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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 81-216 - Preliminary Approval - MIDB's - Kinder Care - $250,000 - 10/31/1981 } RESOLUTION R1,C:.TINU A PROPUSALi FOR A CO1MM ERCIAL FACI1,I`J.1IHS DI-WELUf'C EMIT PROJF_'CT GIV._U-TG PRELIMINARY APPRU'VAL, TO THE PROJECT PURSUANT TO THE MINNESOTA MUNICIPAL INDUSTRlik)1, 17F VIsLUPPI:aL1`.P AC;T AU` TIORIZING THE SUBMISSION OF AZT APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OIL SAIi) PROJECT TO THE COMMISSIONER 0& SECURITIES OF THE STATE OF MINOESOTA AND AUTHORIZING THE PREPARATION OF NECESSARY D0CUML'L\1 CS AND MAT,ERIAl'iS IN CONNECTION WITH SAID PROJECT WHERI AS, ( a) The purpose of Chapter 474, Minnesota Statutes, known as the Minnesota Municipal Industrial Development Act ( the "Act" ) as found and d-etermined by the legislature is to promote t*ne welfare of the state by the active attraction and encouragement and development of economi- cally sound industry and cormnerce to prevent so far as possible the emerge ace of blighted and marginal lands acid areas of chronic unemployment; (b) Factors necessitating the active promotion and development of economically sound industry and coincnerce are the increasing concentration of populatton in the metropolitan areas and the rapidly rising increase in the amount and cost of governmental services required to inee:t the needs of the increased population and the need for development of land use which will provide an adequate tax base to finance these increased costs and access to employment opportunities for such population; (c) The City Council of the City of Eder_ Prairie ( "the City" ) has received from Carl Westin aria Harold F. Hesse, who intend to form a Minnesota general partnership (the "Company" ) a proposal that the City undertake to -fi_naiice a Project hereinafter described., through the issuance of revenue bonds in the form of a single debt instrument ( "the Note" ) pursuant to the Act; (d) The City desires to facilitate the selec- tive developmeen t of the community, retain and improve the tax base and help to provide the ranee of services and erciployment oppc.)rtunities required by the population; and the Project will assist the City in achievin- those- objectives . The Project will ht�l,p to increase assessed valuation of the City and su.rrouricl.in3 arc-gas and help nlainta.in a positive relationship between assessecl valuation and debt and enhance tree image and reputation of the cornMtinity; (e) Thu Project to be financed by the ;vote is a Kinder-Care child lr.�zrning and day-care facility to be located in the City and leased to Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc . and consists of the construction of buildings and improvements orl land located in the City and tale installation or equipment therein, and will result in the e;nployinent of additional persons to work within the facilities; (f) The City has been advised by representa- tives of Company that conventional, coruriie.rcial ficianciny to pay the capital cost of the Project is available only on a limited basis and at such high costs of borrowing that the econotaic feasibility of operating the Project would be significantly reduced, but Company has also advised this Council that with the aid of municipal financing, and its resulting low bor- rowing cost, the Project is economically more feasible; (g) A public nearing on the Project was held on October 31 , 1931 , aftec notice was published, and materials made available for public inspection at the City Hall, all as required by Minnesota Statutes , Section 474 .01 , Subdivision 7b at which public hearing all those appearing who so desired to speak were heard; (h) No public official of the City has either a direct or indirect financial interest: in the Project nor will any public official either directly or indirectly benefit financially from the Project. NOW, T[IERF ORE, BE IT RCOWED by the City Council of the City of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, as follows: I . T:he Council hereby gives preliminary approval to the proposal of Company that 'the City, undertake the Project pursuant to the Mi_nnesota Municipal Industrial Development Act (Chapter 474, Minnesota Statutes ) , consisting of the acqui- sition, construction and equiLpping of facilities within 'tile City pursuant to Company' s speci-f-icatioas suitable for the operations described above and to a .revenue agreement between the City and Company upon such terms and conditions with provisions for revision froia time to time as necessary, so as i to produce. Lncome. and reveriuc.s s._if fieient to pay, when due, the p.ri_ncip it of and interest on the Note in the total princi.LDal amot211t of approximately $2`:)0, Ou0 to be, issued pursuant to the Act to finance the acquisition, eoristruetion and equipping of the Project; and said agree-iterit m.ay also provide for the entire interest of Company therein to be ,nortcja fed to the purchaser of the Revenue Bonds; and the City Hereby underta'res prelimi_nzrily to issue its Note in accordance with such terms and conditions; 2 . On the basis of information available to this Council it appears, and the Council- hereby finds, that the Project constitutes properties, real and personal, used or useful in connection with one or more rravenue producing enterprises enUagt7d in any business within the meaning c-,f: Subdivisicati la of Section 474 .02 of the Act; that the Project furthers the. purposes stated in Section 474 . 01. , Minnesota Statutes; that the availability of the financing under tine Act and willingness of the City to furnish such Financing will be a substantial inducement to Company to undertake the Project, and that the effect or the Project , if undertaken, will be to encourage the development of- economically sound industry and commerce, to assist in the prevention of the emergence of blighted and marginal_ land, to help pre-vent chronic unemployment, to help the city retain and improve the tax base and to provide the range oz service and employment opportunities required by the pol_)ul ation, tc help prevent the movetnetit of talented and educated persons out of the state and to areas within the State where their services ITlay not be as effectively used, to promote more intensive leveloprient and use of land within and adjacent to the City acid eventually to increase the tax base of tiie cornrnunity; 3 . The Project is hereby given preliminary approval by tha City subject to the approval of the Project by the Com- missioner. of Securities and Real Estate, and subject to final approval by this Council, Company_, and the purchaser of -the Note as to -the ultimate details of the financing of the Project; 4. In accordance with Subdivision 7a of Section 474 .01 Minnesota Statutes, the Mayor of the City is hereby authorized and directed to submit the proposal for the Project to the Commissioner of Securities and Real Estate, requesting her approval, and other officers, employees and agents of the City are hereby authorized to provide the Commissioner with such preliminary information as she may require; r - 2C� ``: 5 . Company has agreed and it is hereby deL-ermined teat any and all costs i-ncurr--e.�1 by the- City in connection with the financing of the Project will he paid by the Company . Such costs will be paid regardless of einether the Project is carr:iec-i to completion, the Note or revenue agreements or any other operative docuients are executed, and whether or not the Project is aPproved by the Commissioner of Securities and Real Estate; 6 . Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association, acting as bond counsel, and First Corporate Services, Inc . , investment bankers , are authorized to assist in the preparation and .review of necessary documents relating to the Project, to consult with the City Attorney, Company and the purchaser of the Note as to the mat,_;?7ities, interest rates and other terms and provisions of the- Note and as to the covenants and o 'ner provisions of the necessary documents and -to submit such documents to the Council for final approval ; 7 . Nothing in -this resolution or in the documents pre- pared pursuant hereto shall authorise the expenditure of any municipal funds on the Project otizer Mhan the revenues derived from the Project or otherwise granted to the City for this, purpose. The Note shall not constitute a charge-, lien or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property or funds of the City except -the revenue and proceeds pledged -to the payment thereof, nor shall the City be subject to any liability thereon. The holder of the Note shall never have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the City to pay the outstanding principal on the Note or the interest. thereon, or to en Corce payment thereof against any property of. the City. The Note shall recite in substance that the Note including interest thereon, is payable solely from the revenue and proceeds pledged to the payment thereof. The Note shall not constitute a debt of the City within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation; 8. The adoption of this Resolution does not constitute a guaranty or a firm comaitrnent that the City will issue the Note as requested by the Company. The City retains the right in its sole discretion to abstain froin participation and accordingly not issue the Note should the City at any time prior to the issuance of the Note jnake a determination that it is not in the best interest of the City to issue the Note or should the parties to the transaction be unable to reach agreement as to the terms and conditions of any of the documents required to the transaction; rr 9. All commitments of the City expressed herein are subject. to the condition that within 1.2 montlis of tfie date of acloptiorj of 1-nis Resoi.r_ltion the City and the Company shall have agreed to ,nutually acceptable te-r,as and conditions of the revenue agreement, the Note and other instruments aril proceedings rel_atin(j to the igote and its issuance and sale. if the events set for tli herc3iri do riot take place within the t1me set :forth above, or any extension thereof, and the Note is not sold within such time, this Resolution shall expire, and be of no further effect. Adopted by the City Council of the City of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, this 31st day of October, 198_ i Mayor Attest :,-, �-T-_C kty'C 1 e rk - ---- ,.y