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APFA Resolution 99-7ALAMEDA PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY RESOLUTION NO. 9 9 —7 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF A SERIES OF REVENUE BONDS IN THE MAXIMUM AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $10,000,000 TO FINANCE THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION AND EQUIPPING OF VARIOUS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS TO ALAMEDA POINT (THE FORMER ALAMEDA NAVAL AIR STATION) AND TO FINANCE THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION AND EQUIPPING OF VARIOUS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE CITY OF ALAMEDA AND APPROVING RELATED DOCUMENTS AND OFFICIAL ACTIONS RESOLVED, by the Board of Directors (the "Board ") of the Alameda Public Financing Authority (the "Authority" ), as follows: WHEREAS, the Authority is a joint exercise of powers authority duly organized and existing under and pursuant to that certain Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement, dated March 17, 1992, by and between the City of Alameda (the " City") and the City of Alameda Community Improvement Commission (the " Commission" and, with the City, the " Members" ), and under the provisions of Articles 1 through 4 (commencing with section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the California Government Code (the " Act" ), and is authorized pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with section 6584) of the Act (the "Bond Law ") to borrow money for the purpose of financing the acquisition of bonds, notes and other obligations of, or for the purpose of making loans to, public entities, including the Members, and to provide financing for public capital improvements of public entities, including the Members; and WHEREAS, for the purpose of providing funds to finance the acquisition, construction, installation and equipping of various capital improvements to Alameda Point (the former Alameda Naval Air Station) and to finance the acquisition, construction, installation and equipping of various capital improvements for the City of Alameda (the "Improvements"), the Authority has determined to issue its Alameda Public Financing Authority Variable Rate Demand Revenue Bonds, 1999 Series A (Alameda Point and city of Alameda Improvement Project), in the aggregate principal amount of not-to-exceed $10,000,000 (the "Bonds"); and WHEREAS, in order to provide for the repayment of the Bonds, the Authority will pledge ,certain revenues, substantially derived from rentals paid to the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (" ARRA ") for certain land, buildings, fixtures and equipment leased by ARRA to certain subtenants (the " Subtenant Rentals"), which rentals have been assigned by ARRA to the City and which have been further assigned by the City to the Authority, which revenues will be calculated to be sufficient to enable the Authority to pay the principal of and interest and premium (if any) on the Bonds when due and payable; and WHEREAS, the Bonds will be issued under the Bond Law, and an Indenture of Trust (the " Indenture" ), by and between the Authority and a trustee bank to be selected by competitive process (the " Trustee" ); and WHEREAS, the Board has duly considered such transactions and wishes at this time to approve said transactions in the public interests of the Authority. NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby ORDERED and DETERMINED, as follows: Section 1. Issuance of Bonds: Approval of Indenture. The Board hereby authorizes the issuance of the Bonds in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $10,000,000 under and pursuant to the Bond Law and the Indenture, for the purpose of providing funds to enable the Authority to finance the Improvements. The Board hereby approves the Indenture in substantially the form on file with the Secretary together with any changes therein or additions thereto approved by the Executive Director or the Treasurer, whose execution thereof shall be conclusive evidence of such approval. The Executive Director or the Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to execute, and the Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to attest, the Indenture for and in the name of the Authority. The Board hereby authorizes the delivery and performance of the Indenture. Section 2. Approval of Related Financing Documents. The Board hereby approves each of the following agreements required to implement the financing plan to be accomplished by the Bonds, in substantially the respective forms on file with the Secretary together with any changes therein or additions thereto approved by the Executive Director or the Treasurer, whose execution thereof shall be conclusive evidence of such approval. (a) an assignment agreement, by and between the City and the Authority, pursuant to which the City will assign the Subtenant Rentals (previously assigned by ARRA to the City) to the Authority; (b) a reimbursement agreement, by and between the Authority and Union Bank of California, N.A., as issuer of a direct pay letter of credit securing the payment of principal of and interest on the Bonds and providing a liquidity facility for Bonds tendered but not remarketed, including the acknowledgment of State Teachers' Retirement System, as confiliuing bank; and (c) a remarketing agreement, by and between the Authority and a remarketing agent for the Bonds to be selected by competitive process. The Executive Director or the Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed for and in the name and on behalf of the Authority to execute, and the Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to attest and affix the seal of the Authority to, the final folio of each of the foregoing agreements. The Board hereby authorizes the delivery and perfoi uiance of the foregoing agreements. Section 3. Sale of Bonds. The Board hereby approves the negotiated sale of the Bonds to an underwriting firm to be selected by competitive process (the "Underwriter ") pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in a bond purchase contract, by and between the Underwriter and the Authority (the "Purchase Contract "), substantially in the form on file with the Secretary, together with any additions thereto or changes therein as may be deemed necessary or advisable by the Executive Director or the Treasurer, whose execution thereof shall be conclusive evidence of such approval, so long as the principal amount of Bonds sold does not exceed $10,000,000 and so long as the Underwriter's discount for the Bonds does not exceed 1 %. The Executive Director or the Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed for and in the name and on behalf of the Authority to execute the final form of Purchase Contract. The Board hereby authorizes the delivery and performance of the Purchase Contract. Section 4. Official Statement. The Board hereby approves, and hereby deems nearly final within the meaning of Rule 15c2 -12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the preliminary official statement describing the Bonds (the "Preliminary Official Statement ") in substantially the form on file with the Secretary. The Executive Director or the Treasurer is hereby authorized to execute an appropriate certificate stating the Board's determination that the Preliminary Official Statement has been deemed nearly final within the meaning of such Rule. Distribution of the Preliminary Official Statement by the Underwriter in connection with the sale of the Bonds is hereby approved. The Executive Director or the Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to approve any changes in or additions to a final form of official statement (the "Final Official Statement"), and the execution thereof by an authorized officer of the Authority shall be conclusive evidence of approval of any such changes and additions. The Board hereby authorizes the distribution of the Final Official Statement by the Underwriter. The Final Official Statement shall be executed in the name and on behalf of the Authority by the Executive Director or the Treasurer. Section 5. Official Actions. The Executive Director, the Treasurer, the Secretary and any and all other officers of the Authority are hereby authorized and directed, for and in the name and on behalf of the Authority, to do any and all things and take any and all actions, including execution and delivery of any and all assignments, certificates, requisitions, agreements, notices, consents, instruments of -2- conveyance, warrants and other documents, which they, or any of them, may deem necessary or advisable in order to consummate the lawful issuance and sale of the Bonds as described herein. Whenever in this resolution any officer of the Authority is authorized to execute or countersign any document or take any action, such execution, countersigning or action may be taken on behalf of such officer by any person designated by such officer to act on his or her behalf in the case such officer shall be absent or unavailable. Section 6. Effective Date. This Resolution shall take effect from and after the date of its passage and adoption. I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Board of Directors of the Alameda Public Financing Authority in special meeting assembled on the 17th day of August , 1999, by the following vote to wit: AYES: Boardmembers Daysog, DeWitt, Johnson, Kerr and Chair Appezzato - S. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. ABSTENTIONS: None. IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said Authority this 18th day of August , 1999. Diahe Felsch, Secretary Alameda Public Financing Authority