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INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMEMBER SELSTAD
ORDINANCE NO. 895
Series of 19 92
CO!J'lcil Bill 9
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF $11,500,000 MAXIMUM
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO QUALIFIED
501(c) (3) REVENUE BONDS (MOUNTAIN VISTA HEALTH CENTER, INC. - MOUNTAIN
VISTA PROJECT) SERIES 1992; AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY BY
THE CITY OF A MORTGAGE AND LOAN AGREEMENT, AN INDENTURE OF TRUST, A
PlACEMENT AGENT AGREEMENT, CLOS ING DOCUMENTS, AND SUCH BONDS IN
CONNECTION THEREWITH; MAKING DETERMINATIONS AS TO OTHER MATTERS
RElATING TO SUCH FINANCING; AND REPEALING ACTION HERETOFORE TAKEN IN
CONFLICT HEREWITH.
WHEREAS, the City of Wheat Ridge (the "City") in the State of
Colorado is authorized by the County and Municipality Development
Revenue Bond Act, constituting Part 1 of Article 3, Title 29, Colorado
Revised Statutes (the "Act"), for the benefit of the inhabitants of
the State and for the promotion of their health, safety, welfare,
convenience and prosperity to finance one or more projects, including
any land, building or other improvements and all necessary and
appurtenant real or personal properties, suitable for hospital,
healthcare or nursing home facilities, upon such conditions as the
city council (the "Council") of the City may deem advisable; and
WHEREAS, the Act authorizes the City to issue revenue bonds or
other obligations for purposes of defraying the cost of financing any
such project; and
WHEREAS, Mountain Vista Health Center, Inc. (the "Corporation"),
is a Colorado nonprofit corporation described in Section 501(c)(3) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the "Code") as exempt from federal
income taxation under Section 501(a) of the Code and was formed, among
other purposes, to
"... provide for the establishment, construction, operation and
management of retirement and/or health-care facilities and
branches of either to provide adequate facilities for the care,
comfort, health and general welfare of aged, infirm, convalescent
or sick people '" ." and
WHEREAS, the Corporation proposes to finance the
renovating its health-care facilities and constructing
health-care (including Alzheimer'S) facilities, all
facilities are located or are to be located within the
"Project"); and
costs of
additional
of which
City (the
WHEREAS, the Corporation has requested the City to make a loan
to the Corporation to fi_nance the costs of the Project, to pay
expenses of issuing the bonds, to pay capitalized interest on the
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Bonds, and to make an initial deposit into the Bond Reserve Fund (as
defined in the hereinafter defined Agreement), and, to fund such loan,
the City has agreed to issue its City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Qualified 50l(c)(3) Revenue Bonds (Mountain Vista Health Center, Inc.
- Mountain Vista Project) Series 1992 in a maximum aggregate principal
amount of $11,500,000 (the "Bonds"); and
WHEREAS, the issuance of the Bonds by the City to finance the
costs of the Project and the loan of the proceeds thereof to the
Corporation will enable or assist the Corporation to fulfill its
obligations to provide health-care facilities and services; and
WHEREAS, the Corporation has represented to the City that the
Project has been designed to qualify as a "project" within the meaning
of the Act; and
WHEREAS, the City has considered the Corporation's proposal and
has concluded that the economic benefit of such proposal to the City
will be substantial due to an increase of employment and other
economic activity within the City; and
WHEREAS, the City has determined that the issuance of the Bonds
will benefit the health, welfare, safety, convenience and prosperity
of the inhabitants of the City; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance, if adopted on first reading by the
Council, will be duly published in full on April 23, 1992 in the Wheat
Ridge Jefferson Sentinel, a newspaper of general circulation in the
City; and
WHEREAS, a public hearing concerning the adoption of this
ordinance by the Council will be held on Monday, May 11, 1992; and
WHEREAS, there have been presented to the Council ( 1 ) the
proposed form of a Mortgage and Loan Agreement dated as of May 1, 1992
(the "Agreement"), between the City and the Corporation; (2) the
proposed form of an Indenture of Trust dated as of May l, 1991 (the
"Indenture" ), between the City and First Interstate Bank of Denver,
N.A., Denver, Colorado, as trustee (the "Trustee"), (3) a draft of the
Preliminary Limited Offering Memorandum to be used in the marketing
of the Bonds, and (4) the proposed form of Placement Agent Agreement
dated as of May 1, 1992 between the City, the Corporation and Gates
Capital Corp.; and
WHEREAS, all of the conditions precedent to the issuance of the
Bonds and the commitments of the City contained in Resolution No.
1139, Series of 1989, as extended by Resolution No. 1186, Series of
1990 and as amended by Resolution No. 1229, Series of 1990, Resolution
No. 1233, Series of 1990 and Resolution No. 1289 , Series 1992,
all of which resolutions were duly adopted by Council, have been
fulfilled.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO:
Section 1. All actions (not inconsistent with the provisions of
this ordinance) heretofore taken by the Council and the officials of
the City directed toward the financing of the cost of the Project and
the issuance and the sale of the Bonds therefor be, and the same are,
hereby ratified, approved, and confirmed.
Section 2. Subject to the provisions of the following sentence,
the City shall finance the costs of the Project in accordance with the
provisions of the Agreement. The Mayor of the City, following the
adoption hereof by the Council and the public hearing on the Project
to be held on May ll, 1992 is hereby authorized, in his discretion,
to execute an approval certificate indicating public approval of the
Bonds and the Project by the applicable elected representative of the
City for purposes of Section 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986.
Section 3. The City hereby finds and determines that the
issuance of the Bonds by the City to finance the costs of the Project
is in the public interest and will enable or assist the Corporation
to fulfill its obligations to provide nursing home facilities and
services.
Section 4. The City hereby finds and determines that the
Project, to the extent required by law, has been reviewed and approved
by the appropriate regional and state health planning agency and has
been granted the appropriate certificate by such agency.
Section 5. To defray the costs of the Project, to pay
capitalized interest on the Bonds, to make an initial deposit into
Bond Reserve Fund created by the Indenture, and to finance certain
incidental expenses incurred in issuing the Bonds, there is hereby
authorized and created an issue of qualified 501(c)(3) revenue bonds
designated "City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado Qualified 501(c)(3) Revenue
Bonds (Mountain Vista Health Center, Inc. - Mountain Vista Project)
Series 1992" to be issued in a maximum aggregate principal amount of
$11,500,000, as fully registered bonds in the denomination of $100,000
or any integral multiple of $5,000 in excess thereof, dated as
provided in the Indenture, bearing interest from their date payable
semiannually on each May I and November 1 commencing November 1, 1992,
at an interest rate not to exceed 15% per annum and maturing on May
1, 2022. The actual principal amount of the Bonds and the rate of
interest thereon shall be as approved by the Mayor and the City Clerk
at the time of the execution of the Indenture and the Bonds; provided,
however, such amount and rate shall not exceed the maximum established
herein.
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The Bonds shall be payable, shall be subject to redemption prior
to maturity and shall be in substantially the form provided in the
Indenture. The Bonds shall be privately placed by Gates Capital Corp.
pursuant to the terms contained in the Placement Agent Agreement
presented at this meeting and shall be sold to a purchaser or
purchasers to be identified by Gates Capital Corp. prior to the
closing on such sale.
Section 6. The forms, terms, and provisions of the Agreement,
the Indenture and the Placement Agent Agreement be, and they hereby
are, approved and the City shall enter into the Agreement, the
Indenture and the Placement Agent Agreement substantially in the form
of each of such document presented to the Council at this meeting,
with only such changes therein as shall be approved by the Mayor and
the City Clerk at the time of the execution of such documents; and the
Mayor and the City Clerk are hereby authorized to execute and deliver
the Agreement, the Indenture and the Placement Agent Agreement, their
execution thereof conclusively evidencing the approval of the terms
contained therein by the City.
Section 7. The form of and the distribution and use by Gates
Capital Corp. of the Preliminary Limited Offering Memorandum, a draft
of which has been presented at this meeting, is hereby ratified,
approved and confirmed. The Mayor is authorized and directed to
approve, on behalf of the City, a final Limited Offering Memorandum
for use in connection with the private placement with, and sale of the
Bonds to, the purchaser or purchasers to be identified by Gates
Capital Corp prior to the closing of such sale. The execution of the
final Limited Offering Memorandum by the Mayor shall be conclusively
deemed to evidence the approval of the form and contents thereof by
the City.
Section 8. The form, terms, and provisions of the Bonds,
substantially in the form contained in the Indenture, be and they
hereby are approved, with only such changes therein as shall be
approved by the Mayor and the City Clerk at the time of the execution
of the Bonds; and the Mayor and the City Clerk are each hereby
authorized to execute the Bonds, either by manual or facsimile
signature, their execution thereof conclusively evidencing the
approval of the terms contained therein by the City and each is
authorized to deliver the Bonds, and the seal of the City or a
facsimile thereof is hereby authorized to be affixed to the Bonds.
Section 9. The Mayor and the City Clerk are hereby authorized
to execute and deliver to the Trustee the written order of the City
for the authentication and delivery of the Bonds by the Trustee, in
accordance with Section 2.07 of the Indenture.
Section 10. In consideration of the purchase and acceptance of
the Bonds by those who shall own the Bonds from time to time, the
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provisions of this ordinance shall be part of the contract of the City
with the owners of the Bonds, and shall be deemed to be and shall
constitute a contract between the City and the owners, from time to
time, of the Bonds.
Section 11. The members of the Council and officials of the City
shall take all actions necessary or reasonably required by the parties
to the Agreement to effectuate its provisions and shall take all
actions necessary or desirable, in conformity with the Act, to finance
the costs of the Project and for carrying out the transactions
contemplated by this ordinance, including wi thout limitation the
execution and delivery of any closing documents to be delivered in
connection with the sale and delivery of the Bonds.
Section 12. The costs of the Project will be paid from the
proceeds of the Bonds, and the Bonds shall not constitute or become
an indebtedness, a debt or a liability of the State of Colorado, or
of any county, city, city and county, town, school district, or other
subdivision or body corporate and politic within the state of Colorado
other than the city (to the extent provided in the Indenture) and
neither the State of Colorado, nor any county, city, city and county,
town, school district or other subdivision of the State of Colorado
other than the city (to the extent provided in the Indenture) shall
be liable thereon nor shall the Bonds constitute the giving, pledging
or loaning of the faith and credit of the City, the State of Colorado,
or of any county, city, city and county, town, school district, or
other subdivision or body corporate and politic within the State of
Colorado, but shall be payable solely from the funds pledged therefor
pursuant to the Indenture. The issuance of the Bonds shall not,
directly or indirectly or contingently, obligate the City, the State
of Colorado or any subdivision of the State of Colorado, nor empower
the City to levy or collect any form of taxes or assessments. Neither
the members of the Council nor any person executing the Bonds shall
be liable personally on the Bonds or be subject to any personal
liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof.
Section 13. After any of the Bonds are issued, this ordinance
shall be and remain irrepealable until all the Bonds and the interest
thereon shall have fully paid, cancelled, and discharged.
Section 14. If any section, paragraph, clause, or provision of
this ordinance shall for any reason be held to be invalid or
unenforceable, the invalidi ty or unenforceabili ty of such section,
paragraph, clause, or provision shall not affect any of the remaining
provisions of this ordinance.
Section 15. All ordinances and resolutions, or parts thereof,
inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed to the extent only of such
inconsistency. This repealer shall not be construed as reviving any
ordinance or resolution, or part thereof.
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Section 16. This ordinance shall be in full force and take
effect the day following final publication.
INTRODUCED, READ, AND ADOPTED on first reading by a vote for -L-
to -1- on the 13th day of April, 1992, ordered pUblished in full in
a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Wheat Ridge and
Public Hearing and consideration on final pd85age set for May 11,
1992, at 7130 p.m., in the Council Chambers, 7500 West 29th Ayenue,
Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
READ, ADOP~~D AND ORDERED PUBLISHED in !ull
reading, as amended, by a vote of ~______ to
day of May, 1992.
on second and final
1 , this 11th
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Ray W1ng, ) Jr., M~or I
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Wanda Sang, City Cle;k
1st Publication: Apri 1 21..... 1992
2nd Publication I May 21, 1992
Wheat Ridge Jefferson
Sentinel
Effective Date I May 22, 1992
APPROVED AS 'rP FORM BY:
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JOh~. Hayes, City Attorney