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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-452-05/14/2012 (This Notice to be posted) NOTICE AND CALL OF PUBLIC MEETING Governmental Body: The City Council of Waterloo, Iowa. Date of Meeting: May 14, 2012 Time of Meeting: 5:30 o'clock P.M. Place of Meeting: Council Chambers, City Hall, Waterloo, Iowa. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the above mentioned governmental body will meet at the date, time and place above set out. The tentative agenda for said meeting is as follows: Not to exceed $8,600,000 General Obligation Bonds (ECP-1) X Resolution fixing date for a meeting on the proposition to issue. Such additional matters as are set forth on the additional 6 page(s) attached hereto. This notice is given at the direction of the Mayor pursuant to Chapter 21, Code of Iowa, and the local rules of said governmental body. Suzy Scha s, City Clerk, Waterloo, Iowa - 1 - May 14, 2012 The City Council of Waterloo, Iowa, met in regular session, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, Waterloo, Iowa, at 5:30 o'clock P.M., on the above date. There were present Mayor Ernest G. Clark, in the chair, and the following named Council Members: Cole, Getty, Jones, Greenwood, Schmitt, Welper, Hart Absent: none - 2 - Council Member Cole introduced the following Resolution entitled "RESOLUTION FIXING DATE FOR A MEETING ON THE PROPOSITION OF THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED $8,600,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS (FOR ESSENTIAL CORPORATE PURPOSES) OF WATERLOO, IOWA, AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION OF NOTICE THEREOF", and moved that the same be adopted. Council Member Welper seconded the motion to adopt. The roll was called and the vote was, AYES: Cole, Getty, Jones, Greenwood, Schmitt, Welper, Hart NAYS: none Whereupon, the Mayor declared the resolution duly adopted as follows: RESOLUTION NO. 2012-452 RESOLUTION FIXING DATE FOR A MEETING ON THE PROPOSITION OF THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED $8,600,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS (FOR ESSENTIAL CORPORATE PURPOSES) OF WATERLOO, IOWA, AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION OF NOTICE THEREOF WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary and advisable that the City of Waterloo, Iowa, should issue General Obligation Bonds to the amount of not to exceed $8,600,000, as authorized by Section 384.25 of the City Code of Iowa, for the purpose of providing funds to pay costs of carrying out essential corporate purpose projects as hereinafter described; and WHEREAS, before said bonds may be issued, it is necessary to comply with the provisions of said Code, and to publish a notice of the proposal to issue such bonds and of the time and place of the meeting at which the Council proposes to take action for the issuance of the bonds and to receive oral and/or written objections from any resident or property owner of said City to such action. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA: - 3 - Section 1. That this Council meet in the Council Chambers, City Hall, Waterloo, Iowa, at 5:30 o'clock P.M., on the 29th day of May, 2012, for the purpose of taking action on the matter of the issuance of not to exceed $8,600,000 General Obligation Bonds for essential corporate purposes of said City, the proceeds of which bonds will be used to provide funds to pay costs of the acquisition, construction and improvement of real and personal property useful for the protection of property from floods or high waters, including flood control, storm water and drainage improvements; the construction, reconstruction and repairing of street, sidewalk and intersection improvements; the acquisition, construction and installation of storm sewer and sanitary sewer improvements, including treatment plant effluent disinfection and other waste management facilities and improvements; the acquisition, construction, improvement and repair of bridges; the acquisition of vehicles and equipment for the Police, Fire Rescue and Street Departments; the rehabilitation and improvement of City parks and the acquisition, repair and replacement of facilities, equipment and improvements commonly found in City parks, including sports facilities, boating center, tennis, dog park and bikeway improvements; the acquisition, improvement and installation of traffic control devices, signage, fixtures, equipment and improvements, including but not limited to traffic signal, traffic safety and street light improvements; the acquisition and demolition of dangerous or dilapidated buildings, structures or properties; and the acquisition, equipping and improving of the automated GIS/GPS mapping system. Section 2. That the Clerk is hereby directed to cause at least one publication to be made of a notice of said meeting, in a legal newspaper, printed wholly in the English language, published at least once weekly, and having general circulation in said City, said publication to be not less than four clear days nor more than twenty days before the date of said public meeting on the issuance of said bonds. Section 3. The notice of the proposed action to issue said bonds shall be in substantially the following form: - 4 - NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA, ON THE MATTER OF THE PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED $8,600,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS (FOR ESSENTIAL CORPORATE PURPOSES) OF SAID CITY, AND THE HEARING ON THE ISSUANCE THEREOF PUBLIC NOTICE is herebyiven that the Council of the City of Waterloo, Iowa, will hold a public hearing on the 29th day of May, 2012, at 5:30 o'clock P.M., in the Council Chambers, City Hall, Waterloo, Iowa, at which meeting the Council proposes to take additional action for the issuance of not to exceed $8,600,000 General Obligation Bonds for essential corporate purposes of said City, in order to provide funds to pay costs of the acquisition, construction and improvement of real and personal property useful for the protection of property from floods or high waters, including flood control, storm water and drainage improvements; the construction, reconstruction and repairing of street, sidewalk and intersection improvements; the acquisition, construction and installation of storm sewer and sanitary sewer improvements, including treatment plant effluent disinfection and other waste management facilities and improvements;the acquisition, construction, improvement and repair of bridges; the acquisition of vehicles and equipment for the Police, Fire Rescue and Street Departments; the rehabilitation and improvement of City parks and the acquisition, repair and replacement of facilities, equipment and improvements commonly found in City parks, including sports facilities, boating center, tennis, dog park and bikeway improvements; the acquisition, improvement and installation of traffic control devices, signage, fixtures, equipment and improvements, including but not limited to traffic signal, traffic safety and street light improvements; the acquisition and demolition of dangerous or dilapidated buildings, structures or properties; and the acquisition, equipping and improving of the automated GIS/GPS mapping system. At the above meeting the Council shall receive oral or written objections from any resident or property owner of said City to the above action. After all objections have been received and considered, the Council will at this meeting or at any adjournment thereof, take additional action for the issuance of said bonds or will abandon the proposal to issue said bonds. This notice is given by order of the Council of Waterloo, Iowa, as provided by Section 384.25 of the City Code of Iowa. Dated this 14th day of May, 2012. c Suzy Schar s, City Clerk, Waterloo, Iowa (End of Notice) - 5 - PASSED AND APPROVED this 14th day of May, 2012. Zeft.c.4.0 Ernest G. Clark, Mayor ATTEST: Suzy Scha s, City Clerk - 6 - CERTIFICATE STATE OF IOWA ) ) SS COUNTY OF BLACK HAWK ) I, the undersigned City Clerk of Waterloo, Iowa, do hereby certify that attached is a true and complete copy of the portion of the corporate records of said Municipality showing proceedings of the Council, and the same is a true and complete copy of the action taken by said Council with respect to said matter at the meeting held on the date indicated in the attachment, which proceedings remain in full force and effect, and have not been amended or rescinded in any way; that meeting and all action thereat was duly and publicly held in accordance with a notice of meeting and tentative agenda, a copy of which was timely served on each member of the Council and posted on a bulletin board or other prominent place easily accessible to the public and clearly designated for that purpose at the principal office of the Council (a copy of the face sheet of said agenda being attached hereto) pursuant to the local rules of the Council and the provisions of Chapter 21, Code of Iowa, upon reasonable advance notice to the public and media at least twenty-four hours prior to the commencement of the meeting as required by said law and with members of the public present in attendance; I further certify that the individuals named therein were on the date thereof duly and lawfully possessed of their respective city offices as indicated therein, that no Council vacancy existed except as may be stated in said proceedings, and that no controversy or litigation is pending, prayed or threatened involving the incorporation, organization, existence or boundaries of the City or the right of the individuals named therein as officers to their respective positions. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Municipality hereto affixed this 14`h day of May, 2012. Suzy Schartis, City Clerk, Waterloo, Iowa SEAL 00867061-1\11310-095 - 7 - CIG-18 STATE OF IOWA ) ) SS COUNTY OF BLACK HAWK ) I, the undersigned, do hereby certify that I am now and was at the times hereinafter mentioned, the duly qualified and acting Clerk of the City of Waterloo, in the County of Black Hawk, State of Iowa, and that as such Clerk and by full authority from the Council of said City, I have caused a NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA, ON THE MATTER OF THE PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED $8,600,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS (FOR ESSENTIAL CORPORATE PURPOSES) OF SAID CITY, AND THE HEARING ON THE ISSUANCE THEREOF of which the clipping annexed to the publisher's affidavit hereto attached is in words and figures a correct and complete copy, to be published as required by law in the Waterloo Courier, a legal newspaper published at least once weekly, printed wholly in the English language, published regularly and mailed through the post office of current entry for more than two years and which has had for more than two years a bona fide paid circulation recognized by the postal laws of the United States, and has a general circulation in the City, and that said Notice was published in said newspaper in all of the issues thereof published and circulated on the following date: May 24, 2012 WITNESS my official signature at Waterloo, Iowa, this 14th day of May, 2012. Suzy Sc es, City Clerk (SEAL) I do solemnly swear that the annexed copy of legal STATE OF IOWA, • City of Waterloo Notice—General Obligation Bonds $8,600,000 Black Hawk County, SS Notice was published in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, a daily newspaper printed in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, once commencing on the 24th day of May, 2012 in the name of said newspaper, and that the annexed rate of advertised is the regular legal rate of said newspaper, and that the following is a NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE COUN- correct bill for publishingsaid notice. CIL OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO,IO- WA, ON THE MATTER OF THE PRO- POSED ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EX- CEED$8,600,000 GENERAL OBLIGA- Printer's Bill $31.19 TION BONDS(FOR ESSENTIAL COR- PORATE PURPOSES)OF SAID CITY, AND THE HEARING ON THE ISSU- ANCE THEREOF PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Council of the City of Waterloo,Iowa, will hold a public hearing on the 29th day • of May,2012,at 5:30 o'clock P.M.,in the Council Chambers,City Waterloo, Iowa, which mee it the Council pro- poses to take additional action for the Signed issuance of not to exceed$8,600,000 General Obligation Bonds for essential corporate purposes of said City,in order to provide funds to pay costs of the ac- • quisition,construction and Improvement of real and personal property useful for Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1 the protection of property from floods or high waters,including flood control, storm water and drainage improve- ments;the construction,reconstruction Dayof A.D. 20 I and repairing of street,sidewalk and in- , • tersection improvements;the acquisi- SUE rt lion,construction and installation of ^r" SUE /ALAMZ storm sewer and sanitary sewer in,- o proveents,including treatment plant COMMISSION NO.761976 m effluent disinfection and other waste a a MYLOVIS O.ti EXPIRES management facilities and improve- ments; ik,(im— provement the acquisition,construction,im- and repair of bridges;the Notary Public acquisition of vehicles and equipment for the Police,Fire Rescue and Street De- partments;the rehabilitation and im- provement of City parks and the acquisi- Received of tion,repair and replacement of facilities, equipment and improvements common- ly found in City parks,including sports facilities,boating center,tennis,dog park and bikeway improvements;the ac- quisition,Improvement and installation of traffic control devices,signage,fix- tures,equipment and improvements, including but not limited to traffic signal, the sum of traffic safety and street light improve- ments;the acquisition and demolition of dangerous or dilapidated buildings, structures or properties;and the acqui- Dollars. sition,equipping and improving of the automated GIS/GPS mapping system. At the above meeting the Council shall receive oral or written objections from In full for publication of the above notice. any resident or property owner of said City to the above action. After all objec- • tions have been received and consid- ered,the Council will at this meeting or at any adjournment thereof,take additional action for the issuance of said bonds or will abandon the proposal to issue said bonds. This notice is given by order of the Coun- cil of Waterloo,Iowa,as provided by Section 384.25 of the City Code of Iowa. Dated this 14th day of May,2012. Suzy Schares City Clerk of Waterloo,Iowa