HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 2024-24 - Utility System Revenue BondsORDINANCE NO.2024-.2Lk
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF CITY OF GEORGETOWN,
TEXAS UTILITY SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS; PLEDGING CERTAIN REVENUES IN
SUPPORT OF THE BONDS; APPROVING AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT, A PAYING
AGENT/REGISTRAR AGREEMENT, AND A PURCHASE AGREEMENT;
ESTABLISHING PROCEDURES FOR SELLING AND DELIVERING THE BONDS;
AND AUTHORIZING OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO THE BONDS
ADOPTED APRIL 23, 2024
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ORDINANCE NO. 2024-
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF CITY OF GEORGETOWN,
TEXAS UTILITY SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS; PLEDGING CERTAIN REVENUES IN
SUPPORT OF THE BONDS; APPROVING AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT, A PAYING
AGENT/REGISTRAR AGREEMENT, AND A PURCHASE AGREEMENT;
ESTABLISHING PROCEDURES FOR SELLING AND DELIVERING THE BONDS;
AND AUTHORIZING OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO THE BONDS
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas (the "City") deems it
necessary and desirable, as set forth in this Ordinance, to issue revenue bonds in one or more series
for the purpose of financing certain improvements and extensions to the City's System (as defined
herein) as well as paying professional services including legal, fiscal, architectural, engineer and
any costs of issuance associated therewith;
WHEREAS, the City is an "Issuer" under Section 1371.001(4)(P), Texas Government
Code, having (i) a principal amount of at least $100 million in outstanding long-term indebtedness,
in long-term indebtedness proposed to be issued, or a combination of outstanding or proposed
long-term indebtedness and (ii) some amount of long-term indebtedness outstanding or proposed
to be issued that is rated in one of the four highest rating categories for long-term debt instruments
by a nationally recognized rating agency for municipal securities, without regard to the effect of
any credit agreement or other form of credit enhancement entered into in connection with the
obligation;
WHEREAS, the Bonds (as defined herein) authorized by this Ordinance shall have the
terms included in a Pricing Certificate (as defined herein) to be executed and delivered as further
set forth by this Ordinance by the Mayor, acting as the designated pricing officer of the City, or,
in the absence of the Mayor, the Mayor Pro-Tem, all in accordance with the provisions of Chapter
1371, Texas Government Code, as amended ("Chapter 1371 "), and;
WHEREAS, it is hereby officially found and determined that the meeting at which this
Ordinance was passed was open to the public, and public notice of the time, place and purpose of
said meeting was given, all as required by Chapter 551, Texas Government Code.
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS THAT:
Section 1. RECITALS. The recitals set forth in the preamble hereof are incorporated
herein and shall have the same force and effect as if set forth in this Section.
Section 2. DEFINITIONS AND VISION STATEMENT. (a) Definitions. For all
purposes of this Ordinance, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise
requires, the terms defined in Exhibit "A" to this Ordinance have the meanings assigned to them
in Exhibit "A".
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b) Vision Statement. The City Council hereby finds that the enactment of this
Ordinance and issuance of the Bonds complies with the Vision Statement of the City.
Section 3. AMOUNT, NAME AND PURPOSE OF THE BONDS. The Bonds of
each Series, each to be designated the "CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS UTILITY
SYSTEM REVENUE BOND, SERIES 2024"; provided that the Pricing Officer in the Pricing
Certificate may revise the title of any Series of Bonds as necessary to reflect the tax status of such
Bonds as taxable or tax-exempt, the year in which such Bonds are being issued, any other revision
deemed necessary to properly market such Bonds. The Bonds are hereby authorized to be issued
and delivered in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, particularly
Chapters 1371 and 1502, Texas Government Code, as amended, and the City Charter. The Bonds
shall be issued in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed $130,000,000 for the purpose of
providing funds for (1) extending and improving the City's System, and (2) paying the costs of
issuing the Bonds.
Section 4. DATE, DENOMINATION, MATURITIES, NUMBERS, INTEREST
AND REDEMPTION. (a) Initially there shall be issued, sold, and delivered hereunder fully
registered Bonds, without interest coupons, which shall be in the form of current interest bonds,
numbered consecutively from R-1 upward (except the Initial Bond delivered to the Attorney
General of the State of Texas which shall be numbered T-1) payable to the respective initial
Registered Owners thereof, or to the registered assignee or assignees of said Bonds or any portion
or portions thereof, in Authorized Denominations, maturing not later than August 15, 2054, serially
or otherwise on the dates, in the years and in the principal amounts, respectively, and dated, as all
set forth in the Pricing Certificate to be executed and delivered by the Pricing Officer pursuant to
subsection (b) of this section. The Pricing Certificate is hereby incorporated in and made a part of
this Ordinance. The Bonds shall be designated by the year in which they are awarded as set forth
in the Pricing Certificate. The authority for the Pricing Officer to execute and deliver the Pricing
Certificate for the Bonds shall expire at 5:00 p.m. C.D.T. on April 23, 2025. Bonds priced on or
before April 23, 2025 may be delivered to the initial purchaser after such date.
b) As authorized by Chapter 1371, the Pricing Officer is hereby authorized to act on
behalf of the City in selling and delivering each Series of the Bonds and carrying out the other
procedures specified in this Ordinance, determining which extensions and improvements to the
City's System are to be financed, as applicable, determining the date of the Bonds, any additional
or different designation or title by which the Bonds shall be known, the price at which the Bonds
will be sold, the years in which the Bonds will mature, the principal amount to mature in each of
such years, the aggregate principal amount of Bonds, the rate or rates of interest to be borne by
each such maturity, the interest payment periods, the dates, price, and terms upon and at which the
Bonds shall be subject to redemption prior to maturity at the option of the City, as well as any
mandatory sinking fund redemption provisions, whether such Bonds shall be issued as Taxable
Bonds or Tax -Exempt Bonds, and all other matters relating to the issuance, sale, and delivery of
the Bonds, all of which shall be specified in the Pricing Certificate; provided that (i) the price to
be paid for the Bonds shall not be less than 90% of the aggregate original principal amount thereof
plus accrued interest thereon from its date to its delivery, and (ii) none of the Bonds issued for new
money purposes shall bear interest at a rate greater than 6.00%. In establishing the aggregate
principal amount of the Bonds, the Pricing Officer shall establish an amount not to exceed the
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amount authorized in Section 3, which shall be sufficient to provide for the purposes for which the
Bonds are authorized and to pay the costs of issuing the Bonds. The Bonds shall be sold by either
competitive sale, private placement or negotiated sale as determined by the Pricing Officer, at such
price, with and subject to such terms, as determined by the Pricing Officer in the Pricing
Certificate.
It is further provided, however, that the Bonds shall not be delivered unless prior to their
delivery the Bonds have been rated by a nationally -recognized rating agency for municipal
securities in one of the four highest rating categories for long-term obligations, as required by
Chapter 1371.
To achieve advantageous borrowing costs for the City, the Bonds shall be sold on a
negotiated, placement or competitive basis as determined by the Pricing Officer in the Pricing
Certificate. In determining whether to sell the Bonds by negotiated, placement or competitive sale,
the Pricing Officer shall take into account any material disclosure issues which might exist at the
time, the market conditions expected at the time of the sale and any other matters which, in the
judgment of the Pricing Officer, might affect the net borrowing costs on the Bonds.
If the Pricing Officer determines that the Bonds should be sold at a competitive sale, the
Pricing Officer shall cause to be prepared a notice of sale and official statement in such manner as
the Pricing Officer deems appropriate, to make the notice of sale and official statement available
to those institutions and firms wishing to submit a bid for the Bonds, to receive such bids, and to
award the sale of the Bonds to the bidder submitting the best bid in accordance with the provisions
of the notice of sale.
If the Pricing Officer determines that the Bonds should be sold by a negotiated sale or
placement, the Pricing Officer shall designate the placement purchaser, any placement agent or the
senior managing underwriter for the Bonds and such additional investment banking firms as the
Pricing Officer deems appropriate to assure that the Bonds are sold on the most advantageous
terms to the City. The Pricing Officer, acting for and on behalf of the City, is authorized to enter
into and carry out a purchase agreement, placement agreement or other agreement for the Bonds
to be sold by negotiated sale or placement, with the underwriters or placement purchasers at such
price, with and subject to such terms as determined by the Pricing Officer pursuant to this Section
above.
In satisfaction of Section 1201.022(a)(3), Texas Government Code, the City Council
determines that the delegation of the authority to the Pricing Officer to approve the final terms and
conditions of each Series of the Bonds as set forth in this Ordinance is, and the decisions made by
the Pricing Officer pursuant to such delegated authority and incorporated in the Pricing Certificate
will be, in the best interests and shall have the same force and effect as if such determination were
made by the City Council and the Pricing Officer is hereby authorized to make and include in a
Pricing Certificate an appropriate finding to that effect.
c) The Bonds shall bear interest calculated on the basis of a 360-day year composed
of twelve 30-day months from the dates specified in the FORM OF BONDS set forth in this
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Ordinance to their respective dates of maturity or redemption at the rates per annum set forth in
the Pricing Certificate.
d) Right of Redemption. The City reserves the right, at its option, to redeem the Bonds
as set forth in the Pricing Certificate.
e) Effect of Redemption. Notice of redemption having been given as provided in the
Pricing Certificate, the Bonds called for redemption shall become due and payable on the date
fixed for redemption and, unless the City defaults in the payment of the principal thereof or accrued
interest thereon, such Bonds thereof shall cease to bear interest from and after the date fixed for
redemption, whether or not such Bond is presented and surrendered for payment on such date. If
the Bonds thereof called for redemption are not so paid upon presentation and surrender thereof
for redemption, such Bonds thereof shall continue to bear interest at the rate stated on the Bond
until paid or until due provision is made for the payment of same.
g) Conditional Notice of Redemption. With respect to any optional redemption of the
Bonds, unless certain prerequisites to such redemption required by this Ordinance and the Pricing
Certificate have been met and moneys sufficient to pay the principal of the premium, if any, and
interest on the Bonds to be redeemed shall have been received by the Paying Agent prior to the
giving of such notice of redemption, such notice shall sate that said redemption may, at the option
of the City, be conditional upon the satisfaction of such prerequisites and receipt of such moneys
by the Paying Agent/Registrar on or prior to the date fixed for such redemption, or upon any
prerequisite set forth in such notice of redemption. If a conditional notice of redemption is given
and such prerequisites to the redemption and sufficient moneys are not received, such notice shall
be of no force and effect, the City shall not redeem such Bonds and the Paying Agent/Registrar
shall give notice, in the manner in which the notice of redemption was given, to the effect that the
Bonds have not been redeemed.
Section 5. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BONDS. (a) Registration, Transfer,
Conversion and Exchange; Authentication. The City shall keep or cause to be kept at the principal
corporate trust officer of such eligible institution as may be selected by the Pricing Officer in the
Pricing Certificate to serve as paying agent/registrar for the Bonds (the "Paying Agent/Registrar")
books or records for the registration of the transfer, conversion and exchange of the Bonds (the
Registration Books"), and the City hereby appoints the Paying Agent/Registrar as its registrar and
transfer agent to keep such books or records and make such registrations of transfers, conversions
and exchanges under such reasonable regulations as the City and Paying Agent/Registrar may
prescribe; and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall make such registrations, transfers, conversions and
exchanges as herein provided within three days of presentation in due and proper form. The Paying
Agent/Registrar shall obtain and record in the Registration Books the address of the Registered
Owner of each Bond to which payments with respect to the Bonds shall be mailed, as herein
provided; but it shall be the duty of each Registered Owner to notify the Paying Agent/Registrar
in writing of the address to which payments shall be mailed, and such interest payments shall not
be mailed unless such notice has been given. The City shall have the right to inspect the
Registration Books during regular business hours of the Paying Agent/Registrar, but otherwise the
Paying Agent/Registrar shall keep the Registration Books confidential and, unless otherwise
required by law, shall not permit their inspection by any other entity. The Paying Agent/Registrar
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shall make a copy of the Registration Books available in the State of Texas. The City shall pay
the Paying Agent/Registrar's standard or customary fees and charges for making such registration,
transfer, conversion, exchange and delivery of a substitute Bond or Bonds. Registration of
assignments, transfers, conversions and exchanges of Bonds shall be made in the manner provided
and with the effect stated in the FORM OF BOND set forth in Exhibit "B" to this Ordinance. Each
substitute Bond shall bear a letter and/or number to distinguish it from each other Bond.
Except as provided in (c) below, an authorized representative of the Paying Agent/Registrar
shall, before the delivery of any such Bond, date and manually sign the Paying Agent/Registrar's
Authentication Certificate, and no such Bond shall be deemed to be issued or outstanding unless
such certificate is so executed. The Paying Agent/Registrar promptly shall cancel all paid Bonds
and Bonds surrendered for transfer and exchange. No additional ordinances, orders or resolutions
need be passed or adopted by the governing body of the City or any other body or person so as to
accomplish the foregoing transfer and exchange of any Bond or portion thereof, and the Paying
Agent/Registrar shall provide for the preparation, execution and delivery of the substitute Bonds
in the manner prescribed herein. Pursuant to Chapter 1201, Texas Government Code, and
particularly Subchapter D thereof, the duty of transfer and exchange of Bonds as aforesaid is
hereby imposed upon the Paying Agent/Registrar, and, upon the execution of said Certificate, the
transferred and exchanged Bond shall be valid, incontestable and enforceable in the same manner
and with the same effect as the Bonds which initially were issued and delivered pursuant to this
Ordinance, approved by the Attorney General and registered by the Comptroller of Public
Accounts.
b) Payment of Bonds and Interest. The City hereby further appoints the Paying
Agent/Registrar to act as the paying agent for paying the principal of and interest on the Bonds,
all as provided in this Ordinance. The Paying Agent/ Registrar shall keep proper records of all
payments made by the City and the Paying Agent/Registrar with respect to the Bonds.
c) In General. The Bonds (i) shall be issued in fully registered form, without interest
coupons, with the principal of and interest on such Bonds to be payable only to the registered
owners thereof, (ii) may and shall be redeemed prior to their scheduled maturities, (iii) may be
transferred and assigned, (iv) may be exchanged for other Bonds of the same Series, (v) shall have
the characteristics, (vi) shall be signed, sealed, executed and authenticated, (vii) the principal of
and interest on the Bonds shall be payable, and (viii) shall be administered and the Paying
Agent/Registrar and the City shall have certain duties and responsibilities with respect to the
Bonds, all as provided, and in the manner and to the effect as required or indicated, in the FORM
OF BOND set forth in Exhibit "B" to this Ordinance. The Bonds initially issued and delivered
pursuant to this Ordinance are not required to be, and shall not be, authenticated by the Paying
Agent/ Registrar, but on each substitute Bond issued in exchange for any Bond or Bonds issued
under this Ordinance the Paying Agent/Registrar shall execute the PAYING
AGENT/REGISTRAR'S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE, in the form set forth in the
FORM OF BOND.
d) Substitute Paying A egnt/Re istrar. The City covenants with the registered owners
of the Bonds that at all times while the Bonds are outstanding the City will provide a competent
and legally qualified bank, trust company, financial institution or other entity to act as and perform
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the services of Paying Agent/Registrar for the Bonds under this Ordinance, and that the Paying
Agent/Registrar will be one entity. The City reserves the right to, and may, at its option and to the
extent permitted by law, (i) act in the capacity of Paying Agent/Registrar or (ii) change the Paying
Agent/Registrar upon not less than 30 days written notice to the Paying Agent/Registrar, to be
effective at such time which will not disrupt or delay payment on the next principal or interest
payment date after such notice. In the event that the entity at any time acting as Paying
Agent/Registrar (or its successor by merger, acquisition or other method) should resign or
otherwise cease to act as such, the City covenants that promptly it will assume the duties or will
appoint a competent and legally qualified bank, trust company, financial institution or other agency
to act as Paying Agent/Registrar under this Ordinance. Upon any change in the Paying
Agent/Registrar, the previous Paying Agent/Registrar promptly shall transfer and deliver the
Registration Books (or a copy thereof), along with all other pertinent books and records relating
to the Bonds, to the new Paying Agent/Registrar designated and appointed by the City. Upon any
change in the Paying Agent/Registrar, the City promptly will cause a written notice thereof to be
sent by the new Paying Agent/Registrar to each registered owner of the Bonds, by United States
mail, first-class postage prepaid, which notice also shall give the address of the new Paying
Agent/Registrar. By accepting the position and performing as such, each Paying Agent/Registrar
shall be deemed to have agreed to the provisions of this Ordinance, and a certified copy of this
Ordinance shall be delivered to each Paying Agent/Registrar.
e) Book -Entry -Only System for Bonds. The Bonds issued in exchange for the Bonds
initially issued as provided in Section 5(i) shall be initially issued in the form of a separate single
fully registered Bond for each of the maturities thereof. Upon initial issuance, the ownership of
each such Bond shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of The Depository
Trust Company of New York ("DTC"), and except as provided in subsection (f) hereof, all of the
outstanding Bonds shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC.
With respect to Bonds registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, the City
and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall have no responsibility or obligation to any securities brokers
and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations on
whose behalf DTC was created ("DTC Participant") to hold securities to facilitate the clearance
and settlement of securities transactions among DTC Participants or to any person on behalf of
whom such DTC Participant holds an interest in the Bonds. Without limiting the immediately
preceding sentence, the City and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall have no responsibility or
obligation with respect to (i) the accuracy of the records of DTC, Cede & Co. or any DTC
Participant with respect to any ownership interest in the Bonds, (ii) the delivery to any DTC
Participant or any other person, other than a registered owner of the Bonds, as shown on the
Registration Books, of any notice with respect to the Bonds or (iii) the payment to any DTC
Participant or any other person, other than a registered owner of Bonds, as shown in the
Registration Books of any amount with respect to principal of or interest on the Bonds.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance to the contrary, the City and the Paying
Agent/Registrar shall be entitled to treat and consider the person in whose name each Bond is
registered in the Registration Books as the absolute owner of such Bond for the purpose of payment
of principal and interest with respect to such Bond, for the purpose of registering transfers with
respect to such Bond and for all other purposes whatsoever. The Paying Agent/Registrar shall pay
all principal of and interest on the Bonds only to or upon the order of the registered owners, as
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shown in the Registration Books as provided in this Ordinance, or their respective attorneys duly
authorized in writing, and all such payments shall be valid and effective to fully satisfy and
discharge the City's obligations with respect to payment of principal of and interest on the Bonds
to the extent of the sum or sums so paid. No person other than a registered owner, as shown in the
Registration Books, shall receive a Bond certificate evidencing the obligation of the City to make
payments of principal and interest pursuant to this Ordinance. Upon delivery by DTC to the Paying
Agent/Registrar of written notice to the effect that DTC has determined to substitute a new
nominee in place of Cede & Co., and subject to the provisions in this Ordinance with respect to
interest checks being mailed to the registered owner at the close of business on the Record Date,
the words "Cede & Co." in this Ordinance shall refer to such new nominee of DTC.
f) Successor Securities Depository' Transfers Outside Book -Entry -Only Systems. In
the event that the City determines to discontinue the use of the Book -Entry -Only System through
DTC, or DTC determines to discontinue providing its services with respect to the Bonds, the City
shall (i) appoint a successor securities depository, qualified to act as such under Section 17(a) of
the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, notify DTC and DTC Participants of the
appointment of such successor securities depository and transfer one or more separate Bonds to
such successor securities depository or (ii) notify DTC and DTC Participants of the availability
through DTC of Bonds and transfer one or more separate Bonds to DTC Participants having Bonds
credited to their DTC accounts. In such event, the Bonds shall no longer be restricted to being
registered in the Registration Books in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, but may be
registered in the name of the successor securities depository, or its nominee, or in whatever name
or names registered owners transferring or exchanging Bonds shall designate, in accordance with
the provisions of this Ordinance. Whenever a successor securities depository has been appointed
pursuant to this paragraph, the terms DTC and DTC Participant as used in this Ordinance shall
refer to such successor securities depository and its participants, respectively.
g) Payments to Cede & Co. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance to
the contrary, so long as any Bond is registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee for DTC,
all payments with respect to principal of and interest on such Bond and all notices with respect to
such Bond shall be made and given, respectively, in the manner provided in the representation
letter of the City to DTC.
h) DTC Blanket Letter of Representations. The City confirms execution of a Blanket
Letter of Representations with DTC establishing the Book -Entry -Only System with respect to the
Bonds.
i) Cancellation of Initial Bond. On the closing date, one Initial Bond representing the
entire principal amount of the Bonds, payable in stated installments to the order of the initial
purchaser of the Bonds or its designee, executed by manual or facsimile signature of the Mayor or
Mayor Pro-Tem and City Secretary, approved by the Attorney General of Texas, and registered
and manually signed by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, will be delivered
to such initial purchaser or its designee. Upon payment for the Initial Bond, the Paying
Agent/Registrar shall cancel the Initial Bond and deliver to DTC on behalf of such initial purchaser
one registered definitive Bond for each year of maturity of the Bonds, in the aggregate principal
amount of all the Bonds for such maturity.
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Section 6. FORM OF BOND. The form of each Bond, including the form of Paying
Agent/Registrar's Authentication Certificate, the form of Assignment and the form of Registration
Certificate of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas to be attached only to the
Bonds initially issued and delivered pursuant to this Ordinance, shall be, respectively, substantially
in the form set forth in Exhibit "B" hereto, with such appropriate variations, omissions or insertions
as are permitted or required by this Ordinance.
Section 7. PLEDGE OF PLEDGED REVENUES. The City hereby covenants and
agrees that the Pledged Revenues are hereby irrevocably pledged to the payment and security of
the Parity Obligations including the establishment and maintenance of the special funds created,
established and maintained for the payment and security thereof, all as hereinafter provided; and
it is hereby ordained that the Parity Obligations, and the interest thereon, shall constitute a lien on
and pledge of the Pledged Revenues and be valid and binding without any physical delivery thereof
or further act by the City, and the lien created hereby on the Pledged Revenues for the payment
and security of the Parity Obligations, including the establishment and maintenance of the special
funds created, established and maintained for the payment and security thereof, shall be superior
to the lien on and pledge of the Pledged Revenues securing payment of any Subordinate Lien
Obligations hereafter issued by the City.
Section 8. SPECIAL FUNDS. The City confirms the establishment and maintenance
on the books of the City, so long as any of the Parity Obligations are outstanding and unpaid, of
the below limited Special Funds:
a) City of Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue Fund, hereinafter called the
Revenue Fund."
b) City of Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue Bonds Interest and Sinking
Fund, hereinafter called the "Interest and Sinking Fund."
Though all of such funds may be subaccounts of the City's General Fund held by the City's
depository, and, as such, not held in separate bank accounts, such treatment shall not constitute a
commingling of the monies in such Funds or of such Funds and the City shall keep full and
complete records indicating the monies and investments credited to each of such Funds.
Section 9. REVENUE FUND. The City hereby covenants, agrees and establishes that
the Gross Revenues shall be deposited and credited to the Revenue Fund immediately as collected
and received. All Maintenance and Operating Expenses are and shall be paid from such Gross
Revenues as a first charge against same.
Section 10. FLOW OF FUNDS. All Gross Revenues deposited and credited to the
Revenue Fund shall be pledged and appropriated to the extent required for the following uses and
in the order of priority shown:
FIRST: to the payment of all necessary and reasonable Maintenance and Operating
Expenses as defined herein or required by statute, including, but not limited to, Chapter
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1502, Texas Government Code, as amended, to be a first charge on and claim against the
Gross Revenues, including a two (2)-month reserve amount based upon the budgeted
amount of Maintenance and Operating Expenses for the current Fiscal Year, which amount
shall be retained in the Revenue Fund.
SECOND: to the payment of the amounts required to be deposited and credited to the
Interest and Sinking Fund created and established for the payment of the Bonds, the
Previously Issued Parity Obligations and any Additional Parity Obligations issued by the
City as the same become due and payable.
THIRD: pro rata to the payment of the amounts required to be deposited and credited (i)
to the Reserve Fund created and established to maintain the Required Reserve Amount in
accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, including amounts owed with respect to
any Reserve Fund Obligation to restore the Required Reserve Amount and (ii) to each other
reserve fund created and established to maintain a reserve in accordance with the provisions
of the ordinances relating to the issuance of any Additional Parity Obligations hereafter
issued by the City.
FOURTH: to the payment of Subordinate Lien Obligations.
FIFTH: to the payment of the amounts required for any lawful purpose.
Section 11. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. For purposes of providing funds to
pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Parity Obligations as the same become
due and payable, including any mandatory sinking fund redemption payments, the City agrees that
it shall maintain the Interest and Sinking Fund. The City covenants to deposit and credit to the
Interest and Sinking Fund prior to each principal, interest payment or redemption date from the
available Pledged Revenues an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the amount
required to fully pay the interest on and the principal of the Parity Obligations then falling due and
payable. The City shall make such deposits and credits to pay maturing principal, accrued interest,
and mandatory sinking fund redemptions on the Parity Obligations in substantially equal semi-
annual installments on or before each February 15 and August 15.
The required semi-annual deposits and credits to the Interest and Sinking Fund shall
continue to be made as hereinabove provided until such time as (i) the total amount on deposit in
and credited to the Interest and Sinking Fund and the Reserve Fund (excluding any Reserve Fund
Obligation) is equal to the amount required to fully pay and discharge all Outstanding Parity
Obligations (principal, premium, if any, and interest) or (ii) the Parity Obligations are no longer
outstanding.
Accrued interest and capitalized interest, if any, received from the purchaser of any Parity
Obligation shall be taken into consideration and reduce the amount of the semi-annual deposits
and credits hereinabove required into the Interest and Sinking Fund.
Section 12. RESERVE FUND. (a) To accumulate and maintain a reserve for the
payment of the Bonds and the Outstanding Parity Obligations equal to the Average Annual Debt
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Service Requirements of the Bonds and the Outstanding Parity Obligations (calculated by the City
at the beginning of each Fiscal Year) (the "Required Reserve Amount"), the Reserve Fund has
been established and shall be maintained by the City. Earnings and income derived from the
investment of amounts held for the credit of the Reserve Fund shall be retained in the Reserve
Fund until the Reserve Fund contains the Required Reserve Amount; thereafter, such earnings and
income shall be deposited to the credit of the Revenue Fund. As provided in Section 10, the City
shall deposit and credit to the Reserve Fund amounts required to maintain the balance in the
Reserve Fund in an amount equal to the Required Reserve Amount. There shall be deposited into
the Reserve Fund any Reserve Fund Obligations so designated by the City. All funds, investments
and Reserve Fund Obligations on deposit and credited to the Reserve Fund shall be used solely for
i) the payment of the principal of and interest on the Bonds and the Outstanding Parity
Obligations, when and to the extent other funds available for such purposes are insufficient, (ii) to
make Reserve Fund Obligation Payments and (iii) to retire the last Stated Maturity or Stated
Maturities of or interest on the Bonds and the Outstanding Parity Obligations.
b) When and for so long as the cash, investments and Reserve Fund Obligations in the
Reserve Fund equal the Required Reserve Amount, no deposits need be made to the credit of the
Reserve Fund; but, if and when the Reserve Fund at any time contains less than the Required
Reserve Amount, the City covenants and agrees that the City shall cure the deficiency in the
Reserve Fund by resuming the Required Reserve Fund Deposits to such Fund from the Pledged
Revenues in accordance with Section 10 by monthly deposits and credits in amounts equal to not
less than 1/60th of the Required Reserve Amount with any such deficiency payments being made
on or before each February 15 and August 15 until the Required Reserve Amount has been fully
restored; provided, however, that no such deposits shall be made into the Reserve Fund during any
six month period beginning on February 15 and August 15 until there has been deposited into the
Interest and Sinking Fund the full amount required to be deposited therein by the next following
February 15 and August 15, as the case may be. In addition, in the event that a portion of the
Required Reserve Amount is represented by a Reserve Fund Obligation, the Required Reserve
Amount shall be restored as soon as possible from monthly deposits of Pledged Revenues on
deposit in the Revenue Fund in accordance with Section 10, but subject to making the full deposits
and credits to the Interest and Sinking Fund required to be made by the next following February
15 and August 15, as the case may be. The City further covenants and agrees that, subject only to
the prior deposits and credits to be made to the Interest and Sinking Fund, the Pledged Revenues
shall be applied and appropriated and used to establish and maintain the Required Reserve
Amount, including by paying Reserve Fund Obligation Payments when due, and any reserve
established for the benefit of any issue or series of Additional Parity Obligations and to cure any
deficiency in such amounts as required by the terms of this Ordinance and any other ordinance
pertaining to the issuance of Additional Parity Obligations.
During such time as the Reserve Fund contains the Required Reserve Amount, the
obligation to maintain the Required Reserve Amount has been suspended pursuant to subsection
d) below or any cash is replaced with a Reserve Fund Obligation pursuant to subsection (c) below,
the City may, at its option, withdraw all surplus funds in the Reserve Fund and deposit such surplus
in the Interest and Sinking Fund or otherwise use such amount in any manner permitted by law.
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c) A Reserve Fund Obligation issued in an amount equal to all or part of the Required
Reserve Amount for the Bonds and the Outstanding Parity Obligations may be used in lieu of
depositing cash into the Reserve Fund. In addition, a Reserve Fund Obligation may be substituted
for monies and investments in the Reserve Fund if the substitution of the Reserve Fund Obligation
will not, in and of itself, cause any ratings then assigned to the Bonds and the Outstanding Parity
Obligations by any Rating Agency to be lowered and the ordinance authorizing the substitution of
the Reserve Fund Obligation for all or part of the Required Reserve Amount contains a finding
that such substitution is cost effective.
d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the requirement set
forth in subsection (a) above to maintain the Required Reserve Amount in the Reserve Fund shall
be suspended for such time as the Net Revenues for each Fiscal Year are equal to at least 1.35
times the Average Annual Debt Service Requirements. In the event that the Net Revenues for any
Fiscal Year are less than 1.35 times the Average Annual Debt Service Requirements, the City will
be required to commence making Required Reserve Fund Deposits, as provided in subsection (b)
above, and to continue such Required Reserve Fund Deposits until the earlier of (i) such time as
the Reserve Fund contains the Required Reserve Amount or (ii) the Net Revenues in each of two
consecutive years have been equal to not less than 1.35 times the Average Annual Debt Service
Requirements.
e) A Reserve Fund Obligation permitted under (a) above, must be in the form of a
surety bond or insurance policy meeting the requirements described below.
1) (i) A surety bond or insurance policy issued to a paying agent/registrar for the Parity
Obligations, as agent of the Holders, by a company licensed to issue an insurance policy
guaranteeing the timely payment of debt service on the Parity Obligations (a "municipal
bond insurer") if the claims paying ability of the issuer thereof shall be rated "AAA" or
Aaa", respectively, by S&P or Moody's, or (ii) a surety bond or insurance policy issued to
a paying agent/registrar for the Parity Obligations, as agent of the Holders, by an entity
other than a municipal bond insurer, if the form and substance of such instrument and the
issuer thereof shall be approved in writing by each Bond Insurer of record.
2) The obligation to reimburse the issuer of a Reserve Fund Obligation for any claims or
draws upon such Reserve Fund Obligation in accordance with its terms, including expenses
incurred in connection with such claims or draws, to the extent permitted by law, (a Reserve
Fund Obligation Payment) shall be made from the deposits made to the Reserve Fund as
provided in this Section and in Section 10. The Reserve Fund Obligation shall provide for
a revolving feature under which the amount available thereunder will be reinstated to the
extent of any reimbursement of draws or claims paid. If the revolving feature is suspended
or terminated for any reason, the right of the issuer of the Reserve Fund Obligation to
reimbursement will be subordinated to the cash replenishment of the Reserve Fund to an
amount equal to the difference between the full original amount available under the
Reserve Fund Obligation and the amount then available for further draws or claims. In the
event (a) the issuer of a Reserve Fund Obligation becomes insolvent, or (b) the issuer of a
Reserve Fund Obligation defaults in its payment obligations thereunder, or (c) the claims
paying ability of the issuer of the insurance policy or surety bond falls below "AAA" or
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Aaa," by S&P and Moody's, respectively, the obligation to reimburse the issuer of the
Reserve Fund Obligation shall be subordinated to the cash replenishment of the Reserve
Fund.
3) In the event (a) the revolving reinstatement feature described in the preceding
paragraph is suspended or terminated, or (b) the rating of the claims paying ability of the
issuer of the surety bond or insurance policy falls below "AAA" or "Aaa," by S&P and
Moody's, respectively, the City shall either (i) deposit into the Reserve Fund, in accordance
with this Section and Section 10, an amount sufficient to cause the cash or investments
credited to the Reserve Fund to accumulate to the Required Reserve Amount, or (ii) replace
such instrument with a surety bond or insurance policy meeting the requirements of 1 and
2 above, within six months of such occurrence. In the event (a) the rating of the claims -
paying ability of the issuer of the surety bond or insurance policy falls below "A" by S&P
and Moody's, or (b) the issuer of the Reserve Fund Obligation defaults in its payment
obligations hereunder, or (c) the issuer of the Reserve Fund Obligation becomes insolvent,
the City shall either (i) deposit into the Reserve Fund, in accordance with this Section,
amounts sufficient to cause the cash or investments on deposit in the Reserve Fund to
accumulate to the Required Reserve Amount, or (ii) replace such instrument with a surety
bond or insurance policy meeting the requirements of 1 and 2 above within six months of
such occurrence.
4) The Paying Agent/Registrar shall ascertain the necessity for a claim or draw upon any
Reserve Fund Obligation and provide notice to the issuer of the Reserve Fund Obligation
in accordance with its terms not later than three days (or such appropriate time period as
will, when combined with the timing of required payment under the Reserve Fund
Obligation, ensure payment under the Reserve Fund Obligation on or before the interest
payment date) prior to each date upon which the principal of or interest on the Parity
Obligations will be due.
It is recognized that a Reserve Fund Obligation may be issued which is payable only with
respect to a part of the Bonds and the Outstanding Parity Obligations with the remainder of the
Required Reserve Amount being satisfied by monies and investments and in that case any draws
upon the Reserve Fund will have to be made on a pro-rata basis to ensure that every Parity
Obligation enjoys an equal amount of security. Therefore, (i) draws upon one or more such
Reserve Fund Obligations shall be made on a pro-rata basis with cash and investments available
in the Reserve Fund and (ii) deposits and credits to the Reserve Fund to restore it to the Required
Reserve Amount shall be utilized on a pro-rata basis to pay Reserve Fund Obligation Payments to
reimburse the issuers of the Reserve Fund Obligations, thus restoring that part of the Required
Reserve Amount, and to restore with cash and investments the balance of the Required Reserve
Amount.
Section 13. EXCESS BOND PROCEEDS. Any proceeds of Parity Obligations not
required to effectuate the purposes for which such Parity Obligations were issued, as provided in
the respective ordinances authorizing the issuance of such Parity Obligations, or for the payment
of the costs of issuance of such Parity Obligations shall be deposited and credited to the Interest
and Sinking Fund and shall be taken into consideration and shall reduce the amount of semi-annual
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deposits and credits to the Interest and Sinking Fund from the Pledged Revenues or used to redeem
or purchase the Parity Obligations from which such excess proceeds are related.
Section 14. DEFICIENCIES - EXCESS PLEDGED OR NET REVENUES. (a) If
on any occasion there shall not be sufficient Pledged Revenues (after making all payments
pertaining to all Parity Obligations) to make the required deposits and credits to the Interest and
Sinking Fund and the Reserve Fund, then such deficiency shall be cured as soon as possible from
the next available unallocated Pledged Revenues, or from any other sources available for such
purpose, and such deposits and credits shall be in addition to the amounts otherwise required to be
deposited and credited to these Funds.
b) Subject to making the deposits and credits required by this Ordinance, or any
ordinances authorizing the issuance of Additional Parity Obligations, or the payments and credits
required by the provisions of the ordinances authorizing the issuance of Subordinate Lien
Obligations hereafter issued by the City, the excess Net Revenues may be used for any lawful
purpose.
Section 15. INVESTMENT OF FUNDS - VALUATION - TRANSFER OF
INVESTMENT INCOME. (a) Money in the Revenue Fund, the Interest and Sinking Fund and
the Reserve Fund may, at the option of the City, be invested in Permitted Investments; provided
that all such deposits and investments shall be made in such manner that the money required to be
expended from any fund will be available at the proper time or times. All such investments shall
be valued in terms of current market value no less frequently than the last business day of the City's
Fiscal Year, except that any direct obligations of the United States of America - State and Local
Government Series shall be continuously valued at their par value or principal face amount. Any
obligation in which money is so invested shall be kept and held at the Depository, except as
otherwise permitted by the laws applicable to the City. For purposes of maximizing investment
returns, money in such funds may be invested, together with money in other funds or with other
money of the City, in common investments of the kind described above, or in a common pool of
such investments held by the City or its designated agent, which shall not be deemed to be or
constitute a commingling of such money or funds provided that safekeeping receipts or certificates
of participation clearly evidencing the investment or investment pool in which such money is
invested and the share thereof purchased with such money or owned by such fund are held by or
on behalf of each such fund. If necessary, such investments shall be promptly sold to prevent any
default.
b) All interest and income derived from such investments (other than interest and
income derived from amounts credited to the Reserve Fund if the Reserve Fund does not contain
the Required Reserve Amount) shall be credited to the Revenue Fund semi-annually and shall
constitute Gross Revenues.
Section 16. PAYMENT OF PARITY OBLIGATIONS. While any of the Parity
Obligations are outstanding, the City shall transfer to the respective paying agent/registrar therefor,
from funds on deposit in and credited to the Interest and Sinking Fund, and, if necessary, in the
Reserve Fund, amounts sufficient to fully pay and discharge promptly the interest on and principal
of the Parity Obligations as shall become due on each interest or principal payment date, or date
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of redemption of the Parity Obligations; such transfer of funds must be made in such manner as
will cause immediately available funds to be deposited with each respective paying agent/registrar
for the Parity Obligations not later than the business day next preceding the date such payment is
due on the Parity Obligations. The Paying Agent/Registrar shall destroy all paid Parity Obligations
for which it serves as paying agent/registrar and furnish the City with an appropriate certificate of
cancellation or destruction.
Section 17. RATES AND CHARGES. For the benefit of the Holders of the Parity
Obligations and in addition to all provisions and covenants in the laws of the State of Texas and
in this Ordinance, the City hereby expressly stipulates and agrees, while any of the Parity
Obligations are outstanding, to establish and maintain rates and charges for facilities and services
afforded by the System that are reasonably expected, on the basis of available information and
experience and with due allowance for contingencies, to produce Gross Revenues in each Fiscal
Year reasonably anticipated to be sufficient:
A. to pay Maintenance and Operating Expenses;
B. to produce Pledged Revenues at least equal to the greater of 1.25 times the Average
Annual Debt Service Requirements or 1.10 times the Maximum Annual Debt Service
Requirements;
C. to produce Pledged Revenues in amounts sufficient to enable the City to make the
deposits and credits, if any, from Pledged Revenues (i) to the Reserve Fund to restore the Required
Reserve Amount in accordance with Section 12 of this Ordinance, including the payment of any
Reserve Fund Obligation Payment then due, and (ii) to other reserve funds to establish or restore
the reserve securing any issue or series of Additional Parity Obligations;
D. to produce Pledged Revenues, together with any other lawfully available funds
including the proceeds of Debt which the City expects will be utilized to pay all or part of the
principal of and/or interest on any obligations described in this subsection D), sufficient to pay the
principal of and interest on any Subordinate Lien Obligations issued by the City and the amounts
required to be deposited in any reserve or contingency fund created for the payment and security
of the Subordinate Lien Obligations and any other obligations or evidences of indebtedness issued
or incurred that are payable from, in whole or in part, a subordinate lien on and pledge of the
Pledged Revenues; and
E. to pay any other Debt payable from the Pledged Revenues and/or secured by a lien
on the Pledged Revenues.
Should the annual audit report required by Section 19 hereof reflect that the Pledged
Revenues for the Fiscal Year covered thereby were less than necessary to meet the requirements
of this Section, the City Council will review the operations of the System and the rates and charges
for services provided, and the City Council will make the necessary adjustments or revisions, if
any, in order that the Pledged Revenues for the succeeding year will be sufficient to satisfy the
foregoing coverage requirements.
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Section 18. GENERAL COVENANTS. The City further covenants and agrees that in
accordance with and to the extent required or permitted by law:
a) Performance. It will faithfully perform at all times any and all covenants,
undertakings, stipulations and provisions contained in any ordinance authorizing the issuance of
Parity Obligations, including this Ordinance, and in each and every Parity Obligation; it will
promptly pay or cause to be paid the principal of and interest on every Parity Obligation on the
dates and in the places and manner prescribed in such ordinances and obligations; and it will, at
the times and in the manner prescribed, deposit and credit or cause to be deposited and credited
the amounts required to be deposited and credited to the Interest and Sinking Fund and the Reserve
Fund.
b) City's Legal Authority. It is a duly created and existing home rule city of the State
of Texas, and is duly authorized under the laws of the State of Texas to create and issue the Bonds;
that all action on its part for the creation and issuance of the Bonds has been duly and effectively
taken, and that the Bonds in the hands of the Holders thereof are and will be valid and enforceable
special obligations of the City in accordance with their terms.
c) Title. It has or will obtain lawful title to the lands, buildings, structures and facilities
constituting the System, that it warrants that it will defend the title to all the aforesaid lands,
buildings, structures and facilities, and every part thereof, for the benefit of the Holders of the
Bonds, the Previously Issued Parity Obligations and Additional Parity Obligations, against the
claims and demands of all persons whomsoever, that it is lawfully qualified to pledge the Pledged
Revenues to the payment of the Bonds, the Previously Issued Parity Obligations and Additional
Parity Obligations in the manner prescribed herein, and has lawfully exercised such rights.
d) Liens. It will from time to time and before the same become delinquent pay and
discharge all taxes, assessments and governmental charges, if any, which shall be lawfully imposed
upon it, or the System; it will pay all lawful claims for rents, royalties, labor, materials and supplies
which if unpaid might by law become a lien or charge thereon, the lien of which would be prior to
or interfere with the liens hereof, so that the priority of the liens granted hereunder shall be fully
preserved in the manner provided herein, and it will not create or suffer to be created any
mechanic's, laborer's, materialman's or other lien or charge which might or could be prior to the
liens hereof, or do or suffer any matter or thing whereby the liens hereof might or could be
impaired; provided, however, that no such tax, assessment or charge, and that no such claims which
might be used as the basis of a mechanic's, laborer's, materialman's or other lien or charge, shall
be required to be paid so long as the validity of the same shall be contested in good faith by the
City.
e) Operation of System, No Free Service. It will, while the Parity Obligations are
outstanding and unpaid, continuously and efficiently operate the System, and shall maintain the
System in good condition, repair and working order, all at reasonable cost. No free service of the
System shall be allowed, and should the City or any of its agencies or instrumentalities make use
of the services and facilities of the System, payment of the reasonable value shall be made by the
City out of funds from sources other than the Gross Revenues of the System, unless made from
surplus or excess Pledged Revenues as permitted in Section 14.
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f) Further Encumbrance. While the Parity Obligations are outstanding and unpaid, it
will not additionally encumber the Pledged Revenues in any manner, except as permitted in this
Ordinance in connection with Additional Parity Obligations, unless said encumbrance is made
junior and subordinate in all respects to the liens, pledges, covenants and agreements of this
Ordinance; but the right of the City to issue or incur obligations payable from a subordinate lien
on the Pledged Revenues is specifically recognized and retained.
g) Sale or Disposal of Property. While the Parity Obligations are outstanding and
unpaid, it will not sell, convey, mortgage, encumber, lease or in any manner transfer title to, or
otherwise dispose of the System, or any significant or substantial part thereof, provided that
whenever the City deems it necessary to dispose of any other property, machinery, fixtures or
equipment, it may sell or otherwise dispose of such property, machinery, fixtures or equipment
when it has made arrangements to replace the same or provide substitutes therefor, unless it is
determined that no such replacement or substitute is necessary; and, provided further, that the City
retains the right to sell, convey, mortgage, encumber, lease or otherwise dispose of any significant
or substantial part of the System if (i) the City Manager delivers a certificate to the City Council
to the effect that, following such action by the City, the System is expected to produce Gross
Revenues in amounts sufficient in each Fiscal Year while any of the Parity Obligations are to be
outstanding to comply with the obligations of the City contained in this Ordinance and in the
ordinances authorizing the issuance of Additional Parity Obligations; (ii) the City Council makes
a finding and determination to the same effect as the certificate of the City Manager set forth in (i)
above and (iii) each Rating Agency then maintaining a rating on any Parity Obligation delivers a
letter to the City to the effect that such sale, conveyance, mortgage, encumbrance, lease or other
disposition will not cause the Rating Agency to withdraw or lower the rating then in effect.
Proceeds from any sale hereunder not used to replace or provide for substitution of such property
sold, shall be used for improvements to the System or to purchase or redeem Parity Obligations.
h) Insurance. (1) It shall cause to be insured such parts of the System as would usually
be insured by municipal corporations operating like properties, with a responsible insurance
company or companies, against risks, accidents or casualties against which and to the extent
insurance is usually carried by municipal corporations operating like properties, including, to the
extent reasonably obtainable, fire and extended coverage insurance, insurance against damage by
floods, and use and occupancy insurance. Public liability and property damage insurance shall
also be carried unless the City Attorney of the City gives a written opinion to the effect that the
City is not liable for claims which would be protected by such insurance. At any time while any
contractor engaged in construction work shall be fully responsible therefor, the City shall not be
required to carry insurance on the work being constructed if the contractor is required to carry
appropriate insurance. All such policies shall be open to the inspection of the Holders and their
representatives at all reasonable times. Upon the happening of any loss or damage covered by
insurance from one or more of said causes, the City shall make due proof of loss and shall do all
things necessary or desirable to cause the insuring companies to make payment in full directly to
the City. The proceeds of insurance covering such property are hereby pledged as security for the
Parity Obligations and, together with any other funds necessary and available for such purpose,
shall be used forthwith by the City for repairing the property damaged or replacing the property
destroyed; provided, however, that if said insurance proceeds and other funds are insufficient for
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such purpose, then said insurance proceeds pertaining to the System shall be used promptly as
follows:
i) for the redemption prior to maturity of the Parity Obligations, ratably in the
proportion that the Outstanding principal of each series of Parity Obligations bears to the
total Outstanding principal of all Parity Obligations, provided that if on any such occasion
the principal of any such series is not subject to redemption, it shall not be regarded as
Outstanding in making the foregoing computation; or
ii) if none of the Outstanding Parity Obligations is subject to redemption, then
for the purchase on the open market and retirement of said Parity Obligations in the same
proportion as prescribed in the foregoing clause (i), to the extent practicable; provided that
the purchase price for any Parity Obligation shall not exceed the redemption price of such
Parity Obligation on the first date upon which it becomes subject to redemption; or
iii) to the extent that the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii) cannot be complied with
at the time, the insurance proceeds, or the remainder thereof, shall be deposited in a special
and separate trust fund, at an official depository of the City, to be designated the Insurance
Account. The Insurance Account shall be held until such time as the foregoing clauses (i)
and/or (ii) can be complied with, or until other funds become available which, together
with the Insurance Account, will be sufficient to make the repairs or replacements
originally required, whichever of said events occurs first.
2) The foregoing provisions of (1) above notwithstanding, the City shall have
authority to enter into coinsurance or similar plans where risk of loss is shared in whole or
in part by the City.
3) The annual audit hereinafter required shall contain a section commenting on
whether or not the City has complied with the requirements of this Section with respect to
the maintenance of insurance, and listing all policies carried, and whether or not all
insurance premiums upon the insurance policies to which reference is hereinbefore made
have been paid.
4) The payment of premiums for all insurance policies required under the provisions
hereof and the costs associated with the maintenance of any self-insurance program shall
be considered Maintenance and Operating Expenses. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be
construed as requiring the City to expend any funds which are derived from sources other
than the operation of the System, but nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the
City from doing so.
i) Governmental Agencies. It will comply with all of the terms and conditions of any and
all franchises, permits and authorizations applicable to or necessary with respect to the System,
and which have been obtained from any governmental agency; and the City has or will obtain and
keep in full force and effect all franchises, permits, authorization and other requirements applicable
to or necessary with respect to the acquisition, construction, equipment, operation and maintenance
of the System.
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0) No Competition. It will not grant any franchise or permit for the acquisition,
construction or operation of any competing facilities which might be used as a substitute for the
System's facilities and, to the extent that it legally may, the City will prohibit any such competing
facilities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the City retains the right, however, to "opt in" to electric
competition in accordance with State law if "opting in" will not materially adversely impact the
Net Revenues of the System as evidenced by a certification of the City Manager.
k) Disaggregation of System. The City retains the right to disaggregate the System into
one or more independent resulting systems if (i) the City Manager delivers a certificate to the City
Council to the effect that, following such action by the City, the remaining System is expected to
produce Gross Revenues in amounts sufficient in each Fiscal Year while any of the Parity
Obligations are to be outstanding to comply with the obligations of the City contained in this
Ordinance and in the ordinances authorizing the Previously Issued Parity Obligations and the
issuance of Additional Parity Obligations; (ii) the City Council makes a finding and determination
to the same effect as the certificate of the City Manager set forth in (i) above and (iii) each Rating
Agency then maintaining a rating on any Parity Obligation delivers a letter to the City to the effect
that such disaggregation will not cause the Rating Agency to withdraw or lower the rating then in
effect on the Outstanding Parity Obligations.
Section 19. RECORDS AND ACCOUNTS - ANNUAL AUDIT. The City covenants
and agrees that so long as any of the Parity Obligations remain Outstanding, the City will keep and
maintain a separate and complete system of records and accounts pertaining to the operations of
the System in which full, complete, true, proper, and correct entries shall be made of all dealings,
transactions, business and affairs relating thereto, or which in any way affect or pertain to the
System or the Gross Revenues or the Net Revenues thereof, as provided by generally accepted
accounting principles, consistently applied, and by Sections 1502.067 and 1502.068, Texas
Government Code, as amended, or other applicable law. The Holders of the Parity Obligations or
any duly authorized agent or agents of such Holders shall have the right to inspect the System and
all properties comprising the same. The City further agrees that, following the close of each Fiscal
Year, the City will cause an audit report of such records and accounts to be made by an Accountant.
Copies of each annual audit shall be made available for public inspection during normal business
hours at the City's principal office and the City Secretary's office and may be furnished to, upon
written request, any Holder of Parity Obligations upon payment of the reasonable copying and
mailing charges. Expenses incurred in making the annual audit of the operations of the System
shall be considered as Maintenance and Operating Expenses.
Section 20. COVENANTS REGARDING TAX EXEMPTION OF INTEREST ON
THE TAX-EXEMPT BONDS. (a) Covenants. The City covenants to take any action necessary
to assure, or refrain from any action which would adversely affect, the treatment of the Tax -
Exempt Bonds as obligations described in section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the "Code"), the interest on which is not includable in the "gross income" of the holder
for purposes of federal income taxation. In furtherance thereof, the City covenants as follows:
1) to take any action to assure that no more than 10 percent of the proceeds of
the Tax -Exempt Bonds or the projects financed or refinanced therewith (less amounts
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deposited to a reserve fund, if any) are used for any "private business use," as defined in
section 141(b)(6) of the Code or, if more than 10 percent of the proceeds of the Tax -Exempt
Bonds or the projects financed or refinanced therewith are so used, such amounts, whether
or not received by the City, with respect to such private business use, do not, under the
terms of this Ordinance or any underlying arrangement, directly or indirectly, secure or
provide for the payment of more than 10 percent of the debt service on the Tax -Exempt
Bonds, in contravention of section 141(b)(2) of the Code;
2) to take any action to assure that in the event that the "private business use"
described in subsection (1) hereof exceeds 5 percent of the proceeds of the Tax -Exempt
Bonds or the projects financed or refinanced therewith (less amounts deposited into a
reserve fund, if any) then the amount in excess of 5 percent is used for a "private business
use" which is "related" and not "disproportionate," within the meaning of section 141(b)(3)
of the Code, to the governmental use;
3) to take any action to assure that no amount which is greater than the lesser
of $5,000,000, or 5 percent of the proceeds of the Tax -Exempt Bonds (less amounts
deposited into a reserve fund, if any) is directly or indirectly used to finance loans to
persons, other than state or local governmental units, in contravention of section 141(c) of
the Code;
4) to refrain from taking any action which would otherwise result in the Tax -
Exempt Bonds being treated as "private activity bonds" within the meaning of section
141(b) of the Code;
5) to refrain from taking any action that would result in the Tax -Exempt Bonds
being "federally guaranteed" within the meaning of section 149(b) of the Code;
6) to refrain from using any portion of the proceeds of the Tax -Exempt Bonds,
directly or indirectly, to acquire or to replace funds which were used, directly or indirectly,
to acquire investment property (as defined in section 148(b)(2) of the Code) which
produces a materially higher yield over the term of the Tax -Exempt Bonds, other than
investment property acquired with --
A) proceeds of the Tax -Exempt Bonds invested for a reasonable
temporary period of 3 years or less or, in the case of refunding bonds, for a period
of 90 days or less until such proceeds are needed for the purpose for which the
bonds are issued,
B) amounts invested in a bona fide debt service fund, within the
meaning of section 1.148-1(b) of the Treasury Regulations, and
C) amounts deposited i
replacement fund to the extent such
proceeds of the Tax -Exempt Bonds;
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n any reasonably required reserve or
amounts do not exceed 10 percent of the
7) to otherwise restrict the use of the proceeds of the Tax -Exempt Bonds or
amounts treated as proceeds of the Tax -Exempt Bonds, as may be necessary, so that the
Tax -Exempt Bonds do not otherwise contravene the requirements of section 148 of the
Code (relating to arbitrage);
8) to refrain from using the proceeds of the Tax -Exempt Bonds or proceeds
of any prior bonds to pay debt service on another issue more than 90 days after the date of
issue of the Tax -Exempt Bonds in contravention of the requirements of section 149(d) of
the Code (relating to advance refundings); and
9) to pay to the United States of America at least once during each five-year
period (beginning on the date of delivery of the Tax -Exempt Bonds) an amount that is at
least equal to 90 percent of the "Excess Earnings," within the meaning of section 148(f) of
the Code and to pay to the United States of America, not later than 60 days after the Tax -
Exempt Bonds have been paid in full, 100 percent of the amount then required to be paid
as a result of Excess Earnings under section 148(f) of the Code.
b) Rebate Fund. In order to facilitate compliance with the above covenant (9), a
Rebate Fund" is hereby established by the City for the sole benefit of the United States of
America, and such fund shall not be subject to the claim of any other person, including without
limitation the bondholders. The Rebate Fund is established for the additional purpose of
compliance with section 148 of the Code.
c) Proceeds. The City understands that the term "proceeds" includes "disposition
proceeds" as defined in the Treasury Regulations and, in the case of refunding bonds, transferred
proceeds (if any). It is the understanding of the City that the covenants contained herein are
intended to assure compliance with the Code and any regulations or rulings promulgated by the
U.S. Department of the Treasury pursuant thereto. In the event that regulations or rulings are
hereafter promulgated which modify or expand provisions of the Code, as applicable to the Tax -
Exempt Bonds, the City will not be required to comply with any covenant contained herein to the
extent that such failure to comply, in the opinion of nationally recognized bond counsel, will not
adversely affect the exemption from federal income taxation of interest on the Tax -Exempt Bonds
under section 103 of the Code. In the event that regulations or rulings are hereafter promulgated
which impose additional requirements which are applicable to the Tax -Exempt Bonds, the City
agrees to comply with the additional requirements to the extent necessary, in the opinion of
nationally recognized bond counsel, to preserve the exemption from federal income taxation of
interest on the Tax -Exempt Bonds under section 103 of the Code. In furtherance of such intention,
the City hereby authorizes and directs the City Manager, the Assistant City Manager or the Chief
Financial Officer to execute any documents, certificates or reports required by the Code and to
make such elections, on behalf of the City, which may be permitted by the Code as are consistent
with the purpose for the issuance of the Tax -Exempt Bonds.
d) Disposition of Project. The City covenants that the property constituting the projects
financed or refinanced with the proceeds of the Tax -Exempt Bonds will not be sold or otherwise
disposed in a transaction resulting in the receipt by the City of cash or other compensation, unless
any action taken in connection with such disposition will not adversely affect the tax-exempt status
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of the Tax -Exempt Bonds. For purpose of the foregoing, the City may rely on an opinion of
nationally -recognized bond counsel that the action taken in connection with such sale or other
disposition will not adversely affect the tax-exempt status of the Tax -Exempt Bonds. For purposes
of the foregoing, the portion of the property comprising personal property and disposed in the
ordinary course shall not be treated as a transaction resulting in the receipt of cash or other
compensation. For purposes hereof, the City shall not be obligated to comply with this covenant
if it obtains an opinion that such failure to comply will not adversely affect the excludability for
federal income tax purposes from gross income of the interest.
Section 21. CONTINUING DISCLOSURE UNDERTAKING. The Pricing Officer
shall designate in the Pricing Certificate whether or not the provisions of this Section with respect
to the City's continuing disclosure undertaking will apply to the Bonds. In the event the Pricing
Officer affirmatively elects that the City will make a continuing disclosure undertaking pursuant
to the Rule in connection with the issuance of the Bonds, the following provisions shall be effective
with respect to the Bonds, unless modified by the Pricing Officer in the Pricing Certificate as
necessary to facilitate the sale of the Bonds:
a) Annual Reports. The City shall provide annually to the MSRB, (1) within six
months after the end of each fiscal year of the City ending in or after 2024, financial information
and operating data with respect to the City of the general type included in the final Official
Statement authorized by this Ordinance, being information of the type described in the Pricing
Certificate, including financial statements of the City if audited financial statements of the City are
then available, and (2) if not provided as part of such financial information and operating data,
audited financial statements of the City, when and if available. Any financial statements to be
provided shall be (i) prepared in accordance with the accounting principles described in the Pricing
Certificate, or such other accounting principles as the City may be required to employ from time
to time pursuant to state law or regulation, and in substantially the form included in the Official
Statement, and (ii) audited, if the City commissions an audit of such financial statements and the
audit is completed within the period during which they must be provided. If the audit of such
financial statements is not complete within 12 months after any such fiscal year end, then the City
shall file unaudited financial statements within such 12-month period and audited financial
statements for the applicable fiscal year, when and if the audit report on such statements becomes
available.
If the City changes its fiscal year, it will file notice of the change (and of the date of the
new fiscal year end) with the MSRB prior to the next date by which the City otherwise would be
required to provide financial information and operating data pursuant to this Section.
b) Event Notices. The City shall file notice of any of the following events with respect
to the Bonds with the MSRB in a timely manner and not more than 10 business days after the
occurrence of the event:
1) Principal and interest payment delinquencies;
2) Non-payment related defaults, if material;
3) Unscheduled draws on debt service reserves reflecting financial difficulties;
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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, the issuance by the Internal Revenue Service of proposed or
final determinations of taxability, Notices of Proposed Issue (IRS Form 5701-TEB), or other
material notices or determinations with respect to the tax status of the Bonds, or other material
events affecting the tax status of the Bonds;
7) Modifications to rights of holders of the Bonds, if material;
8) Bond calls, if material, and tender offers;
9) Defeasances;
10) Release, substitution, or sale of property securing repayment of the Bonds, if
material;
11) Rating changes;
12) Bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, or similar event of the City;
13) The consummation of a merger, consolidation, or acquisition involving the City or
the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the City, other than in the ordinary course of
business, the entry into a definitive agreement to undertake such an action or the termination of a
definitive agreement relating to any such actions, other than pursuant to its terms, if material; and
14) Appointment of a successor or additional trustee or the change of name of a trustee,
if material.
15) Incurrence of a Financial Obligation of the City, if material, or agreement to
covenants, events of default, remedies, priority rights, or other similar terms of a Financial
Obligation of the City, any of which affect security holders, if material; and
16) Default, event of acceleration, termination event, modification of terms, or other
similar events under the terms of a Financial Obligation of the City, any of which reflect financial
difficulties.
For these purposes, (a) any event described in the immediately preceding paragraph (12) is
considered to occur when any of the following occur: the appointment of a receiver, fiscal agent,
or similar officer for the City in a proceeding under the United States Bankruptcy Code or in any
other proceeding under state or federal law in which a court or governmental authority has assumed
jurisdiction over substantially all of the assets or business of the City, or if such jurisdiction has
been assumed by leaving the existing governing body and officials or officers of the City in
possession but subject to the supervision and orders of a court or governmental authority, or the
entry of an order confirming a plan of reorganization, arrangement, or liquidation by a court or
governmental authority having supervision or jurisdiction over substantially all of the assets or
business of the City and (b) the City intends the words used in the immediately preceding
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paragraphs (15) and (16) and the definition of Financial Obligation in this Section to have the same
meanings as when they are used in the Rule, as evidenced by SEC Release No. 34-83885, dated
August 20, 2018.
The City shall file notice with the MSRB, in a timely manner, of any failure by the City to
provide financial information or operating data in accordance with subsection (a) of this Section
by the time required by such subsection.
c) Limitations, Disclaimers, and Amendments. The City shall be obligated to observe
and perform the covenants specified in this Section for so long as, but only for so long as, the City
remains an 'obligated person" with respect to the Bonds within the meaning of the Rule, except
that the City in any event will give notice of any deposit that causes the Bonds to be no longer
Outstanding.
The provisions of this Section are for the sole benefit of the holders and beneficial owners
of the Bonds, and nothing in this Section, express or implied, shall give any benefit or any legal or
equitable right, remedy, or claim hereunder to any other person. The City undertakes to provide
only the financial information, operating data, financial statements, and notices which it has
expressly agreed to provide pursuant to this Section and does not hereby undertake to provide any
other information that may be relevant or material to a complete presentation of the City's financial
results, condition, or prospects or hereby undertake to update any information provided in
accordance with this Section or otherwise, except as expressly provided herein. The City makes
no representation or warranty concerning such information or its usefulness to a decision to invest
in or sell Bonds at any future date.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL THE CITY BE LIABLE TO THE HOLDER
OR BENEFICIAL OWNER OF ANY BOND OR ANY OTHER PERSON, IN CONTRACT OR
TORT, FOR DAMAGES RESULTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART FROM ANY BREACH BY
THE CITY, WHETHER NEGLIGENT OR WITH OR WITHOUT FAULT ON ITS PART, OF
ANY COVENANT SPECIFIED IN THIS SECTION, BUT EVERY RIGHT AND REMEDY OF
ANY SUCH PERSON, IN CONTRACT OR TORT, FOR OR ON ACCOUNT OF ANY SUCH
BREACH SHALL BE LIMITED TO AN ACTION FOR MANDAMUS OR SPECIFIC
PERFORMANCE.
No default by the City in observing or performing its obligations under this Section shall
constitute a breach of or default under this Ordinance for purposes of any other provision of this
Ordinance.
Nothing in this Section is intended or shall act to disclaim, waive, or otherwise limit the
duties of the City under federal and state securities laws.
The provisions of this Section may be amended by the City from time to time to adapt to
changed circumstances that arise from a change in legal requirements, a change in law, or a change
in the identity, nature, status, or type of operations of the City, but only if (1) the provisions of this
Section, as so amended, would have permitted an underwriter to purchase or sell Bonds in the
primary offering of the Bonds in compliance with the Rule, taking into account any amendments
or interpretations of the Rule to the date of such amendment as well as such changed
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circumstances, and (2) either (a) the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Bonds consent to such amendment or (b) a person that is unaffiliated with the City
such as nationally recognized bond counsel) determines that such amendment will not materially
impair the interests of the holders and beneficial owners of the Bonds. The City may also repeal
or amend the provisions of this Section if the SEC amends or repeals the applicable provisions of
the Rule or any court of final jurisdiction enters judgment that such provisions of the Rule are
invalid, and the City also may amend the provisions of this Section in its discretion in any other
manner or circumstance, but in either case only if and to the extent that the provisions of this
sentence would not have prevented an underwriter from lawfully purchasing or selling Bonds in
the primary offering of the Bonds, giving effect to (i) such provisions as so amended and (ii) any
amendments or interpretations of the Rule. If the City so amends the provisions of this Section,
the City shall include with any amended financial information or operating data next provided in
accordance with this subsection (a) of this Section an explanation, in narrative form, of the reasons
for the amendment and of the impact of any change in the type of financial information or operating
data so provided.
d) Format Identi ing Information, and Incorporation by Reference. All financial
information, operating data, financial statements, and notices required by this Section to be
provided to the MSRB shall be provided in an electronic format and be accompanied by identifying
information prescribed by the MSRB.
Financial information and operating data to be provided pursuant to subsection (a) of this
Section may be set forth in full in one or more documents or may be included by specific reference
to any document (including an official statement or other offering document) available to the
public on the MSRB's Internet Web site or filed with the SEC.
Section 22. ISSUANCE OF ADDITIONAL PARITY OBLIGATIONS. (a) The
City shall have the right and power at any time and from time to time and in one or more series or
issues, to authorize, issue and deliver additional parity revenue bonds or other obligations (herein
called "Additional Parity Obligations"), in accordance with law, in any amounts, for purposes of
extending, improving or repairing the System or for the purpose of refunding of any Parity
Obligations, Subordinate Lien Obligations or other obligations of the City incurred in connection
with the ownership or operation of the System. Such Additional Parity Obligations, if and when
authorized, issued and delivered in accordance with this Ordinance, shall be secured by and made
payable equally and ratably on a parity with all other Outstanding Parity Obligations, from the lien
on and pledge of the Pledged Revenues herein granted.
b) The Interest and Sinking Fund shall secure and be used to pay all Parity Obligations.
Each ordinance under which Additional Parity Obligations are issued shall provide and require
that, in addition to the amounts required by the provisions of this Ordinance and the provisions of
any other ordinance or ordinances authorizing the Previously Issued Parity Obligations and
Additional Parity Obligations to be deposited to the credit of the Interest and Sinking Fund, the
City shall deposit to the credit of the Interest and Sinking Fund at least such amounts as are required
for the payment of all principal of and interest on said Additional Parity Obligations then being
issued, as the same come due.
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c) The City may create and establish a reserve fund pursuant to the provisions of any
ordinance authorizing the issuance of Additional Parity Obligations for the purpose of securing
that particular issue or series of Parity Obligations or any specific group of issues or series of Parity
Obligations and the amounts once deposited or credited to said reserve funds shall no longer
constitute Net Revenues and shall be held solely for the benefit of the Holders of the particular
Parity Obligations for which such reserve fund was established. Each such reserve fund shall be
designated in such manner as is necessary to identify the Parity Obligations it secures and to
distinguish such reserve fund from the Reserve Fund and the reserve funds created for the benefit
of other Parity Obligations.
Section 23. FURTHER REQUIREMENTS FOR ADDITIONAL PARITY
OBLIGATIONS. That Additional Parity Obligations shall be issued only in accordance with this
Ordinance, but notwithstanding any provisions of this Ordinance to the contrary, no installment,
Series or issue of Additional Parity Obligations shall be issued or delivered unless:
a) The City Manager and the City Secretary of the City sign a written certificate to the
effect that the City is not in default as to any covenant, condition or obligation in connection with
all Outstanding Parity Obligations, and the ordinances authorizing same, and that the Interest and
Sinking Fund, the Reserve Fund and any reserve fund securing any other series or issue of Parity
Obligations each contains the amount then required to be therein.
b) An Accountant signs and delivers to the City a written certificate to the effect that,
during either the next preceding Fiscal Year, or any twelve consecutive calendar month period
ending not more than ninety days prior to the date of the then proposed Additional Parity
Obligations, the Net Earnings were, in the opinion thereof, at least equal to the sum of 1.25 times
the Average Annual Debt Service Requirements (computed on a Fiscal Year basis), including
Amortization Installments, of the Parity Obligations and the Additional Parity Obligations to be
outstanding after the issuance of the then proposed Additional Parity Obligations and 1.10 times
the average annual debt service requirement (computed in the same manner as for Parity
Obligations) of the Subordinate Lien Obligations to be outstanding after the issuance of the then
proposed Additional Parity Obligations.
c) In making a determination of Net Earnings for any of the purposes described in this
Section, the Accountant may take into consideration a change in the rates and charges for services
and facilities afforded by the System that became effective at least 60 days prior to the last day of
the period for which Net Earnings are determined and, for purposes of satisfying the Net Earnings
tests described above, make a pro forma determination of the Net Earnings of the System for the
period of time covered by said Accountant's certification or opinion based on such change in rates
and charges being in effect for the entire period covered by said Accountant's certificate or opinion.
As used in this Section, the term "Net Earnings" shall mean the Gross Revenues of the
System after deducting the Maintenance and Operating Expenses of the System but not
expenditures which, under standard accounting practice, should be charged to capital expenditures.
Section 24. ISSUANCE OF SUBORDINATE LIEN OBLIGATIONS. The City
hereby reserves the right to issue, at any time, obligations including, but not limited to, Subordinate
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Lien Obligations, payable from and equally and ratably secured, in whole or in part, by a lien on
and pledge of the Net Revenues, subordinate and inferior in rank and dignity to the lien on and
pledge of such Net Revenues securing the payment of the Parity Obligations, as may be authorized
by the laws of the State of Texas.
Section 25. ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PROJECT OBLIGATIONS. Nothing in this
Ordinance shall be construed to deny the City the right and it shall retain, and hereby reserves unto
itself, the right to issue Special Project obligations secured by liens on and pledges of revenues
and proceeds derived from Special Projects.
Section 26. LIMITED OBLIGATIONS OF THE CITY. The Parity Obligations are
limited, special obligations of the City payable from and equally and ratably secured solely by a
first lien on and pledge of the Pledged Revenues, and the Holders thereof shall never have the right
to demand payment of the principal or interest on the Parity Obligations from any funds raised or
to be raised through taxation by the City.
Section 27. SECURITY FOR FUNDS. All money on deposit in the Funds for which
this Ordinance makes provision (except any portion thereof as may be at any time properly
invested as provided herein) shall be secured in the manner and to the fullest extent required by
the laws of Texas for the security of public funds, and money on deposit in such Funds shall be
used only for the purposes permitted by this Ordinance.
Section 28. DEFAULT AND REMEDIES. (a) Events of Default. Each of the
following occurrences or events for the purpose of this Ordinance is hereby declared to be an
Event of Default"
i) the failure to make payment of the principal of or interest on any of the Bonds
when the same becomes due and payable; or
ii) default in the performance or observance of any other covenant, agreement or
obligation of the City, the failure to perform which materially, adversely affects the rights
of the Registered Owners of the Bonds, including, but not limited to, their prospect or
ability to be repaid in accordance with this Ordinance, and the continuation thereof for a
period of 60 days after notice of such default is given by any Registered Owner to the City.
b) Remedies for Default.
i) Upon the happening of any Event of Default, then and in every case, any
Registered Owner or an authorized representative thereof, including, but not limited to, a
trustee or trustees therefor, may proceed against the City, or any official, officer or
employee of the City in their official capacity, for the purpose of protecting and enforcing
the rights of the Registered Owners under this Ordinance, by mandamus or other suit,
action or special proceeding in equity or at law, in any court of competent jurisdiction, for
any relief permitted by law, including the specific performance of any covenant or
agreement contained herein, or thereby to enjoin any act or thing that may be unlawful or
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in violation of any right of the Registered Owners hereunder or any combination of such
remedies.
ii) It is provided that all such proceedings shall be instituted and maintained for
the equal benefit of all Registered Owners of Bonds then outstanding.
c) Remedies Not Exclusive.
i) No remedy herein conferred or reserved is intended to be exclusive of any other
available remedy or remedies, but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and
shall be in addition to every other remedy given hereunder or under the Bonds or now or
hereafter existing at law or in equity; provided, however, that notwithstanding any other
provision of this Ordinance, the right to accelerate the debt evidenced by the Bonds shall
not be available as a remedy under this Ordinance.
ii) The exercise of any remedy herein conferred or reserved shall not be deemed
a waiver of any other available remedy.
iii) By accepting the delivery of a Bond authorized under this Ordinance, such
Registered Owner agrees that the certifications required to effectuate any covenants or
representations contained in this Ordinance do not and shall never constitute or give rise to
a personal or pecuniary liability or charge against the officers, employees or trustees of the
City or the City Council.
iv) None of the members of the City Council, nor any other official or officer,
agent, or employee of the City, shall be charged personally by the Registered Owners with
any liability, or be held personally liable to the Registered Owners under any term or
provision of this Ordinance, or because of any Event of Default or alleged Event of Default
under this Ordinance.
Section 29. DEFEASANCE OF BONDS. (a) Any Bond and the interest thereon shall
be deemed to be paid, retired and no longer outstanding (a "Defeased Bond") within the meaning
of this Ordinance, except to the extent provided in subsections (c) and (e) of this Section, when
payment of the principal of such Bond, plus interest thereon to the due date or dates (whether such
due date or dates be by reason of maturity, upon redemption, or otherwise) either (i) shall have
been made or caused to be made in accordance with the terms thereof (including the giving of any
required notice of redemption or the establishment of irrevocable provisions for the giving of such
notice) or (ii) shall have been provided for on or before such due date by irrevocably depositing
with or making available to the Paying Agent/Registrar or an eligible trust company or commercial
bank for such payment (1) lawful money of the United States of America sufficient to make such
payment, (2) Defeasance Securities, certified by an independent public accounting firm of national
reputation to mature as to principal and interest in such amounts and at such times as will ensure
the availability, without reinvestment, of sufficient money to provide for such payment and when
proper arrangements have been made by the City with the Paying Agent/Registrar or an eligible
trust company or commercial bank for the payment of its services until all Defeased Bonds shall
have become due and payable or (3) any combination of (1) and (2). At such time as a Bond shall
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be deemed to be a Defeased Bond hereunder, as aforesaid, such Bond and the interest thereon shall
no longer be secured by, payable from, or entitled to the benefits of, the Pledged Revenues as
provided in this Ordinance, and such principal and interest shall be payable solely from such
money or Defeasance Securities and thereafter the City will have no further responsibility with
respect to amounts available to such Paying Agent/Registrar (or other financial institution
permitted by applicable law) for the payment of such Defeased Bond, including any insufficiency
therein caused by the failure of the Paying Agent/Registrar (or other financial institution permitted
by law) to receive payment when due on the Defeasance Securities.
b) The deposit under clause (ii) of subsection (a) shall be deemed a payment of a Bond
as aforesaid when proper notice of redemption of such Bonds shall have been given or upon the
establishment of irrevocable provisions for the giving of such notice, in accordance with this
Ordinance. Any money so deposited with the Paying Agent/Registrar or an eligible trust company
or commercial bank as provided in this Section may at the discretion of the City also be invested
in Defeasance Securities, maturing in the amounts and at the times as hereinbefore set forth, and
all income from all Defeasance Securities in possession of the Paying Agent/Registrar or an
eligible trust company or commercial bank pursuant to this Section which is not required for the
payment of such Bond and premium, if any, and interest thereon with respect to which such money
has been so deposited, shall be remitted to the City.
c) Notwithstanding any provision of any other Section of this Ordinance which may be
contrary to the provisions of this Section, all money or Defeasance Securities set aside and held in
trust pursuant to the provisions of this Section for the payment of principal of the Bonds and
premium, if any, and interest thereon, shall be applied to and used solely for the payment of the
particular Bonds and premium, if any, and interest thereon, with respect to which such money or
Defeasance Securities have been so set aside in trust. Until all Defeased Bonds shall have become
due and payable, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall perform the services of Paying Agent/Registrar
for such Defeased Bonds the same as if they had not been defeased, and the City shall make proper
arrangements to provide and pay for such services as required by this Ordinance.
d) Notwithstanding anything elsewhere in this Ordinance, if money or Defeasance
Securities have been deposited or set aside with the Paying Agent/Registrar or an eligible trust
company or commercial bank pursuant to this Section for the payment of Bonds and such Bonds
shall not have in fact been actually paid in full, no amendment of the provisions of this Section
shall be made without the consent of the registered owner of each Bond affected thereby.
e) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) immediately above, to the extent that,
upon the defeasance of any Defeased Bond to be paid at its maturity, the City retains the right
under Texas law to later call that Defeased Bond for redemption in accordance with the provisions
of this Ordinance, the City may call such Defeased Bond for redemption upon complying with the
provisions of Texas law and upon the satisfaction of the provisions of subsection (a) immediately
above with respect to such Defeased Bond as though it was being defeased at the time of the
exercise of the option to redeem the Defeased Bond and the effect of the redemption is taken into
account in determining the sufficiency of the provisions made for the payment of the Defeased
Bond.
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Section 30. DAMAGED, MUTILATED, LOST, STOLEN, OR DESTROYED
BONDS. (a) Replacement Bonds. In the event any outstanding Bond is damaged, mutilated, lost,
stolen or destroyed, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall cause to be printed, executed and delivered,
a new bond of the same principal amount, maturity and interest rate, as the damaged, mutilated,
lost, stolen or destroyed Bond, in replacement for such Bond in the manner hereinafter provided.
b) Application for Replacement Bonds. Application for replacement of damaged,
mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Bonds shall be made by the registered owner thereof to the
Paying Agent/Registrar. In every case of loss, theft or destruction of a Bond, the registered owner
applying for a replacement bond shall furnish to the City and to the Paying Agent/Registrar such
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless from any loss or
damage with respect thereto. Also, in every case of loss, theft or destruction of a Bond, the
registered owner shall furnish to the City and to the Paying Agent/Registrar evidence to their
satisfaction of the loss, theft or destruction of such Bond, as the case may be. In every case of
damage or mutilation of a Bond, the registered owner shall surrender to the Paying Agent/Registrar
for cancellation the Bond so damaged or mutilated.
c) No Default Occurred. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, in the
event any such Bond shall have matured, and no default has occurred which is then continuing in
the payment of the principal of, redemption premium, if any, or interest on the Bond, the City may
authorize the payment of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a damaged or
mutilated Bond) instead of issuing a replacement Bond, provided security or indemnity is
furnished as above provided in this Section.
d) Charge for Issuing Replacement Bonds. Prior to the issuance of any replacement bond,
the Paying Agent/Registrar shall charge the registered owner of such Bond with all legal, printing
and other expenses in connection therewith. Every replacement bond issued pursuant to the
provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any Bond is lost, stolen or destroyed shall
constitute a contractual obligation of the City whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Bond
shall be found at any time, or be enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of
this Ordinance equally and proportionately with any and all other Bonds duly issued under this
Ordinance.
e) Authority for Issuing Replacement Bonds. In accordance with Subchapter D of
Chapter 1201, Texas Government Code, this Section of this Ordinance shall constitute authority
for the issuance of any such replacement bond without necessity of further action by the governing
body of the City or any other body or person, and the duty of the replacement of such bonds is
hereby authorized and imposed upon the Paying Agent/Registrar, and the Paying Agent/Registrar
shall authenticate and deliver such Bonds in the form and manner and with the effect, as provided
in Section 5(a) of this Ordinance for Bonds issued in exchange for other Bonds.
Section 31. AMENDMENT OF ORDINANCE. (a) The Bond Insurer, if any, and the
Holders of the Parity Obligations aggregating a majority in principal amount of the aggregate
principal amount of then Outstanding Parity Obligations shall have the right from time to time to
approve any amendment to this Ordinance which may be deemed necessary or desirable by the
City, provided, however, that without the consent of the Bond Insurer and the Holders of all of the
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effected Parity Obligations at the time outstanding, nothing herein contained shall permit or be
construed to permit the amendment of the terms and conditions in this Ordinance or in the Parity
Obligations so as to:
1) Make any change in the maturity of the Outstanding Parity Obligations;
2) Reduce the rate of interest borne by any of the Outstanding Parity Obligations;
3) Reduce the amount of the principal payable on the Outstanding Parity Obligations;
4) Modify the terms of payment of principal of or interest on the Outstanding Parity
Obligations or impose any conditions with respect to such payment;
5) Affect the rights of the Holders of less than all of the Parity Obligations then
Outstanding;
6) Change the minimum percentage of the principal amount of Parity Obligations
necessary for consent to such amendment.
b) If at any time the City shall desire to amend this Ordinance under this Section, the City
shall cause notice of the proposed amendment to be delivered to the Bond Insurer and published
in a financial newspaper or journal of general circulation in The City of New York, New York,
once during each calendar week for at least two successive calendar weeks. Such notice shall
briefly set forth the nature of the proposed amendment and shall state that a copy thereof is on file
for inspection by all Holders of Parity Obligations at the designated trust office of the registrar for
such Parity Obligations. Such publication is not required, however, if notice in writing is given to
each Holder of the Parity Obligations.
c) Whenever at any time not less than thirty days, and within one year, from the date of
the first publication of said notice or other service of written notice the City shall receive an
instrument or instruments executed by the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal
amount of all Parity Obligations then outstanding, which instrument or instruments shall refer to
the proposed amendment described in said notice and which specifically consent to and approve
such amendment in substantially the form of the copy thereof on file with the Paying
Agent/Registrar, the City Council may pass the amendatory ordinance in substantially the same
form.
d) Upon the passage of any amendatory ordinance pursuant to the provisions of this
Section, this Ordinance shall be deemed to be amended in accordance with such amendatory
ordinance, and the respective rights, duties and obligations under this Ordinance of the City and
all the Holders of then outstanding Parity Obligations shall thereafter be determined, exercised and
enforced hereunder, subject in all respects to such amendments.
e) Any consent given by the registered owner of a Parity Obligation pursuant to the
provisions of this Section shall be irrevocable for a period of six months from the date of the first
publication of the notice provided for in this Section, and shall be conclusive and binding upon all
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future Holders of the same Parity Obligation during such period. Such consent may be revoked at
any time after six months from the date of the first publication of such notice by the Holder who
gave such consent, or by a successor in title, by filing notice thereof with the Paying Agent and
the City, but such revocation shall not be effective if the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Parity Obligations as in this Section defined have, prior
to the attempted revocation, consented to and approve the amendment.
f) For the purpose of this Section, the fact of the holding of Parity Obligations issued in
registered form without coupons and the amounts and numbers of such Parity Obligations and the
date of their holding same shall be proved by the Security Register of the paying agent/registrar
for such Parity Obligations. For purposes of this Section, the holder of a Parity Obligation in such
registered form shall be the owner thereof as shown on such Security Register. The City may
conclusively assume that such ownership continues until written notice to the contrary is served
upon the City.
g) The foregoing provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the City by action of the City
Council may amend this Ordinance for any one or more of the following purposes:
1) To add to the covenants and agreements of the City in this Ordinance contained,
other covenants and agreements thereafter to be observed, grant additional rights or
remedies to bondholders or to surrender, restrict or limit any right or power herein reserved
to or conferred upon the City;
2) To make such provisions for the purpose of curing any ambiguity, or curing,
correcting or supplementing any defective provision contained in this Ordinance, or in
regard to clarifying matters or questions arising under this Ordinance, as are necessary or
desirable and not contrary to or inconsistent with this Ordinance and which shall not
adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Parity Obligations;
3) To make any changes or amendments requested by any Rating Agency, as a
condition to the issuance or maintenance of a rating, which changes or amendments do not,
in the judgment of the City, materially adversely affect the interests of the owners of the
outstanding Parity Obligations;
4) To make such changes, modifications or amendments as may be necessary or
desirable, which shall not adversely affect the interests of the owners of the outstanding
Parity Obligations, in order, to the extent permitted by law, to facilitate the economic and
practical utilization of credit agreements with respect to the Parity Obligations including,
without limitation, supplementing the definition of "Annual Debt Service Requirements"
to address the amortization of payments due and owing under a credit agreement;
5) To modify any of the provisions of this Ordinance in any other respect whatever,
provided that (i) such modification shall be, and be expressed to be, effective only after all
Parity Obligations outstanding at the date of the adoption of such modification shall cease
to be outstanding, and (ii) such modification shall be specifically referred to in the text of
all Additional Parity Obligations issued after the date of the adoption of such modification.
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Notice of any such amendment may be published or given by the City in the manner described in
subsection (b) of this Section; provided, however, that the publication of such notice shall not
constitute a condition precedent to the adoption of such amendatory ordinance and the failure to
publish such notice shall not adversely affect the implementation of such amendment as adopted
pursuant to such amendatory ordinance.
Section 32. CUSTODY, APPROVAL AND REGISTRATION OF BONDS; BOND
COUNSEL'S OPINION, BOND INSURANCE AND CUSIP NUMBERS. The Mayor of the
City is hereby authorized to have control of the Bonds initially issued and delivered hereunder and
all necessary records and proceedings pertaining to the Bonds pending their delivery and their
investigation, examination and approval by the Attorney General of the State of Texas, and their
registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas. Upon registration of the
Bonds said Comptroller of Public Accounts (or a deputy designated in writing to act for said
Comptroller) shall manually sign the Comptroller's Registration Certificate attached to such
Bonds, and the seal of said Comptroller shall be impressed, or placed in facsimile, on such
certificate. The approving legal opinion of the City's Bond Counsel (with an appropriate certificate
pertaining thereto executed by facsimile signature of the City Secretary or the Deputy City
Secretary of the City), a statement regarding any insurance policy and the assigned CUSIP
numbers, if any, may, at the option of the City, be printed on or attached to the Bonds issued and
delivered under this Ordinance, but such additions or attachments shall not have any legal effect,
and shall be solely for the convenience and information of the registered owners of the Bonds.
All officers of the City are authorized to execute such documents, certificates and receipts
as they may deem appropriate in order to consummate the delivery of the Bonds in accordance
with any applicable purchase agreement between the City and the initial purchaser of the Bonds.
The Pricing Officer is hereby authorized to have control of the Initial Bond and all necessary
records and proceedings pertaining thereto pending investigation, examination and approval of the
Attorney General of the State of Texas, registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the
State of Texas, and registration with, and initial exchange or transfer by, the Paying
Agent/Registrar. After registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas,
delivery of the Bonds shall be made to the purchaser under and subject to the general supervision
and direction of the Pricing Officer, against receipt by the City of all amounts due to the City under
the terms of sale.
The obligation of the initial purchaser to accept delivery of the Bonds is subject to the
initial purchaser being furnished with the final, approving opinion of McCall, Parkhurst & Horton
L.L.P., bond counsel to the City, which opinion shall be dated as of and delivered on the date of
initial delivery of the Bonds to the initial purchaser. The engagement of such firm as bond counsel
to the City in connection with issuance, sale and delivery of the Bonds is hereby approved and
confirmed. The execution and delivery of an engagement letter, to the extent desired by the City,
between the City and such firm, with respect to such services as bond counsel, is hereby authorized
in such form as may be approved by the Mayor or the City Manager and the Mayor or the City
Manager is hereby authorized to execute such engagement letter. Additionally, a closing
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instruction letter executed by the City Manager or its Chief Financial Officer shall further provide
for the fees and expenses to be paid for such bond counsel services.
Section 33. APPROVAL OF OFFERING DOCUMENTS, AND PAYING
AGENT/REGISTRAR AGREEMENT. The Pricing Officer is hereby authorized to approve a
Preliminary Official Statement, an Official Statement relating to the Bonds and any addenda,
supplement or amendment thereto and to deem such documents final in accordance with the Rule,
if the Bonds are sold in a public offering. The City further approves the distribution of such
Official Statement in the reoffering of the Bonds by the underwriters or initial purchasers in final
form, with such changes therein or additions thereto as the Pricing Officer executing the same may
deem advisable, such determination to be conclusively evidenced by his execution thereof.
The Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement by and between the City and the Paying
Agent/Registrar ("Paying Agent Agreement") in substantially the form and substance previously
approved by the City Council in connection with previous transactions is hereby approved and the
Pricing Officer is hereby authorized and directed to complete, amend, modify and execute the
Paying Agent Agreement as necessary. The Pricing Officer is hereby authorized to select an
eligible bank, trust company, financial institution, or other eligible entity act as paying agent and
registrar for the Bonds in accordance with the terms of this Ordinance.
Section 34. INSURANCE PROVISIONS. In connection with the sale of the Bonds,
the City may obtain municipal bond insurance policies from one or more recognized municipal
bond insurance organizations (the "Bond Insurer" or "Bond Insurers") to guarantee the full and
complete payment required to be made by or on behalf of the City on the Bonds. The Pricing
Officer is hereby authorized to sign a commitment letter or insurance agreement with the Bond
Insurer or Bond Insurers and to pay the premium for the bond insurance policies at the time of the
delivery of the Bonds to the underwriter out of the proceeds of sale of the Bonds or from other
available funds and to execute such other documents and certificates as necessary in connection
with the bond insurance policies as the Pricing Officer may deem appropriate. Printing on the
Bonds covered by the bond insurance policies a statement describing such insurance, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Bond Insurer and the Pricing Officer, is hereby approved and
authorized. The Pricing Certificate may contain provisions related to the bond insurance policies,
including payment provisions thereunder, and the rights of the Bond Insurer or Insurers, and any
such provisions shall be read and interpreted as an integral part of this Ordinance.
Section 35. ABILITY TO SELL BONDS BY PRIVATE PLACEMENT.
Notwithstanding anything else in this Ordinance to the contrary, in the event that the Pricing
Officer determines that it is in the best interest of the City, the Pricing Officer may elect to sell the
Bonds by a private placement to a financial institution or other purchaser. In the event the Bonds
are sold in such a private placement, the Pricing Officer may elect to have the purchaser deliver
an investment letter approved by the City's bond counsel as the bond purchase agreement
contemplated by this Ordinance and the Pricing Officer is hereby authorized to sign such
investment letter. In the event such investment letter contains customary representations that the
purchaser is a sophisticated investor purchasing the Bonds without an intent to resell the Bonds
and has received sufficient disclosure from the City, the Bonds may be sold in such a private
placement without the Official Statement contemplated by this Ordinance. The Pricing Certificate
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executed with respect to such a private placement may also provide for a Form of Bond which
requires a single Bond with an authorized denomination in the aggregate principal amount of the
Bond that is payable in annual principal installments. The Pricing Officer may also elect in the
Pricing Certificate for such a private placement to modify the continuing disclosure requirements
set forth in Section 21 hereof as necessary and customary for such a private placement transaction.
Section 36. NO RECOURSE AGAINST CITY OFFICIALS. No recourse shall be
had for the payment of principal of or interest on any Parity Obligations or for any claim based
thereon or on this Ordinance against any official of the City or any person executing any Parity
Obligations.
Section 37. FURTHER ACTIONS. The officers and employees of the City are hereby
authorized, empowered and directed from time to time and at any time to do and perform all such
acts and things and to execute, acknowledge and deliver in the name and under the corporate seal
and on behalf of the City all such instruments, whether or not herein mentioned, as may be
necessary or desirable in order to carry out the terms and provisions of this Ordinance, the Bonds,
the initial sale and delivery of the Bonds, the Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement, any insurance
commitment letter or insurance policy and the Official Statement. In addition, prior to the initial
delivery of the Bonds, the Mayor, the City Manager or Assistant City Manager, the City Attorney
and Bond Counsel are hereby authorized and directed to approve any technical changes or
corrections to this Ordinance or to any of the instruments authorized and approved by this
Ordinance necessary in order to (i) correct any ambiguity or mistake or properly or more
completely document the transactions contemplated and approved by this Ordinance and as
described in the Official Statement, (ii) obtain a rating from any of the national bond rating
agencies or satisfy requirements of the Bond Insurer, or (iii) obtain the approval of the Bonds by
the Texas Attorney General's office.
In case any officer of the City whose signature shall appear on any Bond shall cease to be
such officer before the delivery of such Bond, such signature shall nevertheless be valid and
sufficient for all purposes the same as if such officer had remained in office until such delivery.
Section 38. INTERPRETATIONS. All terms defined herein and all pronouns used in
this Ordinance shall be deemed to apply equally to singular and plural and to all genders. The
titles and headings of the articles and sections of this Ordinance have been inserted for convenience
of reference only and are not to be considered a part hereof and shall not in any way modify or
restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof. This Ordinance and all the terms and provisions
hereof shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes set forth herein and to sustain the
validity of the Bonds and the validity of the lien on and pledge of the Pledged Revenues to secure
the payment of the Bonds.
Section 39. INCONSISTENT PROVISIONS. All ordinances, orders or resolutions,
or parts thereof, which are in conflict or inconsistent with any provision of this Ordinance are
hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict and the provisions of this Ordinance shall be and
remain controlling as to the matters contained herein.
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Section 40. INTERESTED PARTIES. Nothing in this Ordinance expressed or
implied is intended or shall be construed to confer upon, or to give to, any person or entity, other
than the City and the Registered Owners of the Bonds, any right, remedy or claim under or by
reason of this Ordinance or any covenant, condition or stipulation hereof, and all covenants,
stipulations, promises and agreements in this Ordinance contained by and on behalf of the City
shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the City and the Registered Owners of the Bonds.
Section 41. INCORPORATION OF RECITALS. The City hereby finds that the
statements set forth in the recitals of this Ordinance are true and correct, and the City hereby
incorporates such recitals as a part of this Ordinance.
Section 42. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Ordinance or the application
thereof to any circumstance shall be held to be invalid, the remainder of this Ordinance and the
application thereof to other circumstances shall nevertheless be valid, and this governing body
hereby declares that this Ordinance would have been enacted without such invalid provision.
Section 43. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall become effect immediately
from and after its passage on first and final reading in accordance with Section 1201.028, Texas
Government Code, as amended.
Section 44. PERFECTION. Chapter 1208, Government Code, applies to the issuance
of the Bonds and the pledge of revenues granted by the City under Section 7 of this Ordinance,
and such pledge is therefore valid, effective and perfected. If Texas law is amended at any time
while the Bonds are outstanding and unpaid such that the pledge of revenues granted by the City
under Section 7 of this Ordinance is to be subject to the filing requirements of Chapter 9, Business
Commerce Code, then in order to preserve to the registered owners of the Bonds the perfection
of the security interest in said pledge, the City agrees to take such measures as it determines are
reasonable and necessary under Texas law to comply with the applicable provisions of Chapter 9,
Business & Commerce Code and enable a filing to perfect the security interest in said pledge to
occur.
Section 45. PAYMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL FEE. The City hereby
authorizes the disbursement of a fee equal to the lesser of (i) one -tenth of one percent of the
principal amount of the Bonds or (ii) $9,500, provided that such fee shall not be less than $750, to
the Attorney General of Texas Public Finance Division for payment of the examination fee charged
by the State of Texas for the Attorney General's review and approval of public securities and credit
agreements, as required by Section 1202.004 of the Texas Government Code. The appropriate
member of the City's staff is hereby instructed to take the necessary measures to make this
payment. The City is also authorized to reimburse the appropriate City funds for such payment
from proceeds of the Bonds.
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IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 1201.028, Texas Government Code, passed and
approved on the first and final reading on the 23rd day of April, 2024.
CITY OF GEORj9ETOWN, TEXAS
Josh Sc
City of
ATTEST:
Robyn nsmore, City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sky as n, City Attorney
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EXHIBIT A
As used in this Ordinance, the following terms and expressions shall have the meanings set
forth below, unless the text hereof specifically indicates otherwise:
Accountant" means an independent certified public accountant or accountants or a firm of
an independent certified public accountants, in either case, with demonstrated expertise and
competence in public accountancy.
Additional Parity Obligations" means bonds, notes, warrants, certificates of obligation,
contractual obligations or other Debt which the City reserves the right to issue or enter into, as the
case may be, in the future under the terms and conditions provided in Sections 22 and 23 of this
Ordinance and which obligations are equally and ratably secured solely by a first lien on and pledge
of the Pledged Revenues on a parity with the outstanding Parity Obligations and the Bonds.
Amortization Installment" means, with respect to any Term Bonds of any series of Parity
Obligations, the amount of money which is required to be deposited into a mandatory redemption
account for retirement of such Term Bonds (whether at maturity or by mandatory redemption and
including redemption premium, if any) provided that the total Amortization Installments for such
Term Bonds shall be sufficient to provide for retirement of the aggregate principal amount of such
Term Bonds.
Annual Debt Service Requirements" means, as of the date of calculation, the principal of
and interest on all Parity Obligations coming due at Maturity or Stated Maturity (or that could
come due on demand of the owner thereof other than by acceleration or other demand conditioned
upon default by the City on such Debt, or be payable in respect of any required purchase of such
Debt by the City) in such Fiscal Year, and, for such purposes, any one or more of the following
rules shall apply at the election of the City:
1) Balloon Debt. If the principal (including the accretion of interest resulting from
original issue discount or compounding of interest) of any series or issue of Funded Debt
due (or payable in respect of any required purchase of such Funded Debt by the City) in
any Fiscal Year either is equal to at least 25% of the total principal (including the accretion
of interest resulting from original issue discount or compounding of interest) of such
Funded Debt or exceeds by more than 50% the greatest amount of principal of such series
or issue of Funded Debt due in any preceding or succeeding Fiscal Year (such principal
due in such Fiscal Year for such series or issue of Funded Debt being referred to herein
and throughout this Ordinance as 'Balloon Debt"), the amount of principal of such Balloon
Debt taken into account during any Fiscal Year shall be equal to the debt service calculated
using the original principal amount of such Balloon Debt amortized over the Term of Issue
on a level debt service basis at an assumed interest rate equal to the rate borne by such
Balloon Debt on the date of calculation;
2) Consent Sinking Fund. In the case of Balloon Debt, if a Designated Financial
Officer shall deliver to the City a certificate providing for the retirement of (and the
instrument creating such Balloon Debt shall permit the retirement of), or for the
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accumulation of a sinking fund for (and the instrument creating such Balloon Debt shall
permit the accumulation of a sinking fund for), such Balloon Debt according to a fixed
schedule stated in such certificate ending on or before the Fiscal Year in which such
principal (and premium, if any) is due, then the principal of (and, in the case of retirement,
or to the extent provided for by the sinking fund accumulation, the premium, if any, and
interest and other debt service charges on) such Balloon Debt shall be computed as if the
same were due in accordance with such schedule, provided that this clause (2) shall apply
only to Balloon Debt for which the installments previously scheduled have been paid or
deposited to the sinking fund established with respect to such Debt on or before the times
required by such schedule; and provided further that this clause (2) shall not apply where
the City has elected to apply the rule set forth in clause (1) above;
3) Prepaid Debt. Principal of and interest on Bonds and Additional Parity Obligations,
or portions thereof, shall not be included in the computation of the Annual Debt Service
Requirements for any Fiscal Year for which such principal or interest are payable from
funds on deposit or set aside in trust for the payment thereof at the time of such calculations
including without limitation capitalized interest and accrued interest so deposited or set
aside in trust) with a financial institution acting as fiduciary with respect to the payment of
such Debt; and
4) Variable Rate. As to any Parity Obligations that bear interest at a variable interest
rate which cannot be ascertained at the time of calculation of the Annual Debt Service
Requirement then, at the option of the City, either (A) an interest rate equal to the average
rate borne by such Parity Obligations (or by comparable debt in the event that such Parity
Obligations has not been outstanding during the preceding 24 months) for any 24 month
period ending within 30 days prior to the date of calculation, or (B) an interest rate equal
to the 30-year Revenue Bond Index (as most recently published in The Bond Buyerl, shall
be presumed to apply for all future dates, unless such index is no longer published in The
Bond Buyer, in which case an index of revenue bonds with maturities of at least 20 years
which is published in a financial newspaper or journal with national circulation may be
used for this purpose (if two Series of Parity Obligations which bear interest at variable
interest rate, or one or more maturities within a Series, of equal par amounts, are issued
simultaneously with inverse floating interest rates providing a composite fixed interest rate
for such Parity Obligations taken as a whole, such composite fixed rate shall be used in
determining the Annual Debt Service Requirement with respect to such Parity
Obligations);
With respect to any calculation of historic data, only those payments actually made in the subject
period shall be taken into account in making such calculation and, with respect to prospective
calculations, only those payments reasonably expected to be made in the subject period shall be
taken into account in making the calculation.
Average Annual Debt Service Requirements" means that average amount which, at the
time of computation, will be required to pay the Annual Debt Service Requirements when due
either at Stated Maturity or mandatory redemption) and derived by dividing the total of such
Annual Debt Service Requirements by the number of Fiscal Years then remaining before Stated
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Maturity of such Parity Obligations. For the purposes of this definition, a fractional period of a
Fiscal Year shall be treated as an entire Fiscal Year. Capitalized interest payments provided from
bond proceeds, accrued interest on any Debt, and interest earnings thereon shall be excluded in
making such computation.
Authorized Denominations" means the denomination of $5,000 or any integral multiple
thereof with respect to the Bonds; provided that if the Bonds are sold pursuant to a private
placement, the Pricing Officer may determine in the Pricing Certificate that the Authorized
Denomination for a Bond is its principal amount.
Bond Insurer" means any entity that insures or guarantees the payment of principal and
interest on any Bonds or the provider of a Reserve Fund Obligation.
Bonds" means the Bonds and includes collectively all Taxable Bonds and Tax -Exempt
Bonds initially issued and delivered pursuant to this Ordinance and the Pricing Certificate and all
substitute Bonds exchanged therefor, as well as all other substitute bonds and replacement bonds
issued pursuant hereto, and the term 'Bond" shall mean any of the Bonds.
Book -Entry -Only System" means the book -entry system of bond registration provided in
Section 5, or any successor system of book -entry registration.
Cede & Co. " means the designated nominee and its successors and assigns of The
Depository Trust Company, New York.
City" means the City of Georgetown, Texas, and where appropriate, the City Council.
City Council" means the governing body of the City.
Debt" and "Debt of the City payable from Pledged Revenues" mean:
1) all indebtedness payable from Pledged Revenues and/or Net Revenues incurred or
assumed by the City for borrowed money and all other financing obligations of the System
payable from Pledged Revenues and/or Net Revenues that, in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, are shown on the liability side of a balance sheet; and
2) all other indebtedness payable from Pledged Revenues and/or Net Revenues (other
than indebtedness otherwise treated as Debt hereunder) for borrowed money or for the
acquisition, construction or improvement of property or capitalized lease obligations
pertaining to the System that is guaranteed, directly or indirectly, in any manner by the
City, or that is in effect guaranteed, directly or indirectly, by the City through an agreement,
contingent or otherwise, to purchase any such indebtedness or to advance or supply funds
for the payment or purchase of any such indebtedness or to purchase property or services
primarily for the purpose of enabling the debtor or seller to make payment of such
indebtedness, or to assure the owner of the indebtedness against loss, or to supply funds to
or in any other manner invest in the debtor (including any agreement to pay for property
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or services irrespective of whether or not such property is delivered or such services are
rendered), or otherwise.
For the purpose of determining Debt, there shall be excluded any particular Debt if, upon or prior
to the Maturity thereof, there shall have been deposited with the proper depository (a) in trust the
necessary funds (or investments that will provide sufficient funds, if permitted by the instrument
creating such Debt) for the payment, redemption, or satisfaction of such Debt or (b) evidence of
such Debt deposited for cancellation; and thereafter it shall not be considered Debt. No item shall
be considered Debt unless such item constitutes indebtedness under generally accepted accounting
principles applied on a basis consistent with the financial statements of the System in prior Fiscal
Years.
Defeasance Securities" means (i) Federal Securities, (ii) noncallable obligations of an
agency or instrumentality of the United States of America, including obligations that are
unconditionally guaranteed or insured by the agency or instrumentality and that, on the date the
City Council adopts or approves proceedings authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds or
otherwise provide for the funding of an escrow to effect the defeasance of the Bonds are rated as
to investment quality by a nationally recognized investment rating firm not less than "AAA" or its
equivalent, (iii) noncallable obligations of a state or an agency or a county, municipality, or other
political subdivision of a state that have been refunded and that, on the date the City Council adopts
or approves proceedings authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds or otherwise provide for the
funding of an escrow to effect the defeasance of the Bonds, are rated as to investment quality by a
nationally recognized investment rating firm no less than "AAA" or its equivalent and (iv) any
other then authorized securities or obligations under applicable State law that may be used to
defease obligations such as the Bonds. The foregoing notwithstanding, the Pricing Officer may
elect in the Pricing Certificate to modify the definition of "Defeasance Securities" by eliminating
any securities or obligations set forth in the preceding sentence upon determining that it is in the
best interests of the City to do so.
Depository" means one or more official depository banks of the City.
DTC" means The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York and its successors
and assigns.
DTC Participant" means securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing
corporations, and certain other organizations on whose behalf DTC was created to hold securities
to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among DTC Participants.
Designated Financial Officer" means the chief financial officer of the City, or such other
financial or accounting official of the City so designated by the City Council.
Federal Securities" as used herein means direct, noncallable obligations of the United
States of America, including obligations that are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States
of America.
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Financial Obligation" means a (a) debt obligation; (b) derivative instrument entered into
in connection with, or pledged as security or a source of payment for, an existing or planned debt
obligation; or (c) guarantee of a debt obligation or any such derivative instrument; provided that
financial obligation" shall not include municipal securities (as defined in the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended) as to which a final official statement (as defined in the Rule) has been
provided to the MSRB consistent with the Rule.
Fiscal Year" means the twelve-month accounting period used by the City in connection
with the operation of the System, currently ending on September 30 of each year, which may be
any twelve consecutive month period established by the City, but in no event may the Fiscal Year
be changed more than one time in any three -calendar year period.
Funded Debt" means all Parity Obligations created or assumed by the City that mature by
their terms (in the absence of the exercise of any earlier right of demand), or that are renewable at
the option of the City to a date, more than one year after the original creation or assumption of
such Debt by the City.
Gross Revenues" and "Gross Revenues of the City's System" mean all revenues, income
and receipts of every nature derived or received by the City from the operation and ownership of
the System; including the interest income from investment or deposit of money in any Fund created
by this Ordinance or maintained by the City in connection with the System; and any other revenues
hereafter pledged to the payment of all Parity Obligations.
Holder" or "Holders" means the registered owner, whose name appears in the Security
Register, for any Parity Obligation.
Initial Bonds" means the Bonds authorized, issued, and initially delivered as provided in
Section 4 of this Ordinance.
Interest and Sinking Fund" means the special Fund maintained by the provisions of
Sections 8 and 11 of this Ordinance.
Maintenance and Operating Expenses" means the reasonable and necessary expenses of
operation and maintenance of the System as required by Section 1502.058, Texas Government
Code, as amended, including all salaries, labor, materials, repairs and extensions necessary to
render efficient service (but only such repairs and extensions as, in the judgment of the governing
body of the City, are necessary to keep the System in operation and render adequate service to the
City and the inhabitants thereof, or such as might be necessary to meet some physical accident or
conditions which would otherwise impair the Parity Obligations), and all payments under contracts
now or hereafter defined as operating expenses by the Legislature of Texas. Depreciation shall
never be considered as a Maintenance and Operating Expense. The definition includes a two -
month reserve amount, as provided under Section 10 of this Ordinance.
Maturity" means, when used with respect to any Debt, the date on which the principal of
such Debt or any installment thereof becomes due and payable as therein provided, whether at the
Stated Maturity thereof or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, or otherwise.
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Maximum Annual Debt Service Requirements " means the greatest requirements of Annual
Debt Service Requirements (taking into account all mandatory principal redemption requirements)
scheduled to occur in any future Fiscal Year or in the then current Fiscal Year for the particular
obligations for which such calculation is made. Capitalized interest payments provided from Debt
proceeds, accrued interest on any Debt, and interest earnings thereon shall be excluded in making
such computation.
MSRB" means the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.
Net Revenues" and "Net Revenues of the City's System" mean all Gross Revenues
remaining after deducting the Maintenance and Operating Expenses.
Ordinance" means this ordinance finally adopted by the City Council on April 23, 2024.
Outstanding", when used with respect to Parity Obligations, means, as of the date of
determination, all Parity Obligations theretofore delivered under this Ordinance and any ordinance
authorizing Additional Parity Obligations, except:
1) Parity Obligations theretofore cancelled and delivered to the City or delivered to
the Paying Agent/Registrar for cancellation;
2) Parity Obligations deemed paid pursuant to the provisions of Section 29 of this
Ordinance or any comparable section of any ordinance authorizing Additional Parity
Obligations;
3) Parity Obligations upon transfer of or in exchange for and in lieu of which other
Parity Obligations have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Ordinance and
any ordinance authorizing Additional Parity Obligations; and
4) Parity Obligations under which the obligations of the City have been released,
discharged or extinguished in accordance with the terms thereof.
Paying Agent/Registrar" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(a) hereof.
Parity Obligations" means the Bonds, the Previously Issued Parity Obligations and any
Additional Parity Obligations hereafter issued by the City or obligations issued to refund any of
the foregoing (as determined within the sole discretion of the City Council in accordance with
applicable law) if issued in a manner that provides that the refunding bonds are payable from and
equally and ratably secured by a first lien on and pledge of the Pledged Revenues.
Permitted Investments" means any security or obligation or combination thereof permitted
under the Public Funds Investments Act, Chapter 2256, Texas Government Code, as amended or
other applicable law.
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Pledged Revenues" means (1) the Net Revenues, plus (2) any additional revenues, income,
receipts, or other resources, including, without limitation, any grants, donations or income received
or to be received from the United States Government, or any other public or private source, whether
pursuant to an agreement or otherwise, which hereafter are pledged by the City to the payment of
the Parity Obligations, and excluding those revenues excluded from Gross Revenues.
Previously Issued Parity Obligations" means the Outstanding Parity Obligations of the
City entitled: "City of Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue Bonds, Series 2014," "City of
Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2014," "City of Georgetown,
Texas Utility System Revenue Bonds, Series 2014A", "City of Georgetown, Texas Utility System
Revenue Bonds, Series 2015," "City of Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue Bonds, Series
2016," "City of Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2016," "City
of Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue and Refunding Bonds, Series 2017," "City of
Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue Bonds, Series 2018," "City of Georgetown, Texas
Utility System Revenue Bond, Series 2020", "City of Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue
Refunding Bond, Series 2020," "City of Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue Bonds, Series
2022", and "City of Georgetown, Texas Utility System Revenue Bonds, Series 2023."
Pricing Certificate" means each Pricing Certificate of the City's Pricing Officer to be
executed and delivered pursuant to Section 3 hereof in connection with the issuance of each Series
of the Bonds.
Pricing Officer" means the Mayor, acting as the designated pricing officer of the City to
execute the Pricing Certificate. In the absence of the Mayor, the Mayor Pro-Tem may act as the
designated pricing officer of the City to execute the Pricing Certificate.
Prudent Utility Practice" means any of the practices, methods and acts, in the exercise of
reasonable judgment, in the light of the facts, including but not limited to the practices, methods
and acts engaged in or previously approved by a significant portion of the public utility industry,
known at the time the decision was made, that would have been expected to accomplish the desired
result at the lowest reasonable cost consistent with reliability, safety and expedition. It is
recognized that Prudent Utility Practice is not intended to be limited to the optimum practice,
method or act to the exclusion of all others, but rather is a spectrum of possible practices, methods
or acts which could have been expected to accomplish the desired result at the lowest reasonable
cost consistent with reliability, safety and expedition. In the case of any facility included in the
System which is operated in common with one or more other entities, the term Prudent Utility
Practice, as applied to such facility, shall have the meaning set forth in the agreement governing
the operation of such facility.
Rating Agency" means any nationally recognized securities rating agency which has
assigned, at the request of the City, a rating to the Parity Obligations.
Record Date" means Record Date as defined in the Form of Bonds in Exhibit "B" to this
Ordinance and the Pricing Certificate.
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Required Reserve Amount" means the amount required to be maintained in the Reserve
Fund pursuant to the provisions of Section 12 of this Ordinance.
Required Reserve Fund Deposits" means the deposits and credits, if any, required to be
made to the Reserve Fund pursuant to the provisions of Section 12 of this Ordinance.
Reserve Fund" means the special fund created, established and maintained by the
provisions of Section 12 of this Ordinance.
Reserve Fund Obligation" means, to the extent permitted by law, as evidenced by an
opinion of nationally recognized bond counsel, a surety bond or insurance policy deposited in the
Reserve Fund to satisfy the Required Reserve Amount whereby the City is obligated to provide
funds up to and including the maximum amount and under the conditions specified in such
agreement or instrument.
Reserve Fund Obligation Payment" means any subrogation payment the City is obligated
to make from Pledged Revenues deposited in the Reserve Fund with respect to a Reserve Fund
Obligation.
Rule" means SEC Rule 15c2-12, as amended from time to time.
SEC" means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Security Register" means the books or records for the registration of the transfer and
exchange of any Parity Obligations.
Series" shall mean series of Bonds issued, as determined by the Pricing Officer pursuant
to this Ordinance.
Taxable Bonds" means. any Bonds designated by a Pricing Officer in the Pricing
Certificate as Taxable Bonds, the interest on which is includable in the gross income of the owner
thereof for federal income tax purposes.
Tax -Exempt Bonds" means any of the Bonds designated by the Pricing Officer as Tax -
Exempt Bonds, the interest on which is excludable from the gross income of the owner thereof for
federal income tax purposes pursuant to Section 103 of the Code.
Special Project" means, to the extent permitted by law, any electric, waterworks, sanitary
sewer, wastewater reuse or municipal drainage system property, improvement or facility declared
by the City not to be part of the System, for which the costs of acquisition, construction and
installation are paid from proceeds of a financing transaction other than the issuance of bonds
payable from ad valorem taxes, Pledged Revenues or Net Revenues and for which all maintenance
and operation expenses are payable from sources other than ad valorem taxes, Pledged Revenues
or Net Revenues, but only to the extent that and for so long as all or any part of the revenues or
proceeds of which are or will be pledged to secure the payment or repayment of such costs of
acquisition, construction and installation under such financing transaction.
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Stated Maturity" means the annual principal payments of the Parity Obligations payable
on the respective dates set forth in the ordinances which authorized the issuance of such Parity
Obligations.
Subordinate Lien Obligations" means (i) any bonds, notes, warrants, certificates of
obligation, contractual obligations or other Debt issued by the City that are payable, in whole or
in part, from and equally and ratably secured by a lien on and pledge of the Net Revenues, such
pledge being subordinate and inferior to the lien on and pledge of the Net Revenues that are or will
be pledged to the payment of any Parity Obligations issued by the City, and (ii) obligations
hereafter issued to refund any of the foregoing if issued in a manner that provides that the refunding
bonds are payable from and equally and ratably secured, in whole or in part, by a lien on and
pledge of the Net Revenues on a parity with the Subordinate Lien Obligations.
System" means as currently comprised, the City's combined electric, waterworks and
sewer system, which includes all properties, facilities, plants, improvements, equipment, interests
and rights currently owned, operated and maintained by the City for the (i) generation,
transmission, distribution or sale of electric power and energy, (ii) supply, treatment, and
transmission and distribution of treated potable water and (iii) collection and treatment of
wastewater, and for water reuse, together with all future extensions, improvements, purchases,
repairs, replacements and additions thereto, whether situated within or without the limits of the
City, and all water (in any form) owned by the City; provided, however, that the City expressly
retains the right to (i) sale or disaggregate the System as set forth in Section 18 of this Ordinance
and (ii) incorporate any other utility system as provided by the laws of the State of Texas as a part
of the System. The System shall not include any Special Project or any disaggregated part of the
System as provided in Section 18 of this Ordinance.
Term Bonds" means those Parity Obligations so designated in the ordinances authorizing
such bonds which shall be subject to retirement by operation of a mandatory redemption account.
Term of Issue" means with respect to any Balloon Debt, a period of time equal to the
greater of (i) the period of time commencing on the date of issuance of such Balloon Debt and
ending on the final maturity date of such Balloon Debt or (ii) twenty-five years.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF BOND
II blanks and anv appropriate or necessary insertions or deletions. to be completed as
determined by the Pricing Officer in the Pricing Certificate.)
NO. R- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRINCIPAL
STATE OF TEXAS AMOUNT
WILLIAMSON COUNTY $
CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS
UTILITY SYSTEM REVENUE BOND
SERIES 202 x
INTEREST RATE DATE OF BOND MATURITY DATE CUSIP NO.
REGISTERED OWNER:
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: DOLLARS
ON THE MATURITY DATE specified above, GEORGETOWN, TEXAS (the "City"),
being a political subdivision of the State of Texas, hereby promises to pay to the Registered Owner
set forth above, or registered assigns (hereinafter called the "Registered Owner") the principal
amount set forth above, and to pay interest thereon from , 20*, on ,
20 * and semiannually thereafter on each * and * to the maturity date
specified above, or the date of redemption prior to maturity, at the interest rate per annum specified
above calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months; except that if this Bond
is required to be authenticated and the date of its authentication is later than the first Record Date
hereinafter defined), such principal amount shall bear interest from the interest payment date next
preceding the date of authentication, unless such date of authentication is after any Record Date
but on or before the next following interest payment date, in which case such principal amount
shall bear interest from such next following interest payment date; provided, however, that if on
the date of authentication hereof the interest on the Bond or Bonds, if any, for which this Bond is
being exchanged or converted from is due but has not been paid, then this Bond shall bear interest
from the date to which such interest has been paid in full. Notwithstanding the foregoing, during
any period in which ownership of the Bonds is determined only by a book entry at a securities
depository for the Bonds, any payment to the securities depository, or its nominee or registered
assigns, shall be made in accordance with existing arrangements between the City and the
securities depository.
To be completed as determined by the Pricing Officer in the Pricing Certificate. To the extent that the Pricing Certificate relating to the Bonds is
inconsistent with any provisions in the Form of Bond or contains information to complete missing information in this Form of Bond, the language
in the Pricing Certificate shall be used in the executed Bonds.
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THE PRINCIPAL OF AND INTEREST ON this Bond are payable in lawful money of
the United States of America, without exchange or collection charges. The principal of this Bond
shall be paid to the Registered Owner hereof upon presentation and surrender of this Bond at
maturity or upon the date fixed for its redemption prior to maturity, at
the "Paying Agent/Registrar") at their office for payment in
the "Designated Payment/Transfer Office"). The payment of interest on this
Bond shall be made by the Paying Agent/Registrar to the Registered Owner hereof on each interest
payment date by check or draft, dated as of such interest payment date, drawn by the Paying
Agent/Registrar on, and payable solely from, funds of the City required by the ordinance
authorizing the issuance of this Bond (the "Ordinance") to be on deposit with the Paying
Agent/Registrar for such purpose as hereinafter provided; and such check or draft shall be sent by
the Paying Agent/Registrar by United States mail, first-class postage prepaid, on each such interest
payment date, to the Registered Owner hereof, at its address as it appeared on the close of business
on the * business day of the month next preceding each such date (the "Record Date") on
the registration books kept by the Paying Agent/Registrar (the "Registration Books"). In addition,
interest may be paid by such other method, acceptable to the Paying Agent/Registrar, requested
by, and at the risk and expense of, the Registered Owner. In the event of a non-payment of interest
on a scheduled payment date, and for 30 days thereafter, a new record date for such interest
payment (a "Special Record Date") will be established by the Paying Agent/Registrar, if and when
funds for the payment of such interest have been received from the City. Notice of the Special
Record Date and of the scheduled payment date of the past due interest (which shall be 15 days
after the Special Record Date) shall be sent at least five business days prior to the Special Record
Date by United States mail, first-class postage prepaid, to the address of each owner of a Bond
appearing on the Registration Books at the close of business on the last business day next preceding
the date of mailing of such notice.
DURING ANY PERIOD in which ownership of the Bonds is determined only by a book
entry at a securities depository for the Bonds, if fewer than all of the Bonds of the same maturity
and bearing the same interest rate are to be redeemed, the particular Bonds of such maturity and
bearing such interest rate shall be selected in accordance with the arrangements between the City
and the securities depository.
ANY ACCRUED INTEREST due at maturity as provided herein shall be paid to the
Registered Owner upon presentation and surrender of this Bond for payment at the Designated
Payment/Transfer Office of the Paying Agent/Registrar. The City covenants with the Registered
Owner of this Bond that on or before each payment date for this Bond it will make available to the
Paying Agent/Registrar, from the "Interest and Sinking Fund" created by the Ordinance, the
amounts required to provide for the payment, in immediately available funds, of all principal of
and interest on the Bonds, when due.
IF THE DATE for the payment of the principal of or interest on this Bond shall be a
Saturday, Sunday, a legal holiday, or a day on which banking institutions in the City where the
To be completed as determined by the Pricing Officer in the Pricing Certificate. To the extent that the Pricing Certificate relating to the Bonds is
inconsistent with any provisions in the Form of Bond or contains information to complete missing information in this Form of Bond, the language
in the Pricing Certificate shall be used in the executed Bonds.
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principal corporate trust office of the Paying Agent/Registrar is located are authorized by law or
executive order to close, then the date for such payment shall be the next succeeding day which is
not such a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day on which banking institutions are authorized to
close; and payment on such date shall have the same force and effect as if made on the original
date payment was due.
THIS BOND is one of a series of Bonds dated , 20 *, authorized in
accordance with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas in the principal amount of
TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF [(1) EXTENDING AND
IMPROVING THE CITY'S SYSTEM, AND (2) PAYING THE COSTS OF ISSUING THE
BONDS.]*
ON , 20*, or on any date thereafter, the Bonds of this Series maturing on
and after , 20 * may be redeemed prior to their scheduled maturities, at the option
of the City, with funds derived from any available and lawful source, at par plus accrued interest
to the date fixed for redemption as a whole, or from time to time in part, and, if in part, the particular
maturities to be redeemed shall be selected and designated by the City and if less than all of a
maturity is to be redeemed, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall determine by lot the Bonds, or a
portion thereof, within such maturity to be redeemed (provided that a portion of a Bond may be
redeemed only in an integral multiple of $5,000).
THE BONDS MATURING ON , , are subject to mandatory sinking fund
redemption by lot prior to maturity in the following amounts on the following dates and at a price
of par plus accrued interest to the redemption date ("Term Bonds").
Term Bonds Maturing on .20
Redemption Date Principal Amount
20 $
20_t $ t
Final Maturity
THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT of the Term Bonds required to be redeemed pursuant to
the operation of the mandatory sinking fund redemption provisions shall be reduced, at the option
of the City by the principal amount of any Term Bonds of the stated maturity which, at least 50
days prior to a mandatory redemption date, (1) shall have been acquired by the City at a price not
exceeding the principal amount of such Term Bonds plus accrued interest to the date of purchase
thereof, and delivered to the Paying Agent/Registrar for cancellation, (2) shall have been purchased
and canceled by the Paying Agent/Registrar at the request of the City with monies in the Interest
and Sinking Fund at a price not exceeding the principal amount of the Term Bonds plus accrued
interest to the date of purchase thereof, or (3) shall have been redeemed pursuant to the optional
To be completed as determined by the Pricing Officer in the Pricing Certificate. To the extent that the Pricing Certificate relating to the Bonds is
inconsistent with any provisions in the Form of Bond or contains information to complete missing information in this Form of Bond, the language
in the Pricing Certificate shall be used in the executed Bonds.
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redemption provisions and not theretofore credited against a mandatory sinking fund redemption
requirement.] * *
NO LESS THAN 30 days prior to the date fixed for any such redemption, the City shall
cause the Paying Agent/Registrar to send notice by United States mail, first-class postage prepaid
to the Registered Owner of each Bond to be redeemed at its address as it appeared on the
Registration Books of the Paying Agent/Registrar at the close of business on the 45th day prior to
the redemption date and to major securities depositories, national bond rating agencies and bond
information services; provided, however, that the failure to send, mail or receive such notice, or
any defect therein or in the sending or mailing thereof, shall not affect the validity or effectiveness
of the proceedings for the redemption of any Bonds. By the date fixed for any such redemption
due provision shall be made with the Paying Agent/Registrar for the payment of the required
redemption price for the Bonds or portions thereof which are to be so redeemed. If due provision
for such payment is made, all as provided above, the Bonds or portions thereof which are to be so
redeemed thereby automatically shall be treated as redeemed prior to their scheduled maturities,
and they shall not bear interest after the date fixed for redemption, and they shall not be regarded
as being outstanding except for the right of the Registered Owner to receive the redemption price
from the Paying Agent/Registrar out of the funds provided for such payment. If a portion of any
Bonds shall be redeemed a substitute Bond or Bonds having the same maturity date, bearing
interest at the same rate, in any denomination or denominations in any integral multiple of $5,000,
at the written request of the Registered Owner, and in aggregate principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion thereof, will be issued to the Registered Owner upon the surrender thereof for
cancellation, at the expense of the City, all as provided in the Ordinance.
WITH RESPECT TO any optional redemption of the Bonds, unless certain prerequisites
to such redemption required by the Ordinance have been met and moneys sufficient to pay the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds to be redeemed shall have been
received by the Paying Agent/Registrar prior to the giving of such notice of redemption, such
notice shall state that said redemption may, at the option of the City, be conditional upon the
satisfaction of such prerequisites and receipt of such moneys by the Paying Agent/Registrar on or
prior to the date fixed for such redemption, or upon any prerequisite set forth in such notice of
redemption. If a conditional notice of redemption is given and such prerequisites to the redemption
and sufficient moneys are not received, such notice shall be of no force and effect, the City shall
not redeem such Bonds and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall give notice, in the manner in which
the notice of redemption was given, to the effect that the Bonds have not been redeemed.
ALL BONDS OF THIS SERIES are issuable solely as fully registered Bonds, without
interest coupons, in the denomination of any integral multiple of $5,000. As provided in the
Ordinance, this Bond, or any unredeemed portion hereof, may, at the request of the Registered
Owner or the assignee or assignees hereof, be assigned, transferred, converted into and exchanged
for a like aggregate principal amount of fully registered Bonds, without interest coupons, payable
to the appropriate Registered Owner, assignee or assignees, as the case may be, having the same
denomination or denominations in any integral multiple of $5,000 as requested in writing by the
appropriate Registered Owner, assignee or assignees, as the case may be, upon surrender of this
Bond to the Paying Agent/Registrar for cancellation, all in accordance with the form and
Use of Term Bonds, if any, to be determined by the Pricing Officer.
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procedures set forth in the Ordinance. Among other requirements for such assignment and
transfer, this Bond must be presented and surrendered to the Paying Agent/Registrar, together with
proper instruments of assignment, in form and with guarantee of signatures satisfactory to the
Paying Agent/Registrar, evidencing assignment of this Bond or any portion or portions hereof in
any integral multiple of $5,000 to the assignee or assignees in whose name or names this Bond or
any such portion or portions hereof is or are to be registered. The form of Assignment printed or
endorsed on this Bond may be executed by the Registered Owner to evidence the assignment
hereof, but such method is not exclusive, and other instruments of assignment satisfactory to the
Paying Agent/Registrar may be used to evidence the assignment of this Bond or any portion or
portions hereof from time to time by the Registered Owner. The Paying Agent/Registrar's
reasonable standard or customary fees and charges for assigning, transferring, converting and
exchanging any Bond or portion thereof will be paid by the City. In any circumstance, any taxes
or governmental charges required to be paid with respect thereto shall be paid by the one requesting
such assignment, transfer, conversion or exchange, as a condition precedent to the exercise of such
privilege. The Paying Agent/Registrar shall not be required to make any such transfer, conversion,
or exchange during the period commencing on the close of business on any Record Date and
ending with the opening of business on the next following principal or interest payment date.
WHENEVER the beneficial ownership of this Bond is determined by a book entry at a
securities depository for the Bonds, the foregoing requirements of holding, delivering or
transferring this Bond shall be modified to require the appropriate person or entity to meet the
requirements of the securities depository as to registering or transferring the book entry to produce
the same effect.
IN THE EVENT any Paying Agent/Registrar for the Bonds is changed by the City,
resigns, or otherwise ceases to act as such, the City has covenanted in the Ordinance that it
promptly will appoint a competent and legally qualified substitute therefor, and cause written
notice thereof to be mailed to the Registered Owners of the Bonds.
IT IS HEREBY certified, recited, and covenanted that this Bond has been duly and validly
authorized, issued, and delivered; that all acts, conditions, and things required or proper to be
performed, exist, and be done precedent to or in the authorization, issuance, and delivery of this
Bond have been performed, existed, and been done in accordance with law; that this Bond is a
special obligation of the City, and that the interest on and principal of this Bond, together with the
Previously Issued Parity Obligations and all other outstanding "Parity Obligations" (as defined in
the Bond Ordinance), as such interest comes due, and as such principal matures, are payable from
and secured by a lien on and pledge of the "Pledged Revenues" of the "System" (which is generally
described as the City's combined electric, waterworks and sewer system), all as provided in the
Bond Ordinance.
THE CITY also has reserved the right, subject to restrictions stated in the Ordinance, to
issue Additional Parity Obligations which also may be made payable from and equally and ratably
secured by a first lien on and pledge of, the Pledged Revenues of the System in the same manner
and to the same extent as this Series of Bonds.
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THE CITY also has reserved the right, subject to restrictions stated in the Bond Ordinance
to issue Subordinate Lien Obligations payable from and equally and ratably secured, in whole or
in part, by a lien on and pledge of the Net Revenues (as defined in the Bond Ordinance),
subordinate and inferior in rank and dignity to the lien on and pledge of such Net Revenues
securing payment of the Bonds, the Previously Issued Parity Obligations or any Additional Parity
Obligations.
THE OWNER HEREOF shall never have the right to demand payment of this Bond out
of any funds raised or to be raised by taxation.
BY BECOMING the Registered Owner of this Bond, the Registered Owner thereby
acknowledges all of the terms and provisions of the Ordinance, agrees to be bound by such terms
and provisions, acknowledges that the Ordinance is duly recorded and available for inspection in
the official minutes and records of the governing body of the City, and agrees that the terms and
provisions of this Bond and the Ordinance constitute a contract between each Registered Owner
hereof and the City.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City has caused this Bond to be signed with the manual
or facsimile signature of the Mayor of the City and countersigned with the manual or facsimile
signature of the City Secretary and has caused the official seal of the City to be duly impressed, or
placed in facsimile, on this Bond.
City Secretary
CITY SEAL]
Mayor
FORM OF PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR'S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE
PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR'S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE
To be executed if this Bond is not accompanied by an
executed Registration Certificate of the Comptroller
of Public Accounts of the State of Texas)
It is hereby certified that this Bond has been issued under the provisions of the Ordinance
described in the text of this Bond; and that this Bond has been issued in conversion or replacement
of, or in exchange for, a Bond, Bonds, or a portion of a Bond or Bonds of a Series which originally
was approved by the Attorney General of the State of Texas and registered by the Comptroller of
Public Accounts of the State of Texas.
Dated
Paying Agent/Registrar
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Authorized Representative
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
ASSIGNMENT
For value received, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer Identification Number of Transferee)
Please print or typewrite name and address, including zip code, of Transferee)
the within Bond and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
attorney, to register the transfer of the
within Bond on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the
premises.
Dated:
Signature Guaranteed:
NOTICE: Signature(s) must be guaranteed by NOTICE: The signature above must
a member firm of the New York Stock correspond with the name of the Registered
Exchange or a commercial bank or trust Owner as it appears upon the front of this
company. Bond in every particular without alteration
or enlargement or any change whatsoever.
FORM OF REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC
ACCOUNTS FOR THE INITIAL BOND ONLY:
COMPTROLLER'S REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE: REGISTER NO.
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I hereby certify that this Bond has been examined, certified as to validity, and approved by
the Attorney General of the State of Texas, and that this Bond has been registered by the
Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas.
Witness my signature and seal this
Comptroller of Public Accounts
of the State of Texas
COMPTROLLER'S SEAL]
INSERTIONS FOR THE INITIAL BOND
i) The Initial Bond shall be in the form set forth in this Exhibit, except that:
A. immediately under the name of the Bond, the headings "INTEREST RATE" and
MATURITY DATE" shall both be completed with the words "As shown below" and
CUSIP NO." shall be deleted.
B. the first paragraph shall be deleted and the following will be inserted:
ON THE MATURITY DATE SPECIFIED ABOVE, the City of Georgetown, Texas
the "City"), being a political subdivision, hereby promises to pay to the Registered Owner
specified above, or registered assigns (hereinafter called the "Registered Owner"), on ,
20* in each of the years, in the principal installments and bearing interest at the per annum
rates set forth in the following schedule:
Principal Maturity Date* Interest
Amount ( ) Rate
Information for the Bonds from the Pricing Certificate to be inserted)
The City promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount hereof (calculated on the basis
of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) from , 20 * at the respective Interest
Rate per annum specified above. Interest is payable on , 20* and semiannually on
each * and * thereafter to the date of payment of the principal installment
specified above; except, that if this Bond is required to be authenticated and the date of its
authentication is later than the first Record Date (hereinafter defined), such principal amount shall
bear interest from the interest payment date next preceding the date of authentication, unless such
date of authentication is after any Record Date but on or before the next following interest payment
To be completed as determined by the Pricing Officer in the Pricing Certificate. To the extent that the Pricing Certificate relating to the Bonds is
inconsistent with any provisions in the Form of Bond or contains information to complete missing information in this Form of Bond, the language
in the Pricing Certificate shall be used in the executed Bonds.
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date, in which case such principal amount shall bear interest from such next following interest
payment date; provided, however, that if on the date of authentication hereof the interest on the
Bond or Bonds, if any, for which this Bond is being exchanged is due but has not been paid, then
this Bond shall bear interest from the date to which such interest has been paid in full."
C. The initial Bond shall be numbered "T-L"
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City has caused this Bond to be signed with the manual
or facsimile signature of the Mayor of the City and countersigned with the manual or facsimile
signature of the City Secretary and has caused the official seal of the City to be duly impressed, or
placed in facsimile, on this Bond.
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City SecretMy Ma. or CITY
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