity Bonds are to be issued for the purpose of
refunding Bonds, then the requirements of this subsection (iii) need not be
satisfied so long as (1) the refunding bonds do not have a maturity longer than the
Bonds being refunded, and (2) the debt service of the refunding bonds is less than
or equal to the debt service on the Bonds being refunded in each year.
The Commission shall approve and confirm the findings and estimates set forth in the
above-described certificate in any supplemental resolution authorizing the issuance of the
Parity Bonds.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, so long as any of the
Bonds are outstanding, no additional bonds or other obligations pledging any portion of
the Tax Increment shall be authorized, executed or issued by the City acting for and on
behalf of the Redevelopment District except such as shall be made subordinate and junior
in all respects to the Bonds, unless all of the Bonds are redeemed and retired
coincidentally with the delivery of such additional bonds or other obligations, or, as
provided in Section 16, funds sufficient to effect such redemption are available and set
aside for that purpose at the time of issuance of such additional bonds.
SECTION 6. Disposition of Bond Proceeds. Proceeds received from the sale
of the Bonds shall be deposited as follows:
(a) All accrued interest received at the time of the delivery of the
bonds plus such additional amount, if any, as the Commission shall determine with the
advice of its financial advisor to be used for capitalized interest shall be placed in the
Bond Principal and Interest Account; and
(b) The remaining proceeds from the sale of the Bonds shall be
deposited in a special fund to be designated as the "South Bend Redevelopment District
Douglas Road Economic Development Allocation Area Capital Fund" (the "Capital
Fund").
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 2~ -
SECTION 7. Capital Fund. Proceeds of the Capital Fund shall be deposited
with a legally qualified depository or depositories for funds of the City as now provided by law
and shall be segregated and kept separate and apart from all other funds of the City and may be
invested as permitted by law. The proceeds in the Capital Fund shall be expended only for the
purpose of paying the cost of redevelopment and economic development in or serving the
Allocation Area, together with a sum sufficient to pay the estimated cost of all expenses
reasonably incurred in connection with the redevelopment and economic development in or
serving the Allocation Area, including the total cost of all reasonable and necessary architectural,
engineering, legal, financing, accounting, advertising, bond discount and supervisory expenses,
and expenses the Commission may be required, together with the expenses in connection with or
on account of the issuance of the Bonds. Any balance or balances remaining in the Capital Fund
after the completion of redevelopment and economic development in or serving the Allocation
Area which are not required to meet unpaid obligations incurred in connection with the
redevelopment and economic development in or serving the Allocation Area and issuance of the
Bonds shall be deposited into the Bond Principal and Interest account and used solely for the
purposes of that account.
SECTION 8. Delivery of Resolution. As soon as can be done after the adoption
of this Resolution, the President and the Secretary of the Commission are hereby directed to
deliver on behalf of the Commission a certified copy of this Resolution to the Controller.
SECTION 9. Sale of Bonds. The Bonds shall be sold by private negotiated sale,
as provided by Section 25.1(g) of the Act, to the purchaser or underwriter selected by the
Commission, at a price of not less than ninety-nine percent (99)% of par plus accrued interest, if
any, to the date of delivery of the Bonds. The Controller and the President of the Commission
may negotiate a purchase agreement to be entered into with respect to the purchase of the Bonds
(the "Bond Purchase Agreement"), and the President of the Commission, on behalf of the City
and the Commission, is hereby authorized to execute and deliver the Bond Purchase Agreement,
to be attested to by the Controller. The Controller and the President of the Commission are
further authorized to carry out, on behalf of the City and the Commission, the terms and
conditions set forth in the Bond Purchase Agreement, consistent with the provisions of this
Resolution. The purchaser of the Bonds shall be required to execute a "sophisticated investor
letter" indicating it is purchasing the bonds for its own account and not to further sell the Bonds
and that it is a knowledgeable investor with respect to the Bonds.
SECTION 10. Bond Counsel Opinion. Prior to the delivery of the Bonds, the
Controller, subject to the direction of the Commission, shall obtain a legal opinion as to the
validity of the Bonds from Baker & Daniels LLP, South Bend, Indiana, bond counsel, with such
opinion or opinions to be furnished to the purchaser or purchasers of the Bonds. The costs of
bond counsel's fee in preparing and delivering such opinion or opinions and in the performance
of related services in connection wi':h the issuance, sale and delivery of the Bonds, shall be
considered as a part of the cost of the Project and shall be paid out of the proceeds of the Bonds,
respectively.
SECTION 11. Temporary Bonds. Any Bonds issued under this Resolution
may be initially issued in temporary form exchangeable for definitive Bonds. The temporary
BDDB01 4912282v3 - 21 -
Bonds may be printed, lithographed or typewritten, shall be of such denominations as may be
determined by the Commission, shall be in fully registered form and may contain such reference
to any of the provisions of this Resolution as may be appropriate. Every temporary Bond shall
be executed, sealed and attested in substantially the same manner and by the respective officers
of the City as provided in Section 1 hereof. If temporary Bonds are issued, definitive Bonds will
be executed and furnished without delay and thereupon the temporary bonds may be surrendered
for cancellation at the principal office of the Registrar and the Registrar shall deliver in exchange
for such temporary Bonds an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive Bonds of the same
interest rates and maturities. Until so exchanged, the temporary Bonds shall be entitled to the
same benefits under this Resolution as definitive Bonds issued hereunder.
SECTION 12. Issuance, Execution and Delivery of the Bonds. The Mayor is
hereby authorized to execute the Bonds with his/her manual or facsimile signature, and the Clerk
is hereby authorized and directed to have the definitive Bonds prepared, attest the Bonds with
his/her manual or facsimile signature, and cause the seal of the City to be impressed or a
facsimile thereof to be printed on the Bonds, all in the form and manner herein provided. In the
case any officer whose signature appears on the Bonds shall cease to hold that office before the
delivery of the Bonds, the signature of such officer shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for
all purposes, the same as if such officer had remained in office until the delivery of the Bonds.
After the Bonds have been properly executed, the Controller shall certify the amount the
purchaser is to pay, together with the name and address of the purchaser, and upon receipt of the
amount of payment certified, deliver or cause to be delivered the Bonds to the purchaser. The
Controller shall take a receipt for the Bonds delivered to the purchaser, pay the purchaser's
payment into the respective funds described above, and report the proceedings to the
Commission and the Common Council of the City.
SECTION 13. Tax Covenants. In order to preserve the exclusion from gross
income of interest on the Bonds under federal law and as an inducement to the purchasers of the
Bonds, the Commission on behalf of the Redevelopment District represents, covenants and
agrees that:
(a) No person or entity or any combination thereof, other than the
Redevelopment District or the City, will use proceeds of the Bonds or property financed
by said proceeds other than as a member of the general public. No person or entity or
any combination thereof, other than the Redevelopment District will own property
financed by Bond proceeds or will have actual or beneficial use of such property pursuant
to a lease, a management or incentive payment contract, an arrangement such as a
take-or-pay or other type of output contract or any other type of arrangement that
differentiates that person's or entity's use of such property from the use by the public at
large of such property or provides for a payment to the Redevelopment District or the
City in connection with such use;
(b) No Bond proceeds will be lent to any entity or person. No Bond
proceeds will be transferred directly, or indirectly transferred or deemed transferred to a
person other than a governmental unit in a fashion that would in substance constitute a
loan of said Bond proceeds;
BDD1301 4912282v3 - 22 -
(c) The Redevelopment District will not take any action or fail to take
any action with respect to, the Bonds that would result in the loss of the exclusion from
gross income for federal tax purposes of interest on the Bonds pursuant to Section 103(a)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and as in effect on the date of delivery
of the Bonds (the "Code"), and the Commission will not act in any manner which would
adversely affect such exclusion. The Commission further covenants that it will not make
any investment or do any other act or thing during the period that any Bond is
outstanding hereunder which would cause any Bond to be an "arbitrage bond" within the
meaning of Section 148 of the Code and the regulations applicable thereto as in effect on
the date of delivery of the Bonds. The Commission shall comply with the arbitrage
rebate requirements under Section 148 of the Code to the extent applicable; and
(d) All officers, members, employees and agents of the Commission,
the Department and the City are authorized and directed to provide certifications of facts
and estimates that are material to the reasonable expectations of the Commission as of the
date the Bonds are issued and to make and enter into covenants on behalf of the
Commission evidencing the Commission's recognition of and compliance with the
covenants and commitments made herein. In particular and without limiting the
foregoing, any and all appropriate officers, members, employees and agents of the
Commission, the Department and the City are authorized to certify and/or enter into
covenants for the Redevelopment District regarding the facts and circumstances and
reasonable expectations of the Commission on the date the Bonds are issued and the
representations, covenants and commitments made by the Commission herein regarding
the amount and use of the proceeds of the Bonds.
SECTION 14. Compliance with Tax Sections. Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Resolution, the covenants and authorizations contained in this Resolution (the
"Tax Sections") which are designed to preserve the exclusion of interest on the Bonds from gross
income under federal law (the "Tax Exemption") need not be complied with if the
Redevelopment District receives an opinion of bond counsel that any Tax Section is unnecessary
to preserve the Tax Exemption.
SECTION 15. Defeasance If, when the Bonds or a portion thereof shall have
become due and payable in accordance with their terms or shall have been duly called for
redemption or irrevocable instructions to call the Bonds or a portion thereof for redemption shall
have been given, and the whole amount of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest so
due and payable upon all of the Bonds or a portion thereof then outstanding shall be paid or (i)
sufficient monies for such purpose, or (ii) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of
and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America, the
principal of and the interest on which when due will provide sufficient monies for such purpose,
or (iii) time certificates of deposit fully secured as to both principal and interest by obligations of
the kind described in (ii) above of a bank or banks the principal of and interest on which when
due will provide sufficient monies for such purpose, shall be held in trust for such purpose, and
provision shall also have been made for paying all fees and expenses in connection with the
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 23 -
redemption, then and in that case the Bonds or such portion thereof issued hereunder shall no
longer be deemed outstanding or an indebtedness of the Redevelopment District.
SECTION 16. Effectiveness. If any section, paragraph or provision of this
Resolution shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the invalidity or
unenforceability of such section, paragraph or provision shall not affect any of the remaining
provisions of this Resolution.
SECTION 17. Conflicts. All resolutions and orders, or parts thereof, in conflict
with the provisions of this Resolution are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed, and this
Resolution shall be in immediate effect from and after its adoption.
SECTION 18. Payments on Weekends or Holidays. If the date for making any
payment or the last date for performance of any act or the exercising of any right, as provided in
this Resolution, shall be a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the City or the
city in which the Paying Agent is located are typically closed, such payment may be made or act
performed or right exercised on the next succeeding day not a legal holiday or a day on which
such banking institutions are typically closed, with the same force and effect as if done on the
nominal date provided in this Resolution, and no interest shall accrue for the period after such
nominal date.
SECTION 19. Supplemental Resolutions. The Commission may, from time to
time and at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, any of the owners of the Bonds, adopt
resolutions supplemental hereto (which supplemental resolutions shall thereafter form a part
hereof) for any one or more of the following purposes:
(a) To cure any ambiguity or formal defect or omission in this
Resolution or in any supplemental resolution;
(b) To grant to or confer upon the owners of the Bonds any additional
benefits, rights, remedies, powers, authority or security that may lawfully be granted to or
conferred upon the owners of the Bonds, or to make any change which, in the judgment
of the Commission, is not to the prejudice of the owners of the Bonds;
(c) To modify, amend or supplement this Resolution to permit the
qualification of the Bonds for sale under the securities laws of the United States of
America or of any of the states of the United States of America or to obtain or maintain
bond insurance with respect to payments of principal of and interest on the Bonds;
(d) To provide for the refunding or advance refunding of the Bonds;
(e) To procure a rating on the Bonds from a nationally recognized
securities rating agency designated in such supplemental resolution, if such supplemental
resolution will not adversely affect the owners of the Bonds; or
•
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 24 -
(f) Any other purpose which in the judgment of the Commission does
not adversely affect the interests of the owners of the Bonds.
SECTION 20. Modification and Amendment. This Resolution and the rights
and obligations of the Commission and the owners of the Bonds may be modified or amended at
any time by supplemental resolutions adopted by the Commission with the consent of the owners
of the Bonds holding at least sixty percent (60%) in aggregate principal amount of the
outstanding Bonds (exclusive of Bonds, if any, owned by the Commission or the City); provided,
however, that no such modification or amendment shall, without the express consent of the
owners of the Bonds affected, reduce the principal amount of any Bond, reduce the interest rate
or premium payable thereon, advance the earliest redemption date, extend its maturity or the
times for paying interest thereon, permit a privilege or priority of any Bond or Bonds over any
other Bond or Bonds, create a lien securing any Bonds other than a lien ratably securing all of
the Bonds outstanding, or change the monetary medium in which principal and interest are
payable, nor shall any such modification or amendment reduce the percentage of consent
required for amendment or modification.
Any act done pursuant to a modification or amendment so consented to shall be
binding upon all the owners of the Bonds and shall not be deemed an infringement of any of the
provisions of this Resolution or of the Act, and may be done and performed as fully and freely as
if expressly permitted by the terms of this Resolution, and after such consent relating to such
specified matters has been given, no owner shall have any right or interest to object to such
action or in any manner to question the propriety thereof or to enjoin or restrain the Commission
or any officer thereof from taking any action pursuant thereto.
If the Commission shall desire to obtain any such consent, it shall cause the
Registrar to mail a notice, postage prepaid, to the respective owners of the Bonds at their
addresses appearing on the registratio~l books held by the Registrar. Such notice shall briefly set
forth the nature of the proposed supplemental resolution and shall state that a copy thereof is on
file at the office of the Registrar for inspection by all owners of the Bonds. The Registrar shall
not, however, be subject to any liability to any owners of the Bonds by reason of its failure to
mail the notice described in this Section 20, and any such failure shall not affect the validity of
such supplemental resolution when consented to and approved as provided in this Section 20.
Whenever at any time within one year after the date of the mailing of such notice,
the Commission shall receive an instrument or instruments purporting to be executed by the
owners of the Bonds of not less than sixty percent (60%) in aggregate principal amount of the
Bonds then outstanding (exclusive of Bonds, if any, owned by the Commission or the City),
which instrument or instruments shall refer to the proposed supplemental resolution described in
such notice, and shall specifically consent to and approve the adoption thereof in substantially
the form of the copy thereof referred to in such notice as on file with the Registrar, thereupon,
but not otherwise, the Commission may adopt such supplemental resolution in substantially such
form, without liability or responsibility to any owners of the Bonds, whether or not such owner
shall have consented thereto.
BDDB01 4912282v3 - 25 -
Upon the adoption of any supplemental resolution pursuant to the provisions of
this Section 20, this Resolution shall be, and be deemed to be, modified and amended in
accordance therewith, and the respective rights, duties and obligations under this Resolution shall
thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder, subject in all respects to such
modifications and amendments.
SECTION 21. Reimbursement of Preliminary Costs. The Commission hereby
declares the official intent of the District and the City, pursuant to I.C. 5-1-14-6(b) and 1.150-2
of the Treasury Regulations, that preliminary costs incurred by or on behalf of the Commission
in financing the costs relating to the Project be reimbursed from the proceeds of the Bonds.
SECTION 22. Further Approvals. Each officer of the Commission is hereby
authorized to take all such actions and to execute all such instruments as are necessary and
desirable to carry out the transactions contemplated by this Resolution, in such forms as each of
such officers executing the same shall deem proper, to be evidenced by the execution thereof.
*****
•
•
BDDBOI 4912282v3 - 26 -
•
SOUTH BEND REDEVELOPMENT
COMMISSION
i
President ~ Marcia Z~ :Jones
~~
~~
t
ADOPTED AND APPROVED at a meeting of the South Bend Redevelopment
Commission held on the 8t'' day of November, 2007.
ATTEST:
cr ary ~ Gregory S . Downes
BDDB01 4912282v3
27 -