Resolution No. 220 - RDA Approving Lease and Determing to Issue Bonds - Signed

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RESOLUTION NO.220 A RESOLUTION OF THE SOUTH BEND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ESTABLISHING ITS INTENT TO ISSUE REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY LEASE RENTAL REVENUE BONDS, APPROVING A PROPOSED LEASE WITH THE SOUTH BEND REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION, AND ALL MATTERS RELATED THERETO WHEREAS, the South Bend Redevelopment Authority (the "Authority") has been created pursuant to Indiana Code 36-7-14.5 as a separate body, corporate and politic, and as an instrumentality of the City of South Bend, Indiana (the "City"), to finance local public improvements for lease to the South Bend Redevelopment Commission (the "Commission"); and WHEREAS, the Commission, pursuant to a declaratory resolution previously adopted by the Commission and amended from time to time, has declared a certain area of the City known as the "River West Development Area" (the "Area") as an economic development area and an allocation area under Indiana Code 36-7-14 and approved an economic development plan for the Area; and WHEREAS, the Commission has given consideration to undertaking local public improvement projects in the Area including all or any portion of the following: (i) Coal Line Trail Phase III which consists of the extension of the existing Coal Line Trail from Lincoln Way West to the Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Center, and any related improvements; (ii) College Street streetscape improvements in connection with Phase III of the Coal Line Trail, and any related improvements; (iii) infrastructure improvements consisting of roads, storm water, sewer, and water utility infrastructure improvements along or adjacent to Old Cleveland Road, and any related improvements; (iv) the acquisition, construction, renovation and equipping of a new Rum Village Neighborhood Center, and any related improvements; (v) acquisition of land in the near west side of the City for a new neighborhood park, and any related improvements; (vi) infrastructure improvements to support the redevelopment of the former Drewry's property and improvements to the adjacent Muessel Grove Park, and any related improvements; (vii) acquisition, construction and equipping of a new parking garage structure attached to the Morris Performing Arts Center, and any related improvements; and (viii) all projects related to any of the projects described in clauses (i) through and including (vii) (clauses (i) through and including (viii), collectively, the "Projects"); and WHEREAS, the Authority desires to express its intent to issue its taxable or tax-exempt lease rental revenue bonds in one (1) or more series in an estimated aggregate principal amount not to exceed Thirty -Three Million Dollars ($33,000,000) (the "Bonds") for the purpose of (i) financing the cost of funding all or any portion of the Projects and related expenses; (ii) funding a debt service reserve fund, if necessary in connection with the issuance of the Bonds or purchasing a surety bond to satisfy a reserve requirement; and (iii) paying costs incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds; and WHEREAS, the Authority seeks to enter into and approve a proposed Lease Agreement with the Commission in the form presented at this public meeting (the "Lease") for the purpose of paying the principal of and interest on the Bonds issued pursuant to I.C. 36-7-14.5 to finance all or any portion of the Projects, and the other costs set forth above; and