71-74 BAN - property owners portion - improve certain streets

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Section 5. That such note shall be executed by the Mayor and Director of Finance and bear the seal of the corporation. It shall be pay- able at the office of the Director of Finance, City Hall, Lakewood, Ohio, and shall express upon its face the purpose for which it is issued and that it is issued pursuant to this ordinance. Section 6. Ail assessments collected for the improvement afore- said, and any unexpended balance remaining in the improvement fund after the costs and expenses of said improvements have been paid, shall be applied to .the payment of said note and the interest thereon until both are fUlly provided for. Section 7. Subject to the rejection of said note by the Director of Finance for investment in the Bond Retirement Fund, said note shall be and hereby is sold to National City Bank, Cleveland, Ohio, at the interest rate specified in this ordinance and in accordance with its offer to purchase; and the Director of Finance is hereby authorized and directed to deliver said note, when executed to said pUrchaser upon payment of such purchase price. The proceeds of such sale shall be paid into the proper fund and used for the purpose for which said note is being issued under the provision of this ordinance. Section 8. Said note shall be the full general obligation of the City of Lakewood and the full faith, credit and revenue of ~said City are hereby pledged for the prompt payment of the same. The par value to be re- ceived from the sale of the bonds anticipated by said note and any excess funds resulting from the issuance of said note shall to the extent necessary be used only for the retirement of said note at maturity, together with interest thereon, and is hereby pledged for such purposes. The City hereby covenants that it will restrict the use of the proceeds of the note in such manner and to such extent, if any, as may be necessary, after taking into account reasonable expectations at the time of note issuance, so .that it will not constitute arbitrage bonds under Section 103(d) of the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations prescribed under that section. The Director of Finance or any other officer, includ- ing the Clerk of Council, having responsibility with respect to the issu- ance of this note is authorized and directed~ alone or in conjunction with any of the foregoing or with any other officer, employee or consultant of the City, to give an appropriate certificate On behalf of the City, for inclusion in the transcript of proceedings, setting forth the facts, esti- mates and circumstances and reasonable expectations pertaining to said Section 103(d) and regulations thereunder. The Clerk of Council shall furnish to the purchaser of the note a true transcript of proceedings, certified by her, of all proceedings had with reference to the issuance of the note along with other information as is necessary or proper with respect to said note. Section 9. In the event that such assessments are not levied or bonds are not issued to provide a fund for the payment of said note at maturity, a general tax shall be levied against all of the property in said City for the payment of such note and the interest thereon; provided how- ever, that during the year or years while such note runs there shall be levied on all the taxable property in said City, in addition to all other taxes, a direct tax annually not less than that which would have been levied for the City's portion of said note, if bonds had been issued therefor with- out the prior issue of said note. Said tax shall be and is hereby ordered computed, certified, levied and extended upon the tax duplicate and collected by the same officers, in the same manner and at the same time that taxes for general purposes for each of