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ORDINANCE NO. 2011-30 PAGE 7 obviating those amounts or payments, as determined by that officer, which action shall be in writing and signed by the officer, (b) to take any and all other actions, make or obtain calculations, make payments, and make or give reports, covenants and certifications of and on behalf of the Village, as may be appropriate to assure the exclusion of interest from gross income and the intended tax status of the Notes, and (c) to give one or more appropriate certificates of the Village, for inclusion in the transcript of proceedings for the Notes, setting forth the reasonable expectations of the Village regarding the amount and use of all the proceeds of the Notes, the facts, circumstances and estimates on which they are based, and other facts and circumstances relevant to the tax treatment of the interest on and the tax status of the Notes. Each covenant made in this section with respect to the Notes is also made with respect to all issues any portion of the debt service on which is paid from proceeds of the Notes (and, if different, the original issue and any refunding issues in a series of refundings), to the extent such compliance is necessary to assure exclusion of interest on the Notes from gross income for federal income tax purposes, and the officers identified above are authorized to take actions with respect to those issues as they are authorized in this section to take with respect to the Notes. Section 11. In connection with the issuance of the Notes, the legal services of ` Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (US) LLP, as bond counsel, are retained pursuant to an engagement ~ letter which has been delivered to the Village by that firm. That engagement letter, and the _ execution thereof by the Mayor, the Director of Finance, the Director of Law, or any one of them, are hereby authorized, ratified and approved. In rendering those legal services, as an independent contractor and in anattorney-client relationship, that firm shall not exercise any admimstrative discretion on behalf of this Village in the formulation of public policy, expenditure of public funds, enforcement of laws, rules and regulations of the State, any county, municipality or other political subdivision, or of this Village, or the execution of public trusts. Section 12. The Clerk of Council is directed to forward a certified copy of this ordinance to the County Auditor. Section 13. This Council determines that all acts and conditions necessary to be done or performed by the Village or to have been met precedent to and in the issuing of the Notes in order to make them legal, valid and binding general obligations of the Village have been performed and have been met, or will at the time of delivery of the Notes have been performed and have been met, in regular and due form as required by law; that the full faith and credit and general property taxing power (as described in Section 9) of the Village are pledged for the timely payment of the debt charges on the Notes; and that no statutory or constitutional limitation of indebtedness or taxation will have been exceeded in the issuance of the Notes. Section 14. This Council finds and determines that all formal actions of this Council and of any of its committees concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were taken in an open meeting of this Council or of any of its committees, and that all deliberations of this Council and of any committees that resulted in those formal actions were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with the law.