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Resolution 13053CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 13053 RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO LEVY REASSESSMENTS AND TO ISSUE REFUNDING BONDS CITY OF ALAMEDA Harbor Bay Business Park Assessment District 92 -1 (Reassessment and Refunding of 1998) RESOLVED, by the City Council (the "Council ") of the City of Alameda (the "City "), County of Alameda, State of California, that WHEREAS, on February 5, 1992, this Council adopted its Resolution of Intention No. 12197 (the "Resolution of Intention ") relating to there acquisition and /or construction of public improvements under and pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 Division 12 of the Streets and Highways Code of California for the City's Harbor Bay Business Park Assessment District 92 -1 (the "District "). By the Resolution of Intention, the Council provided that bonds would be issued thereunder pursuant to the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, Division 10 of E the Streets and Highways Code of California (the "Bond Law ") and reference to. the Resolution of Intention is hereby expressly made for O W. In further particulars; -� Z 'r CC WHEREAS, in proceedings taken pursuant to the Resolution of p. Intention, the Council, on April 21, 1992, adopted Resolution No. 12235 pursuant to which bonds designated "Limited Obligation Improvement Bonds, CD City of Alameda, Harbor Bay Business Park Assessment District 92 -1, ZO H Series 1992," dated April 30, 1992 in the principal amount of $29,288,000 V (the "Prior Bonds ") were issued, sold and delivered; and WHEREAS, the public interest requires the refunding of the Prior Bonds and this Council intends to accomplish such refunding through the levy of reassessments and the issuance of refunding .bonds upon the security thereof, the proceeds of which refunding bonds shall be used to refund the Prior Bonds and pay the costs of such refunding. NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, as follows: 1. Proceedings Authorized. This Council hereby declares its intention to refund the Prior Bonds and to levy reassessments as security for refunding bonds are hereinafter provided, and it is also the intention of this Council to issue additional bonds on the basis of the original, unpaid portion of the assessments levied under the Resolution of Intention and upon the security of which unpaid assessments no bonds have yet been issued. The proceedings for the levy and collection of reassessments as security for the issuance and payment of refunding bonds shall be conducted pursuant to the City of Alameda Refunding Improvement Bond Law, enacted by City of Alameda Ordinance No. 2774(the "Ordinance "). 2. Boundary Map. The contemplated reassessments and refunding, in the opinion of this Council, are of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and the costs and expenses thereof are made chargeable upon the District, the exterior boundaries of which are shown on a map thereof heretofore filed in the office of the City Clerk, and in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Alameda, to which map reference is hereby made for further particulars. Said map indicates by a boundary line the extent of the territory included in the District and shall govern for all details as to the extent thereof. 3. Public Property Omitted: -This Council declares that all public streets, highways, lanes and alleys within the District. in use in the performance of a public function, and all lands owned by any public entity, including the United States and the State of California, or any departments thereof, shall be omitted from the reassessment hereafter to be made to cover the costs and expenses of said refunding. 4. Reassessment Consultant; Report. Pursuant to Section 9 of the Ordinance, the reassessment and refunding are hereby referred to NBS Government Finance Group, Temecula, California, a qualified person employed by this City for the purpose hereof (the "Reassessment Consultant "), and the Reassessment Consultant is hereby directed to make and file with the City Clerk a report in writing, presenting the following: (a) A schedule setting forth the unpaid principal and interest on the Prior Bonds to be refunded and the total amounts thereof and the unpaid assessment being continued; (b) The total estimated principal amount of the reassessment and of the refunding bonds and the maximum interest thereon, together with an estimate of cost of the reassessment and of issuing the refunding bonds, including all costs of issuing the refunding bonds, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 10 of the Ordinance; (c) The auditor's record kept pursuant to Section 8682 of the Streets and Highways Code of California showing the schedule of principal installments and interest on all unpaid original assessments and the total amounts thereof; (d) The estimated amount of each reassessment, identified by reassessment number corresponding to the reassessment number of the reassessment diagram, together with a proposed auditor's record for the reassessment prepared in the manner described in said Section 8682; (e) A reassessment diagram showing the assessment district and the boundaries and dimensions of the subdivisions of land within the district. Each subdivision, including each separate condominium interest as defined in Section 783 of the Civil Code, shall be given a separate number upon the diagram; and (f) The proposed disposition of amounts remaining on deposit in the improvement fund and the reserve fund established for the Prior Bonds. When any portion or percentage of the costs and expenses of said refunding and reassessment is to be paid from sources other than reassessments, the amount of such portion or percentage shall first be deducted from the total estimated cost and expenses of said refunding and reassessment, and said reassessments shall include only the remainder of the estimated cost and expenses. If any excess shall be realized from the reassessment it shall be used, in such amounts as this Council may determine, in accordance with the provisions of law, in a manner or manners to be provided in these proceedings. 5. Refunding Bonds.. Notice is hereby given that refunding serial and or term refunding improvement bonds to represent said reassessments, and bear interest at the rate of not to exceed eight percent (8 %) per annum, or such higher rate of interest as may be authorized by applicable law at the time of sale of such bonds, will be issued hereunder in the manner provided by the Ordinance, the last installment of which bonds shall mature not later than September 2, 2015. It is the intention of the City that the City will not obligate itself to advance available funds from the treasury of the City to cure any deficiency in the redemption fund to be created with respect to such bonds; provided, however, that . a determination not to obligate itself shall not prevent the City from, in its sole discretion, so advancing the funds. 6. Bond Call Procedures. The provisions of Part 11.1 the Bond Law, providing for an alternative procedure for the advance payment of reassessments and the calling of bonds, shall apply to refunding bonds issued pursuant to proceedings under this resolution. 7. Division 4. Reference is hereby made to proceedings heretofore had pursuant to Division 4 of the Streets and Highways Code of California with respect to the Prior Bonds which are on file in the office of the Clerk. 8. Reserve Fund. It is the intention of this Council to create a special reserve fund pursuant to and as authorized by Section 16 of the Ordinance with respect to the refunding bonds and that the amount of said fund shall be included in the reassessment. 9. Bond Counsel. The firm of Jones Hall, A Professional Law Corporation, San Francisco, California, is hereby appointed as bond counsel for the purpose of the reassessment and refunding and related revenue bond proceedings. The fee of bond counsel shall be fixed in such proceedings and shall be paid only upon the successful completion of said proposed reassessment and refunding and from the proceeds of the refunding bonds. The City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to enter into an agreement for the services of bond counsel. 10. Effective Date. This resolution shall take effect from and after the date of its adoption. I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 20th day of October , 1998, by the following vote to wit: AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, DeWitt, Kerr, Lucas and President Appezzato - 5. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. ABSTENTIONS: None. IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 21st day of October , 1998. City of Alameda