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RESOLUTION NO. 97 - 1980
RESOLUTION GIVING PRELIMINARY APPROVAL TO A PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT BY THE WEBB COMPANY UNDER THE MUNICIPAL
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ACT AND AUTHORIZING SUBMISSION OF AN
APPLICATION TO THE COMMISSIONER OF SECURITIES FOR APPROVAL
THEREOF
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Fridley, Minnesota as follows:
1. There has been presented to this Council a proposal by the Webb Company, a
Delaware corporation (the "Company ") that the City undertake a project pursuant
to the Minnesota Municipal Industrial Development Act (Minnesota Statutes,
Chapter 474) for the acquisition, construction and equipping of a printing
facility (the "Project). Under the proposal, the Project will be owned by the
Company and the Company will enter into a Loan Agreement with the City upon such
terms and conditions as are necessary to produce income and revenue sufficient to
pay when due the principal of and interest on up to approximately $9,000,000
Industrial Development Revenue Bonds of the City to be issued pursuant to said
Chapter 474, Minnesota Statutes, to provide monies for the acquisition,
construction and equipping of the Project, and the City will pledge its interest
in the Loan Agreement to a trustee for the bondholders.
2. As required by said Chapter 474, Minnesota Statutes, this Council conducted a
public hearing on September 8, 1980, on the proposal to undertake and finance the
Project, after publication in the official newspaper and a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of a notice of the time and place of hearing, stating the
general nature of the Project and an estimate of the principal amount of bonds or
other obligations to be issued to finance the Project and stating that a draft
copy of the proposed Application to the Commissioner of Securities, together with
all attachments and exhibits thereto, shall be available for public inspection at
the office of the City Clerk, in the City Hall, Fridley, Minnesota, at all times
between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. each day except Saturdays, Sundays
and holidays to and including the day of hearing; and all parties who appeared at
the public hearing were given an opportunity to express their views with respect
to the proposal.
3. It is hereby found, determined and declared that the purpose of the Project
is and the effect thereof will be to promote the public welfare by the
attraction, encouragement and development of economically sound industry,
agriculture and commerce so as to prevent, so far as possible, the emergence of
blighted and marginal lands and areas of chronic unemployment; the retention and
development of industry to use the available resources of the community, in order
to retain the benefit of their existing investment in educational and public
service facilities, by halting the movement of talented and educated personnel of
mature age to other areas and thus preserving the economic and human resources
needed as a base for providing governmental services and facilities; the more
intensive development of land available in the area; and the more intensive
development of land available in the area to provide a more adequate tax base to
finance the cost of governmental services in the City, county, and school
district where the Project is located.
4. The Company has entered into preliminary discussions with Piper, Jaffray & I
Hapwood Incorporated as Underwriter, and the Underwriter has reported that the
Project and the sale of bonds therefor are feasible.
5. The Project is hereby given preliminary approval by the City subject to
approval of the Project by the Commissioner of Securities and subject to final
approval by this Council and by the purchasers of any bonds to be issued and as
to the ultimate details of the Project.
6. In accordance with Section 474.01, Subd. 7, Minnesota Statutes, the Mayor,
the City Clerk, and such other officers and representatives of the City as may
from time to time be designated are hereby authorized and directed to submit the
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proposal for the Project to the Commissioner of Securities and request her
approval thereof, and the Mayor, the City Clerk, and other officers, employees
and agents of the City are hereby authorized to provide the Commissioner with
such preliminary information as she may require. The Company, Messrs. Faegre &
Benson as bond counsel, the Underwriter, the City Attorney, and other City
officials are also authorized to initiate the preparation of a proposed loan
agreement, mortgage and such other documents as may be necessary or appropriate
to the Project so that, when and if the proposed Project is approved by the
Commissioner and this Council gives its final approval thereto, the Project may
be carried forward expeditiously.
7. The Company has agreed to pay any and all costs incurred by the City in
connection with the Project whether or not the Project is approved by the
Commissioner and whether or not the Project is carried to completion.
8. The Company is hereby authorized to enter into such contracts, in its own
name and not as agent for the City, as may be necessary for the construction of
the Project by any means available to it and in the manner it determines without
advertisement for bids as may be required for the acquisition or construction of
other municpal facilities, but the City shall not be liable on any such contracts.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FRIDLEY THIS 8TH DAY OF
SEPTEMBER, 1980.
MAYOR - WILLIAM J. NEE
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