HomeMy WebLinkAbout2017-48 - Regarding Its Intention to Recover Costs Associated with the Issuance of Tax Exempt Obligations for Assessment DistrictsRESOLUTION NO. 2017-48
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, REGARDING ITS
INTENTION TO RECOVER COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH
THE ISSUANCE OF TAX EXEMPT OBLIGATIONS FOR
ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach ( 'Issuer") desires to
finance the costs of acquiring certain public facilities and improvements within certain
Assessment Districts located in the City, as provided in Exhibit A attached hereto and
incorporated herein ('Project');
WHEREAS, the Issuer intends to finance the acquisition of the Project or portions
of the Project with the proceeds from the sale of obligations the interest upon which is
excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes ("Obligations"); and
WHEREAS, prior to the issuance of the Obligations, the Issuer may incur certain
expenditures with respect to the Project from available monies of the Issuer, which
expenditures are desired to be reimbursed to the Issuer from a portion of the proceeds of
the sale of the Obligations.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows:
Section 1: The Issuer does hereby state its intention and reasonably expects to
reimburse Project costs incurred prior to the issuance of the Obligations with proceeds
from the sale of the Obligations. Exhibit A describes either the general character, type,
purpose, and function of the Project, or the fund or account from which Project costs are
to be paid and the general functional purpose of the fund or account.
Section 2: The reasonably expected maximum principal amount of the
Obligations is Twelve Million Dollars and 00/100 ($12,000,000.00).
Section 3: This resolution is adopted on or prior to the date ( "Expenditures Date
or Dates") that the Issuer will expend monies for the portion of the Project costs to be
reimbursed from proceeds of the Obligations.
Section 4: Except as described below, the expected date of issue of the
Obligations will be within eighteen (18) months of the later of the Expenditure Date or
Dates and the date the Project is placed in service; provided, the reimbursement may not
be made more than three (3) years after the original expenditure is paid. For Obligations
subject to the small issuer exception of Section 148(f)(4)(D) of the Internal Revenue
Code, the "eighteen -month limit' of the previous sentence is changed to "three years" and
the limitation of the previous sentence beginning with "; provided, ...." is not applicable.
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Section 5: Proceeds of the Obligations to be used to reimburse for Project costs
are not expected to be used, within one (1) year of reimbursement, directly or indirectly,
to: pay debt service with respect to any obligation (other than to pay current debt service
coming due within the next succeeding one (1) year period on any tax exempt obligation
of the Issuer (other than the Obligations): or to be held as a reasonably required reserve
or replacement fund with respect to an obligation of the Issuer or any entity related in any
manner to the Issuer: or to reimburse any expenditure that was originally paid with the
proceeds of any obligation: or to replace funds that are or will be used in such manner.
Section 6: This resolution is consistent with the budgetary and financial
circumstances of the Issuer, as of the date hereof. No monies from sources other than
the Obligations are, or are reasonably expected to be reserved, allocated on a long term
basis, or otherwise set aside by the Issuer (or any related party) pursuant to their budget
or financial policies with respect to the Project costs. To the best of our knowledge, this
City Council is not aware of the previous adoption of official intents by the Issuer that have
been made as a matter of course for the purpose of reimbursing expenditures and for
which tax exempt obligations have not been issued.
Section 7: The limitations described in Section 2 and Section 3 do not apply to:
(a) costs of issuance of the Obligations, (b) an amount not in excess of the lesser of
$100,000 or five percent (5%) of the proceeds of the Obligations, or (c) any preliminary
expenditures, such as architectural, engineering, surveying, soil testing, and similar costs
other than land acquisition, site preparation, and similar costs incident to commencement
of construction, not in excess of twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate issue price of the
Obligations that finances the Project for which the preliminary expenditures were incurred.
Section 8: This resolution is adopted as official action of the Issuer in order to
comply with Treasury Regulation Section 1.150-2 and any other regulations of the Internal
Revenue Service relating to the qualification for reimbursement of Issuer expenditures
incurred prior to the date of issue of the Obligations, is part of the Issuer's official
proceedings, and will be available for inspection by the general public at the main
administrative office of the Issuer.
Section 9: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are
incorporated into the operative part of this resolution.
Section 10: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
resolution is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not
affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution, and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
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Section 11: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject to
the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the
activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378)
of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, because it
has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly.
Section 12: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the
City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting the resolution.
ADOPTED this 25th day of July, 2017.
Kevin Mul oon
Mayor
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Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTO EY'S OFFICE
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Aaron C. Harp
City Attorney
Exhibit A — Description of Project
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DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
Within each of (i) Assessment District No. 111, (ii) Assessment District No. 116,
(iii) Assessment District No. 116b and (iv) Assessment District No. 117, the acquisition of
certain public facilities and improvements, including:
• Utility engineering and construction including the undergrounding of electric,
telephone and cable facilities, and the removal of poles, overhead wires,
guys, anchors and appurtenant work therewith, such improvements to be
designed by utility providers Southern California Edison, AT&T and Time
Warner; and
• Incidental expenses with respect thereto, including, but not limited to,
assessment engineering, contract inspection, city administration and
miscellaneous costs.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, Leilani I. Brown, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution
No. 2017-48 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting
of said Council held on the 2511 day of July, 2017, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Council Member Jeff Herdman, Council Member Brad Avery, Council Member Diane
Dixon, Council Member Scott Peotter, Council Member Will O'Neill, Mayor Pro Tem
Duffy Duffield
NAYS: None
RECUSED: Mayor Kevin Muldoon
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of
said City this 261h day of July, 2017.
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Leilanr I. Brown
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California