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An Ordinance of Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government authorizing the issuance of Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Various Purpose General Obligation Refunding Bonds, in one or more subseries, for the purpose of refunding all or a portion of certain outstanding General Obligation Bonds of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government including, but not limited to, the outstanding General Obligation Bonds listed on Exhibit A hereto; approving a form of bond; authorizing designated officers to execute and deliver the bonds; providing for the payment and security of the bonds; creating a bond payment fund and escrow funds; maintaining the heretofore established sinking fund; authorizing a certificate of award for the acceptance of the bid of the bond purchaser for the purchase of the refunding obligations; authorizing an Escrow Trust Agreement; and repealing inconsistent Ordinances. [Div. of Finance, O'Mara]
Summary
Authorization of the Ordinance for the Sale and Issuance of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Various Purpose Taxable General Obligation Refunding Bonds in one or multiple series and repealing and replacing Ordinance 034-2020. An Ordinance was previously approved to authorize the sale of bonds through a public offering for one issue. This Ordinance would allow for the sale of multiple bonds through either a public or limited public offering allowing LFUCG to realize the greatest savings through refunding in uncertain markets. There is no current FY Budget impact. There May be Budget savings in future fiscal years. (0394-20)(O’Mara)
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Account Number: 1101-141401-1867-78401
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Annual Impact: $ : $1,666,311
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WHEREAS, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, heretofore issued certain general obligation bonds, including, but not limited to, those listed on Exhibit A hereto, which were authorized and issued pursuant to the respective Ordinances and for the respective purposes set forth therein (collectively, the “Prior Bonds”); and
WHEREAS, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government has determined that the present conditions of the municipal market are much more favorable than at the time the Prior Bonds were issued and that it is therefore advantageous and in the best interests of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to proceed with the issuance of its Various Purpose General Obligation Refunding Bonds, (the “Refunding Obligations”), in one or more subseries, on a tax-exempt or taxable basis in the principal amount or respective principal amounts required to accomplish the refunding of the Prior Bonds and enable the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to realize debt service savings, provided that the refunding of the Prior Bonds shall result in debt service savings for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government as determined by the Commissioner of Finance and the municipal advisor to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution and Laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and particularly KRS 66.011 et. seq. (the “Act”), an Urban County Government May issue bonds, subject to the requirements of the Act, to refund outstanding bonds or obligations issued to pay all or any portion of the costs of any public project that an Urban County Government is authorized to acquire, improve or construct; and
WHEREAS, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government desires to refund the Prior Bonds through the issuance of the Refunding Obligations to be sold and awarded to the successful bidder (the “Purchaser”) at public, competitive sale in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 424 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, as amended.
WHEREAS, upon the advice of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government’s Municipal Advisor, Robert W. Baird & Co., Incorporated (the “Municipal Advisor”), the pubic, competitive sale of the Refunding Obligations May be conducted by awarding the Refunding Obligations to an underwriter via a public offering (a “Public Offering”) or to a financial institution or other sophisticated investor to hold for its own investment in a limited public offering (a “Limited Public Offering”), depending on which method results in the greatest benefit to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government at the time of advertising for such sale.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (the “Urban County Council”), as follows:
SECTION 1. Necessity, Authorization and Purpose. The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government hereby declares that it is necessary to issue and authorizes the issuance of its Various Purpose General Obligation Refunding Bonds, in one or more subseries, on a tax-exempt or taxable basis in the principal amount or respective principal amounts required to (i) accomplish the refunding of all or a portion of the Prior Bonds, and (II) pay the costs of issuance of the Refunding Obligations.
The exact principal amount of Refunding Obligations to be issued and the determinations as to which Prior Bonds shall be refunded shall be established in the Certificate of Award to be executed by the Mayor of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (the “Certificate of Award”) awarding the Refunding Obligations to the Purchaser.
SECTION 2. Form. The Refunding Obligations shall be issued as fully registered Bonds, shall be designated “Various Purpose General Obligation Refunding Bonds” or should other designation as provided in the Certificate of Award, shall express upon their faces the purpose for which they are issued, that they are issued under the Act and shall be substantially in the form set forth in Annex A. The Refunding Obligations shall be in denominations as requested by the Purchaser thereof and established in the Certificate of Award, which shall be in integral multiples of five thousand dollars ($5,000). If the Refunding Obligations are sold in a Limited Public Offering, no Refunding Obligation shall be transferrable to another holder in an amount less than $100,000 regardless of the amount of authorized denominations established in the Certificate of Award. The Refunding Obligations shall be dated their date of issuance and delivery or such other date as is determined in the Certificate of Award. Interest on the Refunding Obligations shall bear interest from their respective dates payable on dates approved by the Commissioner of Finance, (each an “Interest Payment Date”) beginning on a date approved by the Commissioner of Finance, at the stated interest rate or rates on the principal amount thereof or as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Award. The Refunding Obligations shall be serial or term bonds maturing, in the years and in the amounts to be established in the Certificate of Award after advertised competitive sale of the Refunding Obligations based on the interest rates set forth in the successful bid for the Refunding Obligations (the “Bid”) and the provisions of this Section 2, provided that the final maturity date of the Refunding Obligations shall be as set forth in the Certificate of Award. The interest rate or rates on the Refunding Obligations shall be determined in the Certificate of Award based on the Bid; provided that the aggregate true interest cost of the Refunding Obligations shall not exceed six percent (6.0%).
The Refunding Obligations shall be subject to optional and/or mandatory redemption as provided in the Certificate of Award. At least thirty (30) days before any optional or mandatory sinking fund redemption date of any Refunding Obligations, a financial institution as determined in the Certificate of Award to serve as paying agent and registrar (the “Paying Agent and Registrar”) shall cause a notice of such redemption either in whole or in part, signed by the Paying Agent and Registrar, to be mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to all registered owners of the Refunding Obligations to be redeemed at their addresses as they appear on the registration books kept by the Paying Agent and Registrar, but failure to mail any such notice shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for such redemption of Refunding Obligations for which such notice has been sent. Each such notice shall set forth the date fixed for redemption, the redemption price to be paid and, if less than all of the Refunding Obligations being payable by their terms on a single date then outstanding shall be called for redemption, the distinctive number or letters, if any, of such Refunding Obligations to be redeemed.
On the date so designated for redemption, notice having been mailed in the manner under the conditions hereinabove provided and moneys for payment of the redemption price being held in the Bond Payment Fund (as defined herein) by the Paying Agent and Registrar for the registered owners of the Refunding Obligations to be redeemed, the Refunding Obligations so called for redemption shall become and be due and payable at the redemption price provided for redemption of such Refunding Obligations on such date, interest on the Refunding Obligations so called for redemption shall cease to accrue, and the registered owners of such Refunding Obligations shall have no right in respect thereof except to receive payment of the redemption price thereof.
The forms of Notice of Bond Sale, Official Terms and Conditions of Sale of Bonds, Bid Form and Official Statement, shall be in such form as approved by Bond Counsel (as defined herein), the Municipal Advisor and by the Commissioner of Finance.
SECTION 3. Execution and Delivery. The Refunding Obligations shall be executed by the manual or facsimile signature of the Mayor and duly attested by the manual or facsimile signature of the Clerk of the Urban County Council (which, together with any other person as May be authorized by Resolution are referred to as “Designated Officers”), shall have the seal of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government or a facsimile thereof affixed thereto, and shall bear the manual authenticating signature of an authorized representative of the bank designated in the Certificate of Award as the Paying Agent and Registrar for the Refunding Obligations. The Designated Officers are further authorized and directed to deliver the Refunding Obligations to the Purchaser, upon the terms and conditions provided herein, in the Certificate of Award and in the Bid, receive the proceeds therefor, execute and deliver such certificates and other closing documents and take such other action as May be necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the proper issuance, sale and delivery of the Refunding Obligations.
The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government authorizes and directs the Paying Agent and Registrar to authenticate the Refunding Obligations and to deliver the Refunding Obligations to the Purchaser upon payment of the purchase price thereof.
SECTION 4. Payment. Payment of or on account of the interest on and principal of the Refunding Obligations shall be made directly to the Paying Agent and Registrar for the account of the registered owner. Interest on the Refunding Obligations shall be payable by check, mailed to the person whose name appears on the fifteenth day preceding an Interest Payment Date on the bond registration records as the registered owner, on each Interest Payment Date or by other transfer of funds acceptable to such registered owner and the Paying Agent and Registrar. Principal shall be payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts at the time and place of payment upon delivery of the Refunding Obligations to the Paying Agent and Registrar or by other transfer of funds acceptable to the Paying Agent and Registrar and such registered owner. All such payments shall be valid and effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability upon such Bonds to the extent of the sum or sums so paid.
SECTION 5. Bond Payment Fund, Payment of Bonds. There is hereby established with the Paying Agent and Registrar a bond payment fund in the name of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to be known as the Various Purpose General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Bond Payment Fund (the “Bond Payment Fund”), into which the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government covenants to deposit, and into which the Designated Officers are hereby authorized and directed to deposit from the Sinking Fund (hereinafter established), on or before the twenty-fifth (25th) day of each month which precedes an Interest Payment Date on the Refunding Obligations, the amount required to pay principal of and interest due on the Refunding Obligations on such Interest Payment Date. The Paying Agent and Registrar shall, without further authorization from the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, withdraw from the Bond Payment Fund, on such Interest Payment Date of the Refunding Obligations, the amounts necessary to pay principal of, and interest on, the Refunding Obligations to the registered owner of the same. If the Refunding Obligations are sold in a Limited Public Offering, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government May hold, maintain, and administer the Bond Payment Fund as Paying Agent and Registrar.
The Paying Agent and Registrar is hereby appointed Bond Payment Fund Depository with respect to the Refunding Obligations.
If the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government shall fail or refuse to make any required deposit in the Bond Payment Fund from the Sinking Fund, the Paying Agent and Registrar shall (i) notify any agency of the Commonwealth of Kentucky or any political subdiv. thereof which May collect and distribute taxes or revenues for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to seek any available necessary or proper remedial action; and (II) upon being indemnified against cost and expense, exercise any remedy provided in the Act or at law or in equity for the benefit of the owner of the Refunding Obligations or its assignee, and shall disburse all funds so collected to the owners of the Refunding Obligations as payment of the Refunding Obligations. If the Refunding Obligations are sold in a Limited Public Offering, the registered owner of the Refunding Obligations May take these actions if the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government fails to perform such actions in its capacity as Paying Agent and Registrar.
SECTION 6. General Obligation; Maintenance of Sinking Fund. The Refunding Obligations shall be full general obligations of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and, for the payment of said Refunding Obligations and the interest thereon, the full faith, credit and revenue of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government are hereby pledged for the prompt payment thereof. During the period the Refunding Obligations are outstanding, there shall be and there hereby is levied on all the taxable property in the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, in addition to all other taxes, without limitation as to rate, a direct tax annually in an amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Refunding Obligations when and as due, it being hereby found and determined that current tax rates are within all applicable limitations. Said tax shall be and is hereby ordered computed, certified, levied and extended upon the tax duplicate and collected by the same officers in the same manner and at the same time that taxes for general purposes for each of said years are certified, extended and collected. Said tax shall be placed before and in preference to all other items and for the full amount thereof provided, however, that in each year to the extent that the other lawfully available funds of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government are available for the payment of the Refunding Obligations and are appropriated for such purpose, the amount of such direct tax upon all of the taxable property in the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government shall be reduced by the amount of such other funds so available and appropriated.
Pursuant to prior Ordinances of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government with respect to the Prior Bonds, there has heretofore been established with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government a sinking fund which is hereby ordered to be maintained and continued. The funds derived from said tax levy hereby required or other lawfully available funds shall be placed in the sinking fund and, together with interest collected on the same, are irrevocably pledged for the payment of the interest on and principal of all bonds issued under the Act and Tax-Supported Leases when and as the same fall due. Amounts shall be transferred from the sinking fund to the Bond Payment Fund at the times and in the amounts required by Section 5 hereof.
SECTION 7. Award; Certificate of Award. The Refunding Obligations shall be sold at pubic, competitive sale. The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government shall comply with the requirements of KRS Chapter 424 by advertising for bids for the purchase of the Refunding Obligations. Upon the advice of the Municipal Advisor, the Refunding Obligations May be sold in a Public Offering or a Limited Public Offering, depending on which method results in the greatest benefit to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, such method to be determined by the Municipal Advisor at the time of advertising of the sale of the Refunding Obligations.
(a) Sale by Public Offering. If the Refunding Obligations are to be sold in a Public Offering, the final principal amount of, the principal amortization of, and the interest rate or rates on the Refunding Obligations shall be established in accordance with the requirements of Sections 1 and 2 hereof and the Certificate of Award. The Mayor is hereby authorized to execute the Certificate of Award without further action of the Urban County Council setting forth the terms of the Refunding Obligations and any other provisions required by and not inconsistent with this Bond Ordinance. Actions heretofore taken by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government in connection with the preparation of such instruments and the distribution of such information by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government as shall be necessary to accomplish the foregoing, including the preparation of a Preliminary Official Statement and final Official Statement which Preliminary Official Statement and Official Statement shall be deemed final by the Mayor in accordance with Rule 15c2-12 of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Rule”), are hereby ratified and approved.
(b) Sale by Limited Public Offering. If the Refunding Obligations are sold in a Limited Offering, the final principal amount of, the principal amortization of, and the interest rate or rates on the Refunding Obligations shall be established in accordance with the requirements of Sections 1 and 2 hereof, this Section 7, and the Certificate of Award. The Refunding Obligations shall be sold to the bidder offering the best proposal pursuant to a solicitation for proposals. The Mayor is hereby authorized to execute the Certificate of Award without further action of the Urban County Council setting forth the terms of the Refunding Obligations and any other provisions required by and not inconsistent with this Bond Ordinance. The Refunding Obligations shall be awarded to the respondent who provides the best response to the Request for Proposals and prepared for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government by the Municipal Advisor and not necessarily to the lowest bidder. Evaluation of responses by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government shall consider the following criteria, and which criteria are not exclusive: (i) the net interest cost to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government achieved by the financing on the terms proposed by each bidder; (II) the complexity of the legal structure and administration of each proposed refunding; (III) closing fees and charges to be charged by each bidder; (iv) optional redemption and prepayment premiums, conditions, and restrictions to be imposed by each bidder; and (v) other material terms and conditions required by bidders that impact the value or effectiveness of the refunding and issuance of the Refunding Obligations for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Bidders shall be limited to institutions or persons having knowledge and experience in financial and business matters who are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the Refunding Obligations, who are not purchasing for more than one account, and do not intend to redistribute the Refunding Obligations. To the extent deemed necessary by the Municipal Advisor, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government hereby approves the preparation of any necessary documents related to the solicitation for the purchase of the Refunding Obligations (collectively, the “Limited Offering Documents”) to be prepared by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government or Dinsmore & Shohl LLP (“Bond Counsel”) or Municipal Advisor in the usual and customary form, and approves the distribution of such Limited Offering Documents to potential bidders. Upon application from any prospective bidder for the Refunding Obligations, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government will furnish any material information about the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and its finances which May be reasonably requested, but no official statement or similar documents will be provided.
On the date the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government awards the Refunding Obligations to the Purchaser, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and the Purchaser shall execute and delivery a Bond Purchase Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Purchase Agreement”). The Designated Officers are hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver the Purchase Agreement on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, substantially in the form attached hereto, with such changes therein as the Designated Officers executing such documents on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government shall approve, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by their execution and delivery thereof.
SECTION 8. Registered Owner; Transfer; Exchange. As long as the Refunding Obligations executed and delivered hereunder shall remain outstanding, the Paying Agent and Registrar shall maintain an office for the Registration of such Refunding Obligations and shall also keep at such office books for such registration and transfers. The registered owner of the Refunding Obligations, as set forth in the registration books maintained by the Paying Agent and Registrar on the fifteenth (15th) day preceding an Interest Payment Date, or its assignees, for purposes of this Bond Ordinance, to the extent of its interest, shall be treated as the owner of the Refunding Obligations and shall be entitled to all rights and security of the owner of the Refunding Obligations hereunder. If the Refunding Obligations are sold in a Limited Public Offering, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government May serve as Paying Agent and Registrar, which shall be memorialized in the Certificate of Award, and the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government shall maintain a record of the ownership of the Refunding Obligations.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of the Refunding Obligations at the office of the Paying Agent and Registrar with a written instrument of transfer satisfactory to the Paying Agent and Registrar, duly executed by the registered owner or the registered owner's duly authorized attorney, or, so long as the Refunding Obligations are in book-entry from in accordance with the Operational Arrangements of DTC, the Paying Agent and Registrar shall execute and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more Bonds of the same series of any authorized denomination and of a like tenor and effect.
All Refunding Obligations, upon surrender thereof at the office of the Paying Agent and Registrar, May, at the option of the registered owner thereof be exchanged for an equal aggregate principal amount of Refunding Obligations of the same series of any authorized denomination.
In all cases in which the privilege of exchanging or transferring Refunding Obligations is exercised, the Paying Agent and Registrar shall execute and deliver Refunding Obligations in accordance with the provisions of this Section. Every such exchange or transfer of Refunding Obligations, whether temporary or definitive, shall be without charge; provided that the Paying Agent and Registrar May impose a charge sufficient to reimburse it for any tax, fee or other governmental charge required to be paid with respect to such exchange or transfer, which sum or sums shall be paid by the person requesting such exchange or transfer as a condition precedent to the exercise of the privilege of making such exchange or transfer.
SECTION 9. Book-entry System. For purposes of this Bond Ordinance, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
“Book entry form” or “book entry system” means a form or system under which (i) the beneficial right to payment of principal of and interest on the Refunding Obligations May be transferred only through a book entry, and (II) physical Refunding Obligation certificates in fully registered form are issued only to the Depository or its nominee as registered owner, with the Refunding Obligations “immobilized” to the custody of the Depository, and the book entry maintained by others than the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government or the Paying Agent and Registrar is the record that identifies the owners of beneficial interests in those Refunding Obligations and that principal and interest.
“Depository” means any securities depository that is a clearing agency under federal law operating and maintaining, together with its Participants or otherwise, a book entry system to record ownership of beneficial interests in Refunding Obligations or principal and interest, and to effect transfers of Refunding Obligations, in book entry form, and includes and means initially The Depository Trust Company (a limited purpose trust Co.), New York, New York.
“Participant” means any participant Contracting with a Depository under a book entry system and includes security brokers and dealers, banks and trust companies, and clearing corporations.
All or any portion of the Refunding Obligations May be initially issued to a Depository for use in a book entry system, and the provisions of this Section 7 shall apply to such Refunding Obligations, notwithstanding any other provision of this Bond Ordinance. If and as long as a book entry system is utilized with respect to any such Refunding Obligations: (i) there shall be such number of Refunding Obligations of each maturity as the Depository shall specify; (II) those Refunding Obligations shall be registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee, as registered owner, and immobilized in the custody of the Depository; (III) the beneficial owners of Refunding Obligations in book entry form shall have no right to receive Refunding Obligations in the form of physical securities or certificates; (iv) ownership of beneficial interests in any Refunding Obligations in book entry form shall be shown by book entry on the system maintained and operated by the Depository and its Participants, and transfers of the ownership of beneficial interests shall be made only by book entry by the Depository and its Participants; and (v) the Refunding Obligations as such shall not be transferable or exchangeable, except for transfer to another Depository or to another nominee of a Depository, without further action by the Urban County Council. Debt service charges on Refunding Obligations in book entry form registered in the name of a Depository or its nominee shall be payable in the manner provided in the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government's Agreement with the Depository to the Depository or its authorized representative (i) in the case of interest, on each Interest Payment Date, and (II) in all other cases, upon presentation and surrender of Refunding Obligations as provided in this Bond Ordinance.
The Paying Agent and Registrar May, with the approval of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, enter into an Agreement with the beneficial owner or registered owner of any Refunding Obligation in the custody of a Depository providing for making all payments to that owner of principal and interest on that Refunding Obligation or any portion thereof (other than any payment of the entire unpaid principal amount thereof) at a place and in a manner (including wire transfer of Federal funds) other than as provided in this Bond Ordinance, without prior presentation or surrender of the Refunding Obligation, upon any conditions which shall be satisfactory to the Paying Agent and Registrar and to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. That payment in any event shall be made to the person who is the registered owner of that Refunding Obligation on the date that principal is due, or, with respect to the payment of interest, as of the applicable date agreed upon as the case May be. The Paying Agent and Registrar shall furnish a copy of each of those Agreements, certified to be correct by the Paying Agent and Registrar, to any other paying agents for Refunding Obligations and to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Any payment of principal or interest pursuant to such an Agreement shall constitute payment thereof pursuant to, and for all purposes of, this Bond Ordinance.
The Mayor of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government is authorized and directed to execute, acknowledge and deliver, in the name of and on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government a letter Agreement among the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, the Paying Agent and Registrar and The Depository Trust Company, as Depository, to be delivered in connection with the issuance of the Refunding Obligations to the Depository for use in a book entry system.
If any Depository determines not to continue to act as depository for the Refunding Obligations for use in a book entry system, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and the Paying Agent and Registrar May attempt to establish a securities depository/book entry relationship with another qualified Depository under this Bond Ordinance. If the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and the Paying Agent and Registrar do not or are unable to do so, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and the Paying Agent and Registrar, after the Paying Agent and Registrar has made provision for notification of the beneficial owners by the then Depository, shall permit withdrawal of the Refunding Obligations from the Depository and authenticate and deliver Refunding Obligation certificates in fully registered form to the assigns of the Depository or its nominee, all at the cost and expense (including costs of printing definitive Refunding Obligations), if the event is not the result of action or inaction by the Urban County Council or the Paying Agent and Registrar, of those persons requesting such issuance.
SECTION 10. Disposition of Proceeds. The proceeds of the sale of the Refunding Obligations, except accrued interest, if any, shall be deposited as follows: (a) accrued interest, if any, shall be deposited to the Bond Payment Fund created in Section 5 hereof; (b) an amount sufficient to refund the Prior Bonds to be refunded, as set forth in the Certificate of Award, shall be deposited in the Escrow Fund created by the Escrow Trust Agreement authorized in Section 11 hereof and used to redeem the Prior Bonds as provided in the Escrow Trust Agreement for the Prior Bonds; and (c) the remainder of the proceeds shall be deposited to a special cost of issuance account in the name of Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to be known as the Various Purpose General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Costs of Issuance Fund (the “Costs of Issuance Fund”) hereby established and directed to be held by the Paying Agent and Registrar and used to pay the costs of issuance of the Refunding Obligations.
SECTION 11. Authorization of Escrow Trust Agreement. The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government shall enter into an escrow trust Agreement (the “Escrow Trust Agreement”) with the escrow trustee named therein (the “Escrow Trustee”), for the purpose of providing sufficient funds to refund the Prior Bonds. The Escrow Trustee shall receive compensation for its services in accordance with the Escrow Trust Agreement. The Designated Officers are hereby each separately authorized and directed to execute said Escrow Trust Agreement on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.
SECTION 12. Purchase of Escrow Securities. With respect to the funding of any escrow fund(s) necessary or appropriate in connection with the refunding of the Prior Bonds with a portion of the proceeds of the Refunding Obligations, the Designated Officers are hereby authorized to take any and all appropriate action for the order and purchase, at the appropriate time, of escrow securities such as state and local government securities, open market treasuries and similar defeasance obligations (the “Escrow Securities”) for the credit of such escrow fund(s) pursuant to the provisions of the Escrow Trust Agreement. Such Escrow Securities May be in the form or forms recommended in writing by the Municipal Advisor and approved by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. The Municipal Advisor is hereby specifically authorized to procure on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, at the appropriate time, escrow securities such as open market treasuries and similar defeasance obligations for the credit of the escrow fund(s) as provided in the Escrow Trust Agreement. Any attorney with the firm of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is hereby specifically authorized to execute and file on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government any subscriptions for United States Treasury Obligations, State and Local Government Series, as May be necessary, in order to fund, in part, such escrow fund(s) in connection with the refunding of the Prior Bonds. In addition, the Mayor of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government is hereby authorized to employ a verification agent with respect to the refunding of the Prior Bonds.
SECTION 13. Appointment and Engagement of Bond Counsel. Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Lexington, Kentucky (“Bond Counsel”) is hereby appointed as bond counsel (“Bond Counsel”), to provide the Issuer with its services in connection with the issuance, sale, and delivery of the Refunding Obligations. Bond Counsel shall be paid a fee of $1.50 per $1,000 of Refunding Obligations issued, inclusive of related expenses, provided, however, that publication expenses and transcripts incurred by Bond Counsel shall be reimbursed separately. Such services as Bond Counsel shall include additional research and drafting with respect to Public Offering and Limited Public Offering for refunding the Prior Bonds. A Designated Officer is hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government any appropriate Agreements and/or engagement letters in connection with such appointment.
SECTION 14. Municipal Advisor. Robert W. Baird and Co. Incorporated is hereby appointed Municipal Advisor to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government in connection with the issuance, sale and delivery of the Refunding Obligations. The Municipal Advisor shall be paid a fee of $1.00 per $1,000 of Refunding Obligations issued or as otherwise provided in the Certificate Award. A Designated Officer is hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver on behalf of the Issuer any appropriate Agreements and/or engagement letters in connection with such appointment.
SECTION 15. Discharge of Bond Ordinance. If the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall otherwise be paid, to the owners of the Refunding Obligations the total principal and interest due or to become due thereon through maturity, in the manner stipulated therein and in this Bond Ordinance, then the pledges made under this Bond Ordinance, and all covenants, Agreements and other obligations of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government hereunder, shall thereupon cease, terminate and become void and be discharged and satisfied.
SECTION 16. Restriction on Use of Proceeds. This Urban County Council for and on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government hereby covenants that to the extent the Refunding Obligations are tax-exempt, it will restrict the use of any tax-exempt proceeds of the Refunding Obligations hereby authorized in such manner and to such extent, if any, and take such other action as May be necessary, after taking into account reasonable expectations at the time the debt is incurred, so that they will not constitute obligations the interest on which is subject to federal income taxation or “arbitrage bonds” under Sections 103(b)(2) and 148 of the Code, and the regulations prescribed thereunder. The Mayor or any other officer having responsibility with respect to the issuance of the certificates, is authorized and directed to give an appropriate certificate on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, on the date of delivery of the Refunding Obligations, for inclusion in the transcript of proceedings, setting forth the facts, estimates and circumstances and reasonable expectations pertaining to the use of the proceeds thereof and the provisions of said Sections 103(b)(2) and 148 and regulations thereunder.
These Refunding Obligations are not designated “qualified tax-exempt obligations” for the purposes set forth Section 265(b)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
SECTION 17. Filing. The Designated Officers are hereby authorized to undertake and cause all filings of notices or information which May be required by law to be filed by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, including, but not limited to, the filing with the State Local Debt Officer required by law.
SECTION 18.
Severability. If any one or more of the provisions of this Bond Ordinance should be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provisions shall be deemed to be severable from all remaining provisions and shall not affect the validity of such other provisions.
SECTION 19. Inconsistent Actions. All prior Ordinances, Resolutions or parts thereof inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 20. Open Meetings Compliance. All meetings of the Urban County Council and of its committees and any other public bodies, at which the formal actions in connection with the issuance of the Refunding Obligations were taken, or at which deliberations that resulted in such formal actions were held, were open meetings, and such formal actions were taken and any such deliberations took place while such meetings, after proper notice, were open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements including KRS Sections 61.810, 61.815, 61.820 and 61.825.
SECTION 21. Effective Date. This Bond Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon adoption and publication of a summary thereof, as provided by law.