18-97 Site Improvement Bond $121,000

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Section 8. The Notes shall be the full general obligations of the City of Lakewood and the full faith and credit of said City are hereby pledged for the prompt payment of the same. The par value to be received from the sale of the bonds anticipated by the Notes and any excess funds resulting from the issuance of the Notes shall, to the extent necessary, be used only for the retirement of the Notes at maturity, together with the interest thereon, and is hereby pledged for such propose. Section 9. During the year or years while the Notes run, there shall be levied on all the taxable property in the City of Lakewood, in addition to all other taxes, a direct tax annually not less than that which would have been levied if bonds had been issued without the prior issue of the Notes. 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 al the same time that taxes for general purposes of each of said years are ce~ified, emended and collected. Said tax shall be placed before and in preference to all items and for the full amount thereof. The funds derived fi'om said tax levies hereby required shall be placed in a separate and distinct fund which, together with the interest collected on the same shall be irrevocably pledged for the payment of tim principal of and interest on the Notes or the bonds in anticipation ofwhic, h they are issued, when and as the same falls due; provided, however, that in each year to the extent that revenues are available from other sources for the payment of the Notes and bonds and are appropriated for such purpose, the amount of such direct tax upon all of the taxable property in the City shall be reduced by the amount o/'such revenues so available and appropriated. Section I0. It is hereby determined and recited that all acts, conditions and things necessary, to be done precedent to and in the issuing of the Notes in order to make them legal, valid and binding obligations of the City of Lakewood, will have been done and performed in regular and due form as required by la~ and that no limitation of indebtedness or taxation, either statutory or constitutional, will have been exceeded in the issuance of said Notes. ~ectiun 11. The Clerk of Councit is hereby directed to for~vard a cerdfied copy of this ordinance to the County Auditor. ' Section 1:2. The Mayor and Fiscal Officer, or either of them, are authorized to prepare, execute and deliver to the original purchaser of the Notes a preliminary and final Official Statement or any other appropriate disclosure document in ¢ounecfion with the sale and delivery, of the Notes. Section 13. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were passed in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and any of its committees that resulted in such formal action, were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with all legal --requirements including the CitT~_Charter and Codified Ordinances. ~ecfiot~..14. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for lie immediat~ preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare in the City for the ~asons seI forth and defined in the preamble to this ordinance, and provided it receives the affirmalive vote of two-thirds of all members elected to Council, this ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its passage by the Council and approval by the Mayor, otherwise, it shall take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law. President of Council Approved: /,:~(]3'1~,() 3 ~'-, 1997 II I IXlX 1 t2.'12x142,":lrAI ,'llll 3