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c Section 11. The legal services of the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. be and are hereby retained. Those legal services shall be in the nature of legal advice and recommendations as to the documents and the proceedings in connection with the authorization, sale and issuance of the Notes (and any consolidated issue of which they are a part) and rendering at delivery a related legal opinion, all as set forth in the form of engagement letter dated as of February 7, 2007, now on file in the office of the Clerk of Council. In providing those legal services, as an independent contractor and in an attorney-client relationship, that firm shall not exercise any administrative discretion on behalf of this City in the formulation of public policy, expenditure of public funds, enforcement of laws, rules and regulations of the State, any county or municipal corporation or of this City, or the execution of public trusts. Far those legal services that firm shall be paid just and reasonable compensation and shall be reimbursed for actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred in providing those legal services. The Mayor is authorized and directed to sign and deliver the engagement letter, and the Director of Finance is authorized and directed to make appropriate certification as to the availability of funds for those fees and any reimbursement and to issue an appropriate order for their timely payment as written statements are submitted by that firm. Section 12. The Clerk of Council is directed to deliver a certified copy of this ordinance to the County Auditar. Section 13. If in her judgment it is appropriate, the Director of Finance is authorized to request a rating for the Notes from Moody's Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's Ratings Service or Fitch IBCA, or two or all of those rating agencies, as she determines is in the best interest of the City. Section 14. This Council determines that all acts and conditions necessary to be done or performed by the City 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 City of North Olmsted 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 City 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 15. 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, and that all deliberations of this Council and of any committees that resulted in those formal actions were held, in meetings open to the public in compliance with the law. -6- ??:??.