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RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE AND SALE
OF GENERAL OBLIGATION IMPROVEMENT BONDS,
SERIES 2023B, IN THE PROPOSED AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF $2,895,000
BE IT RESOLVED By the City Council of the City of Columbia Heights, Minnesota (the "City")
as follows:
Section 1. Authorization.
(a) The City is authorized by Minnesota Statutes, Chapters 429 and 475, as amended
(the "Act"), to issue obligations in an amount deemed necessary to defray in whole or in part the
expense incurred and estimated. to be incurred in making improvements authorized by the Act.
(b) Certain assessable public improvements in the City (the "Improvements") have
been made, duly ordered, or contracts let pursuant to the provisions of the Act.
(c) The City proposes to issue its General Obligation Improvement Bonds,
Series 2023B (the "Bonds"), in the proposed aggregate principal amount of $2,895,000, pursuant
to the Act, to provide financing for the Improvements.
(d) The City is authorized by Section 475.60, subdivision 2(9) of the Act to negotiate
the sale of the Bonds, it being determined that the City has retained an independent municipal
advisor in connection with such sale. The actions of the City staff and municipal advisor in
negotiating the sale of the Bonds are ratified and confirmed. in all aspects.
Section 2. Sale of the Bond. The City Council finds it necessary and expedient to the sound
financial management of the affairs of the City to issue the Bonds in the proposed aggregate principal
amount of $2,895,000, pursuant to the Act, to provide financing for the Improvements. The Bonds will
be issued, sold, and delivered in accordance with the Terms of Proposal to be prepared in connection with
the offering and the sale of the Bonds.
Section 3. Authority of Municipal Advisor. Ehlers and Associates, Inc. (the "Municipal
Advisor") is authorized and directed to negotiate the Bonds. The City Council will meet on Monday,
November 27, 2023 (or such other date as the City Council shall deem appropriate) to consider proposals
for the purchase of the Bonds and to take any other appropriate action with respect to the Bonds.
Section 4. Authority of Bond Counsel. The law firm of Kennedy & Graven, Chartered, as
bond counsel for the City ("Bond Counsel"), is authorized to act as bond counsel and to assist in the
preparation and review of necessary documents, certificates, and instruments relating to the Bond. The
officers, employees, and agents of the City are hereby authorized to assist Bond Counsel in the
preparation of such documents, certificates, and instruments.
Section 5. Covenants. In the resolution awarding the sale of the Bonds, the City Council
will set forth the covenants and undertakings required by the Act.
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Section 6. Official Statement. In connection with the sale of the Bonds, the officers or
employees of the City are authorized and directed to cooperate with the Municipal Advisor and
participate in the preparation of an official statement for the Bonds and to deliver it on behalf of the City
upon its completion.
Section 7. Declaration of Official Intent to Reimburse Certain Costs from Proceeds of the
Bonds. The City hereby makes this declaration of official intent (the "Declaration") to reimburse the
expenditures made for certain costs of the Improvements, from the proceeds of the Bonds in accordance
with Treasury Regulations, Section 1.150-2 (the "Reimbursement Regulations"). All reimbursed
expenditures will be capital expenditures, costs of issuance of the bonds, or other expenditures eligible for
reimbursement under Section 1.150-2(d)(3) of the Reimbursement Regulations. This Declaration has
been made not later than sixty (60) days after payment of any original expenditure to be subject to a
reimbursement allocation with respect to the proceeds of tax-exempt bonds, except for the following
expenditures: (a) costs of issuance of bonds; (b) costs in an amount not in excess of the lesser of
$100,000 or five percent (5%) of the proceeds of an issue; or (c) "preliminary expenditures" up to an
amount not in excess of twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate issue price of the issue or issues that
finance or are reasonably expected by the City to finance the project for which the preliminary
expenditures were incurred. The term "preliminary expenditures" includes architectural, engineering,
surveying, soil testing, bond issuance, and similar costs that are incurred prior to commencement of
acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of a project, other than land acquisition, site preparation, and
similar costs incident to commencement of construction.
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Approved this 23 d day of October, 2023, by the City Council of the City of Columbia Heights,
Minnesota.
Offered by:° --
Seconded by: Avl 1i
Roll Call: L-S-2 a- '
I` .�. IMayor
ATTEST:
Sara on, City Clerk/Council Secretary
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