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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-06-03 Resolution 2024-230_Set Public Hearing Date, Bonds, GO ECPRESOLUTION 2024-230 RESOLUTION FIXING DATE FOR A MEETING ON THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED $4,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OR CAPITAL LOAN NOTES (ECP) OF THE CITY OF WAUKEE, STATE OF IOWA (FOR ESSENTIAL CORPORATE PURPOSES), AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION OF NOTICE THEREOF WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary and advisable that the City of Waukee, State of Iowa, should provide for the issuance of General Obligation Bonds or Capital Loan Notes, to the amount of not to exceed $4,000,000, as authorized by Sections 384.24A and/or 384.25, of the Code of Iowa, for the purpose of providing funds to pay costs of carrying out essential corporate purpose project(s) as hereinafter described; and WHEREAS, the Bonds or Capital Loan Notes shall be payable from the Debt Service Fund; and WHEREAS, before issuing General Obligation Bonds or Capital Loan Notes, to evidence the obligation of the City thereunder, it is necessary to comply with the provisions of the Code of Iowa, and to publish a notice of the proposal to issue such bonds or notes and of the time and place of the meeting at which the Council proposes to take action for the issuance of the Bonds or Notes and to receive oral and/or written objections from any resident or property owner of the City to such action. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF CITY OF WAUKEE, STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. That this Council meet in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 230 West Hickman Road, Waukee, Iowa, at 5:30 P.M., on the 171" day of June, 2024, for the purpose of taking action on the matter of the authorization of the issuance of not to exceed $4,000,000 General Obligation Bonds or Capital Loan Notes, for essential corporate purposes, the proceeds of which bonds will be used to provide funds to pay the costs of opening, widening, extending, grading, and draining of the right-of-way of streets, highways, avenues, alleys and public grounds, and market places, and the removal and replacement of dead or diseased trees thereon; the construction, reconstruction, and repairing of any street improvements, bridges, grade crossing separations and approaches; the acquisition, installation, and repair of sidewalks, culverts, retaining walls, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water service lines, street lighting, and traffic control devices and signage; and the acquisition of any real estate needed for any of the foregoing purposes. Section 2. The Clerk is authorized and directed to proceed on behalf of the City in preparing such sale information as may appear appropriate, to distribute the same on behalf of the City and this Council and otherwise to take all action necessary to permit the completion of an issuance on a basis favorable to the City and acceptable to the Council. Section 3. To the extent any of the projects or activities described in this resolution may be reasonably construed to be included in more than one classification under Subchapter III of Chapter 384 of the Code of Iowa, the Council hereby elects the "essential corporate purpose" classification and procedure with respect to each such project or activity, pursuant to Section 384.28 of the Code of Iowa. Section 4. That the Clerk is hereby directed to cause at least one publication to be made of a notice of the meeting, in a legal newspaper, printed wholly in the English language, published at least once weekly, and having general circulation in the City. The publication to be not less than four clear days nor more than twenty days before the date of the public meeting on the proposed issuance. Section 5. The notice of the proposed action to issue shall be in substantially the following form: (To be published on June 4, 2024) NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WAUKEE, STATE OF IOWA, ON THE MATTER OF THE PROPOSED AUTHORIZATION OF THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED $4,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OR CAPITAL LOAN NOTES (ECP) OF THE CITY (FOR ESSENTIAL CORPORATE PURPOSES), AND THE HEARING ON THE ISSUANCE THEREOF PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Waukee, State of Iowa, will hold a public hearing on the 17"' day of June, 2024, at 5:30 P.M., in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 230 West Hickman Road, Waukee, Iowa, at which meeting the Council proposes to take additional action for the authorization of the issuance of not to exceed $4,000,000 General Obligation Bonds or Capital Loan Notes, for essential corporate purposes, to provide funds to pay the costs of costs of opening, widening, extending, grading, and draining of the right-of-way of streets, highways, avenues, alleys and public grounds, and market places, and the removal and replacement of dead or diseased trees thereon; the construction, reconstruction, and repairing of any street improvements, bridges, grade crossing separations and approaches; the acquisition, installation, and repair of sidewalks, culverts, retaining walls, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water service lines, street lighting, and traffic control devices and signage; and the acquisition of any real estate needed for any of the foregoing purposes. Principal and interest shall be payable from the Debt Service Fund. At the above meeting the Council shall receive oral or written objections from any resident or property owner of the City to the above action. After all objections have been received and considered, the Council will at the meeting or at any adjournment thereof, take additional action for the issuance of the Bonds or Capital Loan Notes to evidence the obligation of the City thereunder or will abandon the proposal to issue said Bonds or Notes. This notice is given by order of the City Council of the City of Waukee, State of Iowa, as provided by Sections 384.24A and/or 384.25 of the Code of Iowa. Dated this 3rd day of June, 2024. Rebecca D. Schuett City Clerk, City of Waukee, State of Iowa (End of Notice) PASSED AND APPROVED this 3rd day of June, 2024. Mayor Pro Tem ATTEST: LWMA (4 - City Clerk RESULTS OF VOTE: AYE R. Charles Bottenberg X Chris Crone X Rob Grove X Anna Bergman Pierce X Ben Sinclair X NAY ABSENT ABSTAIN