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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983-12-23 Public hearingNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF INTENTION TO ISSUE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BONDS (GILBERT TOWER ASSOCIATES PROJECT) Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be conducted before the Council of the City of Iowa City, Iowa, in the Council Chambers at the Civic Center, Iowa City, Iowa, at 7:30 o'clock P.M., on January 17, 1984, on the proposal to issue not to exceed $850,000 principal amount of the City's Commercial Development Revenue Bonds (Gilbert Tower Associates Project) pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 419 of the Code of Iowa, for the purpose of financing all or a portion of the cost of acquiring, improving and equipping a 29 -unit multi -family residential apartment facility to be located at 601 South Gilbert and contiguous properties within the corporate boundaries of the City and within the area of and consistent with the City's Neighborhood Development Plan. The proposed facilities will be owned by Gilbert Tower Associates, an Iowa general partnership (the "Company"). It is contemplated that a Loan Agreement will be entered into between the City and the Company, under which the City would loan to said Company the proceeds from the sale of the Bonds in return for loan payments from the Company sufficient to pay the principal of, interest and premium, if any, on.such Bonds as the same shall fall due. Such Bonds, if issued, and the interest thereon will be payable solely out of the revenues derived from said Loan Agreement and shall never constitute an indebtedness of said City within the meaning of any state constitutional provision or statu- tory limitation, and shall not constitute nor give rise to a pecuniary liability of said City or a charge against its general credit or taxing powers. All local residents who appear at said hearing shall be given an opportunity to express their views for or against the proposal to issue said Bonds, and at said hearing, or any adjournment thereof, the Council of said City shall adopt a resolution determining whether or not to proceed with the issuance of said Bonds. By Order of the City Council .' : MARMN KARR, CITY CLERK MICRDLILMED. BY JORM MICR( LAE3 l `1 CEDAR RDIP'DS • DEC MOINES f i l Section 3. The City recognizes that regulations promulgated under Section 103 of the Code may require the taking by this City Council of official action or "some other similar official action", if interest on Commercial Development Revenue Bonds issued by the City and used to acquire, construct, improve and equip such project is to be exempt from federal income taxes. In order to preserve such exemption, this Resolution is intended to constitute solely for federal income tax purposes official action or "some other similar official action" with respect to the issuance of such Bonds. Section 4. That in order to assure the acquisition, con- struction, improvement and equipping of the proposed facilities in the City, with the resulting public benefits which will flow from the operation thereof, it is deemed necessary and advisable that the Memorandum of Agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit "A", be approved and that the Mayor of the City be and hereby is authorized and directed to execute said Memorandum of Agreement and the City Clerk of the City be and hereby is authorized to attest the same and to affix the seal of the City thereto and said Memorandum of Agreement is hereby made a part of this Resolution. Section 5. In order that the Project will not he unduly delayed, Company is hereby authorized to make such commitments, expenditures and advances toward payment of the costs of the Project as it considers appropriate, subject to reimbursement from the proceeds of the Bonds when and if delivered, but , otherwise without liability on the part of the City. Section 6. That officials of the City are hereby authorized to take such further action as may be necessary to carry out the intent and purpose of the Memorandum of Agreement. j Section 7. All Resolutions and Orders or parts thereof, in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed, and this Resolution shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its adoption. ,. Adopted and approved December 23, 1983. City of Iowa City, Iowa i (SEAL) Mary C Neuhauser, Mayor Attest: Maw -K. Karr, City Clerk I -7- MICROFILMED 7 - MICROFILMED. aY t JORM MICR#LAB 1 CEDAR RAIDS • DEC MOINES 1. D .,% CLERK'S CERTIFICATE I,'Marian K. Karr, being first duly sworn do hereby depose and certify that I am the duly appointed, qualified, and acting City Clerk of the City of Iowa City, in the County of Johnson, State of Iowa; that as such I have in my possession, or have access to, the complete corporate records of said City and of its Council and officers; that I have carefully compared the transcript hereto attached with the aforesaid corporate records; and that said transcript hereto attached is a true, correct and complete copy of all the corporate records showing the action taken by the City Council of said City at a meeting open to the public on December 23, 1983, regarding the issuance of not to exceed $850,000 aggregate principal amount of Commercial Development Revenue Bonds (Gilbert Tower Associates Project) of the City of Iowa City, Iowa, directing publication of Notice of Intention to Issue, calling a public hearing on the proposal to issue said Bonds and authorizing execution of a Memorandum of Agreement; that said proceedings remain in full force and effect and have not been amended or rescinded in any way; that said meeting and all action thereat was duly and publicly held, with members of the public in attendance, 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 28A, Iowa Code, and 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. Witness my hand and the Corporate Seal of said City hereto affixed this 2.3rd day of August, 1983. (SEAL) Ma ian K. Karr, City Clerk State of Iowa ) SS.: County of Johnson ) Subscribed and sworn to before me this day, the date last above written. Notary ublic in abd for the (SEAL) State of Iowa -8- . JORM MICR+LAB -CEDAR RPPIDS • DES MOINES 1 333 9 WA 4 (This Notice to be Posted) NOTICE AND CALL OF COUNCIL MEETING Governmental Body: Date of Meeting: Time of Meeting: Place of Meeting: The City Council of Iowa City, Iowa. December 23, 1983 8:00 A.M. Council Chambers Civic Center Iowa City, 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: 1. Resolution Regarding the Issuance of Not To Exceed $850,000 Aggregate Principal Amount of Commercial Development Revenue Bonds (Gilbert Tower Associates Project) of the City of Iowa City, Iowa, Directing Publication of Notice of Intention to Issue, Calling a Public Hearing on the Proposal to Issue Said Bonds and Authorizing Execution of a Memorandum of Agreement. 2. Such additional matters as are set forth on the. additional four (4) page(s) attached hereto (attach copy of agenda). This notice is given at the direction of the Mayor, Pursuant to Chapter 28A, Iowa Code, as amended, and the local rules of said governmental body. MOLICIn x. Karr, Clerk of the City of Iowa City, Iowa -9- y.... ..... M I CROF I LMED. BY. JORM MICR+LA9 -CEDAR RAP?DS • DES MOINES v.'vBPn. �"Rc -q�av<AI U�73�b3 ,3533 0 1 i t I (This Notice to be Posted) NOTICE AND CALL OF COUNCIL MEETING Governmental Body: Date of Meeting: Time of Meeting: Place of Meeting: The City Council of Iowa City, Iowa. December 23, 1983 8:00 A.M. Council Chambers Civic Center Iowa City, 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: 1. Resolution Regarding the Issuance of Not To Exceed $850,000 Aggregate Principal Amount of Commercial Development Revenue Bonds (Gilbert Tower Associates Project) of the City of Iowa City, Iowa, Directing Publication of Notice of Intention to Issue, Calling a Public Hearing on the Proposal to Issue Said Bonds and Authorizing Execution of a Memorandum of Agreement. 2. Such additional matters as are set forth on the. additional four (4) page(s) attached hereto (attach copy of agenda). This notice is given at the direction of the Mayor, Pursuant to Chapter 28A, Iowa Code, as amended, and the local rules of said governmental body. MOLICIn x. Karr, Clerk of the City of Iowa City, Iowa -9- y.... ..... M I CROF I LMED. BY. JORM MICR+LA9 -CEDAR RAP?DS • DES MOINES v.'vBPn. �"Rc -q�av<AI U�73�b3 ,3533 0 EXHIBIT "A" MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT THIS MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT is between the City of Iowa City, in Johnson County, Iowa, party of the first part (hereinafter referred to as the "City"), -and -Gilbert Tower Associates, an Iowa general partnership, -party of the second part (hereinafter referred to as the "Company"). 1. Preliminary Statement. Among the matters of mutual inducement which have resulted in the execution of this Agreement are the following; (a) The City is an incorporated municipality of the State Of Iowa, authorized and empowered by the provisions of. Chapter 419 of the Code of Iowa (the "Act")- to issue Commercial Development Revenue Bonds for the purpose of defraying all or a portion of the cost of acquiring and improving land, buildings and improvements suitable for use of any commercial enterprise which the City Council, as the governing body, finds is consistent with an urban renewal plan adopted by the City pursuant to the Act and Chapter 403, Code of Iowa; and (b) The City has adopted the Neighborhood Development Plan and in furtherance of efforts to rehabilitate and redevelop the designated Urban Renewal Area therein, the City proposes to issue its Commercial Development Revenue Bonds (the "Bonds") and to loan to the Company the proceeds from the sale of said Bonds to enable the Company to finance the cost of acquiring, improving and equipping a 29 -unit multi-Eamily residential apartment facility to be located at 601 South Gilbert and contiguous properties within the corporate boundaries of the City (herein referred to as the "Project"); and (c) It is considered essential that acquisition and construction related to the Project commence at the earliest practicable date, and that orders be placed for acquiring the necessary improvements and equipment. However, before commencing the Project, the Company desires satisfactory assurances from the City that the proceeds from the sale of the City's Commercial Development Revenue Bonds, which, when issued, will be used to finance the Project and will be made available in an amount sufficient to finance all or a portion of the cost of the Project. The amount of the Bonds requested to be issued is presently estimated not to exceed $850,000. (d) Representatives of the City have indicated the will- ingness of the City to proceed with and effect such financing -1- ,� � .. ..,.... 141CROFIL14ED BY___.._.. l JORM MICR+LAB { -CEDAR R67D5 • DES MOINES 1 _J 3f33 2 as an inducement to the Company to locate the Project in the City and the City has advised the Company that, subject to due compliance with all requirements of law and the obtaining of all necessary consents and approvals and to the happening of all acts, conditions and things required to exist, happen and be performed precedent to and in connection with such financing in due time, form and manner as required by law, the City, by virtue of such statutory authority as may now exist or may hereafter be conferred, will issue and sell its Bonds in an amount sufficient to finance all or a portion of the cost of the Project. (e) The City considers that the undertaking of the Project will promote urban renewal, rehabilitation and redevelopment of the City, will eliminate blighted areas, and will provide employment opportunities for the inhabitants of the City, enhance the tax base of the City and overlapping taxing jurisdictions, increase the City's commerce and add to the welfare and prosperity of the City and that of its inhabitants. 2. Undertakings on the Part of the City. The City agrees as follows: (a) That it will authorize, or cause to be authorized, the issuance and sale of an issue of its Bonds to be issued and sold for the purpose of financing the Project, pursuant to the terms of the Act as then in force, in an aggregate principal amount presently estimated not to exceed $850,000. (b) That it will cooperate with Company to sell the Bonds upon mutually agreeable terms, and it will adopt, or cause to be adopted, such proceedings and authorize the execution of such documents as may be necessary or advisable for the author- ization, issuance and sale of the Bonds and the financing of the Project as aforesaid, and the entering into Loin Agree as -,I ment with the Company with respect to the Pioject, be authorized by law and mutually satisfactory to the City and the Company. (c) That the aggregate basic payments (i.e. the payments to be used to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds) payable under the Loan Agreement shall be such sums as shall be sufficient to pay the principal of, interest and redemption premium, if any, on the Bonds as and when the same shall become due and pay e. (d) That it will take or cause to be taken such other acts and adopt such further proceedings as may be required to implement the aforesaid undertakings or as it may deem appro- priate in pursuance thereof. -2- �.. MI CROEILMED BY.... l JORM MICR#LAB } CEDAR RAPIDS • DES MOINES f r ■ 3. Undertakings on the Part of the Company. The Company covenants and agrees as follows: (a) That it will cooperate with the City to sell the Bonds in an aggregate principal amount as above stated; provided, however, that the terms of the Bonds and of the sale and delivery thereof shall be mutually satisfactory to the City and the Company. (b) That it has not, prior to the execution of this agree- ment by the City, acquired or commenced construction of the Project, or any part thereof, and has not entered into any contracts or paid or incurred any costs related thereto, which will be paid or reimbursed from the proceeds of the Bonds, when and if issued. The Company does, however, represent that it now intends to enter into a contract or contracts for the acquisition, construction, improvement and equipping of the Project and take, with reasonable diligence, the other necessary steps toward the realization of the Project. (c) That contemporaneously with the sale of the Bonds it will execute a Loan Agreement with the City under the terms of which the Company will obligate itself to pay to the City sums sufficient in the aggregate to pay the principal of, interest and redemption premium, if any, on the Bonds as and when the same shall become due and payable, such instrument to contain other provisions required by law and such other provisions as shall be mutually acceptable to the City and the Company. (d) That it will take such further action and adopt such further proceedings as may be required to implement its aforesaid undertakings or as it may deem appropriate in pursuance thereof. 4. General Provisions. (a) All commitments of the City under paragraph 2 hereof and of the Company under paragraph 3 hereof are subject to the condition that on or before January 1, 1985 (or such other date as shall be mutually satisfactory to the City and the Company), the City and the Company shall have agreed to mutually accept- able terms for the Bonds and of the sale and delivery thereof, and mutually acceptable terms and conditions of the documents referred to in paragraph 3 and the proceedings referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 hereof. (b) Whether or not the events set forth in (a) of this paragraph take place within the time set forth or any extension thereof, the Company agrees that it will reimburse the City for -3- �_.. ........MICROFILMED BY '=I� t JORM MICR +LAB � 1 ? -CEDAR RPPIDS • DES MOINES 1 3e133 ..a all reasonable and necessary direct out-of-pocket expenses which the City may incur, including but not limited to, legal fees, printing and publication costs and filing fees arising from the execution of this Agreement and the performance, or preparation to perform by the City of its obligations here- under, or done at the request of the Company. (c) It is expressly understood by both parties to this Memorandum of Agreement that its execution by the Issuer is intended both as an expression of the Issuer's current intention to proceed with the issuance of the Bonds and to constitute "some other similiar official action" for purposes of the Treasury Regulations promulgated under Section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1959, as amended. The execution of this Memorandum of Agreement by the Issuer is not intended to nor does it create a binding commitment of the Issuer to proceed with the issuance of the Bonds. It is further understood that the issuance of the Bonds is subject to further review by the City Council of the Issuer and is conditioned Upon, among other things, full compliance of all provisions of the Industrial Revenue Bond Policy And Procedures For The City of T 2 �itv. Iowa. (d) All commitments of the City hereof are further subject to the conditions that the City, and its elected and appointed officials, shall in no event incur any liability for any act or omission hereunder, and that the Bonds described herein shall not constitute an indebtedness of the City within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision and shall not constitute nor give rise to a pecuniary liability of the City or a charge against its general credit or taxing powers. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have entered into this Agreement by their officers thereunto duly authorized as of the 23rd day of December, 1983. City of Iowa City, Iowa (Seal of City) Mary Cfl Neuhauser, Mayor Attest: Maf-ian K. Karr, City Clerk iTlbe t Tower Associates 4A. Clar , ge eral partner C. Clark,ge� partner I -Q- E MILRDEILMEO BY f' t JORM MICR+LAD E -CEDAR RAPIDS • OE= MOINES 144 (R City of Iowa City MEMORANDUM DATE: December 19, 1983 TO: City Council FROM: Rosemary Vitosh, Finance Director L RE: Industrial Revenue Bond Application for the Gilbert Street Tower Assoc. Project An application was received from James and Loretta Clark for the Gilbert Street Tower Assoc. Project for the construction of a 29 - unit apartment complex at 601 South Gilbert Street (the Southwest corner of Gilbert and Prentiss Streets). Staff has reviewed the application and finds no legal or financial problems with the project pending 1) approval of the design by the Design Review Committee and 2) Council approval of the expansion of the IRB eligible area to include the project site. The Design Review Committee is scheduled to meet December 19, 1983, and the minutes of their meeting will be sent to Council prior to the December 23, 1983, special Council meeting. The expansion of the IRB eligible area is on the December 20, 1983, Council agenda. The application states the reason for requesting bonds is that conventional financing makes the project infeasible due to the high interest rates.. IRB financing will provide that six of the apartment units will be scheduled to be placed under the City's Section 8, Assisted Housing Program for low to moderate income tenants. 111CR0F1LME0 BY�� -i JORM MICR+LAB CEDAR RAPIDS • DE. MOINES � Q a3 733 11 I-, M Matters were discussed relative to final authorization and issuance of $8,105,000 in aggregate principal amount of the City's Lender -Assisted Commercial Development Revenue Bonds (Mid City Hotel Associates - Iowa City Project) Series 1983. Following a report on the proposed Project by representatives of the Developer and a discussion of the Bond issue, Council Member Perrer proposed the following Resolution and moved its adoption. Council Member McDonald seconded the motion to adopt. After due consideration of said motion, the roll was called and the Resolution adopted by the following vote: AYES: Balmer, Dickson, McDonald, Neuhauser, Perret NAYS: The Resolution was thereupon signed by the Mayor and in evidence of her approval, was attested by the City Clerk, and was declared to be effective. The Resolution is as follows: -2- .. ...,-._,t410R0FllMED.BY. JORM MICR+LAB f -CEDAR RXIDS • DE_ MOINES I}. 3 to I R