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A RESOLUTION RELATING TO A FISCAL AGENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF RE-
PRESENTING THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY IN THE ISSUANCE OF INDUSTRIAL
BUILDING REVENUE BONDS•
WHEREAS, The Kentucky Company, Louisville, Kentucky, a firm of wide
experience in investment banking, including the issuance of industrial
building revenue bonds, has presented a proposal dated March 30, 1965,
1-v whish it will supervise all of the proceedings in connection with
the issuance of iddustrial building revenue bonds to finance the
acquisition of an industrial building and improvements thereto, which
form of.arreement is deemed for the best -interests of the'City,.and
WHEREAS, such form of agreement has been read in full,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY,.THROUGH ID'S CITY
COUNCIL that it does hereby accept such following proposal:
Louisville, Kentucky
March 30,'-1965
To the -Honorable Mayor and
Members of the .City. Council
Paducah, Kentucky
Centlemen:
We understand that you would like to issue approximately x',4.00,000
face amount of Industrial Building Revenue Bonds pursuant to Kentucky
Revised -Statutes, to finance the acquisition pf an -industrial building
and related improvements to be leased to Rupert Die Casting Company,
a Missouri Corporation. -The industrial building is presently near the
existing city limits of Paducah, Kentucky.
Having had wide experience acting as fiscal agents and financial
consultants to cities, counties, and other governmental authorities,
and to the -Commonwealth of Kentucky and its Agencies in the issuance
of manv types of municipal bonds, -and beim experienced in the is-
suance of revenue.honds .for industrial plants under the provisions
of Chapter 102 of Kentuckv Revised Statutes, we are familiar with the
procedures and requirements involved in preparing and issuing bonds
to finance the above project. In view of the many difficulties and
responsibilities involved in workine•-out the planning and .financing
of such a proiect and in view of our wide experience in municipal
planning-, financing and the issuance of bonds, we propose that you
enter into this arreement,,'bv which we will act as ,your exclusive
Fiscal Arent for assisting you in connection.with the foregoing.
Under the terms of our proposal we will:
1. Cooperate with your representatives.in:
(a) Determining the best plan for working out such a
protect.
(b) Negotiating a satisfactory Contract of Lease and
Rent between the City and Rupert Die Casting Company.
(c) Considering* the total amount of bonds which will be
needed to finance such project
(d) Preparing a schedule of maturities for such pro-
posed bonds.
(e) Formulating a schedule of payments which will he
necessary in order to pay the interest on and retire
the principal of such bonds.
2. Retain a nationallv-recogni zed firm of municipal bond attor-
neys, who will:
(a) Draft such resolutions, ordinances, minutes, notices,
contracts, leases, mortaares, and other legal papers
which will be necessary for adoption and execution in
proper form and sequence, in order to prorerly issue
such bonds.
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(b) Prepare and have published the notice or notices of
sale or sales of bonds.
(c) Make available a consultation service for any question
in connection with the legal proceedings.
3. Prepare an Official Statement for your City, showing informa-
tion furnished by you, which will be distributed to prospective
bidders and potential investors in connection with the public
sale of such bonds, so that the lowest possible interest cost
can he obtained.
h. Upon your acceptance of the best bid for the bonds, subject
to the approval of Rupert Die Casting Company, we will have
lithotraphed bonds.prepared for signatures, as well as.coupons
bearing facsimile signatures.
c. Assist in the execution and delivery of the bonds as soon as
the final approving legal opinion of bond counsel is available.
6. Assembly and deliver to the successful bidder or bidders a
complete transcript of all legal proceedings -incident to
the issuance of the bonds, including a certification as to
the legality of the issue, which opinion is required for
acceptable delivery of the bonds.
7. Pay -all of the expenses for such work, including our own
expense, the cost of advertising the bonds -for sale and
publishing the bond ordinance, -the cost of printing, the
bonds and coupons, and the cost of the approving legal.
opinion issued in connection with such bonds. It is under-
stood that the City of Paducah, Kentucky, through its
attorney, will provide for the necessary services to
validate the bonds through a suit in the McCracken Circuit
Court in order io show sufficient unemployment in the area
as required by the Kentucky Statutes in the validation of
the bonds and will cause to be furnished to us, without
expense to us,_ a certificate of title ,with reference to the
land upon which the building is located. ,The bond attorneys
will be required to undertake the burden of preparing the
appropriate forms and documents,required.to process said
validation proceedings.
The bonds will mature according to a schedule to be mutually agreed
upon between you, the lessee and ourselves. Bidders at the public sale
will have the rir-ht to name various coupon rates.as designated by the
Fiscal Agent. The period of the lease between You and Rupert Die Casting
Companv is to be mutually agreed upon, and will run for the period
that the bonds are outstanding or any refunding thereof. Upon.accept-
ance by you of this proposal, we will proceed to perform ail of the
services herein mentioned in the preparation and offering of.the bonds
for public sale at the earliest possible date. Simultaneously with the
delivery of the bonds to the successful bidder, we are to be paid as
compensation for out services, as detailed in the preceding paragraphs,
a sum equal to three per cent (3%) of the face amount of the bonds
actually sold and delivered, for which the Trustee acting for the City
of Paducah, received pavment. Tile amount for our services that is to
',e paid to us, as well as anv other necessary expenses. incurred by the
City and approved },v us, other than the cost of your legal expenses in
connection with the validation of the bonds, are to be paid out of the
proceeds from the sale of the bonds.
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executing all necessary resolutions, ordinances, contracts, mortgages,
deeds, conveyances, minutes, notices of sale or sales, bond certifications,
and other papers, in order that such bonds may be actually authorized,
sold, issued and delivered.
It is understood that if you accept this pro.posal the services of
our organization, as well as those of our attorneys, will be continu-
ously available to you for whatever consultation you may require in
connection with the issuance of these bonds. Nevertheless, this is
submitted to you with the idea of assisting and working out your finan-
cing problems with reference to the proposed acquisition of the
industrial facilities. If at any time the program herein contemplated
should he abandoned, or if for anv reason the bonds are not issued,
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you are .to owe us nothing, and we will absorb any expenses which we
may have incurred up to that time. However, if thereafter the presently
contemplated proiect should be revived by which bonds are to be issued
to finance same, we are to have the opportunity to serve you under the
terms and conditions of this proposal if we elect to do so, in order
that we will have a fair and reasonable opportunity to recoup what
would otherwise be unrecoverable expenses.
Respectfully submitted,
THE KENTUCKY COMPANY
By
James bt. Kinsman, Jr.
This Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after
its adoption.
Mayor
Passed:••by the Board of Commissioners March 30, 1965
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City_Clerk, March 30, 1965,