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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-185-04.04.2022 ECP-1 Fix Date Proceedings 2022B GO BONDSITEMS TO INCLUDE ON AGENDA CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA Not to Exceed $11,600,000 General Obligation Bonds (ECP-1) • Resolution fixing date for a meeting on the proposition to issue. NOTICE MUST BE GIVEN PURSUANT TO IOWA CODE CHAPTER 21 AND THE LOCAL RULES OF THE CITY. April 4, 2022 The City Council of the City of Waterloo, State of Iowa, met in regular session, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 715 Mulberry Street, Waterloo, Iowa, at 5:30 P.M., on the above date. There were present Mayor Quentin Hart, in the chair, and the following named Council Members: Boesen, Nichols, Amos, Chiles, Grieder, Wilder and Feuss Absent: None Vacant: None Council Member Feuss introduced the following Resolution entitled "RESOLUTION FIXING DATE FOR A MEETING ON THE PROPOSITION OF THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED $11,600,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, STATE OF IOWA (FOR ESSENTIAL CORPORATE PURPOSES), AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION OF NOTICE THEREOF", and moved that the same be adopted. Council Member Grieder seconded the motion to adopt. The roll was called and the vote was, AYES: Boesen, Nichols, Amos, Chiles, Grieder, Wilder and Feuss NAYS: None Whereupon, the Mayor declared the resolution duly adopted as follows: RESOLUTION NO. 2022-185 RESOLUTION FIXING DATE FOR A MEETING ON THE PROPOSITION OF THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED $11,600,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, STATE OF IOWA (FOR ESSENTIAL CORPORATE PURPOSES), AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION OF NOTICE THEREOF WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary and advisable that the City of Waterloo, State of Iowa, should issue General Obligation Bonds, to the amount of not to exceed $11,600,000, as authorized by Section 384.25, of the Code of Iowa, for the purpose of providing funds to pay costs of carrying out essential corporate purpose project(s) as hereinafter described; and WHEREAS, before the Bonds may be issued, it is necessary to comply with the provisions of the 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 the City to such action. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF CITY OF WATERLOO, STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. That this Council meet in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 715 Mulberry Street, Waterloo, Iowa, at 5:30 P.M., on the 18th day of April, 2022, for the purpose of taking action on the matter of the issuance of not to exceed $11,600,000 General Obligation Bonds, for essential corporate purposes, the proceeds of which bonds will be used to provide funds to pay the costs of the acquisition, improvement and installation of traffic control devices, signage, fixtures, equipment and improvements, including but not limited to traffic signal, pavement markings, traffic safety, fiber optics installation, and street light fixtures, connections, and facility improvements; the acquisition of vehicles and equipment for the Police and Fire Departments; the acquisition of vehicles and equipment for the street, public works and sign and 2 traffic departments; the acquisition of ambulances and ambulance equipment; the rehabilitation and improvement of City parks and the acquisition, repair and replacement of facilities, equipment and improvements commonly found in City parks; the removal, replacement and planting of trees in parks and public grounds; the construction, reconstruction and repairing of street, sidewalk, skywalk, trail, alley, public ground, marketplace, bridges, pedestrian underpasses and overpasses, and intersection improvements; the acquisition, construction and improvement of real and personal property useful for the protection of property from floods or high waters, including flood control, levees, embankments, waterway, storm water and drainage improvements; the removal or replacement of dead or diseased trees; the acquisition and demolition of dangerous or dilapidated buildings, structures or properties, or funding housing assistance; acquiring, developing and improving of a geographic computer data base system suitable for automated mapping and facilities management; and refunding or refinancing outstanding indebtedness of the City, including General Obligation Bonds, Series 2014A, and General Obligation Bonds, Taxable Series 2014B. Section 2. To the extent any of the projects or activities described in this resolution may be reasonably construed to be included in more than one classification under Subchapter III of Chapter 384 of the Code of Iowa, the Council hereby elects the "essential corporate purpose" classification and procedure with respect to each such project or activity, pursuant to Section 384.28 of the Code of Iowa. Section 3. That the Clerk is hereby directed to cause at least one publication to be made of a notice of the meeting, in a legal newspaper, printed wholly in the English language, published at least once weekly, and having general circulation in the City. The publication to be not less than four clear days nor more than twenty days before the date of the public meeting on the issuance of the Bonds. Section 4. The notice of the proposed action to issue bonds shall be in substantially the following form: 3 NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, STATE OF IOWA, ON THE MATTER OF THE PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED $11,600,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE CITY (FOR ESSENTIAL CORPORATE PURPOSES), AND THE HEARING ON THE ISSUANCE THEREOF PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Waterloo, State of Iowa, will hold a public hearing on the 18th day of April, 2022, at 5:30 P.M., in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 715 Mulberry Street, Waterloo, Iowa, at which meeting the Council proposes to take additional action for the issuance of not to exceed $11,600,000 General Obligation Bonds, for essential corporate purposes, to provide funds to pay the costs of the acquisition, improvement and installation of traffic control devices, signage, fixtures, equipment and improvements, including but not limited to traffic signal, pavement markings, traffic safety, fiber optics installation, and street light fixtures, connections, and facility improvements; the acquisition of vehicles and equipment for the Police and Fire Departments; the acquisition of vehicles and equipment for the street, public works and sign and traffic departments; the acquisition of ambulances and ambulance equipment; the rehabilitation and improvement of City parks and the acquisition, repair and replacement of facilities, equipment and improvements commonly found in City parks; the removal, replacement and planting of trees in parks and public grounds; the construction, reconstruction and repairing of street, sidewalk, skywalk, trail, alley, public ground, marketplace, bridges, pedestrian underpasses and overpasses, and intersection improvements; the acquisition, construction and improvement of real and personal property useful for the protection of property from floods or high waters, including flood control, levees, embankments, waterway, storm water and drainage improvements; the removal or replacement of dead or diseased trees; the acquisition and demolition of dangerous or dilapidated buildings, structures or properties, or funding housing assistance; acquiring, developing and improving of a geographic computer data base system suitable for automated mapping and facilities management; and refunding or refinancing outstanding indebtedness of the City, including General Obligation Bonds, Series 2014A, and General Obligation Bonds, Taxable Series 2014B. At the above meeting the Council shall receive oral or written objections from any resident or property owner of the City to the above action. After all objections have been received and considered, the Council will at the meeting or at any adjournment thereof, take additional action for the issuance of the Bonds or will abandon the proposal to issue said Bonds. This notice is given by order of the City Council of the City of Waterloo, State of Iowa, as provided by Section 384.25 of the Code of Iowa. -4 Dated this 4th day of April, 2022. Kelley Felchle, City Clerk, City of Waterloo, State of Iowa (End of Notice) -5 PASSED AND APPROVED this 4th day of April, 2022. ATTEST: Kelley Felchle, City Clerk Quentin Hart, Mayor 6 CERTIFICATE STATE OF IOWA ) SS COUNTY OF BLACK HAWK I, the undersigned City Clerk of the City of Waterloo, State of Iowa, do hereby certify that attached is a true and complete copy of the portion of the records of the City showing proceedings of the Council, and the same is a true and complete copy of the action taken by the Council with respect to the 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 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 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 the 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 the Council hereto affixed this 4th day of April, 2022. Kelley Felchle, City Clerk, City of Waterloo, State of Iowa SEAL 1111 STATE OF IOWA COUNTY OF BLACK HAWK CERTIFICATE ) ) SS ) 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 the City, I have caused a NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING (Not to Exceed $11,600,000 General Obligation Bonds) (ECP-1) 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 the Notice was published in all of the issues thereof published and circulated on the following date: March 30, 2022. WITNESS my official signature this 4th day of April, 2022. Kelley Felchle, City Clerk, City of Waterloo, State of Iowa