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2017-01 Refinancing bonds park purposes RESOLUTION 2017-01 RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ENCINITAS PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF ITS REFUNDING REVENUE BONDS IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT TO EXCEED $15,000,000 IN CONNECTION WITH THE REFINANCING OF THE ACQUISITION OF LAND FOR PUBLIC PARKS, AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING EXECUTION OF AN INDENTURE OF TRUST AND AN AMENDED AND RESTATED LEASE AGREEMENT, ESCROW DEPOSIT AND TRUST AGREEMENT AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF THE BONDS AND AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT AND AUTHORIZING OFFICIAL ACTIONS AND EXECUTION OF RELATED DOCUMENTS WHEREAS, the Encinitas Public Financing Authority (the "Authority") has been formed pursuant to a Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement originally executed by and among the City of Encinitas (the "City"), Cardiff Sanitation District, Encinitas Fire Protection District, Encinitas Sanitation District, and San Dieguito Water District, and is authorized under said Agreement and under the laws of the State of California to finance the acquisition and construction of public capital improvements for the City; and WHEREAS, the City has requested the Authority to issue its bonds for the purpose of providing funds to enable the City to refinance the acquisition of land to be used as a public park (the "2001 Project'); and WHEREAS, the Authority has previously issued its 2010 Lease Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series A (Park Project) (the "2010 Bonds") in an original principal amount of $19,530,000; and WHEREAS, the 2010 Bonds were issued for the purpose of refunding the cost of acquiring the 2001 Project which 2010 Bonds are payable from lease payments to be paid to the 26353,00015�29414950A Authority by the City pursuant to an Amended and Restated Lease Agreement between the City and Encinitas Public Financing Authority dated August 1, 2010 (the "2010 Lease Agreement"); and WHEREAS, to defease and redeem the 2010 Bonds, if financially feasible, the Authority proposes to issue its lease revenue bonds (the "Bonds") in an aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $15,000,000 under the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 6584) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code of the State of California (the "Act"), which are proposed to be payable from the revenues to be derived by the Authority from lease payments to be made by the City for the lease of certain facilities pursuant to a Second Amended and Restated Lease Agreement dated March 1, 2017 relating to refinancing of the 2001 Project (the "Lease Agreement"); and WHEREAS, if financially feasible to do so, a portion of the proceeds of the Bonds will be deposited in an escrow established under an Escrow Deposit and Trust Agreement, and used to prepay the lease payments to be made under the 2010 Lease Agreement and defease and redeem the 2010 Bonds; and WHEREAS, the Authority has determined that the Bonds should be initially offered for sale on a competitive basis and there has been presented to the Authority a form of notice of sale to be used in connection with the sale thereof; and WHEREAS, in order to maintain the maximum flexibility in the sale of the Bonds during the current fluctuating conditions in the municipal bond market, the Authority has further determined to authorize, as an alternative to offering the Bonds for sale on a competitive basis, that the Bonds be offered for sale on a negotiated basis if the Authority is unable, as a 2 26353.00015\29414950 4 result of such market conditions, to sell the Bonds on a competitive basis on terms that are in the best financial interests of the Authority; and WHEREAS, the Board of the Authority (the "Board") has duly considered such transactions and has determined that it approves said transactions in the public interests of the City and the Authority; THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of the Encinitas Public Financing Authority as follows: Section 1. Findings and Determinations. (a) Pursuant to the Act, the Board hereby finds and determines that the issuance of the Bonds will result in savings in effective interest rates, bond underwriting costs and bond issuance costs and thereby result in significant public benefits within the contemplation of Section 6586 of the Act. (b) The Board finds and determines that the above recitals are true and correct and that the fair rental value of the 2001 Project exceeds the present value of Lease Payments to be made under the Lease Agreement. Section 2. Issuance of Bonds. The Board hereby authorizes the issuance of the Bonds for the purpose of refinancing the 2010 Bonds under and pursuant to the Act, in the maximum aggregate principal amount not to exceed $15,000,000. Section 3. Approval of Financing Documents. The Board hereby approves each of the following documents in substantially the respective forms on file with the Secretary, together with such additions thereto and changes therein as Bond Counsel shall deem necessary, desirable or appropriate, the execution of which by the Chairperson, the Vice Chairperson or the 3 26353.00015\29414950.4 Executive Director shall be conclusive evidence of the approval of any such additions and changes: (1) the Indenture of Trust relating to the issuance of the Bonds and to the 2001 Project, by and between MUFG Union Bank, N.A. (the"Trustee") and the Authority; (2) the Second Amended and Restated Lease Agreement relating to the lease of the 2010 Project by the City from the Authority for the purpose of refinancing the existing 2001 Lease Agreement; and (3) the Escrow Deposit and Trust Agreement, by and among the City, the Authority and MUFG Union Bank, N.A. The Chairperson, the Vice Chairperson, the Executive Director or the Treasurer are hereby authorized and directed to execute, and the Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to attest and affix the seal of the Authority to, the final form of each of the foregoing documents and agreements for and in the name and on behalf of the Authority. The Board hereby authorizes the delivery and performance of each of the foregoing documents and agreements. Section 4. Official Notice of Sale. The form of Official Notice of Sale as presented to this meeting and as attached hereto as Exhibit A, is hereby approved and the Executive Director, or her designee, is hereby authorized and directed to execute the same in substantially the form presented to this meeting, with such changes therein as he may approve, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof. Section 5. Award of Sale of Bonds; Final Terms of Bonds. The Authority hereby authorizes the sale of the Bonds at competitive or negotiated sale pursuant to and consistent with 4 26353.00015\29414950.4 the terms and conditions of this resolution. In the case of a competitive bid, the terms of the Bonds are hereby established as follows: (i) the final principal amount of the Bonds shall not exceed $15,000,000 in the aggregate; and (ii) the Executive Director, or her designee, is hereby authorized and directed to award the sale of the Bonds to the bidder with the lowest true interest cost. Following publication of the Notice of Intention to Sell Securities and the distribution of the Official Notice of Sale as provided for in Section 6 below and the receipt of competitive bids for the sale of the Bonds, the Executive Director, or her designee, may accept or reject all or any of the bids received on the Bonds. In any event, if the Executive Director, in consultation with the Authority's Municipal Advisor, determines that a competitive sale of the bonds would not be likely to produce the best financial result for the Authority, the Executive Director is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of the Bonds with one or more underwriters (the "Underwriter") and execute and deliver the Purchase Contract pursuant to Section 7 hereof. Section 6. Publication of Notice. The Secretary in cooperation with the City Clerk of the City and Bond Counsel is hereby authorized and directed to publish a Notice of Intention to Sell Securities in The Bond Buyer at least 5 days prior to the date bids are to be received. The Secretary, in cooperation with the Municipal Advisor, shall cause the Official Notice Inviting Bids to be circulated among prospective bidders. Section 7. Purchase Contract. Subject to the provisions of Section 8 hereof, in the event of a negotiated sale of the Bonds, the Executive Director or her designee is hereby authorized and directed to negotiate and evidence the Authority's acceptance of the offer made by a Purchase Contract by executing and delivering such Purchase Contract in a form as the 5 26353.00015\29414950 4 officer executing the same may approve and such matters are as authorized by Section 8 hereof, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof. Section 8. Executive Director Authorized to Establish Final Terms of Ne otg iated Sale of Bonds. In the event of a negotiated sale of the Bonds, the Executive Director, or her designee based on such advice of Authority staff and the Authority's financial consultant as said officer may deem necessary, is hereby authorized and directed to act on behalf of the Authority to establish and determine (i) the final principal amount of the various maturities of the Bonds, which amount shall not exceed $15,000,000 in the aggregate; (ii) the final interest rates on various maturities of the Bonds shall result in net present value savings of debt service from the 2010 Bonds of at least 5.00%. Section 9. Official Statement; Continuing Disclosure. The Board hereby approves the preparation of, and hereby authorizes the Executive Director to deem final within the meaning of Rule 15c2-12 of the Securities and Exchange Commission except for permitted omissions, a preliminary form of Official Statement of the Bonds. The Executive Director or the Treasurer is hereby authorized to execute the final Official Statement in the name and on behalf of the Authority, including any modifications resulting from additions thereto and changes therein as Bond Counsel shall deem necessary, desirable or appropriate, with the execution of the final Official Statement by the Chairperson to be conclusive evidence of the approval of any such additions and changes. The Executive Director or the Treasurer is further authorized to sign on behalf of the Authority a continuing disclosure certificate with respect to the financing, in such farm as may be approved by Bond Counsel. Section 10. Official Actions. The Chairperson, the Vice Chairperson, the Executive Director, the Treasurer, the Secretary and any and all other officers of the Authority 6 26353.00015\29414950.4 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 obtaining a rating on the Bonds and/or a municipal bond insurance policy and a debt service reserve fund surety bond, and including execution and delivery of any and all assignments, certificates, requisitions, agreements, notices, consents, instruments of conveyance, warrants and other documents, which they, or any of them, may deem necessary or advisable in connection with the issuance and sale of the Bonds. Section 11. Effective Date. This Resolution shall take effect from and after the date of its passage and adoption. ADOPTED this 25th day of January, 2017. /7 Catherine S. Blakespear, Chairperson ATTEST: a Cad V Kathy Hollywood, Secretary of the Public Financing Authority 7 26353.00015\29414950.4 CERTIFICATION I, Kathy Hollywood, Secretary of the Encinitas Public Financing Authority, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the Board of Directors of the Encinitas Public Financing Authority at a regular meeting thereof held on the 25`h day of January, 2017, by the following vote of the Public Financing Authority: AYES: Blakespear, Boerner Horvath, Kranz, Mosca, Muir NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAINED: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the Encinitas Public Financing Authority this day of 12017. Kathy Hollywoo Secretary of the Encinitas Public Financing Authority (SEAL) 26353.00015\294 14950.4