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06-30-50SpMtg JUNE 30, th, 1950 Upofi call of the Mayor a Special?meeting of the City Council of the City of Delray Beach was held in the City Manager's office at 1:30 p. m. with Mayor John N. Kabler in the Chair, and City Manager Charles E. Black, City Attorney John Moore, and thefollowing Councilmen present: R. J. Holland, and Walter Roth, a quorum being present. The following Resolution, providing for the issuance of $ 42,000.00 Golf Course Revenue Certificates, was presented by the City Attorney, who explained that the Resolution had been approved by Chapman and Cutler of Chicago, Bond Attorneys, He also stated that under the City Charter the Certificates must be retired within ten years from the date the Charter became a law, therefor redemption would start in 1951 and end in 1959, and would be callable after 1953 in inverse numerical order, on any interest paying date, at par and accrued interest. RESOLUTION NO. V61 A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF 4 42,000.00 SPECIAL TAX REVENUE CERTIFICATES OF THE CITY OF DELRA¥ BEACH, FLORIDA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE MUNICIPALLY OWNED GOLF COURSE AND GOLF COURSE FACILITIES OD SAID CITY, PROVIDING FOR THE SALE, SECURITY AND PAYMENT THEREF0, AND MAKING CERTAIN COVENANTS AND AGREEMENTS IN THAT CONNECTION. WHEREAS, the City of Delray Beach now owns and operates a Goli~ Course an~ golf coures facilities, which golf course and facilities have become inadequate for the needs of the City and it~nhabitants and it is, therefore, necessar~j to make improvements thereto at an estimated cost of $ 42,000: and WHEREAS, the City does not have funds available for the payment of the cost of such improvements and desires to finance such cost through the issuance of the certificates for which provision is hereinafter made; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance Number §38 and ad~Pted by the City Council on July 9, 1945, as amended by Ordinance No. §6V, adopted on January 28, 1946, the City has been since August 15, 1945, imposing and collecting a tax on ever~ purchase of electricity, bottled gas, (natural or manufactured), and local telephone service in the City: and WHEREAS, in order to secure the payment of the certificates h~i-n'~ter authorized, the City desires to pledge thereto the proceeds of the above described tax on utilities services; and WHEREAS, thebaforesaid revenues to be derived from said tax will be amply sufficient to pay principal of and interest on such certificates, there being outstand lng no obligations payable from such revenues for the past three fiscal years having been as follows: Utilities Tax Proceeds Fiscal year ending September 30 Amount 194V $ 20,363.81 1948 25,284.22 1949 29,833.33 and WHEREAS,under the decisions of the Supreme Court' of Florida and the general powers ira- posed in the City under the provisions of its Charter and the general laws of Florida, the Cityts authorized to issue special tax rev- enue certificates in the manner and payable from a special fund for which provision is hereinafter more specifically made: N0Wt THEREFORE~ BE IT RESOLVED by the City "gob~cil of 'the "City o£ DelraY Beach, Florida, as follows: SECTION 1 That the City of Delray Beachg~ hereinaftersome times referred to as the "City) improve its Golf Course and Golf Course Facilities. SECTION 2 That for the purpose of paying the cost of such improvements, including all expenses properly incident theretoand to the issuance Of the certificates, there are hereby authorized to be issued the Special Tax Revenue Certificates of the City in the aggregate principal amount of $ 42,000 Said certificates shqll be dated August l, 1980, shall be in the denomination of $ 1,O00 each, shall be numbered 1 to 42, inclusive, and shall bear interest at the rate of 3% per annum from the date until paid, ~ayable semi- annually on the first days of August and February of each year. The certificates shall be payable as to both principal and interest in lawful money of the United States of America at the office~_~df the City Clerk in the City Hall in the City of Delray Beach, Florida , and shall mature 6/30/50 serially in numerical order on August 1 of each year as follows: Certificate Numbers Amount Year I to 4 $ 4000 1951 5 to 8 4000 1952 9 to 12 4000 1953 13 to 16 4000 1954 17 to 20 4000 1955 21 to 24 4000 1956 25 to 30 6000 1957 31 to 36 6000 1958 37 to 42 6000 1959 Certificates numbered 13 to 42, inclusive, shall be callable for redemption prior to maturity at the option of the City on August l, 1953, and on any inter- est payment date thereafterin inverse numerical order, at the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. Notice of such call for redemption is to be given by publication of an appro- priate notice one time in a newspaper or financial Journal of general circulation published in the City of Miami, Florida, not less than thirty days prior to the date fixed for redemption. SECTION 3: That the certificates shall be signed by the Mayor 0'r the City, countersigned by the City Clerk, s~ll be endorsed by the City Attorney, and shall have L~?ressed thereon the corporate seal of the City. Interest falling due on the certificates on and prior to 'maturity thereof shall be represented by appropriate interest coupons to be a attached to the certificates, which coupons shall be executed with th facsimile signatures of the Mayor and the City Clerk. SECTION 4: That the certificates and the coupons to be thereto attached and the endorsement to appear on the back there- ofshall be in substantially the following form: ( Form of Certificate) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF PALM BEACH CITY OF DELP~¥ BEACH SPECIAL TAX REVENUE CERTIFICATE Number 4 1,000 The City of Delray Beach, in Palm Beach County, Florida, for value received hereby promises to pay to bearer solely from the special fund provided therefor as hereinafter set forth the sum of One Tnousand($1,000) Dollars on the first day of August 19 .... , and to pay from said special f~md interest the'~eon at the rate of three percent (3%) per annum from date hereof un- til paid, payablesemi-annually on the first days of February and August of each year, with interest due on and prior to maturity hereof payable only upon presentation and surrender of the annexed interest coupons as they severally become due. Both principal hereof and interest hereon are payable in lawful money of the United States of America at the office of the City Clerk in the City Hall in the City of Delray Beach, Florida. This certificate is one of an issue numbered i to 42, inclusive, issued pursuant to the Constitution and Laws of Florida and a resolution adopted by the City CoUncil of said City on June 30th, 1950, for the pur- pose of paying the cost of improving the municipally owned golf course and golf Course facilities of said City. This certificate and the issue of whichit is a part are payable solely from and secured by the First pledge of the revenues to be received from the proceeds of the tax imposed by the City on the purchase of electricity, bottled gas, (natural or manufactdm-~) and local telephone ee~ce pursuant to Ordinance number 535 adopted b$ July 9th, 1945 as amended. This certificate, including interest thereon, is payable solely from the aforesaid revenues and does not constitute an indebtedness of the City o~ Delray Beach within the meaning of any constitutional, statutory or charter provision or limitation~ and it is expressly agreed by the holder of this certificate that such holder shall never have the right to require or compel the exercise of the ad valorum taxing power of said City or the taxation or assessment of real estate in said City for the payment of the principal of or inter- est on this certificate, or the making of any sinking fund, reserve or other payment required in the aforesaid resolution. It is further agreed between said City and the holder of this certificate that this certificate and the obligation evidenced thereby shall not constitute a lien upon any property of or in the City, but shall constitute a lien only on the revenues in the above par- agraph described, For a more complete statement of the sources of payment of such certificates, and a statement of the rights, duties and obligations of the Ci~.t~, and the rights of the holders of the certificates, reference is made to the aforesaid resolution, to all the provisions of which ~ resolution the holder hereof by the acceptance of this certificate assents. Certificates numbered 13 to 42, inclusive of the issue of which th~s~is one are callable for redemption prior to ~turity at the option of the City on August l, 1983, and on any interest payment date thereafter, in inverse numerical order, at the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. Notice of such call for redemtion is to be given by publication of an appropriate notice one time in a newspaper or financial Journal of general circulation published in the City of Miami, Florida, not less than thirty days prior to the date fixed for redemption. Each successive holder of this certificate and of the coupons attached is conclusively presumed to forego and renounce his equities in favor of subsequent holders for value without notice and to agree that this certificate and each of the coupons hereto attached may be negotiated by deliver~ by any person having possession thereof, howsoever such possession may ha~s been acquired, and that any holder who shall have taken this certificate or any of the coupons from any person for valu~ and without notice thereby has acquired absO- lute title thereto, free from any defenses enforceable against any prior holder and free from all equities and claims of owners ~i ship of any such prior holder. The City of Delray Beach shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary. It is hereby certified and recited that all acts, conditions and things required by the Constitution and Laws of Florida and byi~the Charter of the City to happen, exist and be performed precedent to and in the issuance of this certificate have happened, exist and have been performed as so required. IN WITNESS W~..EREOF, tbe City of Delray Beach has caused thi's certificate to be executed by its Mayor and countersigned by its City Clerk, with the corporate seal of said City hereunto affixed, and has caused the interest coupons hereto attached to be executed by said officials by their facsimile signatures, alt as of the first day of August, 1950. Ma~or Countersigned: Approved: City Clerk city Etto~ey (Fo~n of coupon) Number $ On the first day of ,19 , unless the hereinafter mentioned certificate is then redeemable and has been called for redemption and provision for the redemption thereof dulymade, the City of Delray Beach, Palm Beach,County, Florida, will pay to bearer, solely from the special fund re- ferred to in such certificate, the sum of $ in lawful money of the Unlte~ S~ves of America at the office of the City Clerk in the City Hall of the City of Delray Beach Florida, being interest then due on its special Tax Revenue Certificate dated August l, 1950 and numbered . Countersigned; City Clerk' ( Form of Validation Certificate) Validated and confirmed by decree of the Circuit Court of the fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida, rendered on the day of , 1950. Clerk 'of' 'th'e C'¥rch'lt cburt Palm Beach County, Florida. SECTION §. ~hat there is hereby created for the pur- pose o'f paying principal and interest herein authorized and establishing and maintaining a reserve for such pur- posesa fund to be known as the"Special Tax Revenue Cer- tificates Sinking Fund", which is hereinafter in this Resolution sometimes referred to,as the "Certificate fund". Such fund shall be kept on deposit at the First National Bank in ~.he City of Delray Beach, Florida, or in such other bank of equal standing and rating as may be hereafter specified by the City Council. The money held in said fund shall be held by saiddepository as a special and not a general deposit and as a special trust fund the beneficial interest in which shall be in the holders from time to time of the obligations payable therefrom. All money is such fund shall be continuously secured bybhe deposit of collateral security having a market value at all times of not less than the amount on deposit in such fund and shall be otherwise secured to the fullest extent required by e/ o/so the laws of Florida for the securing of public deposits. All of the money received by the City from the excise tax levied and imposed by the City under the pro- visions of Ordinance No. 535, as adopted by the City Council on July 9, 1945, as amended on January 28th,1946, as amended at any time prior to the issuance of the certificates hereunder, upon every purchase of electricity, bottled gas, (natural or manufactured), and local telephone service ( herein called the Utilities service tax), while any of the certificates herein authorized remain outstanding and uspaid, shall be placed by the City in the certificate fund as such money is received, and all money so received is here- by irrevocably pledged to the payment of principal and interest on the certificates. It shall be the duty of the depository of the certificate, fund to teansmit to the City Clerk not later than July 15 of each year an amount taken from the cer- tificate fund which will be suffucient to pay principal and interest on the certifi6ates due on the succeeding August i and interest on the certificates falling due on the succeding February~ 1. There shall be reserved in the certificate fund at all times the sum of $ 4000. as a reserve . Money in the reserve shall be used whenever the remaining money in the certificate fund is notJ~'suuufcient to pay the principal and interest falling due andthere would be a default in the payment of such principal and interest if the money were not so used. Any payment made from the reserve to prevent such a default shall be promptly restored thereto so that as nearly as possible there may at all times be preserved as a reserve against principal and interest defaults the sum of $ 4,000 On June 13, 1953, and on the fifteenth day of June of each year hereaf.~er, all money in the certificate fund in excess of such reserve and in excess of the amount required to pay principal and interest falling due in the next sucSeding calendar year shall be applied to the nearest $1,000 to the retirement of such of these certificates as are subject to redemption. Such retirement may be made from such surplus through the purchase of certificates on the open market at the best price or prices obtainable not in excess of the principal amount thereof and accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption, The depositary shall transmit to the City Clerk on January 15, an~ July 15, 1953, and on the fifteenth day of January and July of each year thereafter until the certificates have been redeemed, in addition to funds for the payment of principal and interest as above provided, funds for the payment of principal of the cer- tificates which are to be so redeemed. SECTION 6: That the City of Delray Beach hereby covenants and agrees with eachbsuccessive holder of the certificates issued hereunder: (a) That it will not repeal or decrease the utilities service tax while any of the certificates herein authorized remainoutstanding and that it will continue the imposition and collection of the proceeds of such tax until all the certificates have been retired, and will pay into the certificate fund such part of the proceeds thereof as may be required hereunder. The City expresslycovenants and represents that it has a legal and valid power to impose and collect such tax and that there is by the adoption of this reso- lution and delivery of the certificates to the purchasers thereof and the payment for such certificates by such purchasers, vested in such purchasere and in the subsequent holders of such certificates a contract right to the im- position, collection and proper application of the utilities service tax which will continueunimpaired until all of the certificates have been paid i~ full, which contract right between the City and such holders is not subject to repeal, im- paiEnent or modification b~ the City or by the legislature of the State of Florida. (b) That whie any of the Sprcial Tax Revenue Certificatesissued hereunder shall be outstanding, the City will not issue any additional obligations payable from the revenues pledged to the payment of the Certificates herein authorized. (c) That all records of the City with re,peet to the amounts received by the City in each year from the utilities service tax and the disposition madeof~a~l such revenues shall be available for inspection at all reasonable times by the holders of any of the certificates issued hereunder, and that the City will with in sixty days following the close of each fiscal year supply to any holder of the certificates who may have so requeste~ a written statement covering receipt and disposition of such revenues during the fiscal year. SECTION V: That the certificates herein authorized may be sold at public or private sale for such price or prices as the City Council shall determine, provided the interest cost to maturity of the money received for said certificates shall not exceed five per cent per annum. SECTION 8: That the City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to take appropriate proceedings in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, in and for Palm Beach County, for the validation of said certlficate~ and the Mayor and City Clerk are authorized to sign any pleadings on such proceedings for and in behalf of the City Council of the City of Delray Beach. SECTION 9: That, if any section, paragraph, clause or provisiOn of th~s resolution shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the validity or unenforceability of such sectio, paragraph, clause or provision shall not affect nay of the remaining provisions of this reso- lut ion. SECTION 10: That this resolution shall be in full force and effect '~mme~'iately upon its adoption. Adopted and approved JUNE 30th, 1950 (Signed) John N. Ka~ler Mayor ATTEST; Ruth R. Smith Ci'ty Clerk A motion was made by Councilman Roth, seconded by Councilman Holland, that the foregoing Resolution no. 761 be passed and adopted and upon call of roll the motion carried.unanimously. The meeting then adjourned. (signed) Ruth R. Smith City Clerk APPROVED[: Mayor