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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20071516.tiff RESOLUTION RE: APPROVE A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF WELD COUNTY, COLORADO, REVENUE BOND (NORTH RANGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROJECT) SERIES 2007, IN A TOTAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $4,500,000; MAKING DETERMINATIONS AS TO SUFFICIENCY OF REVENUES AND AS TO OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO THE PROJECT AND APPROVING THE FORM AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS RELATING THERETO WHEREAS,Weld County, Colorado (the "Issuer"), is authorized by the provisions of the County and Municipality Development Revenue Bond Act, article 3 of title 29, Colorado Revised Statutes, as amended (the"Act"), to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of financing projects to be located within the Issuer for the purposes enumerated in the Act, to enter into financing agreements with others for the purpose of providing revenues to pay such bonds, and further to secure the payment of such bonds, and WHEREAS,the Act provides that title to any project may at all times remain in the name of the user of the project, and WHEREAS, North Range Behavioral Health, a Colorado nonprofit corporation and an organization described in Section 501(c)(3)of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,as amended(the "Borrower"),has requested that the Issuer issue its revenue bond in accordance with the Act,such bond to be designated Weld County, Colorado, Revenue Bond (North Range Behavioral Health Project) Series 2007 (the "Bond"), the proceeds of which shall be loaned to the Borrower for the purposes of providing funds to (i)finance the construction and equipping of a 33,000 square foot office building located at 1300 N. 17th Avenue, Greeley, Colorado (the "Project"), and (ii) paying certain costs relating to the issuance of the Bond, and WHEREAS, a Financing Agreement, to be dated as of May 1, 2007 (the "Agreement"), among the Issuer, the Borrower and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., a national banking association (the "Bank") has been submitted to the Board of County Commissioners (the"Board")and filed in the office of the County Clerk (the "Clerk"), and is there available for public inspection, and WHEREAS,the Board desires at this time to authorize the issuance of the Bond, for the purpose of the Project, and WHEREAS,a public hearing before the Board concerning the proposed Bonds and the nature and location of the Project is scheduled to be held on May 30,2007,and such public hearing in accordance with Section 147(f)of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 will be required as condition to the issuance and sale of the Bonds, and WHEREAS,it is necessary or desirable to authorize the issuance of the Bond by Resolution and to approve the form and authorize the execution of the Agreement. 2007-1516 nn FI0045 ( ' ' Qth /y U RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF BONDS(NORTH RANGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH) PAGE 2 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WELD COUNTY, COLORADO: Section 1. Approvals and Authorizations. The form of the Agreement,including the form of Bond (collectively, the "Issuer Documents") are hereby approved. The Chair of the Board of County Commissioners or any other Commissioner and the Clerk or a deputy are hereby authorized and directed to execute the Issuer Documents and to affix the seal of the Issuer thereto, and further to execute and authenticate such other documents, instruments or certificates as are deemed necessary or desirable by bond counsel in orderto issue and secure the Bond. Such documents are to be executed in substantially the form hereinabove approved, provided that such documents may be completed, corrected, or revised as deemed necessary by the parties thereto in order to carry out the purposes of this Resolution. Copies of all of the documents shall be delivered, filed and recorded as provided therein. The proper officers of the Issuer are hereby authorized and directed to prepare and furnish to bond counsel certified copies of all proceedings and records of the Issuer relating to the Bond and such other affidavits and certificates as may be required to show the facts relating to the authorization and issuance thereof, as such facts appear from the books and records in such officers' custody and control. The approval hereby given to the various documents referred to above includes the approval of such additional details therein as may be necessary and appropriate for their completion and such modifications thereof,deletions therefrom, and additions thereto as may be approved by bond counsel prior to the execution of the documents. The execution of any instrument by the appropriate officers of the Issuer herein authorized shall be conclusive evidence of the approval by the Issuer of such instrument in accordance with the terms hereof. Section 2. Issuance and Sale of Bond. The Issuer shall issue its Revenue Bond (North Range Behavioral Health Project)Series 2007,to be in registered form and to be dated as provided in the Agreement, in a total principal amount not to exceed $4,500,000, for the purposes, in the forms and upon the terms set forth in this Resolution and the Agreement, including the form of the Bond as set forth in the Agreement. The Bond shall be payable in the manner and to the persons set forth in the Agreement and the form of the Bond set forth therein. The maximum net effective interest rate authorized for the Bond shall not exceed 6% per annum, until the date of maturity. Section 3. Determinations. It is hereby found, determined and declared, that: 2007-1516 FI0045 RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF BONDS(NORTH RANGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH) PAGE 3 (a) The financing of the Project will promote the public health,welfare, safety,convenience and prosperity and promote and develop trade or other economic activity by inducing a non-profit corporation to locate, expand or remain in the Issuer and the State of Colorado to secure and maintain a balanced and stable economy for the Issuer and the State of Colorado. (b) The maximum amounts necessary in each year to pay the principal of and interest on the Bond and the interest rate or rates to be borne by the Bond are as provided in the Agreement. (c) The payments required in the Agreement to be made are sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Bond when due,and to pay all other costs required in the Agreement to be paid, including all sums referred to in paragraphs (b), (d) and (e) of this section. (d) The Agreement provides that the Borrower shall maintain the Project in good repair and carry all proper insurance with respect thereto. (e) The Agreement requires that the Borrower pay the taxes and other governmental charges with respect to the Project, including taxes and charges which the taxing entities specified in C.R.S. Section 29-3-120 are entitled to receive, and sufficient revenues for such purpose are thereby provided. (f) The Issuer hereby certifies that the reasonably anticipated aggregate amount of tax-exempt obligations which will be issued by the Issuer and all subordinate entities of the Issuer during the calendar year 2007(excluding the portion of obligations issued to currently refund any obligation to the extent the amount of the refunding obligation does not exceed the outstanding amount of the refunded obligation) will not exceed $10,000,000. Accordingly, The Issuer hereby designates the Bond for purposes of Section 265(b)(3)of the Code as a "qualified tax-exempt obligation." Section 4. Nature of Obligation. Under the provisions of the Act and the Supplemental Public Securities Act, constituting Title 11, Article 57, Part 2, C.R.S. (the "Supplemental Act") and as provided in the Agreement and the Bond, the Bond shall be a special, limited obligation of the Issuer payable solely from, and secured by a pledge of,the revenues derived from the Agreement,and any deed of trust provided by the Borrower. The Issuer will not pledge any of its property or secure the payment of the Bond with its property. The Bond and the interest thereon shall never constitute the debt or indebtedness or a multi-yearfiscal obligation or the financial obligation of the State of Colorado or any political subdivision thereof, including the Issuer,within the meaning of any provision or limitation of the Colorado Constitution or statutes of the State of Colorado,and shall not constitute or give rise to a pecuniary liability 2007-1516 FI0045 RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF BONDS(NORTH RANGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH) PAGE 4 of the Issuer, its agents, employees or officers, or a charge against its general credit or taxing powers. In entering into the Issuer Documents,the Issuer will not obligate itself, except with respect to the application of the revenues derived from the Agreement and the Bond proceeds. The Issuer will not pay out of its general fund or otherwise contribute any part of the cost of financing the Project. No costs are to be borne by the Issuer in connection with the issuance of the Bond. The Agreement provides that all fees and expenses of the Issuer shall be paid by the Borrower. Section 5. Bond Printing and Related Matters. The officers of the Issuer are hereby authorized and directed to arrange for the printing of the Bond,provided that, subject to Section 3(c) above, the Borrower shall pay for all costs in connection with the preparation and printing of the Bond and no such costs are to be borne by the Issuer. The Bond will be purchased by the Bank in accordance with the Agreement. Section 6. Bond Resolution Irrepealable. After the Bond is issued,this Resolution shall constitute an irrevocable contract between the Issuer and the holder(s)of the Bond and shall be and remain irrepealable until the Bond, both principal and interest, shall be fully paid, cancelled and discharged. Section 7. Ratification. All actions heretofore taken by the Issuer and by the officers thereof or on their behalf not inconsistent herewith directed toward the financing of the Project and the issuance and sale of the Bond, or the conduct of a public hearing relating to the issuance of the Bond or the location and nature of the Project, are hereby ratified, approved and confirmed. Section 8. Repealer. All acts, orders, resolutions or parts thereof, taken by the Issuer and in conflict with this Resolution, are hereby repealed except that this repealer shall not be construed so as to revive any act, order, resolution or part thereof heretofore repealed. Section 9. Other Matters. By the passage of this Resolution,the Board does not intend to approve, nor is it approving hereby, any matters relating to licensing, subdivision zoning, planning or landscaping of the Project. Approval of such matters must be obtained under normal procedures of the Issuer. Section 10. Severability. If any paragraph,clause,section or provision of this Resolution, except Section 4 hereof,is judicially adjudged invalid or unenforceable,such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remaining paragraphs, clauses, sections or provisions hereof Section 11. Effective Date. This Resolution shall be effective immediately. 2007-1516 FI0045 RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF BONDS(NORTH RANGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH) PAGE 5 The above and foregoing Resolution was,on motion duly made and seconded adopted by the following vote on the 30th day of May, A.D., 2007. a._T BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS a .W COUNTY, COLORADO i 4/1 f, t'"'_ I tit.ATTEST: � }�` ;, it. Long, Chair Weld County Clerk to the Boar L / UFl% m . r a Pro- em BY:\. At : £2i0dar W F. Garci A ED F EXCUSED Robert D. Masden orney ...--- Douglas ademache 2007-1516 FI0045 rs CLERK TO THE BOARD PHONE (970) 336-7215, EXT.4218 FAX: (970) 352-0242 P.O. BOX 758 wimiGREELEY, COLORADO 80632 C. COLORADO STATE OF COLORADO) ss COUNTY OF WELD ) I, Donald D. Warden, Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners, in and for the County of Weld, State of Colorado, do hereby certify that the attached copy of Resolution#2007-1516, authorizing the issuance of Weld County,Colorado, Revenue Bond(North Range Behavioral Health Project) Series 2007, in the total principal amount not to exceed $4,500,000(the "Bond") is a true and correct copy thereof as finally enacted,passed,and adopted by the Board at a regular meeting thereof held at 915 10th Street, 1st Floor, Greeley, Colorado 80631, the regular meeting place thereof,on Wednesday the 30th day of May,2007;that the original of said Resolution has been duly executed and authenticated by the signatures of the Board of County Commissioners of the County and myself, sealed with the seal of the County,and recorded in the Resolution Book of the County; that a public hearing on the nature and location of the project to be financed with proceeds of the Bond and on the Bond was held at a regular meeting of the Board on Wednesday, the 30th day of May,2007,following publication of a notice of hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in Weld County, Colorado, as evidenced by the affidavit of publication attached hereto; that the attached constitutes a full,true,and correct copy of the record of the proceedings of the Board at said regular meeting insofar as said proceedings relate to said Resolution and hearing; that said proceedings were duly had and taken; and that said meeting was duly held and that the persons were present at said meeting as therein shown. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Greeley, Colorado, this 30th day of May, 2007. Elle 1 - 361 t O T E : •ARD ;.T t/ I ® ?.� �ti '), V Sri ( tYk TY C ERK TO THE BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING THE ISSUANCE OF WELD COUNTY,COLORADO REVENUE BOND (NORTH RANGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROJECT) SERIES 2007 PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held on May 30, 2007, commencing at the hour of 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, at ls` floor, 915 10th Street, Greeley, Colorado 80631 for the purpose of providing a reasonable opportunity for interested individuals to express their views, orally or in writing, on the issuance by Weld County, Colorado (the "Issuer") of the above-referenced Bond (the "Bond") and the nature of the project described below which will be financed through the issuance of the Bond. The Issuer has been requested by North Range Behavioral Health, a Colorado nonprofit corporation (the `Borrower"), to issue the Bond in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $4,500,000 to fund a loan by the Issuer to the Borrower for the purposes of(i) providing funds to finance the construction and equipping of a 33,000 square foot office building located at 1121 M Street, Greeley, Colorado (the "Project"), and (ii) paying certain costs relating to the issuance of the Bond. The Project will be owned and operated by the Borrower. Interested members of the public are invited to attend the public hearing. Persons desiring to obtain additional information concerning the Bond or the Project in advance of the hearing should contact the Issuer at the address shown below. WELD COUNTY 910 10th Street Greeley, Colorado 80631 /s/ David Long By: David Long, Chair, Board of County Commissioners 2007-1516 STATE OF COLORADO ) )ss. COUNTY OF WELD ) Proof of publication of Notice of Public Hearing TICE OF PUBUC NONCERNI GTHEISEIUBNG PROOF OF PUBLICATION CONCERNING THE ISSUANCE Of WELD COUNTY.COLORADO FORT LUPTON REVENUE BOND (NORM TM ,BEHAVIORAL STATE OF COLORADO HECT) SERIES 2007 COUNTY OF WELD SS. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN at public Ilea bl w commencing at hour of a.m., or as aeon thereafter as I, Karen Lambert, do solemnly swear that I Street.° Geneeley`Colorado58063, am the Publisher of the Fort Lupton Press;! for the purpose of providing a that the same is a weekly newspaper printed reasonableMerested individuals for 10 express thew view,.orally or in wnbng,on and published in the County of Weld, State Colorade o °rissuer)er County. thhe of Colorado, and has a general circulation above-referenced Bag (the *Bond)and the nature a the therein; that said newspaper has been project described belowbe financed issuance published continuously and uninterruptedly of d by Nor h has been in said county of Weld for a period of more Behavioral Health, a Colorado nonprofit corporation (the than fifty-two consecutive weeks prior to the 'Borrower),to Issue the Bond in an aggregate pnncipal amount not first publication of the annexed legal notice to exceed 54.500.000 to fund a loan to the Borrower or advertisement; that said newspaper has for finance of ccoons°r"� been admitted to the United States mails as and equipping ° bulking located aor a 3U.000 14Uare 1300 second-class matter under the provisions of N. 17th Avenue, Greeley, Colorado (the project,. and (a) the act of March 3, 1879, or any paying certain costs relating to the of Ste Band.The Pm ect amendments thereof, and that said WILIIIIS:Borrower. °°°"a°°" newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly Interested members of the public are invited to attend the public qualified for publishing legal notices and rearing. Persons desmng to obtain additional information advertisements within the meaning of the mar ng of the heanng BOW or the Project laws of the State of Colorado. That the contact low Issuer at ""address annexed legal notice or advertisement was WELD COUNTY published in the regular and entire issue of 910 Greeley.Colorado Street rado 9063131 every number of said weekly newspaper for ILDavtl the period of 1 consecutive insertion(s); and BY David that the first publication of said notice w as County.Commoarers Fret Name of Pudon reey 9,17123357 of Publication Fort Lupton in the issue of newspaper, dated 9th day of Press May, 2007, and the last on the 9th day of May, 2007. Publisher. Subscribed and Adorn before me,this the 9th day of May, 2007. C " LCp �Ue IC. 11 ° o OFCOVp CASE NO. i?' ey 41151 Page 1 of 2 Esther Gesick From: Don Warden Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:32 PM To: Esther Gesick Subject: FW: North Range Behavioral Health Attachments: North Range Tefra Notice.DOC FYI. Here is the notice for the TEFRA hearing for the North Front range behavioral project. They will have it published, so we do not have to do anything. Don From: Jackie Morrison [mailto:jmorrison@kvfirm.com] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:50 PM To: Don Warden; Bruce Barker; john.rattle@northrange.org; ehren.e.hunter@wellsfargo.com; Isimons@celaw.com Cc: bkline@kvfirm.com; john.h.self@wellsfargo.com; Cynthia.M.Slawson@wellsfargo.com Subject: North Range Behavioral Health Good afternoon all, Attached please find the TEFRA notice for the North Range project to be sent to the Ft. Lupton Press on May 4 and published on May 9. Please contact me with any changes no later than Wednesday, May 2. The public hearing will be held on May 30. Thank you, Jackie Jacqueline L. 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