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WEIEREAS:
1. On October 31, 1985 the Port Authority of the City of Saint Paul adopted
Resoluton No. 2555 giving preliminary approval to the issuance of revenue bonds in
the initial principal amount of $5,000,000 to finance the acquisition and remodelil1g
of the Capitol Holiday Inn for HBS Associates. The bonds will be underwritten by
Miller & Schroeder Municipals, Inc.
2. Laws of Minnesota 1976, Chapter 234, provides that any issue of revenue
bonds authorized by the Port Authority of the City of Saint Paul, shall be issued
only with the consent of the City Council of the City of Saint Paul, by resolution
adopted in accordance with law;
3. The Port Authority of the City of Saint Paul has requested that the City
Council give its requisite consent pursuant to said law to facilitate the issuance of
said revenue bonds by the Port Authority of the City of Saint Paul, sub�ect to final
approval of the details of said issue by the Port Authority of the City of Saint
Paul.
RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saint Paul, that in accordance with
Laws of Minnesota 1976, the City Council hereby consents to the issuance of the
aforesaid revenue bonds for the purposes described in the aforesaid Port Authority
Resolution No. 2555 the exact details of which, including, but not limited to,
provisions relating to ma.turities, interest rates, discount, redemption, and for the
issuance of additional bonds are to be determined by the Port Authority, pursuant to
resolution adopted by the Port Authority, and the City Council hereby authorizes the
issuance of any additional bonds (including refunding bonds) by the Port Authority,
found by the Port Authority to be necessary for carrying out the purposes for which
the aforesaid bonds are issued.
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Nov. 5. 1985 DATE �Q��� e e
ASSIGN NUhBER FOR ROUTING ORDER (Clip All Locations for Signature) :
1 Department Director !,i Director of Management/Mayor
Finance and Management Services Director �4 City Clerk
Budget Director �'iBS ASSOCIATES (CAPITOL NOLIDAY INN)
� City Attorney �5,000.000 REVENUE BOND ISSUE
WHAT WILL BE ACHIEVED BY TAKING ACTION ON THE ATTACHED MATERIALS? (Purpose/
The purpose of the bond issue is to finance the acquisition and remoac�e�l°ng o�' the Capitol Holiday
Inn by HBS Associates, a partnership. Hershel B. Sarbi.n, general partner in the Sheraton Midway
Hotel will be a general partner in HBS Associates. The Partnership �ish to aequire the Capitol
Holiday Inn and remodel it to accommodate overflow guests at their Sheraton .Midway Hotel :
The Port Authority's rationale is to assure that the facility continues ta operate as a State
Capitol oriented facility and is not converted to office space.
COST/BENEFIT, BUDGETARY AND PERSONNEL IMPACTS ANTICIPATED:
The amount of the bond issue is $5,000,000 which includes $690,000 in remodeling costs and
partnership equity of $952,000, or nearly 20�.
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FINANCING SOURCE AND BUDGET ACTIVITY NUMBER CHARGED OR CREDITED: (Mayor's signa-
ture not re-
Total Amount of Transaction; quired if under
$10,000)
Funding Source:
Activity Number:
ATTACHMENTS (List and Number All Attachments) :
1 . Staff Memorandum
2. Draft City Council Resolution
3. Port Authority Resolution No. 2555
cc• R. Thorpe
DEPARTMENT REVIEW CITY ATTORNEY REVIEW
X Yes No Council Resolution Required? Resolution Required? X Yes No
Yes X No Insurance Required? Insurance Sufficient? �Yes No
Yes �No Insurance Attached:
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OF THE CITY OF ST. PAUL
Memorandum
TO: Board of Commissioners �A� Oct. 31, 1985
FROM: E. A ��-
SUBJECT: pUBLIC HEARING - PRELIMINARY AND UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
HBS ASSOCIATES (CAPITOL HOLIDAY INN)
$5,000,000 REVENUE BOND ISSUE - OFF-SITE
RESOLUTION N0. 2555
1. THE PROJECT
The Holiday Inn at the State Capitol has been placed on the market for
sale because of the fact that Holiday lnns has acquired the downtown
Radisson Plaza. The facility is currently owned by the Donovan
Companies and is operated by Holiday Inns on a Management Contract.
The facility has been appraised at $4,250,000 based upon a conventional
financing rate of 12.5y.
2. THE PARTNERSHIP
Hershel B. Sarbin is the general partner of the Sheraton Midway Hotel
. which is currently operating as one of the most successful hotels in
the Sheraton chain. This is a general/limited partnership with a group
of affluent New York investors. Because of the need frequently to f ind
locations for overflow guests, Mr. Sarbin and his partners are
interested in acquiring the facility and have requested revenue bond
financing assistance. •
3. FINANCING
The Partnership will contribute cash equity towards the purchase price
of $450,000; deposit with us a letter of credit for the debt service
reserve of $502,350; and fund an operating budget of approximately
$1,000,000. This will result in a bond issue of $5,000,000, in which
the partnership equity would amount of $952,000, or nearly 20%.
Included in the purchase and financing of the facility would be
$690,000 in remodeling costs, which is required when an existing
building is acquired.
In our search for allocation under the per capita regulation.s of bond
issuance in Minnesota and nationwide we have acquired sufficient cap to
d:, t�:i� pro�ect, ther�by utilizin� all of the cap t�at is avaiiabie to
complete all of the projects proposed and those previously approved.
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The acquisition would be on a financed lease and the bond issue would
be comprised as follows:
Acquisition and remodeling $4,830,000
Expenses 30,000
Discount 140,000
TOTAL $5,000,000
4. TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT
The terms of the agreement would be for 30 years with the Port
Authority to receive its normal fiscal and administrative fees based on
the following:
.42% per million for the first ten years
.54y per million for the second ten years
.66� per million for the final ten years.
The payments would be made monthly in advance which will result in
significant sinking fund earnings over the terms of the agreement.
5. RECOMMENDATION
We have had extensive dealings with the members of the New York
syndication group and Hershel Sarbin and many of the partners who will
be involved in this project. The limited partners along with Mr.
Sarbin have assets in excess of $300,000,000.
Staff recommends approval of the above project.
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RESOLUTION OF
THE PORT AUTHORI'I'Y OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAL7L
WHEREAS, the purpose of Chapter 474, Minnesota
Statutes, known as the Minnesota Municipal Industrial Develo.p-
ment Act (hereinafter called "Act" ) as found and determined by
the legis lature is to promote the welfare of the state by the
active attraction and encouragement and development of economi-
cally sound industry and commerce to prevent so far as possible
the emergence of blighted and marginal lands and areas of
chronic unemplayment and to aid in the development of existing
areas of blight, marginal land and persistent uner.iployment; and
WHEREAS, factors necessitating the active promotion
and development of economically sound industxy and commerce are
the increasing concentration of population in the metropolitan
areas and the rapidly rising increase in the amount and cost of
governmental services required to meet the needs of the
increased population and the need for development of land use
which will provide an adequate tax base to finance these
increased costs and access to employment opportunities for such
population; and
WHEREAS, The Port Authority of the City of Saint Paul.
(the "Authority" ) has received from HBS Associates (hereinafter
referred to as "Company" ) a request that the Authority issue
its revenue bonds to finance the acquisition and renovation of
the Holiday Inn (Capitol)
hereinafter collectively called the ' Project" in the City of
St. Paul, all as is more fully described in the staff report on
file; and
WHEREAS, the Authority desires to facilitate the
selective development of the community, to retain and improve
its tax base and to he3.p it provide the range of services and
employment opportunities required by its population, and said
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Project will assist the City in a�hieving that objective. Said
Project will help •to increase the assessed valuatior. of the
City and hel� maintain a positive r�lationship between assessed
valuation and debt and enhance the image and reputation of the
City; and
WIzEREAS, the Project to be finar.ced by revenue bonds
will result in substantial employment opportunities in the
Project;
WHEREAS, the Authority has been advised by repre—
s�ntatives of the Company that conventional, commercial
financing to pay the capital cost of the Project is available
only on a limited basis and at such high costs of borrowing
that the economic feasibility of operating the Project would be
significantly reduced, but the Company has also advised this
Authority that but for rever.ue bond financing, and its
resulting low borrowing cost, the Project would not be
undertaken;
WHEREP►S, Miller & Schroeder Financial, Inc. ( the
"Underwriter" ) has :nade a proposal in an agre�nent (the
"Underwriting Agreement" ) relating to the purchase of the
revenue bonds to be issued to finance the Project;
WEiEREAS, the Authority, pursuant to yl.innesota
Statutes, Section 474.01, Subdivision 7b did publish a notice,
a copy of which �ith proof of publication is on file in the
office of the Authority, of a public hearing on the proposal of
the Cor.ipany that the Authority finance the Project hereinbefore
described by the issuance of its industrial revenue bonds ; and
WHEREAS, the Authority did conduct a public hearing
pursuant to said notice, at which hearing the recommendations
contained in the Authority' s staff inemorandum to the
C�mmissioners were reviewed, and all persons who appeared at
the hearing were given an opportunity to express their views
wi.th respect to the� proposal.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Commissioners
of the Port Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota as
follaws:
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J l. On the basis of information available to the
Authority it appears, and the Authority hereby finds, that said.
Project constitutes properties, used or useful ia connection
csith one or more revenue producing enterprises engaged in any
business within the meaning of Subdivision 1 of Section 474.02.
of the Act; that the Project furthers the purposes stated in
, Section 474.01 of the P,ct and, but for the willingness of the
Authority to furnish such finan�cing, the Company would not
undertake the Proiect, and that the effec� of the Project, if
undertaken, will be tc encourage the development of
economically sound industry and commerce and assist in the
prevention of the emergence of blighted and marginal land, and
�ill help to preveat chronic unemployment, and will help the
City to retain and improve its tax base and provide the range
of services and employment opportunities required by its
population, and �ill heip to prevent the movement of talented
and educated persons out of the state and to areas within the
state where their services may r.ot be as effectively used and
will result in more intensive development and usa of land
within the City and will eventually result in an increase in
the City' s tax base; and that it is in �he best interests of
the port district and �he people cf the City of Saint Paul and
in furtherance of the general plan of development to assist the
Company in financing the Project.
2. Subject to the mutual agreement of the
Authority, tr.e Company and the purchaser of the revenue bonds
as to the details of the lease or other revenue agreement as
defined in the Act, and other documents necessary to evidence
and effect the financing of the Project and the issuance of the
revenue bonds, the Project is hereby approved and authorized
and the issuance of revenue bonds of the Authority in an amount
not to exceed approximately $5 :000,000 (other than such
additional revenue bonds as are needed to complete the Project)
is authorized to finance the costs of the Project and the
recommendations of the Ruthority' s staff, as set forth in the
staff inemorandum to the Commissioners which was presented to
the Commissioners, are incorporated herein by reference and
approved.
3 . In accordance with Subdivision 7a of Section
474.01, Minnesota Statutes, the Executive Vice-President of the
AUTHORITY is here5y authorized and directed to submit the
proposal for the above described Project to the Commissioner of
Energy and Economic Development, requesting his approval, and
other officers, e�rpioyees and agents of the AUTHORITY are
hereby authorized to provide the Commissioner with such
preliminary information as he may require.
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4. There has heretofore been filed with the
Authority a form of Prel.iminary Agreement between the Authority
and Company, relating to the proposed construction and
financing of the Project and a form of the Undeiwriting
Agreement. The forms of the agreements have been examined by
the �ommissioners. It is the purpose of the agreements to
evidence the �ommitment of the pazties and their intentions
�ith respect to thz proposed Project in: order that the Company
may proceed without delay �ith the co�encement of the
acquisition, installation and construction of the Project with
the assurance that there has been sufficient "official action"
under Section 1031b) of the Internal Revesiue Code of 1954, as
amended, to allova for the issuance of industrial revenue bonds
(including, if deemed agpropriate, any interim nc,te or notes to
provide temporaiy financing thereof) to finance the entire cost
of the Project �.xpon agreement being reached as to the ultimate
details of the Proje�t and its financinq. Said Acresments are
hereby approved, and the President and Secretary of the
Authority are hereby authorized and directed to execute said
Agreements.
5. LTpon execution of the Preliminary Agreement by
the Company, the staff of the Authority is authorized and
directed to continue negotiations with the Company so as to
resolve }he remaining issues necessary to the preparation of
the lease and other documents necessary to the adoption by the
Authority of its final bond resolution and the issuance and
delivery of the revenue bonds; provided that the President (or
Vice-Presi3ent if the Presid�nt is absent) and the Secretary
(or Assistant Secretary if the Secretary is absent) of the
Authority, or if either of such officers (and his alternative) •
are absent, the Treasurer of the Authority in lieu of such
absent officers, are hereby authorized• in accordance with the
provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Section 475 .06, Subdivision
1, to accept a final offer of the Underwriter made by the
Underwriter to purchase said bonds and to execute an
Under,�riting Agreement setting forth such offer on behalf of
the Authority. Such acceptance shall bind the Underwriter to �
said offer but shall be subject to approval and ratification by
the Port Authority in a formal supplemental bond resolution to
be adopted prior to the delivery of said revenue bonds.
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6. Tha revenue bands (including any interim note or
notes) and interest thereon shall not constitute an
indebtedness of the Authority or the City of Saint Paul within.
the� meaning ot any constitutional or statutory limitation and
shall not constitute or give rise to a pecuniary liability of
the P,uthority or the City or a charge against their general
credit or taxing powers and neither the ful 1 faith and credit
nor the taxing powers of the Authority or the Gity is pledye3.
for the payr►tent of the bonds (and interim note or notes) or
interest thereon.
?. In order to facilitate completion of the revenue
bond financing herein contemplated, the City Council is hereby
requested to consent, pursuar.t to Laws of Mirinesota, 1976,
Chapter 234, to the issuance of the revenue bonds ( including
ariy interim note or notes) herein contemplated and any
additional bonds which the Authority may prior to issuance or
from time to time thereafter deem necessary to complete the
Project or to refund such revenue bonds ; and for such purpose
the Executive Vice President of the Authority is hereby
authorized and directed to forward to the City Council copies
of this resolution and said Preliminary Agreement and any
additional available information the - City Council may request.
8. The actions of the Executive Vice–President of
the Authority in causing public notice: of the public hearing
and in describing the general nature of the Project and
estimating the principal amount of bonds to be issued to
finance the Project and in preparing a draf� of the proposed
application to the Commissioner of Energy and Economic
Development, State of Minnesota, for approval of the Project,
which has been available for inspection by the public at the
office of the Authority from and after the publication of
notice of the hearing, are in all respects ratified and
confirmed.
Adopted October 31, 1985
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Pres.iden$ / `
The Po�if A�uthority of the City
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