HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 2017-003 ORDINANCE NO. OR- Z�I1•D�Q3
AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
$9,535,000
CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS
COMBINATION TAX AND REYENUE
CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION
SERIES 2017
Adopted: January 17, 2017
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Parties...............................................................................................................................................1
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PRELIMINARY MATTERS
Section1.01. Definitions................................................................................................................2
Section 1.02. Other Definitions. ....................................................................................................4
Section1.03. Findings....................................................................................................................4
Section 1.04. Table of Contents, Titles and Headings...................................................................4
Section1.05. Interpretation............................................................................................................4
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FOR THE CERTIFICATES
Section 2.01. Payment of the Certificates......................................................................................5
ARTICLE III
AUTHORIZATION; GENERAL TERMS AND PROVISIONS
REGARDING THE CERTIFICATES
Section 3.01. Authorization. ..........................................................................................................6
Section 3.02. Date, Denomination, Maturities,Numbers and Interest. .........................................6
Section 3.03. Medium, Method and Place of Payment..................................................:...............7
Section 3.04. Execution and Initial Registration. ..........................................................................8
Section3.05. Ownership................................................................................................................9
Section 3.06. Registration, Transfer and Exchange.......................................................................9
Section 3.07. Cancellation and Authentication............................................................................10
Section 3.08. Temporary Certificates. .........................................................................................10
Section 3.09. Replacement Certificates. ......................................................................................11
Section 3.10. Book-Entry Only System.......................................................................................12
Section 3.11. Successor Securities Depository; Transfer Outside Book-Entry Only System. ....12
Section 3.12. Payments to Cede & Co.........................................................................................13
ARTICLE IV
REDEMPTION OF CERTIFICATES BEFORE MATURITY
Section 4.01. Limitation on Redemption.....................................................................................13
Section 4.02. Optional Redemption.............................................................................................13
Section 4.03. Mandatory Sinking Fund Redemption...................................................................13
Section 4.04. Partial Redemption.................................................................................................14
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Section 4.05. Notice of Redemption to Owners. .........................................................................15
Section 4.06. Payment Upon Redemption...................................................................................15
Section 4.07. Effect of Redemption.............................................................................................15
Section 4.08. Conditional Notice of Redemption........................................................................16
Section4.09. Lapse of Payment...................................................................................................16
ARTICLE V
PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR
Section 5.01. Appointment of Initial Paying Agent/Registrar.....................................................16
Section5.02. Qualifications.........................................................................................................16
Section 5.03. Maintaining Paying Agent/Registrar. ....................................................................16
Section5.04. Termination............................................................................................................17
Section5.05. Notice of Change. ..................................................................................................17
Section 5.06. Agreement to Perform Duties and Functions.........................................................17
Section 5.07. Delivery of Records to Successor..........................................................................17
ARTICLE VI
FORM OF THE CERTIFICATES
Section6.01. Form Generally......................................................................................................17
Section 6.02. Form of Certificates. ..............................................................................................18
Section 6.03. CUSIP Registration................................................................................................25
Section6.04. Legal Opinion. .......................................................................................................25
Section 6.05. Municipal Bond Insurance.....................................................................................25
ARTICLE VII
SALE OF THE CERTIFICATES;
CONTROL AND DELIVERY OF THE CERTIFICATES
Section 7.01. Sale of Certificates; Official Statement. ................................................................25
Section 7.02. Control and Delivery of Certificates......................................................................26
ARTICLE VIII
CREATION OF FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS;
DEPOSIT OF PROCEEDS; 1NVESTMENTS
Section8.01. Creation of Funds...................................................................................................27
Section 8.02. Interest and Sinking Fund........................................................................:.............27
Section8.03. Project Fund...........................................................................................................27
Section8.04. Security of Funds. ..................................................................................................27
Section 8.05. Deposit of Proceeds. ..............................................................................................28
Section8.06. Investments. ...........................................................................................................28
Section 8.07. Investment Income.................................................................................................28
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ARTICLE IX
PARTICULAR REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS
Section 9.01. Payment of the Certificates....................................................................................28
Section 9.02. Other Representations and Covenants. ..................................................................28
Section 9.03. Provisions Concerning Federal Income Tax Exclusion.........................................29
Section 9.04. No Private Use or Payment and No Private Loan Financing.................................29
Section 9.05. No Federal Guaranty..............................................................................................29
Section9.06. No Hedge Bonds....................................................................................................29
Section9.07. No Arbitrage. .........................................................................................................30
Section9.08. Arbitrage Rebate....................................................................................................30
Section 9.09. Information Reporting. ..........................................................................................30
Section 9.10. Record Retention. ..................................................................................................31
Section9.11. Registration............................................................................................................31
Section 9.12. Deliberate Actions. ................................................................................................31
Section 9.13. Continuing Obligation. ..........................................................................................31
ARTICLE X
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section10.01. Events of Default. ..................................................................................................31
Section 10.02. Remedies for Default.............................................................................................32
Section 10.03. Remedies Not Exclusive........................................................................................32
ARTICLE XI
DISCHARGE
Section11.01. Discharge. ..............................................................................................................32
ARTICLE XII
CONTINUING DISCLOSURE UNDERTAKING
Section12.01. Annual Reports. .....................................................................................................33
Section 12.02. Notice of Certain Events........................................................................................33
Section 12.03. Limitations, Disclaimers and Amendments...........................................................35
ARTICLE XIII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 13.01. Changes to Ordinance............................................................................................36
Section 13.02. Partial Invalidity.....................................................................................................36
Section13.03. No Personal Liability...........................................................................................
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ARTICLE XIV
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
Section14.01. Effectiveness..........................................................................................................36
Exhibit A - Description of Annual Disclosure of Financial Information................................... A-1
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS,
AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF CITY OF
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS COMBINATION TAX AND REVENUE
CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION, SERIES 2017, IN THE
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $9,535,000;
LEVYING A TAX IN PAYMENT THEREOF; PRESCRIBING
THE FORM OF SAID CERTIFICATES; AWARDING THE
SALE OF THE CERTIFICATES; APPROVING THE OFFICIAL
STATEMENT; APPROVING AND ENACTING OTHER
PROVISIONS RELATING THERETO
WHEREAS, under the provisions of Chapter 271, Subchapter C, Texas Local
Government Code, as amended, the City of Grapevine, Texas (the "City"), is authorized to issue
certificates of obligation for the purposes specified in this Ordinance and for the payment of all
or a portion of the contractual obligations for professional services, including that of engineers,
attorneys, and financial advisors in connection therewith, and to sell the same for cash as herein
provided; and
WHEREAS, the City is authorized to provide that such obligations will be payable from
and secured by the levy of a direct and continuing ad valorem tax against all taxable property
within the City, in combination with a part of certain revenues of the City's waterworks and
sewer system (the "System") remaining after payment of any obligations of the City payable in
whole or in part from a lien or pledge of such revenues that would be superior to the obligations
to be authorized herein; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City (the "City Council") has found and determined
that it is necessary and in the best interests of the City and its citizens that it issue such
certificates of obligation authorized by this Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to a resolution heretofore passed by this governing body, notice of
intention to issue Certificates of the City payable as provided in this Ordinance was published in
a newspaper of general circulation in the City in accordance with the requirements of law (the
"Notice of Intention"); and
WHEREAS, the Notice of Intention stated that the City Council intended to pass an
ordinance authorizing the issuance of the certificates of obligation at the regularly scheduled
January 17, 2017 City Council meeting; and
WHEREAS, no petition of any kind has been filed with the City Secretary, any member
of the City Council or any other official of the City, protesting the issuance of such certificates of
obligation; and
WHEREAS, this City Council is now authorized and empowered to proceed with the
issuance of said Certificates and to sell the same for cash; and
WHEREAS, it is officially found, determined, and declared that the meeting at which this
Ordinance has been adopted was open to the public and public notice of the time, place and
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subject matter of the public business to be considered and acted upon at said meeting, including
this Ordinance, was given, all as required by the applicable provisions of Chapter 551, Texas
Government Code, as amended;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAPEVINE:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PRELIMINARY MATTERS
Section 1.01. Definitions.
Unless otherwise expressly provided or unless the context clearly requires otherwise, in
this Ordinance the following terms shall have the meanings specified below:
"Applicable Law" means the duly adopted home rule charter of the City, and all other
laws or statutes, rules or regulations, and any amendments thereto, of the State or of the United
States by which the City and its powers, securities, credit agreement, operations and procedures
are, or may be, governed or from which its powers may be derived.
"Certificate" means any of the Certificates.
"Certificates" means any of the City's certificates of obligation entitled "City of
Grapevine, Texas Combination Tax and Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2017"
authorized to be issued by Section 3.01.
"Closing Date" means the date of the initial delivery of and payment for the Certificates.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Designated Payment/Transfer Office" means (i) with respect to the initial Paying
Agent/Registrar named herein, its office in Dallas, Texas, or at such other location designated by
the Paying Agent/Registrar and (ii) with respect to any successor Paying Agent/Registrar, the
office of such successor designated and located as may be agreed upon by the City and such
successor.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company of New York, New York, or any
successor securities depository.
"DTC Participant" means 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.
"EMMA" means Electronic Municipal Market Access System.
"Event of Default" means any Event of Default as defined in Section 10.01.
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"Initial Certificate" means the Certificate described in Section 3.04(d) and 6.02(d).
"Interest and Sinking Fund" means the interest and sinking fund established by
Sectian 8.Q 1(a}.
"Interest Payment Date" means the dafie or dates upon which interest on the Certificates is
scheduled to be paid until the maturity of the Certificates, such dates being February 15 and
August 15 af each year commencing February 15, 2018.
"MSRB"means the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.
"Net Revenues" means the gross revenues af the System less the expenses af operation
and maintenance as said expenses are defined by Chapter 1502, Texas Government Code, as
amended.
"Ordinance" means this Ordinance.
"Owner" means the person who is the registered owner of a Certifrcate or Certificates, as
shawn in the Register.
"Paying AgentJRegistrar" means initially The Bank of New York Me11on Trust
Company,N.A., Dallas Texas, or any successor thereto as provided in this Ordinance.
"Paying Agent/Registrar Agreernent" means the Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement
between the City and the Paying AgentlRegistrar re�ating to the Certificates,
"Prior Lien Bands" means any and a11 bonds or other abligations of the City presently
autstanding or that may be hereafter issued, payable from and secured by a first lien an and
pledge of the Net Revenues or by a lien an and pledge af the Net Revenues subordinate to a first
lien and pledge of such Net Revenues but superior to the lien and pledge of the Surplus
Revenues made for the Certificates.
"Project Fund" means the Project Fund estabtished by Section 8.41{a},
"Purchaser"means Citigrpup Global Markets Inc.
"Recard Date" means the last business day of the manth next preceding an Interest
Payment Date.
"Register"means the Register specified in Section 3.Ob(a).
"Representation Letter" means the Blanket Letter of Representations between the City
and DTC.
"Rule" means SEC Rule 1Sc2-12, as amended frorn tirne to time.
"SEC" rneans the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Special Payment Date" means the Special Payment Date prescribed by Sectian 3.03(b).
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"Special Record Date" means the Special Record Date prescribed by Section 3.03(b).
"Surplus Revenues" means the revenues of the System remaining after payment of all
operation and maintenance expenses thereof, and all debt service, reserve, and other
requirements in connection with the City's Prior Lien Bonds; provided, however, that the amount
of such surplus revenues pledged to the payment of the Certificates shall be limited to $1,000.
"System" as used in this Ordinance means the City's waterworks and sewer system,
including all present and future additions, extensions, replacements, and improvements thereto.
"Unclaimed Payments" means money deposited with the Paying Agent/Registrar for the
payment of the principal of or interest on Certificates as the same become due and payable and
remaining unclaimed by the Owners of such Certificates for 90 days after the applicable payment
or redemption date.
Section 1.02. Other Definitions.
The terms "City Council" and "City" shall have the meaning assigned in the preamble to
this Ordinance.
Section 1.03. Findin�s.
The declarations, determinations and findings declared, made and found in the preamble
to this Ordinance are hereby adopted, restated and made a part of the operative provisions hereof.
Section 1.04. Table of Contents, Titles and Headin�s.
The table of contents, 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 and shall never
be considered or given any effect in construing this Ordinance or any provision hereof or in
ascertaining intent, if any question of intent should arise.
Section 1.05. Interpretation.
(a) Unless the context requires otherwise, words of the masculine gender shall be
construed to include correlative words of the feminine and neuter genders and vice versa, and
words of the singular number shall be construed to include correlative words of the plural
number and vice versa.
(b) Article and Section references shall mean references to articles and sections of
this Ordinance unless designated otherwise.
(c) This Ordinance and all the terms and provisions hereof shall be liberally
construed to effectuate the purposes set forth herein to sustain the validity of this Ordinance.
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ARTICLE II
SECURITY FOR THE CERTIFICATES
Section 2.01. Payment of the Gertificates.
(a) Pursuant to the authority granted by the Texas Constitution and the taws of the
State of Texas, there is hereby levied for the current year and for each succeeding year hereafter
while any af the Certificates or any interest thereon is outstanding and unpaid, an ad valorem tax
on each one hundred dollars' valuation of taxable property within the City, at a rate sufficient,
within the limit prescribed by law, to pay the debt service requirements af the Certificates, being
(i} the interest on the Certificates, and {ii) a sinking fund for their redemption at maturity or a
sinking fund of two percent per annum (whichever amount is the greater), when due and payable,
full allowance being made for delinquencies and casts af collectian.
(b) The ad valorem tax thus levied shall be assessed and collected each year against
all praperty appearing an the tax rolls of the City mast recently appraved in accordance with law,
and the money thus callected shall be deposited as collected ta the Interest and Sinking Fund.
(c) Said ad valorem tax, the collections therefrom, and all amounts on deposit in or
required hereby to be depasited to the Interest and Sinking Fund are hereby pledged and
cammitted irrevocably to the payment af the principal af and interest on the Certificates when
and as due and payable in accordance with their terms and this Ordinance.
(d) The amaunt of taxes to be provided annually for the payrnent af principal af and
interest on the Certificates shall be deterrnined and accornplished in the following manner:
(i) The City's annual budget shall reflect (i) the amount of debt service
requirements ta become due on the Certificates in the next succeeding Fiscal Year of the
City, (ii) the arnount on deposit in the Interest and Sinking Fund, as of the date such
budget is prepared (after giving effect to any payments required to be made during the
remainder of the then current Fiscal Year), and (iii) the arnount of Surplus Revenues
estirnated and budgeted to be available for the payment af such debt service requirements
on the Certificates during the next succeeding Fiscal Year of the City.
(ii) The amount required to be provided in the succeeding Fiscal Year af the
City from ad ualarem taxes shall 6e the amount, if any, the debt service requirements ta
be paid on the Certificates in the next succeeding Fiscal Year of the City exceeds the sum
af(i} the amount shown ta he on deposit in the Interest and Sinking Fund (after giving
effect to any payments required to be made during the remainder of the then current
Fiscal Year} at the time the annual budget is prepared, and (ii) the Surplus Revenues
shown to be budgeted and available for payrnent of said debt service requirernents.
(iii) Following the tinal approval of the annual budget of the City, the
governing body of the City sha11, by ardinance, levy an ad valorem t� at a rate sufficient
to produce taxes in the arnount determined in paragraph (b) abave, to be utilized for
purpases af paying the principal of and interest on the Certificates in the next succeeding
Fiscal Year of the City.
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(e) The City hereby cavenants and agrees that the Surplus Revenues are hereby
irrevocably pledged equally and ratabty to the paytnent of the principal of, redemption premium,
if any, and interest on the Certificates, as the same become due.
(� If the liens and provisians af this Ordinance shall be released in a manner
permitted by Article XI hereof, then the collection of such ad valorern tax may be suspended or
appropriately reduced, as the facts may permit, and further deposits to the Interest and Sinking
Fund may be suspended or appropriately reduced, as the facts may permit. In determining the
aggregate principal amaunt af outstanding Certificates, there shall be subtracted the amount of
any Certificates that have been duly called for redemption and for which maney has been
deposited with the Paying Agent/Registrar for such redemption.
ARTICLE III
AUTHORIZATION; GENERAL TERMS AND PROVISIONS
REGARDING THE CERTIFICATES
Section 3.01. Authorization,
The City's certificates of abligation to be designated "City of Grapevine, Texas
Gombination Tax and Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2017" (the "Certificates"), are
hereby autharized to be issued and delivered in accordance with the Constitution and laws af the
State af Texas, particularly Chapter 2'71, Subchapter C, Texas Local Government Code, as
amended and Sectian 9.13 of the City's Home-Rule Charter. The Certificates shall be issued in
the aggregate principal amount of$9,535,OOQ for the puzpose of paying contractual obligations
ta be incurred for the fallowing purposes, to wit: (a� acquiring equipment for the IT departrnent,
(b) acquiring land for new fire statians in the Northwest and West areas of the City, (c)
renovating, remodeling and equipping existing fire stations {collectively, the "Projects"), and (d)
paying prafessional services of attorneys, financial advisors and ather professionals in
connection with the Projects and the issuance of the Certificates.
Sectian 3.02, I7ate Denomination Maturities Numbers and Interest.
(a) The Certificates shall be dated January 15, 2017 shall be in fully registered form,
without coupons, in the denomination of $5,000 or any integral rnultiple thereof, and sha11 be
numbered separately from one upward ar such other designation acceptable to the Gity and the
Paying AgentlRegistrar, except the Initial Certificate, which shall be numbered T-1.
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(b) The Certificates shall mature on February 15 in the years and in the principal
installments set forth in the following schedule:
Principal Interest Principal Interest
Year Amount Rate Year Amount Rate
2018 $320,000 3.000% 2028 $440,000 4.000%
2019 505,000 4.000% 2029 460,000 4.000%
2020 530,000 5.000% *** *** ***
2021 550,000 4.000% 2031 960,000 3.000%
2022 575,000 3.000% 2032 505,000 3.000%
2023 350,000 4.000% 2033 520,000 3.125%
2024 360,000 5.000% 2034 535,000 3.250%
2025 380,000 5.000% 2035 555,000 3.250%
2026 405,000 5.000% 2036 575,000 3.375%
2027 420,000 5.000% 2037 590,000 3.375%
(c) Interest shall accrue and be paid on each Certificate, respectively, until the
payment of the principal amount thereof shall have been paid or provided for, from the later of
the date of their delivery to the Underwriters (the "Delivery Date") or the most recent Interest
Payment Date to which interest has been paid or provided for at the rates per annum for each
respective maturity specified in the schedule contained in subsection (b) above. Such interest
shall be payable semiannually on each February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing on
February 15, 2018, until maturity or prior redemption. Interest on the Certificates shall be
calculated on the basis of a 360-day year composed of twelve 30-day months.
Section 3.03. Medium, Method and Place of Pa�ent.
(a) The principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Certificates shall be paid in
lawful money of the United States of America as provided in this Section.
(b) Interest on the Certificates shall be payable to the Owners whose names appear in
the Register at the close of business on the Record Date; provided, however, that in the event of
nonpayment of interest on a scheduled Interest 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 (the "Special Payment Date," which shall be at least 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 Certificate appearing on the
books of the Paying Agent/Registrar at the close of business on the last business day next
preceding the date of mailing of such notice.
(c) Interest on the Certificates shall be paid by check (dated as of the Interest
Payment Date) and sent by the Paying Agent/Registrar to the person entitled to such payment,
United States mail, first class postage prepaid, to the address of such person as it appears in the
Register or by such other customary banking arrangements acceptable to the Paying
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Agent/Registrar and the person ta whom interest is to be paid; provided, hawever, that such
person sha�l bear aIl risk and expenses of such other custamary banking arrangements.
{d) The principat af each Certificate shall be paid ta the person in whose name such
Certificate is registered on the due date thereof(whether at the maturity date or the date of prior
redemption thereof} upon presentation and surrender af such Certificate at the Designated
Payment/Transfer Office.
(e) If a date for the payment of the principal of ar interest on the Certificates is a
Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or a day an which banking institutians in the city in which the
Uesignated Payment/Transfer Office 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 a Saturday, Sunday,
legal holiday, or day on which such banking institutions are authorized to close; and payment on
such date shall have ihe same force and effect as if made on the original date payrnent was due.
(f} Subject ta any applicable escheat, unclaimed property, c�r similar law, including
TitIe 6 of the Texas Praperty Code, Unclaimed Payments rernaining unclaimed by the �wners
entitled ihereto far three years after the applicable payment or redernption date shal] be paid to
the City and thereafter neither the City, the Faying Agent/Registrar, nor any other person shall be
liabie ar responsible to any Owners of such Certificates for any further payment of such
unclaimed moneys or an account af any such Certificates.
Section 3.04. Execution and Initial Registration.
(a) The Certificates shall be executed t�n behalf af the City by the Mayor and City
Secretary af the City, by their manual or facsimile signatures, and the afficial seal of the City
shall be impressed or placed in facsimile thereon. Such facsimile signatures on the Certificates
shall have the same effect as if each of the Certificates had been signed manually and in person
by each of said officers, and such facsirnile seal on the Certificates shall have the same effect as
if the official seal af the City had been manually impressed upon each of the Certificates.
(b) In the event that any officer of the City whase manual ar facsimile signature
appears on the Certificates ceases to be such officer before the authentication of such Certificates
or before the delivery thereof, such manual or facsirnile signature nevertheless shall be valid and
sufficient far all purposes as if such officer had rernained in such office.
(c} Except as pravided below, na Certificate sha�� be valid ar obligatory far any
purpose or be entitled to any security ar benefit of this Ordinance unless and until there appears
therean the Certificate of Paying Agent/Registrar substantially in the farm provided in this
Ordinance, duly authenticated by rnanual execution of the Paying Agent/Registrar. It shall not
be required that the same authorized representative of the Paying Agent/Registrar sign the
Certificate of Paying Agent/Registrar on all of the Certificates. In lieu of the executed
Certificate of Paying AgentlRegistrar described above, the Initial Certificate delivered on the
Closing Date shall have attached thereto the Comptroller's Registration Certificate substantially
in the form pravided in this Clydinance, manually executed by the Comptraller of Public
Accounts of the State of Texas or by his duly authorized agent, which certificate shall be
evidence that the Initial Certificate has been duly approved by the Attorney General of the State
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of Texas and that it is a valid and binding obligation of the City, and has been registered by the
Comptroller.
(d) On the Closing Date, one Initial Certificate representing the entire principal
amount of the Certificates, payable in stated installments to the initial purchaser or its designee,
executed by manual or facsimile signature of the Mayor and City Secretary of the City, 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 the Purchaser or its designee. Upon
payment for the Initial Certificate, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall cancel the Initial Certificate
and deliver to DTC on behalf of the Purchaser registered definitive Certificates as described in
Section 3.10(a).
Section 3.05. Ownership.
(a) The City, the Paying Agent/Registrar and any other person may treat the person in
whose name any Certificate is registered as the absolute owner of such Certificate for the
purpose of making and receiving payment of the principal thereof and premium, if any, thereon,
for the further purpose of making and receiving payment of the interest thereon (subject to the
provisions herein that interest is to be paid to the person in whose name the Certificate is
registered on the Record Date), and for all other purposes, whether or not such Certificate is
overdue, and neither the City nor the Paying Agent/Registrar shall be bound by any notice or
knowledge to the contrary.
(b) All payments made to the person deemed to be the Owner of any Certificate in
accordance with this Section shall be valid and effectual and shall discharge the liability of the
City and the Paying Agent/Registrar upon such Certificate to the extent of the sums paid.
Section 3.06. Registration, Transfer and Exchan�e.
(a) So long as any Certificates remain outstanding, the City shall cause the Paying
Agent/Registrar to keep at the Designated Payment/Transfer Office a register (the "Register") in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Paying Agent/Registrar
shall provide for the registration and transfer of Certificates in accordance with this Ordinance.
(b) The ownership of a Certificate may be transferred only upon the presentation and
surrender of the Certificate at the Designated Payment/Transfer Office of the Paying
Agent/Registrar with such endorsement or other evidence of transfer as is acceptable to the
Paying Agent/Registrar. No transfer of any Certificate shall be effective until entered in the
Register.
(c) The Certificates shall be exchangeable upon the presentation and surrender
thereof at the Designated Payment/Transfer Office of the Paying Agent/Registrar for a
Certificate or Certificates of the same maturity and interest rate and in any denomination or
denominations of any integral multiple of$5,000 and in an aggregate principal amount equal to
the unpaid principal amount of the Certificates presented for exchange. The Paying
Agent/Registrar is hereby authorized to authenticate and deliver Certificates exchanged for other
Certificates in accordance with this Section.
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(d) Each exchange Certificate delivered by the Paying Agent/ Registrar in accordance
with this Section shall constitute an original contractual obligation of the City and shall be
entitled to the benefits and security of this Ordinance to the same extent as the Certificate or
Certificates in lieu of which such exchange Certificate is delivered.
(e) No service charge shall be made to the Owner for the initial registration,
subsequent transfer, or exchange for any different denomination of any of the Certificates. The
Paying AgenURegistrar, however, may require the Owner to pay a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that is authorized to be imposed in connection with the
registration, transfer or exchange of a Certificate.
(� Neither the City nor the Paying Agent/Registrar shall be required to issue,
transfer, or exchange any Certificate called for redemption, in whole or in part, where such
redemption is scheduled to occur within forty-five (45) calendar days after the transfer or
exchange date; provided, however, such limitation shall not be applicable to an exchange by the
Owner of the uncalled principal balance of a Certificate.
Section 3.07. Cancellation and Authentication.
All Certificates paid or redeemed before scheduled maturity in accordance with this
Ordinance, and all Certificates in lieu of which exchange Certificates or replacement Certificates
are authenticated and delivered in accordance with this Ordinance, shall be cancelled upon the
making of proper records regarding such payment, redemption, exchange or replacement. The
Paying Agent/Registrar shall dispose of the cancelled Certificates in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Section 3.08. Temporary Certificates.
(a) Following the delivery and registration of the Initial Certificate and pending the
preparation of definitive Certificates, the proper officers of the City may execute and, upon the
City's request, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, one or more temporary
Certificates that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in
any denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Certificates in lieu of which they
are delivered, without coupons, and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions
and other variations as the officers of the City executing such temporary Certificates may
determine, as evidenced by their signing of such temporary Certificates.
(b) Until exchanged for Certificates in definitive form, such Certificates in temporary
form shall be entitled to the benefit and security of this Ordinance.
(c) The City, without unreasonable delay, shall prepare, execute and deliver to the
Paying Agent/Registrar the Certificates in definitive form; thereupon, upon the presentation and
surrender of the Certificate or Certificates in temporary form to the Paying Agent/Registrar, the
Paying Agent/Registrar shall cancel the Certificates in temporary form and authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a Certificate or Certificates of the same maturity and series, in
definitive form, in the authorized denomination, and in the same aggregate principal amount, as
the Certificate or Certificates in temporary form surrendered. Such exchange shall be made
without the making of any charge therefor to any Owner.
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Section 3.09. Replacement Certificates.
(a) Upon the presentation and surrender to the Paying Agent/Registrar, at the
Designated Payment/Transfer Office, of a mutilated Certificate, the Paying AgentlRegistrar shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a replacement Certificate of like tenor and principal
amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. The City or the Paying
Agent/Registrar may require the Owner of such Certificate to pay a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that is authorized to be imposed in connection therewith and
any other expenses connected therewith.
(b) In the event that any Certificate is lost, apparently destroyed or wrongfully taken,
the Paying Agent/Registrar, pursuant to the applicable laws of the State of Texas and in the
absence of notice or knowledge that such Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser,
shall authenticate and deliver a replacement Certificate of like tenor and principal amount,
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, provided that the Owner first:
(i) furnishes to the Paying Agent/Registrar satisfactory evidence of his or her
ownership of and the circumstances of the loss, destruction or theft of such Certificate;
(ii) furnishes such security or indemnity as may be required by the Paying
Agent/Registrar and the City to save them harmless;
(iii) pays all expenses and charges in connection therewith, including, but not
limited to, printing costs, legal fees, fees of the Paying AgenURegistrar and any tax or
other governmental charge that is authorized to be imposed; and
(iv) satisfies any other reasonable requirements imposed by the City and the
Paying Agent/Registrar.
(c) If, after the delivery of such replacement Certificate, a bona fide purchaser of the
original Certificate in lieu of which such replacement Certificate was issued presents for
payment such original Certificate, the City and the Paying AgenURegistrar shall be entitled to
recover such replacement Certificate from the person to whom it was delivered or any person
taking therefrom, except a bona fide purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security
or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the
City or the Paying Agent/Registrar in connection therewith.
(d) In the event that any such mutilated, lost, apparently destroyed or wrongfully
taken Certificate has become or is about to become due and payable, the Paying Agent/Registrar,
in its discretion, instead of issuing a replacement Certificate, may pay such Certificate.
(e) Each replacement Certificate delivered in accordance with this Section shall
constitute an original contractual obligation of the City and shall be entitled to the benefits and
security of this Ordinance to the same extent as the Certificate or Certificates in lieu of which
such replacement Certificate is delivered.
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Section 3.10. Book-Entr,���. sy tem•
(a) The definitive Certificates shall be initially issued in the form of a separate single
fully registered Certificate for each of the maturities thereof. Upon initial issuance, the
ownership of each such Certificate shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of
DTC, and except as provided in Section 3.11 hereof, all of the outstanding Certificates shall be
registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC.
(b) With respect to Certificates 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
DTC Participant or to any person on behalf of whom such a DTC Participant holds an interest in
the Certificates, except as provided in this Ordinance. 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 Certificates, (ii) the delivery to any DTC
Participant or any other person, other than an Owner, as shown on the Register, of any notice
with respect to the Certificates, including any notice of redemption, or (iii) the payment to any
DTC Participant or any other person, other than an Owner, as shown in the Register of any
amount with respect to principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Certificates.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance to the contrary, the City and the Paying
AgentlRegistrar shall be entitled to treat and consider the person in whose name each Certificate
is registered in the Register as the absolute Owner of such Certificate for the purpose of payment
of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Certificates, for the purpose of giving notices
of redemption and other matters with respect to such Certificate, for the purpose of registering
transfer with respect to such Certificate, and for all other purposes whatsoever. The Paying
Agent/Registrar shall pay all principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Certificates only
to or upon the order of the respective Owners, as shown in the Register 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, premium, if any, and interest on the Certificates to the extent of the sum or sums so
paid. No person other than an Owner, as shown in the register, shall receive a certificate
evidencing the obligation of the City to make payments of amounts due 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 or drafts being mailed to the
registered Owner at the close of business on the Record Date, the word "Cede & Co." in this
Ordinance shall refer to such new nominee of DTC.
(c) The Representation Letter previously executed and delivered by the City, and
applicable to the City's obligations delivered in book-entry-only form to DTC as securities
depository for said obligations, is hereby ratified and approved for the Certificates.
Section 3.11. Successor Securities Depository; Transfer Outside Book-Entry Onlv
S sv tem•
In the event that the City or the Paying Agent/Registrar determines that DTC is incapable
of discharging its responsibilities described herein and in the Representation Letter, and that it is
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in the best interest of the beneficial awners of the Certificates that they be able to obtain
certificated Certificates, or in the event DTC discontinues the services described herein, the City
or the Paying AgenURegistrar shall (i) appoint a successor securities depasitory, qualified to act
as such under Section 17{a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, notify
DTC and DTC Participants, as identified by DTC, af the appaintment of such successor
securities depository and transfer one or more separate Certificates to such successor securities
depository ar (ii) notify DTC and DTC Participants, as identified by DTC, af the availability
through DTC of Certificates and transfer one ar more separate Certificates ta DTC Participants
having Certificates credited to their DTC accounts, as identified by DTC. In such event, the
Certificates sha11 no longer be restricted to being registered in the Register in the name of Cede
& Co., as nominee of DTC, but may be registered in the name af the successar securities
depository, or its nominee, or in whatever name ar names Owners transferring gr exchanging
Certificates shall designate, in accardance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
Section 3.12. Fayments ta Cede & Ca.
Notwithstanding any other provision af this Ordinance to the contrary, so lang as any
Certificates are registered in the name af Cede & Ca., as naminee af DTC, all payments with
respect to principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Certificates, and all notices with
respect to such Certificates, shall be made and given, respectively, in the manner provided in the
Representatian Letter.
ARTICLE IV
REDEMPTTON OF CERTIFICATES BEFORE MATURITY
Section 4.01. Limitation an Redemptian.
The Certificates shall be subject to redemption before scheduled maturity only as
pravided in this Article IV.
Sectian 4.02. Optional Redemption.
(a) The City reserves the aption to redeern Certificates rnaturing on and after
February 15, 202$, in whole or any part, in principal amaunts equa� to $5,�00 or any integral
multiple thereof, before their respective scheduled maturity dates, an February 15, 2027 ar on
any date thereafter, such redemptian date or dates ta be fixed by the City, at a redemption price
equal to the principal amount of the Certificates called for redemptian plus accrued interest to the
date fixed for redemption.
(b} The City, at least 45 days before the redemption date, unless a shorter period shall
be satisfactory to the Paying Agent/Registrar, shall notify the Paying Agent/Registrar of such
redemption date and of the principal amount of Certificates to be redeemed.
Section 4.43. Mandatory Sinkin� Fund Redemptian.
{a} The Certificates maturing February 15, 2031 {the "Term Certificates") are subject
to scheduled mandatory redemption and will be redeemed by the City, in part at a price equal ta
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the principal amount thereof, without premium, plus accrued interest to the redemption date, out
of moneys available for such purpose in the Interest and Sinking Fund, on the dates and in the
respective principal amounts as set forth below.
$960 000 Term Certificates Maturing February 15, 2031
Redemption Date Redemption Amount
February 15, 2030 $475,000
February 15, 2031* $485,000
*maturity
(b) At least forty-five (45) days prior to each scheduled mandatory redemption date,
the Paying Agent/Registrar shall select for redemption by lot, or by any other customary method
that results in a random selection, a principal amount of Term Certificates equal to the aggregate
principal amount of such Term Certificates to be redeemed, shall call such Term Certificates for
redemption on such scheduled mandatory redemption date, and shall give notice of such
redemption, as provided in Section 4.05.
(c) The principal amount of the Term Certificates required to be redeemed on any
redemption date pursuant to subparagraph (a) of this Section 4.03 shall be reduced, at the option
of the City, by the principal amount of any Term Certificates which, at least 45 days prior to the
mandatory sinking fund redemption date (i) shall have been acquired by the City at a price not
exceeding the principal amount of such Term Certificates plus accrued interest to the date of
purchase thereof, and delivered to the Paying Agent/Registrar for cancellation, or (ii) shall have
been redeemed pursuant to the optional redemption provisions hereof and not previously credited
to a mandatory sinking fund redemption.
Section 4.04. Partial Redemption.
(a) If less than all of the Certificates are to be optionally redeemed pursuant to
Section 4.02, the City shall determine the maturity or maturities and the amounts thereof to be
redeemed. If less than all of the Certificates of a maturity or maturities are to be redeemed, the
City will direct the Paying Agent/Registrar to call such Certificates within such maturity or
maturities by lot, or by such other method that results in a random selection.
(b) A portion of a single Certificate of a denomination greater than $5,000 may be
redeemed, but only in a principal amount equal to $5,000 or any integral multiple thereo£ If
such a Certificate is to be partially redeemed, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall treat each $5,000
portion of the Certificate as though it were a single Certificate for purposes of selection for
redemption.
(c) Upon surrender of any Certificate for redemption in part, the Paying
Agent/Registrar, in accordance with Section 3.06 of this Ordinance, shall authenticate and
deliver an exchange Certificate or Certificates in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion of the Certificate so surrendered, such exchange being without charge.
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(d) The Paying Agent/Registrar shall promptly notify the City in writing of the
principal amount to be redeemed of any Certificate as to which only a portion thereof is to be
redeemed.
Section 4.05. Notice of Redemption to Owners.
(a) The Paying Agent/Registrar shall give notice of any redemption of Certificates by
sending notice by first class United States mail, postage prepaid, not less than 30 days before the
date fixed for redemption, to the Owner of each Certificate (or part thereo fl to be redeemed, at
the address shown on the Register at the close of business on the Business Day next preceding
the date of mailing of such notice.
(b) The notice shall state the redemption date, the redemption price, the place at
which the Certificates are to be surrendered for payment, and, if less than all the Certificates
outstanding are to be redeemed, an identification of the Certificates or portions thereof to be
redeemed.
(c) Any notice given as provided in this Section shall be conclusively presumed to
have been duly given, whether or not the Owner receives such notice.
Section 4.06. Payment Upon Redemption.
(a) Before or on each redemption date, the City shall deposit with the Paying
Agent/Registrar money sufficient to pay all amounts due on the redemption date and the Paying
Agent/Registrar shall make provision for the payment of the Certificates to be redeemed on such
date by setting aside and holding in trust an amount from the Interest and Sinking Fund or
otherwise received by the Paying Agent/Registrar from the City and shall use such funds solely
for the purpose of paying the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and accrued interest on
the Certificates being redeemed.
(b) Upon presentation and surrender of any Certificate called for redemption at the
Designated PaymenUTransfer Office on or after the date fixed for redemption, the Paying
Agent/Registrar shall pay the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and accrued interest on
such Certificate to the date of redemption from the money set aside for such purpose.
Section 4.07. Effect of Redemption.
(a) Notice of redemption having been given as provided in Section 4.05 of this
Ordinance, the Certificates or portions thereof called for redemption shall become due and
payable on the date fixed for redemption and, unless the City defaults in its obligation to make
provision for the payment of the principal thereof, redemption premium, if any, or accrued
interest thereon, such Certificates or portions thereof shall cease to bear interest from and after
the date fixed for redemption, whether or not such Certificates are presented and surrendered for
payment on such date.
(b) If the City shall fail to make provision for payment of all sums due on a
redemption date, then any Certificate or portion thereof called for redemption shall continue to
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bear interest at the rate stated on the Certificate until due provision is made for the payment of
same by the City.
Section 4.08. Conditional Notice of Redemption.
The City reserves the right, in the case of an optional redemption pursuant to Section 4.02
herein, to give notice of its election or direction to redeem Certificates conditioned upon the
occurrence of subsequent events. Such notice may state (i) that the redemption is conditioned
upon the deposit of moneys and/or authorized securities, in an amount equal to the amount
necessary to effect the redemption, with the Paying Agent/Registrar, or such other entity as may
be authorized by law, no later than the redemption date, or (ii) that the City retains the right to
rescind such notice at any time on or prior to the scheduled redemption date if the City delivers a
certificate of the City to the Paying Agent/Registrar instructing the Paying Agent/Registrar to
rescind the redemption notice and such notice and redemption shall be of no effect if such
moneys and/or authorized securities are not so deposited or if the notice is rescinded. The
Paying Agent/Registrar shall give prompt notice of any such rescission of a conditional notice of
redemption to the affected Owners. Any Certificates subject to conditional redemption and such
redemption has been rescinded shall remain Outstanding and the rescission of such redemption
shall not constitute an Event of Default. Further, in the case of a conditional redemption, the
failure of the City to make moneys and or authorized securities available in part or in whole on
or before the redemption date shall not constitute an Event of Default.
Section 4.09. Lapse of Pa�
Money set aside for the redemption of the Certificates and remaining unclaimed by
Owners thereof shall be subject to the provisions of Section 3.03(� hereof.
ARTICLE V
PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR
Section 5.01. Appointment of Initial Paving A eg nt/Re is�
The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., Dallas, Texas, is hereby appointed
as the initial Paying Agent/Registrar for the Certificates.
Section 5.02. Qualifications.
Each Paying Agent/Registrar shall be a commercial bank, �a trust company organized
under the laws of the State of Texas, or any other entity duly qualified and legally authorized to
serve as and perform the duties and services of paying agent and registrar for the Certificates.
Section 5.03. Maintaining Payin�A eg nt/Re isg trar•
(a) At all times while any Certificates are outstanding, the City will maintain a
Paying Agent/Registrar that is qualified under Section 5.02 of this Ordinance. The Mayor is
hereby authorized and directed to execute an agreement with the Paying Agent/Registrar
specifying the duties and responsibilities of the City and the Paying Agent/Registrar in
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substantially the form presented to and hereby approved by the City Council. The signature of
the Mayor shall be attested to by the City Secretary.
(b) If the Paying Agent/Registrar resigns or otherwise ceases to serve as such, the
City will promptly appoint a replacement.
Section 5.04. Termination.
The City, upon not less than 60 days' notice, reserves the right to terminate the
appointment of any Paying Agent/Registrar by delivering to the entity whose appointment is to
be terminated written notice of such termination, provided, that such termination shall not be
effective until a successor Paying Agent/Registrar has been appointed and has accepted the
duties of Paying Agent/Registrar for the Certificates.
Section 5.05. Notice of Chan�e.
Promptly upon each change in the entity serving as Paying Agent/Registrar, the City will
cause notice of the change to be sent to each Owner and any bond insurer by first class United
States mail, postage prepaid, at the address in the Register, stating the effective date of the
change and the name and mailing address of the replacement Paying Agent/Registrar.
Section 5.06. Agreement to Perform Duties and Functions.
By accepting the appointment as Paying Agent/Registrar, and executing the Paying
Agent/Registrar Agreement, the Paying Agent/Registrar is deemed to have agreed to the
provisions of this Ordinance and that it will perform the duties and functions of Paying
Agent/Registrar prescribed thereby.
Section 5.07. Delivery of Records to Successor.
If a Paying Agent/Registrar is replaced, such Paying Agent, promptly upon the
appointment of the successor, will deliver the Register (or a copy thereo� and all other pertinent
books and records relating to the Certificates to the successor Paying Agent/Registrar.
ARTICLE VI
FORM OF THE CERTIFICATES
Section 6.01. Form Generally.
(a) The Certificates, including the Registration Certificate af the Comptroller of
Public Accounts of the State of Texas, the Certificate of the Paying AgentlRegistrar, and the
Assignment form to appear on each of the Certificates, (i) shall be substantially in the form set
forth in this Article, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions, and other
variations as are permitted or required by this Ordinance, and (ii) may have such letters,
numbers, or other marks of identification (including identifying numbers and letters of the
Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures of the American Bankers
Association) and such legends and endorsements (including any reproduction of an opinion of
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counsel) thereon as, cansistently herewith, may be determined by the City or by the officers
executing such Certificates, as evidenced by their execu�ian thereaf.
{b} Any portion af the text af any Certificates may be set forth on the reverse side
thereaf, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Certificates.
(c) The Certificates, including the Initial Certificate submitted to the Attorney
General of Texas and any temporary Certificates, shall be typed, printed, lithographed,
photocopied or engraved, and may be produced by any combination of these rnethods or
praduced in any other similar manner, all as determined by the officers executing such
Certificates, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
Section b.02. Form of Certificates.
The form of Certificates, including the farm af the Registration Certificate of the
Comptroller of Public Accaunts af the State of Texas, the farm af Certificate of the Paying
AgentlRegistrar and the form of Assignment appearing on the Certificates, sha11 be substantialiy
as follows;
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(a) [Form of Certificatej
REGISTERED REGISTERED
No. $
United States of America
State of Texas
CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS
COMBINATION TAX AND REVENUE
CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION
SERIES 2017
INTEREST RATE MATURITY DATE DELIVERY DATE CUSIP NO.
% February 15, February 21, 2017 _
The City of Grapevine (the "City") in the Counties of Tarrant, Johnson and Ellis, State of
Texas, for value received, hereby promises to pay to
or registered assigns, on the Maturity Date specified above, the sum of
DOLLARS
unless this Certificate shall have been sooner called for redemption and the payment of the
principal hereof shall have been paid or provision for such payment shall have been made, and to
pay interest on the unpaid principal amount hereof from the later of the Delivery Date specified
above or the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or provided for
until such principal amount shall have been paid or provided for, at the per annum rate of interest
specified above, computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months, such interest
to be paid semiannually on February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing February 15,
2018.
The principal of this Certificate shall be payable without exchange or collection charges
in lawful money of the United States of America upon presentation and surrender of this
Certificate at the corporate trust office in Dallas, Texas (the "Designated Payment/Transfer
Office"), of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. as initial Paying
Agent/Registrar, or, with respect to a successor Paying Agent/Registrar, at the Designated
Payment/Transfer Office of such successor. Interest on this Certificate is payable by check dated
as of the interest payment date, mailed by the Paying Agent/Registrar to the registered owner at
the address shown on the registration books kept by the Paying Agent/Registrar or by such other
customary banking arrangements acceptable to the Paying Agent/Registrar, requested by, and at
the risk and expense of, the person to whom interest is to be paid. For the purpose of the
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payment of interest on this Certificate, the registered owner shall be the person in whose name
this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the "Record Date," which shall be the last
business day of the month next preceding such interest payment date; provided, however, that in
the event of nonpayment of interest on a scheduled interest 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 (the "Special Payment Date," 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 Certificate
appearing on the books of the Paying AgentlRegistrar at the close of business on the last business
day preceding the date of mailing such notice.
If a date for the payment of the principal of or interest on the Certificates is a Saturday;
Sunday, legal holiday, or a day on which banking institutions in the city in which the Designated
Payment/Transfer Office 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 a Saturday, Sunday, legal
holiday, or day on which such 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 Certificate is dated December 1, 2016 and is one of a series of fully registered bonds
specified in the title hereof issued in the aggregate principal amount of $9,535,000 (herein
referred to as the "Certificates") pursuant to a certain ordinance of the City Council of the City
(the "Ordinance") for the public purpose of providing funds for authorized public improvements
for and within the City, as provided in the Ordinance, and to pay the costs of issuance related to
the Certificates.
The Certificates and the interest thereon are payable from the levy of a direct and
continuing ad valorem tax, within the limit prescribed by law, against all taxable property in the
City and from a pledge of certain surplus revenues (not to exceed $1,000) of the City's
Waterworks and Sewer System, all as described and provided in the Ordinance.
The City has reserved the option to redeem the Certificates maturing on or after
February 15, 2028, in whole or part, in principal amount equal to $5,000 or any integral multiple
thereof, before their respective scheduled maturity dates, on February 15, 2027, or on any date
thereafter, at a price equal to the principal amount of the Certificates so called for redemption
plus accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. If less than all of the Certificates are to be
redeemed, the City shall determine the maturity or maturities and the amounts thereof to be
redeemed and shall direct the Paying Agent/Registrar to call by lot the Certificates, or portions
thereof, within such maturity or maturities and in such principal amounts, for redemption.
The Certificates maturing February 15, 2031 (the "Term Certificates") are subject to
scheduled mandatory redemption and will be redeemed by the City, in part at a price equal to the
principal amount thereof, without premium, plus accrued interest to the redemption date, out of
moneys available for such purpose in the Interest and Sinking Fund, on the dates and in the
respective principal amounts as set forth below.
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$960,000 Term Certificates Maturing February 15, 2031
Redemption Date Redemption Amount
February 15, 2030 $475,000
February 15, 2031* $485,000
*maturity
At least forty-five (45) days prior to each scheduled mandatory redemption date, the
Paying Agent/Registrar shall select for redemption by lot, or by any other customary method that
results in a random selection, a principal amount of Term Certificates equal to the aggregate
principal amount of such Term Certificates to be redeemed, shall call such Term Certificates for
redemption on such scheduled mandatory redemption date, and shall give notice of such
redemption, as provided in the Ordinance.
In lieu of calling the Term Certificates described above, for mandatory redemption, the
City reserves the right to purchase such Term Certificates at a price not exceeding the principal
amount thereof, plus accrued interest, with (a) moneys on deposit in the Interest and Sinking
Fund which are available for the mandatory redemption of such Term Certificates or (b) other
lawfully available funds.
Notice of such redemption or redemptions shall be given by first class mail, postage
prepaid, not less than 30 days before the date fixed for redemption, to the registered owner of
each of the Certificates to be redeemed in whole or in part. Notice having been so given, the
Certificates or portions thereof designated for redemption shall become due and payable on the
redemption date specified in such notice; from and after such date, notwithstanding that any of
the Certificates or portions thereof so called for redemption shall not have been surrendered for
payment, interest on such Certificates or portions thereof shall cease to accrue.
The City reserves the right, in the case of an optional redemption, to give notice of its
election or direction to redeem Certificates conditioned upon the occurrence of subsequent
events. Such notice may state (i) that the redemption is conditioned upon the deposit of moneys
and/or authorized securities, in an amount equal to the amount necessary to effect the
redemption, with the Paying Agent/Registrar, or such other entity as may be authorized by law,
no later than the redemption date, or (ii) that the City retains the right to rescind such notice at
any time on or prior to the scheduled redemption date if the City delivers a certificate of the City
to the Paying Agent/Registrar instructing the Paying Agent/Registrar to rescind the redemption
notice and such notice and redemption shall be of no effect if such moneys and/or authorized
securities are not so deposited or if the notice is rescinded. The Paying AgenURegistrar shall
give prompt notice of any such rescission of a conditional notice of redemption to the affected
Owners. Any Certificates subject to conditional redemption and such redemption has been
rescinded shall remain Outstanding and the rescission of such redemption shall not constitute an
Event of Default. Further, in the case of a conditional redemption, the failure of the City to make
moneys and or authorized securities available in part or in whole on or before the redemption
date shall not constitute an Event of Default.
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As provided in the Ordinance, and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, this
Certificate is transferable upan surrender af this Certificate for transfer at the Designated
PaymenUTransfer Office, with such endorsement or other evidence af transfer as is acceptable ta
the Paying AgentlRegistrar, and, thereupon, one or more new fully registered Certificates of the
same stated maturity, af authorized denominations, bearing the same rate of interest, and far the
same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
Neither the City nor the Paying Agent(Registrar shall be required to issue, transfer ar
exchange any Certificate called for redemption where such redernption is scheduled to occur
within 45 calendar days of the transfer or exchar�ge date; provided, however, such limitation
shall not be applicable to an exchange by the registered owner of the uncalled principal balance
of a Certificate.
The City, the Paying Agent/Registrar, and any other person may treat the person in whose
name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for the purpase of receiving payment as
herein provided {except interest shali be paid to the person in whase name this Certificate is
registered an the Record Date or Special Record Date, as applicable) and for all other purposes,
whether or not this Certificate be overdue, and neither the City nar the Paying AgentlRegisirar
shall be affected by notice ta the contrary.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED AND RECITED that the issuance of this Certificate and the
series of which it is a part is duly authorized by law; that all acts, conditions, and things required
to be done precedent to and in the issuance of the Certificates have been properly done and
performed and have happened in reguiar and due time, farm, and manner as required by law; that
ad valorem taxes upon all ta�cable property in the City have been levied for and pledged to the
payment of the debt service requirements of the Certificates within the limit prescribed by law;
that, in addition to said taxes, further provisions have been made for the payrnent of the debt
service requirements of the Certificates by pledging to such purpase, a limited amount of the
Surplus Revenues, as defined in the Ordinance, derived by the City fram the operation af the
waterworks and sewer system; that when so collected, such taxes and Surplus Revenues shall be
appropriated to such purpases; and that the total indebtedness of the City, including the
Certificates, does not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation.
IN ViIITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate has been duly executed an behalf of the City,
under its official seal, in accordance with law.
City Secretary, Mayor
City af Grapevine, Texas City of Grapevine, Texas
[SEAL)
(b) Farm of Comptroller's Registration Certifica#e.
The follawing Camptro]ler's Registratian Certificate tnay be deleted from the definitive
Certificates if such Certificate on the Initial Certificate is fully executed.
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OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER §
C}F PUBLIC ACCC}UNTS � REGISTER NO.
OF THE STATE OF TEXAS §
I hereby certify that there is on file and of record in my office a certificate of the Attorney
General of the State of Texas to the effect that this Certificate has been examined by him as
required by law, that he finds that it has been issued in conforrnity with the Constitution and laws
of the State of Texas, and that said Certificate has this day been registered by me.
Witness rny hand and seal af office at Austin, Texas,
Comptroller of Public Accounts of
the State of Texas
[SEAL)
(c) Form of Certificate of Pa�Ling Agent/Re is� trar.
The following Cer[ificate of Paying AgentlRegistrar may be deleted from the Initial
Certificate if the Comptroller's Registration Certificate appears therean.
CERTIFICATE OF PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR
This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within mentioned Ordinance. The series
of Certificates of which this Certificate is a part was ariginalty issued as one Initial Certificate
which was appraved by the Attorney General of the State of Texas and registered by the
Camptraller af Public Accounts of the State of Texas.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
TRUST CCJMFANY,N.A.
as Paying AgentlRegistrar
Dated: By:
Autharized Signature
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(d) Form of Assignment.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns, and transfers unto (print or
typewrite narne, address and Zip Code of transferee):
(Social Security or other identifying number: ) the within Certificate
and al1 rights hereunder and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
attorney to transfer the within Certificate on the books kept for
registration hereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Date. NOTICE: The signature on this Assignment
must correspond with the na�rae af the
Signature Guaranteed By: registered owner as it appears on the face af
the within Certificate in every particular and
must be guaranteed in a manner acceptable to
Authorized Signatory the Paying Agent/Registrar.
(e) Initial Certificate Insertians.
(i) The Initial Certificate shall be in the form set forth in paragraph (a) of this
Section, except thai:
{ii} immediately under the name af the Certificate, the headings "INTEREST
RATE" and "MATURITY DATE" shall bath be completed with the words "As Shown
Below" and "CUSIP NO. "dele�ed;
(iii) in the first paragraph:
the words "on the Maturity Date specified abave" shall be deleted and the
following will be inserted: "on February 15 in the years, in the principal
installments and bearing interest at the per annum rates set forth in the
following schedule:
�ears Frincipal Installments Interest Rates
(Information ta be inserted from Section 3.02{b} herea�.
(iv} the Initial Certificate sha11 be numbered T-1.
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Section 6.q3. CUSIP Registration.
The City may secure identification nurnbers through the CUSIP Services Bureau
managed by Standard 8c Paar's Financial Services LLC on behalf af the American Bankers
Association, and may authorize the printing of such numbers on the face of the Certificates. It is
expressly provided, hawever, that the presence or absence of CUSIP numbers on the Certificates
shall be of no significance or effect as regards the legality thereof and neither the City nor the
attorneys approving said Certificates as to tegality are to be held responsible for CUSIP numbers
incorrectly printed on the Certificates.
Section 6.04. Le a�1 Opinion.
The approving legal opinion of BraceweIl LLP, Bond Counset, may be printed on each
Certificate over the certificatian af the City Secretary of the City, which rnay be executed in
facsimile.
Section 6.05. Municipal Bond Insurance.
If municipa7 band guaranty insurance is abtained with respect ta the Certificates, the
Certificates, including the Initial Certificate, rnay bear an appropriate legend, as provided by the
insurer. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the City will camply with all notice and other
applicable requirements of the insurer in connection with the issuance of the Certificates, as such
requirements may be in effect and transmitted to the City with the insurer's corntnitment to issue
such insurance.
ARTICLE VII
SALE OF THE CERTIFICATES;
CaNTRt�L AND DELIVERY C}F THE CERTIFICATES
Section 7.01. Sale af Certificates• Official Statement. �
{a} The Certificates, having been duly advertised and offered far sale at competitive
bid, are hereby afficially sald and awarded to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (the "Purchaser")
for a purchase price equal ta the principal amount thereaf plus a cash premium of$541,733,95,
being the bid which produced the lowest true interest cost to the City. The Initial Certificate
sha11 be registered in the name of the Purchaser or its designee.
(b) The form and substance af the Natice of Sa1e for the Certificates, the Preliminary
Official Statement for the Certificates and any addenda, supplement or amendment thereto (the
"Preliminary 4fficial Statement"} and the final f)fficial Statement {the "Official Statement")
presented ta and considered at this meeting, are hereby in all respects approved and adopted, and
the Preliminary Ctfficial Statement is hereby deemed final as of its date (except far the omission
of pricing and related inforrnation) within the meaning and for the purposes of paragraph (b)(1)
af Ru1e 1Sc2-12 under the SBCliTlti�5 Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The use and
distribution of the Prelirninary Official Statement in the public offering of the Certificates by the
Underwriters is hereby authorized. The City Manager, Chief Financial (Jfficer, Mayor and the
City Secretary of the City are hereby authorized and directed to use and distribute ar authorize
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the use and distribution of the final Official Statement and any addenda, supplement or
amendment thereto (the "Official Statement") and to execute the same and deliver appropriate
numbers of executed capies thereaf to the Purchasers of the Certificates. The Official Statement
as thus approved, executed and delivered, with such apprapriate variatians as shall be appraved
by the City Manager, Chief Financial Officer, Mayor of the City and the Purchaser, may be used
by the Purchaser in the public offering and sale thereof. The City Secretary is hereby authorized
and directed to include and maintain a copy of the Official Statement and any addenda,
supplement or amendment thereto thus approved among the permanent recards of this meeting.
�c} 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 Certificates in
accordance with the terms of sale therefor. Further, in cannection with the submission af the
record of proceedings for the Certificates ta the Attorney General of the State af Texas for
examinatian and approval of such Certificates, the appropriate officer of the City is hereby
authorized and directed to issue a check of the City payable ta the Attorney General of the State
af Texas as a nonrefundable examination fee in the amount required by Chapter 1242, Texas
Government Code (such amount to be the lesser of(i) 1/l Oth of 1% of the principal amaunt of
the Certificates ar{zi} $9,500}.
{d} The obligation of the Purchaser to aecept delivery of the Certificates is subject to
the Purchaser being furnished with the final, approving opinion of Bracewell LLP, Bond Caunsel
fc�r the City, which apinior� shall be dated as of and delivered on the Closing Date.
Section 7.02. Contral and Delivery of Certificates.
(a) The Mayar is hereby authorized to have control of the Initial Certificate and all
necessary records and proceedings pertaining thereto pending investigation, examinatian and
approval of the Attarney General of the State of Texas, registratian by the Comptraller of Public
Accounts af the State of Texas, and registration with, and initial exchange or transfer by, the
Paying AgentlRegistrar.
(b) After registratian by the Comptroller of Public Accaunts, delivery af the
Certificates shail be made ta the Underwriters under and subject ta the general supervisian and
direction of the Mayor, against receipt by the City of all amounts due to the City under the terms
of sale.
(c) In the event the Mayor or City Secretary is absent or otherwise unable to execute
any document or take any actian autharized herein, the Mayar Pra Tem and the Assistant City
Secretary, respeetiveiy, shatl be authorized ta execute such documents and take such actions, and
the performance of such duties by the Mayor Pro Tem and the Assistant City Secretary shall for
the purposes of this Ordinance have the same foree and effect as if such duties were performed
by the Mayor and City Secretary, respectively.
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ARTICLE VIII
CREATION OF FUNDS AND ACGOUNTS;
DEPOSIT OF PROGEEDS; INVESTNIENTS
Section $.Ol, Creation af Funds.
(a) The City hereby establishes the fallowing special funds or accounts:
(i) The City of Grapevine, Texas Combination Tax and Revenue Certificates
of Qbligation, Series 20I 7, Interest and Sinking Fund; and
(ii} The City of Grapevine, Texas Combination Tax and Revenue Certificates
of(7bligation, Series 2017, Project Fund.
(b) Each of said funds or accounts shall be maintained at an official depository af the
City.
Section 8.02. Interest and Sinking Fund.
{a} The taYes levied under Section 2.01 sha11 be deposited to the credit of the Interest
and Sinking Fund at such tirnes and in such arnounts as necessary far the timely payment of the
principal of and interest on the Certificates.
{b} If the amount af maney in the Interest and Sinking Fund is at least equal to the
aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Certificates plus the aggregate amount of interest
due and that wi]1 become due and payable an such Certificates, no further deposits ta that fund
need be made.
(c) Money an deposit in the Interest and Sinking Fund shall be used to pay the
principal af and interest an the Certificates as such become due and payable.
Section 8.03. 1'roject Fund.
(a} Money on deposit in the Praject Fund, including investrnent earnings thereof,
shall be used for the purposes specified in Section 3.01 af this Ordinance.
(b) All amaunts remaining in the Praject Fund after the accomplishment af the
purpases for which the Certificates are hereby issued, including investment earnings of the
Project Fund, shall be deposited into the Interest and Sinking Fund.
Section 8.04. Security of Funds.
All moneys on deposit in the funds referred to in this 4rdinance shall be secured in the
rnanner and to the fullest extent required by the laws of the State of Texas far the security of
public funds, and moneys on depasit in such funds shall be used only for the purposes permitted
by this Ordinance.
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Section 8.05. Deposit of Proceeds.
(a) $9,975,287 of the proceeds of the Certificates received on the Closing Date,
representing $9,535,000 of principal and $440,287 of premium generated on the Certificates,
shall be deposited to the Project Fund, such moneys to be dedicated and used for the purposes
specified in Section 3.01(a-c).
(b) $101,446.95 of premium generated on the Certificates shall be used to pay the
cost of issuance of the Certificates. Any amounts remaining after payment of such costs shall be
deposited in the Interest and Sinking Fund.
Section 8.06. Investments.
(a) Money in the Interest and Sinking Fund and the Project Fund, at the option of the
City, may be invested in such securities or obligations as permitted under applicable law.
(b) Any securities or obligations in which money is so invested shall be kept and held
in trust for the benefit of the Owners and shall be sold and the proceeds of sale shall be timely
applied to the making of all payments required to be made from the fund from which the
investment was made.
Section 8.07. Investment Income.
Interest and income derived from investment of any fund created by this Ordinance shall
be credited to such fund.
ARTICLE IX
PARTICULAR REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS
Section 9.01. Payment of the Certificates.
While any of the Certificates are outstanding and unpaid, there shall be made available to
the Paying Agent/Registrar, out of the Interest and Sinking Fund, money sufficient to pay the
interest on and the principal of the Certificates, as applicable, as will accrue or mature on each
applicable Interest Payment Date.
Section 9.02. Other Representations and Covenants.
(a) The City will faithfully perform at all times any and all covenants, undertakings,
stipulations, and provisions contained in this Ordinance and in each Certificate; the City will
promptly pay or cause to be paid the principal of, interest on, and premium, if any, with respect
to, each Certificate on the dates and at the places and manner prescribed in such Certificate; and
the City will, at the times and in the manner prescribed by this Ordinance, deposit or cause to be
deposited the amounts of money specified by this Ordinance.
(b) The City is duly authorized under the laws of the State of Texas to issue the
Certificates; all action on its part for the creation and issuance of the Certificates has been duly
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and effectively taken; and the Certificates in the hands of the Owners thereof are and will be
valid and enforceable obligations of the City in accardar�ce with iheir terms.
Section 9.03. Pravisions Concernin Fg_ ederal Incame Tax Exclusion.
The City intends that the interest on the Certificates be excludable from gross incorne for
federal income tax purposes pursuant to sectians l 03 and 141 through 1 SO of the Code and the
applicable Treasury Regulatians promulgated thereunder (the "Regulations"). The City
covenants and agrees not to take any action, or omit to take any action within its control, that if
taken or omitted, respectively, wauld �i) cause the interest an the Certificates to be includable in
gross income, as defined in section 61 of the Code, for federal income tax purposes or (ii) result
in the violatian of ar failure to satisfy any pravision af sections 103 and 141 through 150 of the
Code and the applicable Regulatians. In particular, the City covenants and agrees to comply
with each requirement of Sectians 9.43 through 9,13, inclusive; provided, hawever, that the City
will not be required ta comply with any particular requirement of Sections 9.03 through 9.13,
inciusive, if the City has received an opinion of natianally recognized band caunsel ("Counsel's
Opinion") that (i) such noncompliance will nat adversely affeet the exclusion fram grass income
for federal income ta�c purpases of interest on the Certificates or (ii) campliance with some other
requirement will satisfy the applicable requirements of the Code and the Regulations, in which
case compliance with such ather requirement specified in such Counsel's Opinion will constitute
compliance with the corresponding requirement specified in Sections 9.03 thraugh 9.13,
inclusive.
Section 9.04. No Private Use or Payment and Na Private Loan Financin�.
The City covenants and agrees that it will make such use of the proceeds of the
Certificates, including interest or other investment income derived from Certificate praceeds,
regulate the use af property financed, directly or indirectly, with such proceeds, and take such
ather and further action as rnay be required so that the Certificates will not be "private activity
bonds" within the meaning of section 141 af the Code and the Regulations promulgated
thereunder. Moreover, the City will certify, through an authorized officer, employee or agent,
that, based upon all facts and estinnates known or reasonably expected to be in existence an the
date the Certificates are delivered, the proceeds of the Certificates will nat be used in a manner
that would cause the Certificates to be "private activity bonds" within the nneaning of section 141
of the Code and the Regulations pramulgated thereunder.
Section 9.05. No Federal Guarantv.
The City covenants and agrees not ta take any action, or knowingly omit to take any
action within its cantrol, that, if taken ar omitted, respectively, would cause the Certificates to be
"federally guaranteed" within the meaning of section 149(b} of the Cade and the applicable
Regulatians prornulgated thereunder, except as permitted by sectian 149(b)(3) of the Code and
such Regulations.
Section 9.06. No Hedge Bands.
'The City cavenants and agrees not to take any actian, or knowingly omit ta take any
action, within its control, that, if taken or otnitted, respectively, would cause fihe Certificates to
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be "hedge bonds" within the meaning of section 149(g) of the Code and the applicable
Regulations promulgated thereunder.
Section 9.07. No Arbitra�e.
The City covenants and agrees that it will make such use of the proceeds of the
Certificates, including interest or other investment income derived from Certificate proceeds,
regulate investments of proceeds of the Certificates, and take such other and further action as
may be required so that the Certificates will not be "arbitrage bonds" within the meaning of
section 148(a) of the Code and the applicable Regulations promulgated thereunder. Moreover,
the City will certify, through an authorized officer, employee or agent, based upon all facts and
estimates known or reasonably expected to be in existence on the date the Certificates are
delivered, that the proceeds of the Certificates will not be used in a manner that would cause the
Certificates to be "arbitrage bonds" within the meaning of section 148(a) of the Code and the
applicable Regulations promulgated thereunder.
Section 9.08. Arbitrage Rebate.
If the City does not qualify for an exception to the requirements of section 148(� of the
Code relating to the required rebate to the United States, the City will take all necessary steps to
comply with the requirement that certain amounts earned by the City on the investment of the
"gross proceeds" of the Certificates (within the meaning of section 148(fl(6)(B) of the Code), be
rebated to the federal government. Specifically, the City will (i) maintain records regarding the
investment of the gross proceeds of the Certificates as may be required to calculate the amount
earned on the investment of the gross proceeds of the Certificates separately from records of
amounts on deposit in the funds and accounts of the City allocable to other bond issues of the
City or moneys that do not represent gross proceeds of any bond issues of the City, (ii) determine
at such times as are required by the applicable Regulations, the amount earned from the
investment of the gross proceeds of the Certificates that is required to be rebated to the federal
government, and (iii) pay, not less often than every fifth anniversary date of the delivery of the
Certificates, or on such other dates as may be permitted under applicable Regulations, all
amounts required to be rebated to the federal government. Further, the City will not indirectly
pay any amount otherwise payable to the federal government pursuant to the foregoing
requirements to any person other than the federal government by entering into any investment
arrangement with respect to the gross proceeds of the Certificates that might result in a reduction
in the amount required to be paid to the federal government because such arrangement results in
a smaller profit or a larger loss than would have resulted if the arrangement had been at arm's
length and had the yield on the issue not been relevant to either party.
Section 9.09. Information Reportin�.
The City covenants and agrees to file or cause to be filed with the Secretary of the
Treasury, not later than the 15th day of the second calendar month after the close of the calendar
quarter in which the Certificates are issued, an information statement concerning the Certificates,
all under and in accordance with section 149(e) of the Code.
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Section 9.10. Record Retention.
The City will retain all pertinent and material records relating to the use and expenditure
of the proceeds of the Certificates until three years after the last Certificate is redeemed, or such
shorter period as authorized by subsequent guidance issued by the Department of the Treasury, if
applicable. All records will be kept in a manner that ensures their complete access throughout
the retention period. For this purpose, it is acceptable that such records are kept either as
hardcopy books and records or in an electronic storage and retrieval system, provided that such
electronic system includes reasonable controls and quality assurance programs that assure the
ability of the City to retrieve and reproduce such books and records in the event of an
examination of the Certificates by the Internal Revenue Service.
Section 9.11. Re�istration.
The.Certificates will be issued in registered form.
Section 9.12. Deliberate Actions.
The City will not take a deliberate action (as defined in section 1.141-2(d)(3) of the
Regulations) that causes the Certificates to fail to meet any requirement of section 141 of the
Code after the issue date of the Certificates unless an appropriate remedial action is permitted by
section 1.141-12 of the Regulations, the City takes such action, and a Counsel's Opinion is
obtained that such remedial action cures any failure to meet the requirements of section 141 of
the Code.
Section 9.13. Continuin� Obli atg ion•
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance, the City's obligations under the
covenants and provisions of Sections 9.03 through 9.13, inclusive, shall survive the defeasance
and discharge of the Certificates for as long as such matters are relevant to the exclusion from
gross income of interest on the Certificates for federal income tax purposes.
ARTICLE X
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section 10.01. 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,"to-wit:
(a) the failure to make payment of the principal of, redemption premium, if any, or
interest on any of the Certificates when the same becomes due and payable; or
(b) 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
Owners, including but not limited to, their prospect or ability to be repaid in accordance with this
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Ordinance, and the continuation thereof for a period of 30 days after notice af such default is
given by any Owner to the City; or
{c) An arder af relief shall be issued by the Bankruptcy Court af the United States
District Court having jurisdiction, granting the City any relief under any Applicable Law, or any
other court having valid jurisdiction shall issue an order or decree under applicable federal ar
state law praviding for the appointrnent of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator,
ar other similar official far the City of any substantial part of its property, affairs or assets, and
the continuance of any such decree or arder unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive
days.
Section 10.Q2. Remedies for Default.
(a) Upan the happening of any Event of Default, then and in every case any Owner or
an authorized representative thereof, inciuding but not limited to, a trustee or trustees therefor,
may praceed against the City for the purpose of protecting and enforcing the rights of the
Owners under this Ordinance, by rnandamus or other suit, action or special praceeding in equity
or at law, in any court af competent jurisdiction, far 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 ar in violation of any right of the Owners hereunder or any
combination of such rernedies.
(b} It is pravided that all such proceedings shall be instituted and maintained far the
equal benefit of all Owners af Certificates then outstanding.
Section 1 q.03. Remedies Nat Exclusive.
(a) No remedy herein conferred or reserved is intended to be exclusive of any other
available remedy or rernedies, but each and every such remedy sha11 be cumulative and sha11 be
in addition to every other rernedy given hereunder or under the Certificates 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 Certificates shall not be available as
a remedy under this Ordinance.
(b} The exercise of any remedy herein conferred ar reserved sha1� nat be deemed a
waiver of any other available remedy.
ARTICLE XI
DISCHARGE
Section 11.01. Dischar�e.
The City reserves the right to defease, discharge ar refiznd the Certificates in any manner
permitted by applicable 1aw.
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ARTICLE XII
CONTINUING DISCL,OSURE UNDERTAKING
Sectian 12,01. Annual Reports.
(a) The City shali provide annually to the MSRB, (1) within six months after the end
af each fiscal year of the City, financial information and operating data with respect to the City
of the general type included in the final Official Statement, being information deseribed in the
Appendix A as Tables numbered 1 through 6 and $ through 1 S, including financial statements of
the City if audited financial statements of the City are then available, and (2) if not provided as
part such financial infarmation 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 appended ta the Official Statement, or such other accounting principles
as the City rnay be required ta employ fram tirne ta time pursuant ta state law or regulation, and
(ii) audited, if the City commissions an audit af 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 camplete within 12 months after any such fiscal year end, then the City shall
file unaudited financial staternents within such 1 Z-month period and audited financial statements
for the applicable fiscal year, when and if the audit report on such statements becomes available.
{b} If the City changes its Fiscal Year, it will notify the MSRB of the change (and of
the date of the new Fiscal Year end) prior to the next date by which the City otherwise wauld be
required to provide financial information and operating data pursuant to this Section.
(c} All financial information, operating data, financial statements, and notices
required by this Sectian to be pravided to the MSRB shall be provided in an electranic format
and be accampanied by identifying inforrnation prescribed by the MSRB. Financial inforrnation
and operating data to be pravided pursuant to Section may be set forth in full in one or more
dacuments or may be included by specific reference to any document (including an official
statement or other offering docurnent) available ta the public on the MSRB's Internet Web site
or filed with the SEC.
Section 12.02. Notice of Certain Events.
(a) The City shall provide the following to the MSRB, in an electronic format as
prescribed by the MSRB, in a timely manner not in excess af ten (10} business days after the
occurrence af the event, notice of any af the fallowing events with respect to the Certificates:
(i) Principal and interest payment delinquencies;
(ii) Non-payment related defaults, if rnaterial;
(iii) Unscheduled draws on debt service reserves reflecting financial
difficulties;
(iv} Unscheduled draws an credit enhancernents reflecting financial
difficulties;
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(v) Substitution af credit or liquidity providers, or their failure to perform;
(vi) Adverse tax opinions, the issuance by the Internal Revenue Service of
proposed ar final determinations of taxability, Natices of Proposed Issue {IRS Farm
5701-TEB) or ather material notices or determinations with respect to the tax status of the
Certificates, or other material events affecting the tax status af the Certificates;
(vii) Modifications to rights of the halders of the Certificates, if material;
(viii) Certificate calls, if material, and tender offers;
(ix) Defeasances;
(x) Release, substitution, or sale of property securing repayment af the
Certificates, if material;
{xi} Rating changes;
{X11} Bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar event of the City;
Note ta para�ra,ph (xii): For the purposes of the event identified in
paragraph (xii) of this section, the event is considered to accur when any of the
following occur: the appaintment of a receiver, fiscal agent or similar officer far
the City in a proceeding under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code ar in any other
proceeding under state ar federal 1aw in which a court or govenunental authority
has assurned jurisdiction over substantially all of the assets ar business af the
City, or if such jurisdiction has been assumed by leaving the existing governing
body and officials or officers in passession but subject to the supervisian and
orders of a court or governmental autharity, or the entry af an arder confirming a
plan of reorganization, arrangement or liquidation by a court or governrnental
autharity having supervision or jurisdiction aver s�bstantially all of the assets or
business of the City.
(xiii) The consummatian of a merger, cansolidation, or acquisition involving the
City or the sale of a1I or substantially a11 of the assets of the City, other than in the
ordinary course of business, the entry into a definitive agreement to undertake such an
actian or the termination of a definitive agreement relating ta any such actians, ather than
pursuant ta its terms, if material, and
(xiv) Appointment of successor or additional paying agent/registrar or the
change af name of a paying agentlregistrar, if material.
{b) The City shall provide to the MSRB, in an electronic format as prescribed by the
MSRB, in a timely manner, notice of a failure by the City ta provide required annual financial
information and notices of material events in accardance with Section 12,01 and section �a)
above. All documents provided ta the MSRB pursuant to this section shall be accompanied by
identifying infarmatic�n, as prescribed by the MSRB, and will be available via EMMA at
www.emma.msrb.org,
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Sectian 12.03. Limitations Disclaimers and Amendments.
(a) The City shall be obligated to observe and perform the covenants specified in this
Article for so long as, but anly for so long as, the City remains an "abligated persan" with
respect to the Certificates within the meaning of the Rule, except that the City in any event will
give notice of any deposit made in accordance with Article XI that causes Certificates no longer
to be Outstanding.
(b) The provisions of this Article are for the sale benefit of the Owners and beneficial
awners of the Certificates, and nothing in this Article, express or implied, shall give any benefit
ar any legal or equitable right, remedy, or claim hereunder to any other person. The City
undertakes ta pravide only the financial information, operating data, financial statements, and
notices which it has expressly agreed to provide pursuant ta this Article 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, conditian, or prospects or hereby undertake to update
any infarmation provided in accardance with tl�is Article or otherwise, except as expressly
provided herein. The City does not make any representation or warranty concerning such
infarmatian or its usefulness to a decision to invest in or sell Certificates at any future date.
UNDER NO CIRCUNISTANCES SHALL THE CITY BE LIABLE TO THE OWNER
OR BENEFICIAL OWNER O�` ANY CERTIFICATE OR ANY OTHER PERSON, 1N
CQNTRACT OR TORT, FOR L7AMAGES RESULTING 1N WHOLE OR 1N PART FROM
ANY BREACH BY THE CITY, WHETHER NEGLIGENT OR WITHOUT FAULT ON ITS
PART, OF ANY COVENANT Sl'ECIFIED IN THIS ARTICLE, BUT EVERY RIGHT AND
REMEDY OF ANY SUCH PERSON, IN CONTRACT OR TORT, FOR OR ON ACe(�UNT
OF ANY SUCH BREACH SHALL BE LIMTTED TO AN ACTIC?N FOR MANDANIUS OR
SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE.
(c) Na default by the City in observing or performing its obligations under this
Article shall comprise a breach of or default under the Ordinance for purpases af any other
provisions of this Ordinance.
(d) Nothing in this Article is intended or shail act to disclaim, waive, or atherwise
limit the duties of the City under federal and state securities laws.
(e) The provisions of this Article rnay be amended by the City from time to time to
adapt to changed circumstances that arise fram a change in legal requirements, a change in 1aw,
ar a change in the identity, nature, status, or type af operations of the City, but only if(1) the
provisions of this Article, as so atnended, would have permitted an underwriter to purchase or
sell Certificates in the primary offering of the Certificates in compliance with the Rule, taking
into account any amendments or interpretatians of the Rule to the date of such amendment, as
well as such changed circumstances, and (2) either (A) the Owners of a majarity in aggregate
principal arnount (or any greater amount required by any other pravisions of this Ordinance that
autharizes such an amendment) af th� Outstanding Certificates consent to such amendment or
(B) a person that is unaffiliated with the City (such as nationally recognized band counsel)
determines that such amendrnent will not materially impair the interests of the Qwners and
beneficial owners of the Certificates. If the City so amends the provisions af this Article, it shall
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include with any amended financial information ar operating data next provided in accordance
with Section 12.01 an explanatian, in narrative form, of the reasons far the amendment and of
the impact af any change in the type of financial infarmation or operating data so provided.
ARTICLE XIII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section I3.01. Changes to 4rdinance.
The Mayor, City Manager and Chief Financial Officer, in eonsultation with Band
Counsel, are each hereby authorized to make changes to the terrns of this Ordinance if necessary
or desirabie to carry out the purpases hereof ar in connection with the approval of the issuance of
the Certificates by the Attorney General of Texas.
Section 13.02. Partial Invaliditv. �
If any section, paragraph, clause or provisian of this Ordinance shall for any reasan be
held to be invalid or unenforceable, the invalidity or unenfarceability of such section, paragraph,
clause or pravision shall not affect any of the remaining provisions of the Ordinance.
Section 13.03. No Personal Liability.
No recourse shall be had for payment of the principal af or interest on any Certificates or
for any claim based thereon, or on this Ordinance, against any official or emplayee of the City ar
any person executing any Certificates.
ARTICLE XIV �
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
Section 14.01. Effectiveness.
This Ordinance shall become effective imrnediately upon its adoptian at this meeting
pursuant to Section 1201.42$, Texas Gavernment Code.
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APPROVED this�_day of January, 2017.
Mayor, City of Grapevine, Texas �
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney, City of Gr evine, Texas
Signature Page for Ordinance
Series 2017 Cambination Tax and Revenue Certificates of`Obligation
EXHIBIT A
DESCRIPTION OF ANNUAL DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION
The fallawing information is referred to in Article XII of this Ordinance.
Annual Financial Statements and Operating Data
The financial information and operating data with respect to the City to be provided
annually in accardance with such Article are as specified (and included in the Appendix ar other
headings af the Official Statement referred ta) below:
1. The audited financial statements of the City for the most recently concluded fiscal
year.
2. Statistical and financial data set forth in Tables 1-6 and 8-15 in the 4fficial
Statement.
Accounting Principles
The accounting principles referred to in such Article are the accounting principles
described in the nates to the financial statements set forth in Appendix B ta the Qfficial
Statement.
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