HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-157 CCRMember Lin Myszkowski introduced the following resolution and moved its
adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 2016-157
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE, SALE, AND DELIVERY OF ITS
MULTIFAMILY HOUSING REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS (SANCTUARY AT
BROOKLYN CENTER PROJECT) PURSUANT TO MINNESOTA STATUTES,
CHAPTER 462C; APPROVING THE FORM OF AND AUTHORIZING THE
EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THE BONDS AND RELATED DOCUMENTS;
PROVIDING FOR THE SECURITY, RIGHTS, AND REMEDIES WITH RESPECT
TO THE BONDS; AND GRANTING APPROVAL FOR CERTAIN OTHER ACTIONS
WITH RESPECT THERETO
WHEREAS, the City of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota (the "City"), is a political
subdivision of the State of Minnesota; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 462C, as amended (the "Act"), the
City is authorized to carry out the public purposes described in the Act by issuing revenue bonds to
finance or refinance multifamily housing developments located within the City, and as a condition to the
issuance of such revenue bonds, adopt a housing program providing the information required by Section
462C.03, subdivision la, of the Act; and
WHEREAS, in the issuance of the City's revenue bonds and in the making of a loan to
finance or refinance a multifamily housing development the City may exercise, within its corporate limits,
any of the powers that the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency may exercise under Minnesota Statutes,
Chapter 462A, as amended, without limitation under the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 475,
as amended; and
WHEREAS, The Sanctuary at Brooklyn Center, LP, a Minnesota limited partnership
(the "Borrower"), has requested that the City issue its revenue bonds under the Act and lend the proceeds
thereof to the Borrower to finance the following: (i) the acquisition, construction, and equipping of an
approximately 158-unit affordable multifamily senior assisted living rental housing facility to be located
at 6121 Brooklyn Boulevard in the City (the "Project"); (ii) the payment of costs of issuance and other
costs related to the issuance of the bonds; and (iii) the funding of capitalized interest and certain reserves;
and
WHEREAS, the City has prepared a housing program (the "Housing Program" or
"Program") to authorize the issuance by the City of revenue bonds in the maximum principal amount of
$27,000,000 to finance the acquisition, construction, and equipping of the Project; and
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the City issue, sell, and deliver its
Multifamily Housing Revenue Bonds (Sanctuary at Brooklyn Center Project), Series 2016 (the "2016
Bonds"), in an original aggregate principal amount not to exceed $27,000,000; and
WHEREAS, on June 27, 2016, the City Council of the City (the "City Council") adopted
Resolution No. 2016-102 authorizing the issuance of the 2016 Bonds for the Project; and
WHEREAS, on August 1, 2016, the City received an allocation of tax-exempt bonding
authority from the State of Minnesota in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 474A, as amended
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(the "Allocation Act") in the amount of $19,896,488 to finance the Project (the "2016 Bonding
Allocation"); and
WHEREAS, the City has determined to issue its Multifamily Housing Revenue Bonds
(Sanctuary at Brooklyn Center Project), Series 2016A, in the aggregate principal amount of $19,895,000
(the "Series 2016A Bonds") and its Taxable Multifamily Housing Revenue Bonds (Sanctuary at Brooklyn
Center Project), Series 2016B, in the aggregate principal amount of $7,105,000 (the "Series 2016B
Bonds") based on the 2016 Bonding Allocation; and
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the City authorize the issuance of tax
exempt refunding bonds in an amount not to exceed $7,105,000 to refund all or a portion of the Series
2016B Bonds if tax exempt bonding authority becomes available from the State of Minnesota under the
Allocation Act later in 2016 or in 2017 (the "Refunding Bonds"); and
WHEREAS, the Refunding Bonds will be issued pursuant to this resolution and, as
"Additional Bonds" pursuant to a supplement to the Trust Indenture, dated on or after August 1, 2016 (as
supplemented, the "Indenture"), between the City and a bond trustee (the "Trustee"), and the Refunding
Bonds and the interest on the Refunding Bonds: (i) shall be payable solely from the revenues pledged
therefor under an amendment to Loan Agreement, dated on or after August 1, 2016 (as amended, the
"Loan Agreement"), between the City and the Borrower, whereby the City will apply the proceeds
derived from the sale of the Refunding Bonds to fund a loan to the Borrower to refund all or a portion of
the Series 2016B Bonds; (ii) shall not constitute a debt of the City within the meaning of any
constitutional or statutory limitation; (iii) shall not constitute nor give rise to a pecuniary liability of the
City or a charge against its general credit or taxing powers; (iv) shall not constitute a charge, lien, or
encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property of the City other than the City's interest in the Loan
Agreement; and (v) shall not constitute a general or moral obligation of the City; and
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Brooklyn
Center, Minnesota, as follows:
1.The City acknowledges, finds, determines, and declares that the issuance of the
Refunding Bonds is authorized by the Act and is consistent with the purposes of the Act and that the
issuance of the Refunding Bonds, and the other actions of the City under the Indenture, the Loan
Agreement, and this resolution constitute a public purpose and are in the interests of the City. In
authorizing the issuance of the Refunding Bonds to refinance a portion of the Project and the related
costs, the City's purpose is and the effect thereof will be to promote the public welfare of the City and its
residents by providing multifamily housing developments for low or moderate income senior residents of
the City and otherwise furthering the purposes and policies of the Act.
2.The Housing Program is previously adopted for the Project is hereby ratified and
supplemented to provide for the Refunding Bonds. The City Manager is hereby authorized to do all other
things and take all other actions as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the Housing Program in
accordance with the Act and any other applicable laws and regulations.
3. For the purposes set forth above, there is hereby authorized the issuance, sale,
and delivery of the Refunding Bonds in one or more series in a maximum aggregate principal amount not
to exceed $7,105,000. The Refunding Bonds shall bear interest at the rates, shall be designated, shall be
numbered, shall be dated, shall mature, shall be in the aggregate principal amount, shall be subject to
redemption prior to maturity, shall be in such form, and shall have such other terms, details, and
provisions as are prescribed in the Indenture, with the amendments referenced herein. The City hereby
authorizes the Refunding Bonds to be issued, in whole or in part, as "tax-exempt bonds," the interest on
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which is excludable from gross income for federal and State of Minnesota income tax purposes or as
taxable bonds. The City hereby authorizes Kennedy & Graven, Chartered ("Bond Counsel") to prepare,
execute, and deliver its approving legal opinions with respect to the Refunding Bonds.
All of the provisions of the Refunding Bonds, when executed as authorized herein, shall
be deemed to be a part of this resolution as fully and to the same extent as if incorporated verbatim herein
and shall be in full force and effect from the date of execution and delivery thereof. The Refunding
Bonds shall be substantially in the form in the Indenture on file with the City, which form is hereby
approved, with such necessary and appropriate variations, omissions, and insertions (including changes to
the aggregate principal amount of the Refunding Bonds, the stated maturities of the Refunding Bonds, the
interest rates on the Refunding Bonds and the terms of redemption of the Refunding Bonds) as the Mayor
and the City Manager, in their discretion, shall determine. The execution of the Refunding Bonds with
the manual or facsimile signature of the Mayor and the City Manager (the "City Officials") and the
delivery of the Refunding Bonds by the City shall be conclusive evidence of such determination.
4.The Refunding Bonds shall be special, limited obligations of the City payable
solely from the revenues provided by the Borrower pursuant to the Loan Agreement and other funds
pledged pursuant to the Indenture; however, the City does not pledge its general credit or taxing powers
or any funds of the City to the payment of the Refunding Bonds. The City Council hereby authorizes and
directs the City Officials to execute the Indenture, as supplemented, and to deliver the Indenture, as
supplemented, to the Trustee, and hereby authorizes and directs the execution of the Refunding Bonds in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture, as supplemented, and hereby provides that the Indenture, as
supplemented, shall provide the terms and conditions, covenants, rights, obligations, duties, and
agreements of the owners of the Refunding Bonds, the City, and the Trustee as set forth therein.
5.The Trustee is hereby appointed as Paying Agent and Bond Registrar for the
Refunding Bonds as further provided in the Indenture.
6.The proceeds of Refunding Bonds will be disbursed pursuant to the terms of the
Indenture and the Loan Agreement to refund all or a portion of the City's Series 2016B Bonds.
7.To ensure compliance with certain rental and occupancy restrictions imposed by
the Act and Section 142(d) of the Code and to ensure compliance with certain restrictions imposed by the
City, the City Officials are also hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver an amendment, if
determined necessary by Bond Counsel, to the Land Use Restriction Agreement, dated on or after August
1, 2016 (the "Regulatory Agreement"), among the City, the Borrower, and the Trustee.
8. The City Officials are hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver the
Refunding Bonds and any necessary amendments or supplements to the Loan Agreement, the Indenture,
the Regulatory Agreement, the Combination Mortgage, Assignment of Leases and Rents, Security
Agreement and Fixture Filing, dated on or after August 1, 2016 (the "Mortgage"), a forward Bond
Purchase Agreement, between the City, the Borrower and Dougherty & Company LLC and BB&T
Securities, LLC (collectively, the "Underwriters") or other purchaser of the Refunding Bonds, (the "Bond
Purchase Agreement") and such other documents and certificates as are necessary or appropriate in
connection with the issuance, sale, and delivery of the Refunding Bonds, including, various certificates of
the City, an Information Return for Tax-Exempt Private Activity Bond Issues, Form 8038, with respect to
the Refunding Bonds, a certificate as to arbitrage and rebate, and similar documents, and all other
documents and certificates as shall be necessary and appropriate in connection with the issuance, sale, and
delivery of the Refunding Bonds (collectively, the "Financing Documents") All of the provisions of the
Financing Documents, when executed and delivered as authorized herein, shall be deemed to be a part of
this resolution as fully and to the same extent as if incorporated verbatim herein and shall be in full force
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and effect from the date of execution and delivery thereof. The Financing Documents shall be
substantially in the forms prepared by Bond Counsel which are hereby approved, with such necessary and
appropriate variations, omissions, and insertions as are approved by Bond Counsel, as do not materially
adversely change the substance thereof with respect to the City, and as the City Officials, in their
discretion, shall determine, and the execution thereof by the City Officials shall be conclusive evidence of
such determinations.
9.The City has not participated in the preparation of a Limited Offering
Memorandum relating to the offer and sale of the Refunding Bonds (the "Limited Offering
Memorandum"), and has made no independent investigation with respect to the information contained
therein, including the appendices thereto, and the City assumes no responsibility for the sufficiency,
accuracy, or completeness of such information. Subject to the foregoing, the City hereby consents to the
distribution and the use by the Underwriters of the Limited Offering Memorandum in connection with the
offer and sale of the Refunding Bonds. The Limited Offering Memorandum is the sole material
consented to by the City for use in connection with the offer and sale of the Refunding Bonds.
10.Except as otherwise provided in this resolution, all rights, powers, and privileges
conferred and duties and liabilities imposed upon the City or the City Council by the provisions of this
resolution or of the aforementioned documents shall be exercised or performed by the City or by such
members of the City Council, or such officers, board, body or agency thereof as may be required or
authorized by law to exercise such powers and to perform such duties.
No covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement herein contained or contained in the
aforementioned documents shall be deemed to be a covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement of any
member of the City Council, or any officer, agent or employee of the City in that person's individual
capacity, and neither the City Council nor any officer or employee executing the Refunding Bonds shall
be personally liable on the Refunding Bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by
reason of the issuance thereof.
No provision, covenant or agreement contained in the aforementioned documents, the
Refunding Bonds, or in any other document relating to the Refunding Bonds, and no obligation therein or
herein imposed upon the City or the breach thereof, shall constitute or give rise to a general or moral
obligation of the City or any pecuniary liability of the City or any charge upon its general credit or taxing
powers. In making the agreements, provisions, covenants, and representations set forth in such
documents, the City has not obligated itself to pay or remit any funds or revenues, other than funds and
revenues derived from the Loan Agreement which are to be applied to the payment of the Refunding
Bonds, as provided therein.
11.Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, nothing in this resolution or in the
aforementioned documents expressed or implied, is intended or shall be construed to confer upon any
person or firm or corporation, other than the City, any holder of the Refunding Bonds issued under the
provisions of this resolution, any right, remedy or claim, legal or equitable, under and by reason of this
resolution or any provisions hereof, this resolution, the aforementioned documents, and all of their
provisions being intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit of the City, and any holder
from time to time of the Refunding Bonds issued under the provisions of this resolution.
12.In case any one or more of the provisions of this resolution, other than the
provisions contained in the first sentence of Section 4, or of the aforementioned documents, or of the
Refunding Bonds issued hereunder shall for any reason be held to be illegal or invalid, such illegality or
invalidity shall not affect any other provision of this resolution, or of the aforementioned documents, or of
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the Refunding Bonds, but this resolution, the aforementioned documents, and the Refunding Bonds shall
be construed and endorsed as if such illegal or invalid provisions had not been contained therein.
13.The Refunding Bonds, when executed and delivered, shall contain a recital that
they are issued pursuant to the Act, and such recital shall be conclusive evidence of the validity of the
Refunding Bonds and the regularity of the issuance thereof, and that all acts, conditions, and things
required by the laws of the State of Minnesota relating to the adoption of this resolution, to the issuance
of the Refunding Bonds, and to the execution of the aforementioned documents to happen, exist, and be
performed precedent to the execution of the aforementioned documents have happened, exist, and have
been performed as so required by law.
14.Under Section 146 of the Code, the Refunding Bonds must receive an allocation of
the bonding authority of the State of Minnesota. An application for such an allocation must be made
pursuant to the requirements of the Allocation Act. The City Council hereby authorizes the submission
of an application for allocation of bonding authority pursuant to Section 146 of the Code and the
Allocation Act in accordance with the requirements of the Allocation Act. The Mayor of the City, the
City Manager, and Bond Counsel are hereby authorized and directed to take all actions, in cooperation
with the Borrower, as are necessary to submit an application for an allocation of bonding authority to
Minnesota Management & Budget.
15.The officers of the City, Bond Counsel, other attorneys, engineers, and other
agents or employees of the City are hereby authorized to do all acts and things required of them by or in
connection with this resolution, the aforementioned documents, and the Refunding Bonds, for the full,
punctual, and complete performance of all the terms, covenants, and agreements contained in the
Refunding Bonds, the aforementioned documents, and this resolution. If for any reason the Mayor or the
City Manager is unable to execute and deliver the documents referred to in this Resolution, such
documents may be executed by any member of the City Council or any officer of the City delegated the
duties of the Mayor or the City Manager with the same force and effect as if such documents were
executed and delivered by the Mayor or the City Manager.
16.The Borrower will pay, or, upon demand, reimburse the City for payment of, any
and all costs incurred by the City in connection with the Project and the issuance of the Refunding Bonds,
whether or not the Refunding Bonds are issued, including any costs for attorneys' fees.
September 26, 2016
Date
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City Clerk
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Mayor
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member
Kris Lawrence-Anderson
and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof:
Tim Willson, April Graves, Kris Lawrence-Anderson, Lin Myszkowski, Dan Ryan
and the following voted against the same:
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.