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97-1534� .. _ '��, � TM Presented Sy Referred To 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Council File # q�� 1 � y Green Sheet # GOq_,_'�� MINNESOTA Committee: Date AUTHORIZING A TAXABLE GENERAL OBLIGATION CObIBSERCIAL PAPER PROGRAbI AND AIITHORIZING THl3 ISSIIANCE OF TAXABLS GENERAL OBLIGATION COMMERCIAL PAPER NOTES (ARENA PROJECT) AND TAXABLE GENERAL OBLIGATION BANK NOTES (2:RENA PROJECT) IO WHERfiAS, the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "City") has agreed pursuant to an Arena Lease among the City, its Civic Center Authority and Minnesota Hockey Ventures, Group LP to contribute $30,000,000 (the "City Contribution") to pay a portion of the costs of construction and equipping of a new arena as a part of the RiverCentre Complex; WHEREAS, the primary 5ources of revenue to repay any obligations issued to finance the City Contribution will not be available until the construction of the new arena is completed and therefore the City has determined to issue temporary obligations to finance the City Contribution, which temporary obligations will be repaid with the proceeds of definitive obligations anticipated to be issued on or before the final maturity date of the Commercial Paper Notes (as hereinafter defined), by the City pursuant to a separate resolution of the City Council; WSEREAS, the City has determined that it is desirable to issue the temporary obligations under a commercial paper program as hereinafter more fully set forth, which program involves the 369958.4 ��•ts�y issuance of commercial paper notes maturing in 270 days or less, with a final maturity date not later than six years after their date of original issuance; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 475.60, Subd. 2(b), the requirement of a public sale does not apply to the sale of commercial paper notes since the interest thereon is not excluded from gross income for purposes of federal income taxation; WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City that the commercial paper notes be issued in book-entry form as hereinafter provided. NOW, THEItEFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council o£ the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota as follows: ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND AUTHORITY SECTION 1.01. Definitions The terms defined in this Article (except as otherwise herein expressly provided or unless the Context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program (the "Resolution") shall have the following respective meanings: Act shall mean Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 475, as amended, and Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.174 through 469.179, both inclusive, as amended. Agent shall mean Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Assoaiation, or any bank designated as Agent for the Banks under the Credit Agreement. Authority shall mean the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Authorized Officers, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, shall mean the Authorized Officers designated pursuant to Section 5.06 hereof. Banks shall mean Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, and its respective successors and assigns under the Credit Agreement and any other banks with which the City may enter into a liquidity support agreement similar to the Credit Agreement from time to time. 369958.4 q � -1 s � �{ Baak Notes shall mean the Taxable General Obligation Bank Notes (RiverCentre Arena Project) of the City authorized to be issued pursuant to Article III o£ this Resolution. Sond Registrar, when used with respect to the Commercial Paper Notes, sha11 mean the Paying Agent and, when used with respect to the Bank Notes, shall mean the City. City shall mean the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Closiag Date shall mean the date of issuance of the first series of Commercial Paper Notes under this Resolution pursuant to SeCtion 2.03 hereof. Commercial Paper I�Iotes sha11 mean the Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes (Arena Project) of the City authorized to be issued and sold pursuant to this Resolution. CP Note Payment Account shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6 of the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement. Credit Agreement shall mean the Credit Agreement authorized by the City pursuant to Section 5.01 of this Resolution and entered into among the City, Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, and such other Banks as may become party thereto from time to time and Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as agent for the Banks thereunder, as amended from time to time, or such other Credit agreement which the City determines to be in replacement thereof or supplemental thereto as may be entered into by the City from time to time with one or more banks each having a capital surplus and undivided profits of not less than $150,000,000. Dealer shall mean Dougherty Summit Securities LLC, as the exclusive dealer designated pursuant to the Dealer Agreement and any other person with which the City may enter into a dealer agreement from time to time. Dealer Agreement shall mean the Dealer Agreement authorized by the City pursuant to Section 5.02 of this Resolution and entered into by and between the City and Dougherty Summit SeCUrities LLC, as such Dealer Agreement may be amended from time to time, or such other dealer agreement which the City determines to be in replacement thereof. Debt Service Account shall mean the account established pursuant to Section 4.01 hereof. Depository shall mean The Depository Trust Company, a limited purpose trust company organized under the laws of the 369958.4 3 9'►-1s�y State of New York, or any of its successors or successors to its funetions hereunder. Effective Date shall have the meaning given to such term in the Credit AgreemenC. Fiduciary or Fiduciaries, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes, shall mean the Paying Agent, the Bond Registrar or the Authenticating Agent, or any or all of them, as may be appropriate. Global Certificate, shall mean one Certificate representing the entire principal amount of the Commercial Paper Notes due on a particular maturity date. Holder, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes, shall mean any person who shall be the bearer of any Commercial Paper Note and, when used with respect to the Bank Notes, shall mean any person who shall be the holder of any Bank Note. Initial Related Agreement5 shall mean the Dealer Agreement, the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement, and the Credit Agreement authorized pursuant to Article V hereof. Issuing aad Payiag Ageacy Agreement shall mean the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement authorized by the City pursuant to Section 5.03 of this ResoluCion and entered into by and between the City and the Paying Agent, as amended from time to time, or such other agreement as may be entered into by Che City from time to time which the City deterniines to be in replacement thereof. Lease shall mean the Arena Lease among the City, the Civic Center Authority, and Minnesota Hockey Ventures, L.P. Letter of Representatioa shall mean the Letter of Representations heretofore executed by the City and the Depository with respect to the Depository's role with respect to G1oba1 Certificates. Outstanding, when used with respect to Bank Notes, shall mean, as of any particular time, all Bank Notes as to which amounts shall be payable with respect thereto at such time and, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes, shall mean, as of any particular time, all Commercial Paper Notes authenticated and delivered under this Resolution, except Commercial Paper Notes theretofore canceled by the Paying Agent or defeased pursuant to Section 7.01 hereof. 369958.4 4 9'1-1S3y Participants shall mean those financial institutions for whom the Depository effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited and immobilized with the Depository. Payiag Agent shall mean the Agent appointed pursuant to the terms of the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement. Pricing Committee shall mean a committee Consisting o£ the Deputy Mayor, Debt Manager, the Treasurer and the Director, Office oE Financial Services of the City or their designees. Project Costs shall have the meaning given such term in the Lease. Related Agreements shall mean the Dealer Agreement, the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement and the Credit Agreement. Request shall mean a request made, or instructions given, by telephone or electronic transmission by, or in writing from a member of the Pricing Committee pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof. Resolution shall mean this Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program adopted by the City on December 17, 1997, as from time to time amended or supplemented in accordance with the terms hereof. Tax TnCrement ACt shall mean Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.174 through 469.179, both inclusive. Tax InCrement District shall mean the Block 39/Arena Redevelopment Tax InCrement Financing Di5trict established pursuant to the Tax InCrement Plan as a"redevelopment district" pursuant Co Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.174, Subdivision 10a. Tax InCrement Plan shall mean the tax increment finanCing plan for the Tax Increment District adopted by the Authority on September 24, 1997, and approved by the City on September 24, 1997. Tax Increment Pledge Agreement shall mean the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement by and between the City and the Authority pursuant to which the Authority has pledged certain Tax Increments to the City to pay principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes and any temporary bonds issued pursuant to Section 4.05 hereof. Tax Iacremeats sha11 mean the tax increments derived from the Tax Increment District established pursuant to the Tax Increment Plan. 369958.G S °t� -� s �y Except where the context otherwise requires, words importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa, and words importing persons shall include firms, a associations, corporations, districts, agencies and bodies. All references in this Resolution to Articles, Sections, and other subdivisions are to the corresponding Articles, Sections or subdivisions of this Resolution and the words "herein", "hereof", "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Resolution as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or subdivision of this Resolution. The headings or titles of the several Articles and Sections of this Resolution shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not affect the meaning, construction or effect of this Resolution. SECTION 1.02. Authoritv for this Resolution. This Resolution is adopted pursuant to the provisions of the Act. SECTION 1.03. Resolution to Constitute Contract In consideration of the purchase and acceptance of any and all Commercial Paper Notes authorized to be issued under this Resolution by those who shall hold the same from time to time and in consideration of the agreement of the Banks to make loans under the Credit Agreement, this Resolution shall be deemed to be and shall constitute a contract between the City and the Holders from time to time of the Commercial Paper Notes and the Bank Notes; and the pledge made in this Resolution shall be for the equal benefit, protection and security of the Holders of any and all o£ the Commercial Paper Notes and the Bank Notes Outstanding at any time, all of which, regardless of the time or times of their authentication and delivery or maturity, shall be of equal rank without preference, priority or distinction of any of the Commercial Paper Notes or of the Bank Notes over any other thereof except as expressly provided in or permitted by this Resolution. 369958.4 6 � 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 ARTICLE II. AIITHORSZATION AND GENERAL TERMS AND PROVISION5 OF CObtZ�RCIAL PAPIsR NOTES; IISB OF PROCEEDS °t�-�s�y SECTION 2.01. Authorizatioa to Borrow aad Issue Commercial Paper Notes As Evidence Thereof. 1. The City is hereby authorized to borrow and reborrow from time to time up to $33,500,000 at any one time outstanding pursuant to this Resolution during the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on January 31, 2002 or, if such day is not a Business Day (as defined in the Credit Agreement), the next preceding Business Day), for purposes of (i) financing Project Costs, (ii) paying the principal of, and interest on, maturing Commercial Paper Notes, and (iii) paying amounts owed under the Bank Notes. To evidence such borrowing by the City for such purposes, there is hereby authorized the issuance and sale from time to time of Commercial Paper Notes of the City, including renewals thereof, up to a maximum aggregate principal amount Outstanding at any time of $33,500,000, subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions of this Resolution including, without limitation, subsection 4 of Section 2.02 hereof; provided that the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Commercial Paper Notes and the aggregate principal amount of Bank Notes permitted to be Outstanding at any time shall not exceed $33,500,000. A Commercial Paper Note or Bank Note shall not be deemed Outstanding for purposes of this Section 2.01 if the proceeds of other Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes are available for the payment thereof. Nothing herein contained shall prohibit the City from issuing other series of notes or commercial paper notes pursuant to other resolutions or resolutions supplemental to this Resolution, all of which the City expressly reserves the right to do. SECTION 2.02. Issuance o£ Commercial Paper Notes. 1. The Commercial Paper Notes herein authorized shall be in suCh denomination or denominations of $100,000 or any larger integral multiples of 51,000, shall bear such number or numbers, such date or dates of issue and maturity and such rate or rates of interest, as shall be specified in a Request given or delivered to the Paying Agent pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof. 2. The Commercial Paper Notes shall be designated "Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper 13otes (Arena PrOjeCt)." The Commercial Paper Notes shall be dated the date of their issuance, shall bear interest from their date, and shall be issued in bearer form, without coupons. Interest on the Commercial Paper Notes shall be payable on their respective maturity dates. 369958.4 q�-1S3y Unless the City shall otherwise direct, the Commercial Paper Notes shall be consecutively numbered. 3. The Commercial Paper Notes shall otherwise have such terms and conditions as shall be set forth in a Request to be given or delivered pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof in connection with the issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes; provided. however, that unless the City shall adopt an appropriate supplement to this Resolution amending the following parameters, each Commercial Paper Note: (i) shall bear interest at an annual rate (calculated on the basis of a 365 or 366 day year and on a basis of actual days elapsed) not in excess of an interest rate of 15°s per annum, (ii? sha11 mature not more than 270 days after the date of issuance thereof, and in no event later than January 31, 2002 (or, if such day is not a Business Day (as defined in the Credit Agreement), the next preceding Business Day), and (iii) shall have a purchase price of not less than 100% of the principal amount thereof, less any fee to the Dealer. 4. No CommerCial Paper Note shall be is5ued pursuant to this Resolution unless, at the time of such issuance, (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Commercial Paper Notes and all Bank Notes then Outstanding, after giving effect to (a) the issuance of Commercial Paper Notes and borrowings with respect to Bank Notes on such date and (b) the application of the proceeds thereof by deposit into the CP Note Payment Account or the Debt Service Account, as the case may be, is equal to or less than the greater of $33,500,000 and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of all Commercial Paper Notes Outstanding after giving effect to (a) the issuance of Commercial Paper Notes and borrowings with respect to Bank Notes on such date and (b) the application of the proceeds thereof by deposit into the CP Note Payment Account or the Debt Service Fund, as the case may be, will be equal to or less than the unused available amount of the Banks' commitment under the Credit Agreement. For purposes of this subsection 4 of this Section 2.03, the proceeds of Commercial Paper Notes and borrowings with respect to Bank Notes deposited into the CP Note Payment Account or the Debt Service Account, as the case may be, shall not be taken into account in the foregoing calculations unless such proceeds are used on the date of the issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes to pay maturing Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, as the case may be. 369958.4 $ °t -t -t s3 y 5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Commercial Paper Notes shall be issued from and after (i) the occurrence of any event which terminates the Banks' commitment to make loans under the Credit Agreement for the purpose of paying the principal of, and interest on, Coaanercial Paper Notes issued after the occurrence of such event, or (ii) receipt by the City and the Paying Agent of No-ISSUance Instructions from the Agent pursuant to Section 2.1(b) o£ the Credit Agreement. 6. Upon their original i5suance the Commercial Paper Notes will be issued in the form of a single Global Certificate for each maturity, deposited with the Depository by the Purchaser and immobilized as provided in paragraph 7. No beneficial owners of interests in the Commercial Paper Note will receive certificates representing their respective interests in the Commercial Paper Notes except as provided in paragraph 7. Except as so provided, during the term of the Commercial Paper Notes, beneficial ownership (and subsequent transfers of benefiaial ownership) of interests in the Global Certificates will be reflected by book entries made on the records of the Depository and its participants and other banks, brokers, and dealers participating in the national system. The Depository's book entries of beneficial ownership interests are authorized to be in increments of $100,000 of principal of the Commercial Paper Notes, but not smaller increments, despite the larger authorized denominations of the Global Certificates. Payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Global Certificates will be made to the Paying Agent, and in turn by the Paying Agent to the Depository or its nominee as the owner of the Global Certificates, and the Depository according to the laws and rules governing it will receive and forward payments on behalf of the beneficial owners of the Global Certificates. Payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on a Global Certificate may in the City's discretion be made by such other method of transferring funds as may be requested by the Holder of a Global Certificate. 7. Pursuant to the request of the Dealer to the Depository, immediately upon the original delivery of the Commercial Paper Notes the Dealer will deposit the Global Certificates representing a11 of the Commercial Paper Notes with the Depository. The Global Certificates shall be in typewritten form or otherwise as acceptable to the Depository, shall be registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and shall be held immobilized from circulation at the offices of the Depository on behalf of the Dealer and subsequent owners. The Depository or its nominee will be the sole holder of record of the Global Certificates and no investor or other party 369958.4 9 9�-ts�y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2& 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 purchasing, selling or otherwise transferring ownership of interests in any Commercial Paper Notes is Co receive, hold or deliver any bond certificates so long as the Depository holds the Global Certificates immobilized from circulation, except as provided below in this paragraph. Certificates evidencing the Commercial Paper Notes may not after their original delivery be transferred or exchanged except: (i) To any successor of the Depository (or its nominee) or any substitute depository (a "substitute depository") designated pursuant to clause (ii) of this subparagraph, provided that any successor of the Depository or any substitute depository must be both a"clearing corporation" as defined in the Minnesota Uniform Commercial Code at Minnesota Statutes, Section 336.8-102, and a qualified and registered "clearing agency" as provided in Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (ii) To a substitute depository designated by and acceptable to the City upon (a) the determination by the Depository that the Commercial Paper Notes shall no longer be eligible for its depository services or (b) a determination by the City that the Depository is no longer able to carry out its functions, provided that any substitute depository must be qualified to act as such, as provided in clause (i) of this subparagraph, or (iii) To those persons to whom transfer is requested in written transfer instructions in the event that: (a) the Depository shall resign or discontinue its services for the Commercial Paper Notes and the City is unable to locate a substitute depository within two (2) months following the resignation or determination of non-eligibility, or ib) upon a determination by the City in its sole discretion that (1) the continuation of the book-entry system described herein, which precludes the issuance of certificates (other than Global Certificates) to any Holder other than the Depository (or its nominee), might adversely affect the interest of the beneficial owners of the Commercial Paper Notes, or (2) that it is in the best interest of the beneficial owners of the Commercial Paper Notes that they be able to obtain certificated bonds, 369958.4 10 °�'1-�s�y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 in either of which events the City shall notify holders of its determination and of the availability of certificates (the "Replacement Commercial Paper Notes"). In the event of a succession of the Depository as may be authorized by this paragraph, the Paying Agent upon presenta- tion of Global Certificates shall transfer them to the substitute or successor depository, and the substitute or successor depository shall be treated as the Depository for all puzposes and functions under this resolution. The Letter of Representations shall not apply to a substitute or successor depository unless the City and the substitute or successor depository so agree, and a similar agreement may be entered into. SECTION 2.03. Delivery of Commercial Paper Notes. 1. Prior to the delivery by the Paying Agent of any Commercial Paper Notes under this Resolution, there shall be given or delivered, via telephone, telex or any other communication medium available to the City, the Paying Agent and the Dealer, a Request of the City executed by a member of the Pricing Committee instructing the Paying Agent to authenticate and deliver such Commercial Paper Notes to the Dealer (or any designee or affiliate thereof) specified, which Request shall contain instructions with respect to, and approve on behalf of the City: (i) the aggregate principal or face amount of Commercial Paper Notes then to be issued and the denominations in which they are to be issued, (ii) the rate of interest with respect to each Commercial Paper Note, (iii) the date of each Commercial Paper Note and the maturity date thereof, and (iv) the purchase price of each Commercial Paper Note, which will be 1000 of each Commercial Paper Note, less any Dealer fee. 2. All oral Requests or Requests given by electronic transmission (other than by a time-sharing terminal) given as herein provided shall be confirmed in writing by a member of the Pricing Committee as promptly as practicable thereafter. Written Requests and written confirmations of oral or elecCronically transmitted Requests shall be in substantially the following form: 369958.4 1 1 �t'1-� s � y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 City of Saint Paul, Minnesota Request Pursuant to Section 2.03 of the Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation CommerCial Paper Program (Arena Project) adopted December 17, 1997 No. 1. The City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "City") hereby instructs First Trust National Association, in St. Paul, Minnesota, as Issuing and Paying Agent (the "Agent") under the Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program (Arena Project) adopted on December 17, ].997 (the "Resolution"), to authenticate and deliver to Dougherty Summit Securities LLC its Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes (Arena Project), described in Schedule A hereto (the "Commercial Paper Notes") bearing such dates and in such amounts, at such interest rates and maturing on such dates as are set forth in Schedule A attached hereto. 2. The City hereby conEirms that the representations and warranties of the City set forth in Article VII of the Resolution, Section 3 of the Dealer Agreement and Article V of the Credit Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof with the same effect as though made on and as of the date hereof. 3. The City hereby represents and warrants that no Event of Default exists under any Related Agreement (as specified in such documents), that no event has occurred which, with the passage of time, the giving of notice, or both, would become such an Event of Default, that the City has performed in all material respects all of the covenants and agreements that it is required to have per£ormed under the Resolution and the Related Agreements, that the issuance and delivery of the Commercial. Paper Notes has been duly authorized by the City, and that, immediately after the issuance and delivery of such Commercial Paper Notes, the principal amount of and interest to maturity on Commercial Paper Notes outstanding under the Resolution will be as indicated opposite Item 1 on Schedule A and the available Commitment under the Credit Agreement at such time will be as indicated opposite Item 2 on Schedule A. 4. Unless otherwise defined herein, the tez used in this Request have the respective meanings given to such terms in the Resolution. 369958.4 1 2 °t � -t s �y 1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned has hereunto set his or 2 her hand this _ day of , 3 4 5 CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA 6 7 8 By 9 (Authorized Officer) 369958.4 13 9�-�s3y � 2 3 4 Note Number TERMS OF COMMfiRCIAL PAPER NOTES Principal or Face Date of Interest Maturity Amount Issuance Rate Date SCHEDULE A 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 � Item No. Descriptions 1 Principal Amount of and Interest to Maturity on Commercial Paper Notes Outstanding Under the Resolution 2 Available Commitment under the Credit Agreement 3 Amount authorized by Section 2.01(2) and Section 2.02(4) 4 Expiration Date of Credit Facility 369958.4 14 Dealer Fee Amount 9�-1s3y F� 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 li 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 SSCTION 2.04. Pavment; Execution. 1. The principal of, and interest on, the Commercial Paper Notes shall be payable in any coin or currency of the United States of America which, at the respective dates of payment thereof, is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. The principal and interest with respect to Commercial Paper Notes shall be payable by wire transfer of immediately available funds upon presentaCion and surrender of such Commercial Paper Notes at the principal o£fice of the Paying Agent or designated agents thereof. Payment of interest on the Commercial Paper Notes shall be made only upon maturity of such Commercial Paper Notes. 2. The Commercial Paper Notes shall be signed in the name of the City by the manual or facsimile signature of its Mayor, attested by the City Clerk, and countersigned by the Director, Office of Financial Services, its corporate seal having been intentionally omitted as permitted by law. Tn case any one or more of the officers who shall have signed or sealed any of the Commercial Paper Notes shall cease to be such officer before such Commercial Paper Notes so signed and sealed shall have been executed and delivered, such Commercial Paper Notes may, nevertheless, be authenticated and delivered as herein provided, and may be issued as if the persons who signed or sealed such Commercial Paper Notes had not ceased to hold such offices. Any Commercial Paper Note may be signed and sealed on behalf of the City by such persons as at the time of the execution of such Commercial Paper Notes shall be duly authorized or hold the proper office in the City, although at the date borne by the Commercial Paper Notes such person5 may not have been so authorized or have held such office. SECTION 2.05. Form of Co�ercial PaAer Notes. Subject to the provisions of this Resolution, the Commercial Paper Notes issued under this Resolution shal.l be substantially in the form set forth in Article VIii hereof with such appropriate variations, omissions and insertions as are pexmitted or required by this Resolution. SECTION 2.06. Authentication. Only such Commercial Paper Notes as shall bear thereon a manually executed authentication signature of an authorized officer or employee of the Paying Agent or of the AuthentiCating Agent shall be entitled to any right or benefit under this Resolution, and no Commercial Paper Note shall be valid or obligatory for any purpose or entitled to any benefit under this Resolution unless and until an authentication signature of an authorized officer or employee of the Paying Agent or of the Authenticating Agent shall have been duly executed on the Commercial Paper Note. The authentication 369958,4 15 9�-ts3y signature of the Paying Agent or of the Authenticating Agent by such officer or employee upon any such Commercial Paper Note shall be conclusive evidence that such Commercial Paper Note has been authenticated and delivered under this Resolution. SECTION 2.07. Mutilated, Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Commercial Pa�er Notes. If any Commercial Paper Notes are mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the City shall execute and the Paying Agent sha11 authenticate and deliver a new Commercial Paper Note of like date, maturity and denomination as the Commercial Paper Note that was mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed; provided that (i) in the case o£ any mutilated Commercial Paper Note, such mutilated Commercial Paper Note shall first be surrendered to the Paying Agent authenticating such new Commercial Paper Note, (ii) in the case of any lost, stolen or destroyed Commercial Paper Note, there shall be first furnished to the Paying Agent evidence of such loss, theft or destruction satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City together with indemnity satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City, (iii) a11 other reasonable requirements of the City are complied with and (iv) fees and expenses in connection with such transaction are paid by the Holder or owner of the Commercial Paper Note. In the event any such lost, stolen or destroyed Commercial Paper Note shall have matured, instead of issuing a duplicate Commercial Paper Note the City may pay the same without surrender thereof; provided that there shall be first furnished to the Paying Agent evidence of such loss, theft or destruction satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City together with indemnity satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City. Any such new Commercial Paper Note issued pursuant to this Section in substituCion for Commercial Paper Notes al.leged to be destroyed, stolen or lost shall constitute original additional contractual obligations on the part of the City, whether or not the Commercial Paper Notes so alleged to be destroyed, stolen or lost be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be equally secured by and entitled to equal and proportionate benefits with all other Commercial Paper Notes issued under this Resolution, in any moneys or securities held by the City or any Fiduciary for the benefit of the Holders of the Commercial Paper Notes. SECTION 2.U8. IIse of Commercial Pager Note Proceeds. A11 Commercial Paper Note proceeds shall be credited by the Paying Agent to the CP Note Payment Account established pursuant to the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement and shall be (i) applied to the payment of principal of, and interest on, maturing Commercial Paper Notes, (ii) applied, upon instructions of the City, to the payment of the principal of and interest on the Bank Notes, or (iii) transferred to the Construction Account established under and pursuant to this Resolution for application to the payment of Project Costs. All proceeds of the Commercial Paper Notes held 369958.4 1 6 °1'1-1 s �y 1 pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above shall be held in cash and 2 shall not be reinvested. 369958.4 1 7 9�-ts�y � 2 3 A 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 ARTICLS I2I. AIITSORIZATION AND GSNSRAL TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF BANtC NOTES SECTION 3.D1. Authorization of Sank Notes; Principal Amount and Designation of Series. 1. Subject to subsection 2 of this Section 3.01, the City is hereby authorized to borrow and zeborrow up to $33,500,000 pursuant to the Credit Agreement for the purposes of providing liquidity support for the Commercial Paper Notes. To evidence the City's obligation to repay moneys borrowed by the City from time to time under the Credit Agreement, there is hereby authorized the issuance from time to time of Bank Notes of the City up to a maximum aggregate principal amount Outstanding at any time of $33,500,000, subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions of this Resolution, including, without limitation, subsection 2 of this Section 3.01 and subsection 4 of Section 2.02 hereof; �nrovided that the sum of the aggregate principal amount o£ the Commercial Paper Notes and the aggregate principal amount of Bank Notes permitted to be Outstanding at any time sha11 not exceed $33,500,0�0, subject to the provisions of subsection 2 of this Section 3.01. Such Bank Notes shall be designated Taxable General Obligation Bank Notes (Arena Project). All or a portion of the principal amount of a Bank Note shall not be deemed Outstanding for purposes of this Section 3.01 to the extent the proceeds of borrowings under the Credit Agreement or other Commercial Paper Notes are to be applied toward the payment thereof. 2. The officers of the City hereinafter authorized pursuant to Section 5.05 hereof, and each of them, are authorized to exeCUte and de].iver the Bank Notes, subject to completion thereo£ and to the provisions of this Resolution, and with such changes therein as the officer executing the same may approve as necessary or desirable and in the best interest of the City, such approval and acceptance to be evidenced conclusively by the execution and delivery of such Bank Notes by such o£ficer, the other authorized officer of the City is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to attest such execution and delivery, provided that such attesting officer shall not have executed such Bank Notes. The City's corporate seal shall be intentional.ly omitted as permitted by law. SECTSON 3.Q2. Execution aad Deliverv, Dates aad Denominations of 8ank Notes. On or prior to the Effective Date, the City shall execute, authenticate and deliver to the Agent, for the account of the Banks, Bank Notes as provided in this Section 3.02. The Bank Notes shall be dated the date of their 369958.4 m q� -ts�y execution and delivery. Except as provided in Section 3.05 hereof, and except as otherwise may be provided in the Credit Agreement, a single, separate Bank Note shall be issued on behalf of each Bank, registered in the name of such Bank. Subject to the provisions of subsection 2 of Section 3.01 hereof, each Bank Note shall have a stated maximum principal amount equal to the commitment under the Credit Agreement for the Bank in whose name such Bank Note is registered; provided, however, that the aggregate of the stated maximum principal amounts of all Bank Notes to be Outstanding at any time shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of the Commercial Paper Notes authorized pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof. SECTIOI3 3.03. Outstanding Principal Amounts of Bank Notes, Interest on Bank Notes, Pavment of Bank Notes. 1. The principal amount Outstanding with respect to any Bank Note at any time shall equal the amount borrowed by the City under the Credit Agreement from the Bank in whose name such Bank Note shall be registered, less any prior repayments thereof. 2. Each Bank Note shall bear interest during the same periods and at the same rates as are applicable to the Loans (as defined in the Credit Agreement) evidenced by such Bank Note made by a Bank under and pursuant to the Credit Agreement, determined as provided in the Credit Agreement. 3. The principal of the Bank Notes, and interest thereon, shall be payable (and prepayable) at the same times and in the same amounts as are applicable to the respective Loans (as defined under the Credit Agreement) evidenced by such Bank Notes made by the Banks under and pursuant to the Credit Agreement, determined as provided in the Credit Agreement. SECTION 3.04. Form of Bank Notes and Schedule of Loan5 and ReAavments, Completion of Such Schedule. 1. The Bank Notes issued under this Resolution, including the schedule of loans and repayments attached thereto, shall be substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit A to the Credit Agreement with such appropriate variations, omissions and insertions as are permitted or required by this Resolution or the Credit Agreement. 2. The Holder of each Bank Note is authorized to record on the schedule of loans and repayments attached to such Bank Note, or a continuation thereof, each loan made by such Holder to the City, the respective dates, amounts, types and maturities thereof and all repayments of the principal thereof and, prior to any transfer thereof, appropriate notations to evidence the foregoing 369958.4 1 9 9�-ts�y information shall be endorsed by such Holder on such schedule, or a continuation thereof; provided, however, that the failure of such Holder to make any such recordation or endorsement shall not affect the obligations of the City under such Bank Note or under the Credit Agreement. SECTION 3.05. Limitations on Trausfer aad Exchanae of Baak Notes. 1. Except as hereinafter provided in paragraph 3 of this Section 3.05, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the this Resolution, the Bank Notes shall not be transferable by the Holders thereo£. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Section 3.05, if and to the extent provided in the Credit Agreement, any Holder of a Bank Note may, by notice in writing to the City, request that its loans of a partiaular type be evidenced by a separate Bank Note in an amount equal to the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such loans. Upon receipt of any such request, and upon presentation and surrender by such Holder of its Bank Note, the City shall execute and deliver to such Holder, in substitution for the Bank Note so surrendered, separate Bank Notes in respective principal amounts equal to the aggregate unpaid principal amounts of the loans of each such particular type. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Section 3.05, any Holder of a Bank Note may assign its rights with respect to such Bank Note and its commitment under the Credit Agreement in accordance with the provisions of the Credit Agreement. Upon such assignment, and upon presentation and surrender of such Bank Note, the City shall execute and deliver to the appropriate person(s), in substitution for the Bank Notes so surrendered, one or more Bank Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Bank Note so surrendered, so as to give effect to such assignment. 369958.4 2 � °l�-1s�y ARTICLE IV. FDNDS AND ACCOUNTS; SECIIRITY FOR COb1[�SERCIAL PAPER NOTES AND BANK NOTES 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 SECTION 4.01. Fund and Accounts. There is hereby created a special account designated the "Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program Fund (Arena Project)" (the '�F'und") to be administered and maintained by the Treasurer as a bookkeeping account separate and apart from all other funds maintained in the official £inancial records of the City. The Fund shall be maintained in the manner herein specified until the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes and any additional temporary bonds issued pursuant to Section 4.04 hereof and made payable from the Fund have been paid. There shall be maintained in the Fund two separate accounts to be designated the "Construction Account" and "Debt Service Account", respectively. (1) Construction Account. To the Construction ACCOUnt there sha11 be credited at Closing $30,000,000 of the proceeds of the sale of Commercial Paper Notes. The proceeds of the Commercial Paper Notes held in the Construction Account shall be disbursed to pay Project Costs in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Lease. Pending such disbursement, funds in the Construction Account shall be invested by the City Treasurer in accordance with the applicable provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 118A, as amended. Any investment earnings on the funds in the Construction Account may be transferred by the City at any time to the Costs of Issuance Subaccount hereinafter established in the Construction Account. (a) Cost of Issuance Subaccount. There is hereby created within the Construction Account a special subaccount designated the "Costs of Issuance Subaccount." The City may deposit in the Costs of Issuance Subaccount any investment earnings on amounts deposited in the Construction Account. Funds in the Costs of Issuance Subaccount may be used and withdrawn by the City to pay costs of issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes or may be transferred to the Debt Service Account and used to pay principal or interest on maturing Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes. (2) Debt Service Account. There are hereby irrevocably appropriated and pledged to, and there shall be credited to, the Debt Service ACCOUnt: (a) any Tax Increments received by the City pursuant to the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement to pay the principal and interest paymenCs on the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes; (b) such amount of the proceeds of the sale of Commercial Paper Notes as are determined by the Pricing Committee as necessary to fund capitalized interest; (c) the proceeds of 369958.4 2 1 q�-�s3y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ai 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 any additional temporaxy bonds or definitive bonds issued by the City to refund the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes; (d) any collections of taxes which may hereafter be levied in the event that the Tax Increments and other sums, including the proceeds of additional temporary bonds or definitive bonds herein pledged to the payment of the Commercial Paper Notes, Bank Notes or other temporaiy bonds are insufficient therefor; (e) all investment earnings on funds held in the Debt Service Account; and (f) any and all other moneys which are properly available and are appropriated by the governing body of the City to the Debt Service Account. The Debt Service Account shall be used solely to pay the principal and interest of the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, or any additional temporary bonds issued by the City and made payable from the Debt Service Account. SECTION 4.02. Pledqe of Tax Increments. The City hereby appropriates, to the extent and subject to the limiCations of the Tax Increment Act, to the Debt Service Account, the Tax Increments received by the City from the Authority pursuant to the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement, which appropriation shall continue until a11 of the Commercial Paper Notes and Bank Notes, and any other general obligation temporary bonds issued by the City and made payable from the Debt Service Account, are paid or discharged. The City hereby expressly reserves the right to use the Ta�c Increments to finance costs set forth in the Tax Increment Plan not financed by the Commercial Paper Notes. Notwithstanding any provisions herein to the contrary, the City reserves the right to terminate, reduce, or apply to other lawful purposes the Tax Increments herein pledged to the payment of the Bonds and interest thereon to the exCent and in the manner permitted by law. SECTIOAI 4.03. Pled4e of Tax Inaremeats and Full Faith and Credit Tax Increments derived from the Tax Increment District are hereby pledged to the payment of the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes and any other additional temporary bonds hereafter issued and made payable from the Debt ServiCe Account. The estimated collection of Tax Increments exceeds twenty percent (20°s) of the Project Costs financed by the Commercial Paper Program. For the prompt and full payment of the principal of and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes any other additional temporary bonds or definitive bonds hereafter issued and made payable from the Debt Service Account, as the same respectively become due, the full faith, credit and taxing powers of the City sha11 be and are hereby irrevocably pledged. If the balance in the CP Note Payment ACCOUnt or Debt ServiCe Account is ever insufficient to pay all principal and interest then due on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes, any other additional temporary bonds hereafter issued and made payable from the Debt Service Account, the deficiency shall be promptly paid out of any 369958.4 Z 2 9� -� s�y 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 other accounts of th and such other funds Debt Service Account therein. e City which are available for such purpose, may be reimbursed without interest from the when a sufficient balance is available SSCTION 4.04. AnDlication of Moaevs ia Debt Service Account. 1. Amounts in the Debt Service Account shall be applied to the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the Commercial Paper Notes and to the payment of the principal o£, or interest on, the Bank Notes when due, as £urther provided in this Section 4.04. 2. To the extent moneys are not available on any date in the CP Note Payment Account from the proceeds of Commercial Paper Notes, borrowings under the Credit Agreement or other lawful sources to pay the full principal of, and interest on, Commercial Paper Notes maturing on such date, then the City shall, by telephone, telex, telecopier or other telecommunications device, direct the Paying Agent to pay out of the Debt 5ervice Account, and upon such direction the Paying Agent shall deposit in the CP Note Payment Account, the amount of such difference. Such direction shall prompCly be confirmed in writing by an Authorized Officer. 3. To the extent moneys are not available on any date in the CP Note Payment Account from the proceeds of Commercial Paper Notes or other lawful sources to pay the principal of, or interest on, the Bank Notes maturing on such date, then the City shall, by telephone, tielex, telecopier or other telecommunica- tions device, direct the Paying Agent to pay out of the Debt Service Account, and upon such direction the Paying Agent shall pay, to the Holders of such Bank Notes the amount of such difference. Such direction shall promptly be confirmed in writing by an Authorized Officer. In making the payments provided for in this paragraph 3, the Paying Agent may rely upon written statements from the Agent as to the principal of, or interest on, Bank Notes. Payments in respect of the Bank Notes shall be made to the Agent for distribution to the Holders of the Bank Notes. SECTION 4.05. Additional Temporary Bonds. To provide money for the prompt and full payment of the principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes or the Bank Notes, if and to the extent that the principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes and Bank Notes cannot be paid from other sources herein pledged or appropriated for such purpose, Che City may issue one or more issues of general obligation 369458.4 23 q1-\S� y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 il 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 temporary bonds maturing not more than three years from their date of issuance and in no event later than six years after the date of original issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes. The aggregate principal amount of any additional temporary bonds, together with any outstanding Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, shall not exceed $33,500,000. The Pricing Committee hereby is authorized to negotiate the sale of the additional temporary bonds, to determine the redemption provisions, maturity dates and to set the interest rate or rates to be borne thereby; provided that no interest rate shall exceed fifteen percent (15.00°s) per annum. STCTION 4.06. Definitive Bonds To further provide moneys for the prompt and full payment of principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes or any additional temporary bonds issued pursuant to Section 4.05 hereof (collectively, the "Temporary Bonds"?, the City shal], issue and sell definitive bonds, at or prior to the final maturity date of the Temporary Bonds issued hereunder, in such amounts as are needed to pay the principal and interest then due on said Temporary Bonds after the application and the appropriation of such other munioipal funds as are properly available for such purpose. The Council hereby finds, determines and declares that the estimated collections of other revenues Co be received before the maturity date of the Temporary Bonds, together with the proceeds of any definitive bonds to be issued at or before said maturity date, and other revenues p7,edged for the payment of said Temporary Bonds and the interest thereon will equal the principal and interest requirements of said Temporary Bonds as the same become due. 369958.4 z4 `i�-�s�y ARTICLE V. 3 4 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 5� INITIAL RELATI3D SECTION 5.01. Credit Aareement. The Credit Agreement in the form presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, of Che City may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services and Clerk are hereby authorized to execute the Credit Agreement, with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Credit Agreement to the Banks. SECTION 5.02. Dealer Acrreemeat. The Dealer Agreement presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services, and Clerk are hereby authorized to execute the Dealer Agreement, with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Dealer Agreement to the Dealer. SECTION 5.03. Issuina and Paving Aqency Acrreement. The Issuing and Paying AgenCy Agreement in the form presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, of the City may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services, and Clerk are hereby authorized to execute the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement, with such changes therein as the Director, Office of Financial Services or Treasurer may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement to the Paying Agent. SECTION 5.04. Tax Increment Pledae Aareement. The Tax Increment Pledge Agreement presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit D, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services, and Clerk are hereby authorized tio execute the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement, with such changes therein as the 369958.4 2 5 q�-ts3y 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 41 Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Dealer Agreement to the Dealer. SSCTION 5.05. Offerina Memorandum. The offering memorandum (the "Offering Memorandum") in substantially the form provided at this meeting be and it hereby is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit E, subject to such changes therein as the fireasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the delivery of the Offering Memorandum to the Dealer, the Treasurer or the Director, Office of Financial Services, are authorized to deliver the Offering Memorandum to the Dealer. SECTION 5.06. Officers Authorized to Execute and Deliver Bank Notes. The Mayor and the Director, Office of Financial Services, of the City are each hereby authorized to execute the Bank Notes on behalf of the City, subject to completion thereof, and with such changes therein as such officers may approve as necessary and desirable and in the best interest of the City, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof. The seal of the City may be omitted from the Bank Notes as permitted by law. Such officers are each hereby authorized to deliver such Bank Notes on behalf of the City. to do such other acts and things, as may be necessary or advisable in connection with the execution and delivery of the Initial Related Agreements, the Bank Notes, the delivery of the Offering Memorandum to the Dealer, the sale and issuance from time to time of the Commercial Paper Notes, the deposit and SECTION 5.07. Authorized Officers. The Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer, Director, Office of Financial ServiCes, or any other officer, employee or agent of the City as shall hereinafter be designated by resolution o£ the City, be, and they hereby are, and each of them hereby is, authorized to take such action as may be required to be taken by Authorized Officers hereunder and under the Initial Related Agreements, to execute such doCUments, instruments and papers, and to operate, such bank accounts, and investment of the proceeds thereof and the delivery of amendments and/or supplements to the Otfering Memorandum to the Dealer from time to time. 369958.4 2 6 `t�-1 s�y ARTICLE V2. , WARRANTISS APID AGRBEMR�iTS OF THE City The City hereby represents, warrants and agrees with the Trustee and the Holders ot the Commercial Paper Notes as follows: SSCTION 6.01. Pavment of Commercial Paner Piotes. The City shall duly and punetually pay or cause to be paid principal and interest on each of the Commercial Paper Notes at the dates and places and in the manner mentioned in the Commercial Paper Notes, according to the true intent and meaning thereof. For the purpose of providing for the payment of the principal and interest on Outstanding Commercial Paper Notes on the date that the same shall become due and payable, the City, on or prior to such date, and if on such date, no later than 2:00 P.M., New York time, will pay or cause to be deposited in the Debt Service Account an amount which, together with other amounts then on deposit in such Debt Service Account or on deposit in the CP Note Payment Account, wi11 be sufficient and available to make such payment on such date. SECTION 6.02. Office for ServicinQ Cou¢nercial Paper Notes. The City shall at all times maintain an agency in New York, I3ew York, where Commercial Paper Notes may be presented for payment. The City shall at all times maintain an agency in New York, New York, where notices, demands and other documents may be served upon the City in respect of the Commercial Paper Notes or of this Resolution. The City hereby appoints tihe Paying Agent as the Sond Registrar to maintain an agency for the registration, transfer or exchange of Commercial Paper Notes, and for the service upon the City of such notices, demands and other documents. SECTION 6.03. Further Assurance. At any and all times the City shall, as far as it may be authorized by law, comply with any reasonable request of the Paying Agent to pass, make, do, execute, acknowledge and deliver, all and every such further resolutions, acts, deeds, conveyances, assignments, transfers and assurances as may be necessary or desirable for the better assuring, conveying, granting, pledging, assigning and confirming all and singular the rights, moneys, securities and funds hereby pledged or assigned, or intended so to be, or which the City may become bound to pledge or assign. 369958.4 2 7 g� -�s� y SECTION 6.04. Power to Issue Commercial Paper Notes. The City is duly authorized under all applicable laws to create and issue the Commercial Paper No�es, to adopt this Resolution and to pledge the full faith and credit of the City to the payment of the Commercial Paper Notes. The Commercial Paper Notes and the provisions of the Resolution are and will be the valid and legally enforceable obligations of the City in accordance with their respective terms. SECTION 6.05. Performance of Covenants. The City will faithfully perform at all times any and all covenants, under- takings, stipulations and provisions contained in this Resolution and in any and every Commercial Paper Note and Bank Note executed, authenticated and delivered hereunder. SECTION 6.06. Maintenance of Outstanding Commitment. 1. The City covenants and warrants that it will at all times maintain an available commitment under the Credit Agreement at least equal to the principal of the Outstanding Commercial Paper Notes. 2. The City covenants that it will not substitute another liquidity support agreement for the Credit Agreement then in etfect, nor will it permit or allow any Bank to assign all or any part of its obligation to make loans under the Credit Agreement unless, in any such case, prior to such substitution or assignment, as the case may be, the City shall have received written evidence from each rating agency then rating the Commercial Paper Notes to the effect that such substitution or assignment, as the case may be, will not, by itself, result in a reduction, withdrawal or suspension of such rating agency's ratings of the Commercial Paper Notes from those which then prevail. SECTION 6.07. General. 1. The performed all or on behalf Resolution. City shall do and perform or cause to be done and acts and things required to be done or performed by of the City under the provisions of the Act and this 369958.4 2 $ q� -ls�y 1 2. Upon the date of authentication and delivery of any of 2 the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, all conditions, acts 3 and things required by law and this Resolution to exist, to have 4 happened and to have been performed precedent to and in the 5 issuance of such Commercial Paper Notes and Bank Notes shall 6 exist, have happened and have been performed and the issue of 7 such Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, together with all 8 other indebtedness of the City, shall comply in all respects with 9 the applicable laws of the State of Minnesota and the City 10 Charter. 369958.4 2 4 9� -�say ARTICLE VII. MISCELLANEOIIS Section 7.01. DefeasaaCe 1. If the City shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall otherwise be paid, to the Holder of any Commercial Paper Note the principal and interest due or to become due thereon, at the times and in the manner stipulated therein and in this Resolution, then the pledge of funds, moneys and securities pledged under this Resolution with respect to such Commercial Paper Note and all covenants, agreements and other obligations of the City to such Holder, shall thereupon cease, tenninate and become void and be discharged and satisfied. If the City shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall otherwise be paid, to the Holders of all Commex�cial Paper Notes the principal and interest due or to become due thereon, at the times and in the manner stipulated therein and in this Resolution, then the pledge of moneys and securities pledged under this Resolution and all covenants, agreements and other obligations of the City to the Holders of the Commercial Paper Notes, shall thereupon cease, terminate and become void and be discharged and satisfied_ 2. Al1 or any portion of the Commercial Paper Notes shall be deemed to have been paid within the meaning and with the effect expressed in paragraph 1 of this Section 7.01 if there shall have been deposited with the Paying Agent either monies in an amount which shall be sufficient, or securities of the type enumerated in Minnesota Statutes, Section 475.67, the principal of and the interest on which when due will provide monies which, toqether with the monies, if any, deposited with the Paying Agent at the same time, shall be sufficient, to pay when due the principal of and interest due on said Commercial Paper Notes on the maturity date thereof. SBCTION 7.02. No Personal Recourse on Commercial Paper Notes. No member of the City and no officer, agent or employee of the City shall be individually or personally liable for the payment of the principal or interest on the Commercial Paper Notes. 369958.4 3 0 �� -ls�y 1 ARTICLE VIII. 2 3 FORM OF CObIDSERCIAL PAPER NOTS 4 5 6 SECTION 8.01. Form o£ Commercial Paoer Note. The form of 7 the Commercial Paper Notes shall be of substantially the follow- 8 ing tenor with such variations, omissions and insertions as are 9 required or permitted by this Resolution: 369958.4 3 1 9�-�S�y 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2Q 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 [COMMERCIAL PAPER NOTE FORMj IINITBD 5TATES OF AMERICA STATB OF MIIQNESOTA CITY OF SAINT PAIIL, RAMSEY COIINTY Note Number $ TAXABLE GAQSRAL OBLIGATION COMi��RCIAL PAPER NOTT (ARENA PROJECT) Issue Date: Iaterest Rate: Interest Amount: % On , for value received, CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (the "City") promises to pay to the Bearer, by wire transfer of immediately available funds, the sum of U.S. Dollars upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the offices of First Trust National Association (the "Issuing and Paying Agent"), 100 Wall Street, 20th Floor, Attention: Commercial Paper Operations Manager (or at such other address or addresses as the Issuing and Paying Agent may elect upon written notice to the City). Such payment will be made on the same day as presentation and surrender of this NoCe to the Issuing and Paying Agent (or, if such day is a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the ciCy in which the principal office of the Issuing and Paying Agent are authorized by law to remain closed, on the next succeeding day that is not a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the city in which the principal office of the Issuing and Paying Agent are authorized by law to remain closed) if this Note is presented and surrendered to the Issuing and Paying Agent at or prior to 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on such date; if this Note is presented and surrendered to the Issuing and Paying Agent after 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on any day, such payment will be made on the next succeeding day that is not a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the city in which the principal office of the Issuing and Paying Agent are authorized by law to remain closed. Interest has been computed on the basis of actual days elapsed and on the basis of a 365 or 366 day year. No interest will accrue after maturity. This Note is one of the notes of the City known as Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes (Arena Project) (the 369958.4 32 g�-1s�y '�Notes"), authorized for issuance, from time to time, pursuant to the Resolution Authorizing A Ta�cable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program (Arena Project) adopted by the City on December 17, 1997 (the "Resolution"), up to but not exCeeding $33,500,000 in aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding, or such lesser amount of similar short-term indebtedness as may be permitted to be issued and outstanding thereunder pursuant to the provisions of the Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 475, and Minnesota Statutes, Sections 469.174 through 469.179, as amended (the "Act"), and other applicable provisions of law, to pay for Project Costs (as defined in the Resolution), and to pay amounts owed under the Sank Notes in accordance with the Credit Agreement dated as of January _, 1998, among the City, Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, and such other Banks as may become party thereto from time to time and Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as agent for the Banks thereunder, or such other credit agreement as is permitted by the Resolution (the '�Credit Agreement��). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Resolution. The City is required by law to issue additional temporary bonds or definitive bonds at or prior to the maturity of this Note for the purpose of refinancing, the same if the other funds which are properly available and are appropriated by the CiCy Council are not sufficient for the payment thereof. This Note constitutes a general obligation of the City, and to provide moneys for the full and prompt payment of its principal and interest when the same becomes due, the full faith and credit and taxing powers of the City have been and are hereby irrevocably pledged. IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED AND RECITED that all acts, Conditions and things required by the Constitution and laws of the State of Minnesota and Charter of the City to be done, to happen and to be performed, precedent to and in the issuance of this Note, have been done, have happened and have been performed, in regular and due form, time and manner as required by law, and this Note, together with all other debts of the City outstanding on the date of original issue hereof and on the date of its issuance and delivery to the original purchaser, does not exceed any constitutional, charter or statutory limitation of indebtedness. This Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the ResoluCion or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until this Note shall have been authenticated by the execution by the Issuing and Paying Agent of the Certificate of Authentication hereon. 369958.4 3 3 q'1-�s34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 IN WITNESS WSEREOF, the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, has caused this Note to be signed in its name and on its behalf by the manual or facsimile signature of its Mayor, attested by its Clerk and countersigned by its Director, O£fice of Financial Services, and its corporate seal having been intentionally omitted as provided by law. Countersigned for Authentication only: CITY OF SAINT PAIIL, RAMSEY COIINTY, MINNESOTA Mayor Attest: City C1erk FIRST TRIIST NATIONAL Countersigned: ASSOCIATION, as Issuing and Paying Agent By Authorized Signature 369958.4 Director, Office of Financial Services � q�_�s3y � 2 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ARTICLE IX. MISCELLANEOIIS SECTION 9.01. Severabilitv. If any one or more of the covenants or agreements provided in this Resolution, the Related Agreements, the Bank Notes or the Commercial Paper Note5 should be held contrary to law, then such covenants or agreements shall be deemed severa.ble from the remaining covenants and agreements of this Resolution, the Related Agreements, the Bank Notes or the Commercial Paper Notes, as the case may be and sha7.1 in no way affect the validity of the other provisions of this Resolution, the Related Agreements, the Bank Notes or the Commercial Paper Notes. SECTION 9.02. Reaistration. The City Clerk is hereby directed to file a certified copy of this resolution with the Director, Department of Property Taxation, of Ramsey County Minnesota, together with such other information as he shall require, and to obtain from said Auditor his certificate that said Commercial Paper Notes have been entered in the said Auditor�s Bond Register. SECTION 9.03. Governincr Law. This Resolution shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Minnesota. SECTION 9.04. Effective Date This Resolution shall be effective upon adoption by the City Council. 369958.4 35 g�-�s�y 1 2 SECTION 9.04. Effective Date. This Resolution shall be effective upon adoption by the City Council. Adopted by Council: Date ��•-�� �`�q'7 Adoptio Cert'rfied by Cou�cil Secretary ay: �.s.�� 1� .r.��...---- c Approved by Mayor. Date By: Requested by Department of: Office of Financial Services ey' � �'ln ""`._-` Form Appr e b City �e By: _� �/� �... ..�t��- .J% . . . /. . / � � Financial Services � PERSON & PHONE \\\` S�-u.SJ \i�l � DqTE INITIATED ,99� I GREEN SHEET FOR TOTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGES 1 �1'rl'1'� � z' pEPARTMENT pRECfOP q� - i53y No 60936 LRYCd111CIL ❑ L�,,�, ❑ 2 CrtYPiTOxNE/ GIYCLERK _� ❑ iRWlMJ4LSE0.V10E5qR ❑ RIFNCIpLSERY(4CCT0 � MnmRfoR4S515TANT) ❑ _ (CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATURE) authorizmg a Taxable General Obligatlon Commercial Paper Prog2m for the Arena Pro�ec[. PLANNING CAMMISSION q6 COMMITTEE GIVIL SERVICE CAMMISSION PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS MUST ANSWER iHE FOLLOWING Q 1 Has this person)firtn eve� wo�ketl under a coM2ci tor [his tlepartment? YES N� Has this perso�tfirm ever heen a cM1Y emPloYee? YES NO �oe; th�s Persontfrm Mssess a sWU not no�maily possessetl 6Y anY curtent ciry emPbYee7 VES NO Is this persoNfirtn a targeted ventloh YES NO �Explain all yes answers on separate sheet and attach to green sheet fING PROBLEM ISSUE, OPPORTUNITY (Who, What, When, Whe�e, Why) bonds are for the purpcse ot fu�ug the Qtys portion ot the costs M cons[nic4on antl eqwpp�ng of a new areira ad7aceM to the RiverCerit*e compiex �, pnmary sources of revenue to repay any obligahons issued to fnance the CRy Gontnbu[ion will not 6e a�aAable uMil the construction of the new arena is completeq R is recommerMed issue temporery obligations which wdl be repaid with the proceeds W deflndrve obhgahons aMiapated to he issued dunng the altowable temporary penotl Paper was deemed to provitle the 9reatest flenbihty fo� temporary fnanang m place for the CRy contnbWOn to the arena pro}ect ��i ; �y�}' i's�v � "1 19�1 wrrtnbutlon to the prqect wAI not have financing AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION S FUNDING SOURCE COSTiREVENUE BUDGETED (CIRCLE ONE) ACTNITY NUMBER YES NO FINpNCULL INFORMNTION (E%PW N) � .. _ '��, � TM Presented Sy Referred To 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Council File # q�� 1 � y Green Sheet # GOq_,_'�� MINNESOTA Committee: Date AUTHORIZING A TAXABLE GENERAL OBLIGATION CObIBSERCIAL PAPER PROGRAbI AND AIITHORIZING THl3 ISSIIANCE OF TAXABLS GENERAL OBLIGATION COMMERCIAL PAPER NOTES (ARENA PROJECT) AND TAXABLE GENERAL OBLIGATION BANK NOTES (2:RENA PROJECT) IO WHERfiAS, the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "City") has agreed pursuant to an Arena Lease among the City, its Civic Center Authority and Minnesota Hockey Ventures, Group LP to contribute $30,000,000 (the "City Contribution") to pay a portion of the costs of construction and equipping of a new arena as a part of the RiverCentre Complex; WHEREAS, the primary 5ources of revenue to repay any obligations issued to finance the City Contribution will not be available until the construction of the new arena is completed and therefore the City has determined to issue temporary obligations to finance the City Contribution, which temporary obligations will be repaid with the proceeds of definitive obligations anticipated to be issued on or before the final maturity date of the Commercial Paper Notes (as hereinafter defined), by the City pursuant to a separate resolution of the City Council; WSEREAS, the City has determined that it is desirable to issue the temporary obligations under a commercial paper program as hereinafter more fully set forth, which program involves the 369958.4 ��•ts�y issuance of commercial paper notes maturing in 270 days or less, with a final maturity date not later than six years after their date of original issuance; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 475.60, Subd. 2(b), the requirement of a public sale does not apply to the sale of commercial paper notes since the interest thereon is not excluded from gross income for purposes of federal income taxation; WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City that the commercial paper notes be issued in book-entry form as hereinafter provided. NOW, THEItEFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council o£ the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota as follows: ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND AUTHORITY SECTION 1.01. Definitions The terms defined in this Article (except as otherwise herein expressly provided or unless the Context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program (the "Resolution") shall have the following respective meanings: Act shall mean Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 475, as amended, and Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.174 through 469.179, both inclusive, as amended. Agent shall mean Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Assoaiation, or any bank designated as Agent for the Banks under the Credit Agreement. Authority shall mean the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Authorized Officers, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, shall mean the Authorized Officers designated pursuant to Section 5.06 hereof. Banks shall mean Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, and its respective successors and assigns under the Credit Agreement and any other banks with which the City may enter into a liquidity support agreement similar to the Credit Agreement from time to time. 369958.4 q � -1 s � �{ Baak Notes shall mean the Taxable General Obligation Bank Notes (RiverCentre Arena Project) of the City authorized to be issued pursuant to Article III o£ this Resolution. Sond Registrar, when used with respect to the Commercial Paper Notes, sha11 mean the Paying Agent and, when used with respect to the Bank Notes, shall mean the City. City shall mean the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Closiag Date shall mean the date of issuance of the first series of Commercial Paper Notes under this Resolution pursuant to SeCtion 2.03 hereof. Commercial Paper I�Iotes sha11 mean the Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes (Arena Project) of the City authorized to be issued and sold pursuant to this Resolution. CP Note Payment Account shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6 of the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement. Credit Agreement shall mean the Credit Agreement authorized by the City pursuant to Section 5.01 of this Resolution and entered into among the City, Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, and such other Banks as may become party thereto from time to time and Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as agent for the Banks thereunder, as amended from time to time, or such other Credit agreement which the City determines to be in replacement thereof or supplemental thereto as may be entered into by the City from time to time with one or more banks each having a capital surplus and undivided profits of not less than $150,000,000. Dealer shall mean Dougherty Summit Securities LLC, as the exclusive dealer designated pursuant to the Dealer Agreement and any other person with which the City may enter into a dealer agreement from time to time. Dealer Agreement shall mean the Dealer Agreement authorized by the City pursuant to Section 5.02 of this Resolution and entered into by and between the City and Dougherty Summit SeCUrities LLC, as such Dealer Agreement may be amended from time to time, or such other dealer agreement which the City determines to be in replacement thereof. Debt Service Account shall mean the account established pursuant to Section 4.01 hereof. Depository shall mean The Depository Trust Company, a limited purpose trust company organized under the laws of the 369958.4 3 9'►-1s�y State of New York, or any of its successors or successors to its funetions hereunder. Effective Date shall have the meaning given to such term in the Credit AgreemenC. Fiduciary or Fiduciaries, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes, shall mean the Paying Agent, the Bond Registrar or the Authenticating Agent, or any or all of them, as may be appropriate. Global Certificate, shall mean one Certificate representing the entire principal amount of the Commercial Paper Notes due on a particular maturity date. Holder, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes, shall mean any person who shall be the bearer of any Commercial Paper Note and, when used with respect to the Bank Notes, shall mean any person who shall be the holder of any Bank Note. Initial Related Agreement5 shall mean the Dealer Agreement, the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement, and the Credit Agreement authorized pursuant to Article V hereof. Issuing aad Payiag Ageacy Agreement shall mean the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement authorized by the City pursuant to Section 5.03 of this ResoluCion and entered into by and between the City and the Paying Agent, as amended from time to time, or such other agreement as may be entered into by Che City from time to time which the City deterniines to be in replacement thereof. Lease shall mean the Arena Lease among the City, the Civic Center Authority, and Minnesota Hockey Ventures, L.P. Letter of Representatioa shall mean the Letter of Representations heretofore executed by the City and the Depository with respect to the Depository's role with respect to G1oba1 Certificates. Outstanding, when used with respect to Bank Notes, shall mean, as of any particular time, all Bank Notes as to which amounts shall be payable with respect thereto at such time and, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes, shall mean, as of any particular time, all Commercial Paper Notes authenticated and delivered under this Resolution, except Commercial Paper Notes theretofore canceled by the Paying Agent or defeased pursuant to Section 7.01 hereof. 369958.4 4 9'1-1S3y Participants shall mean those financial institutions for whom the Depository effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited and immobilized with the Depository. Payiag Agent shall mean the Agent appointed pursuant to the terms of the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement. Pricing Committee shall mean a committee Consisting o£ the Deputy Mayor, Debt Manager, the Treasurer and the Director, Office oE Financial Services of the City or their designees. Project Costs shall have the meaning given such term in the Lease. Related Agreements shall mean the Dealer Agreement, the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement and the Credit Agreement. Request shall mean a request made, or instructions given, by telephone or electronic transmission by, or in writing from a member of the Pricing Committee pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof. Resolution shall mean this Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program adopted by the City on December 17, 1997, as from time to time amended or supplemented in accordance with the terms hereof. Tax TnCrement ACt shall mean Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.174 through 469.179, both inclusive. Tax InCrement District shall mean the Block 39/Arena Redevelopment Tax InCrement Financing Di5trict established pursuant to the Tax InCrement Plan as a"redevelopment district" pursuant Co Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.174, Subdivision 10a. Tax InCrement Plan shall mean the tax increment finanCing plan for the Tax Increment District adopted by the Authority on September 24, 1997, and approved by the City on September 24, 1997. Tax Increment Pledge Agreement shall mean the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement by and between the City and the Authority pursuant to which the Authority has pledged certain Tax Increments to the City to pay principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes and any temporary bonds issued pursuant to Section 4.05 hereof. Tax Iacremeats sha11 mean the tax increments derived from the Tax Increment District established pursuant to the Tax Increment Plan. 369958.G S °t� -� s �y Except where the context otherwise requires, words importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa, and words importing persons shall include firms, a associations, corporations, districts, agencies and bodies. All references in this Resolution to Articles, Sections, and other subdivisions are to the corresponding Articles, Sections or subdivisions of this Resolution and the words "herein", "hereof", "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Resolution as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or subdivision of this Resolution. The headings or titles of the several Articles and Sections of this Resolution shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not affect the meaning, construction or effect of this Resolution. SECTION 1.02. Authoritv for this Resolution. This Resolution is adopted pursuant to the provisions of the Act. SECTION 1.03. Resolution to Constitute Contract In consideration of the purchase and acceptance of any and all Commercial Paper Notes authorized to be issued under this Resolution by those who shall hold the same from time to time and in consideration of the agreement of the Banks to make loans under the Credit Agreement, this Resolution shall be deemed to be and shall constitute a contract between the City and the Holders from time to time of the Commercial Paper Notes and the Bank Notes; and the pledge made in this Resolution shall be for the equal benefit, protection and security of the Holders of any and all o£ the Commercial Paper Notes and the Bank Notes Outstanding at any time, all of which, regardless of the time or times of their authentication and delivery or maturity, shall be of equal rank without preference, priority or distinction of any of the Commercial Paper Notes or of the Bank Notes over any other thereof except as expressly provided in or permitted by this Resolution. 369958.4 6 � 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 ARTICLE II. AIITHORSZATION AND GENERAL TERMS AND PROVISION5 OF CObtZ�RCIAL PAPIsR NOTES; IISB OF PROCEEDS °t�-�s�y SECTION 2.01. Authorizatioa to Borrow aad Issue Commercial Paper Notes As Evidence Thereof. 1. The City is hereby authorized to borrow and reborrow from time to time up to $33,500,000 at any one time outstanding pursuant to this Resolution during the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on January 31, 2002 or, if such day is not a Business Day (as defined in the Credit Agreement), the next preceding Business Day), for purposes of (i) financing Project Costs, (ii) paying the principal of, and interest on, maturing Commercial Paper Notes, and (iii) paying amounts owed under the Bank Notes. To evidence such borrowing by the City for such purposes, there is hereby authorized the issuance and sale from time to time of Commercial Paper Notes of the City, including renewals thereof, up to a maximum aggregate principal amount Outstanding at any time of $33,500,000, subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions of this Resolution including, without limitation, subsection 4 of Section 2.02 hereof; provided that the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Commercial Paper Notes and the aggregate principal amount of Bank Notes permitted to be Outstanding at any time shall not exceed $33,500,000. A Commercial Paper Note or Bank Note shall not be deemed Outstanding for purposes of this Section 2.01 if the proceeds of other Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes are available for the payment thereof. Nothing herein contained shall prohibit the City from issuing other series of notes or commercial paper notes pursuant to other resolutions or resolutions supplemental to this Resolution, all of which the City expressly reserves the right to do. SECTION 2.02. Issuance o£ Commercial Paper Notes. 1. The Commercial Paper Notes herein authorized shall be in suCh denomination or denominations of $100,000 or any larger integral multiples of 51,000, shall bear such number or numbers, such date or dates of issue and maturity and such rate or rates of interest, as shall be specified in a Request given or delivered to the Paying Agent pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof. 2. The Commercial Paper Notes shall be designated "Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper 13otes (Arena PrOjeCt)." The Commercial Paper Notes shall be dated the date of their issuance, shall bear interest from their date, and shall be issued in bearer form, without coupons. Interest on the Commercial Paper Notes shall be payable on their respective maturity dates. 369958.4 q�-1S3y Unless the City shall otherwise direct, the Commercial Paper Notes shall be consecutively numbered. 3. The Commercial Paper Notes shall otherwise have such terms and conditions as shall be set forth in a Request to be given or delivered pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof in connection with the issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes; provided. however, that unless the City shall adopt an appropriate supplement to this Resolution amending the following parameters, each Commercial Paper Note: (i) shall bear interest at an annual rate (calculated on the basis of a 365 or 366 day year and on a basis of actual days elapsed) not in excess of an interest rate of 15°s per annum, (ii? sha11 mature not more than 270 days after the date of issuance thereof, and in no event later than January 31, 2002 (or, if such day is not a Business Day (as defined in the Credit Agreement), the next preceding Business Day), and (iii) shall have a purchase price of not less than 100% of the principal amount thereof, less any fee to the Dealer. 4. No CommerCial Paper Note shall be is5ued pursuant to this Resolution unless, at the time of such issuance, (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Commercial Paper Notes and all Bank Notes then Outstanding, after giving effect to (a) the issuance of Commercial Paper Notes and borrowings with respect to Bank Notes on such date and (b) the application of the proceeds thereof by deposit into the CP Note Payment Account or the Debt Service Account, as the case may be, is equal to or less than the greater of $33,500,000 and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of all Commercial Paper Notes Outstanding after giving effect to (a) the issuance of Commercial Paper Notes and borrowings with respect to Bank Notes on such date and (b) the application of the proceeds thereof by deposit into the CP Note Payment Account or the Debt Service Fund, as the case may be, will be equal to or less than the unused available amount of the Banks' commitment under the Credit Agreement. For purposes of this subsection 4 of this Section 2.03, the proceeds of Commercial Paper Notes and borrowings with respect to Bank Notes deposited into the CP Note Payment Account or the Debt Service Account, as the case may be, shall not be taken into account in the foregoing calculations unless such proceeds are used on the date of the issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes to pay maturing Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, as the case may be. 369958.4 $ °t -t -t s3 y 5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Commercial Paper Notes shall be issued from and after (i) the occurrence of any event which terminates the Banks' commitment to make loans under the Credit Agreement for the purpose of paying the principal of, and interest on, Coaanercial Paper Notes issued after the occurrence of such event, or (ii) receipt by the City and the Paying Agent of No-ISSUance Instructions from the Agent pursuant to Section 2.1(b) o£ the Credit Agreement. 6. Upon their original i5suance the Commercial Paper Notes will be issued in the form of a single Global Certificate for each maturity, deposited with the Depository by the Purchaser and immobilized as provided in paragraph 7. No beneficial owners of interests in the Commercial Paper Note will receive certificates representing their respective interests in the Commercial Paper Notes except as provided in paragraph 7. Except as so provided, during the term of the Commercial Paper Notes, beneficial ownership (and subsequent transfers of benefiaial ownership) of interests in the Global Certificates will be reflected by book entries made on the records of the Depository and its participants and other banks, brokers, and dealers participating in the national system. The Depository's book entries of beneficial ownership interests are authorized to be in increments of $100,000 of principal of the Commercial Paper Notes, but not smaller increments, despite the larger authorized denominations of the Global Certificates. Payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Global Certificates will be made to the Paying Agent, and in turn by the Paying Agent to the Depository or its nominee as the owner of the Global Certificates, and the Depository according to the laws and rules governing it will receive and forward payments on behalf of the beneficial owners of the Global Certificates. Payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on a Global Certificate may in the City's discretion be made by such other method of transferring funds as may be requested by the Holder of a Global Certificate. 7. Pursuant to the request of the Dealer to the Depository, immediately upon the original delivery of the Commercial Paper Notes the Dealer will deposit the Global Certificates representing a11 of the Commercial Paper Notes with the Depository. The Global Certificates shall be in typewritten form or otherwise as acceptable to the Depository, shall be registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and shall be held immobilized from circulation at the offices of the Depository on behalf of the Dealer and subsequent owners. The Depository or its nominee will be the sole holder of record of the Global Certificates and no investor or other party 369958.4 9 9�-ts�y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2& 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 purchasing, selling or otherwise transferring ownership of interests in any Commercial Paper Notes is Co receive, hold or deliver any bond certificates so long as the Depository holds the Global Certificates immobilized from circulation, except as provided below in this paragraph. Certificates evidencing the Commercial Paper Notes may not after their original delivery be transferred or exchanged except: (i) To any successor of the Depository (or its nominee) or any substitute depository (a "substitute depository") designated pursuant to clause (ii) of this subparagraph, provided that any successor of the Depository or any substitute depository must be both a"clearing corporation" as defined in the Minnesota Uniform Commercial Code at Minnesota Statutes, Section 336.8-102, and a qualified and registered "clearing agency" as provided in Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (ii) To a substitute depository designated by and acceptable to the City upon (a) the determination by the Depository that the Commercial Paper Notes shall no longer be eligible for its depository services or (b) a determination by the City that the Depository is no longer able to carry out its functions, provided that any substitute depository must be qualified to act as such, as provided in clause (i) of this subparagraph, or (iii) To those persons to whom transfer is requested in written transfer instructions in the event that: (a) the Depository shall resign or discontinue its services for the Commercial Paper Notes and the City is unable to locate a substitute depository within two (2) months following the resignation or determination of non-eligibility, or ib) upon a determination by the City in its sole discretion that (1) the continuation of the book-entry system described herein, which precludes the issuance of certificates (other than Global Certificates) to any Holder other than the Depository (or its nominee), might adversely affect the interest of the beneficial owners of the Commercial Paper Notes, or (2) that it is in the best interest of the beneficial owners of the Commercial Paper Notes that they be able to obtain certificated bonds, 369958.4 10 °�'1-�s�y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 in either of which events the City shall notify holders of its determination and of the availability of certificates (the "Replacement Commercial Paper Notes"). In the event of a succession of the Depository as may be authorized by this paragraph, the Paying Agent upon presenta- tion of Global Certificates shall transfer them to the substitute or successor depository, and the substitute or successor depository shall be treated as the Depository for all puzposes and functions under this resolution. The Letter of Representations shall not apply to a substitute or successor depository unless the City and the substitute or successor depository so agree, and a similar agreement may be entered into. SECTION 2.03. Delivery of Commercial Paper Notes. 1. Prior to the delivery by the Paying Agent of any Commercial Paper Notes under this Resolution, there shall be given or delivered, via telephone, telex or any other communication medium available to the City, the Paying Agent and the Dealer, a Request of the City executed by a member of the Pricing Committee instructing the Paying Agent to authenticate and deliver such Commercial Paper Notes to the Dealer (or any designee or affiliate thereof) specified, which Request shall contain instructions with respect to, and approve on behalf of the City: (i) the aggregate principal or face amount of Commercial Paper Notes then to be issued and the denominations in which they are to be issued, (ii) the rate of interest with respect to each Commercial Paper Note, (iii) the date of each Commercial Paper Note and the maturity date thereof, and (iv) the purchase price of each Commercial Paper Note, which will be 1000 of each Commercial Paper Note, less any Dealer fee. 2. All oral Requests or Requests given by electronic transmission (other than by a time-sharing terminal) given as herein provided shall be confirmed in writing by a member of the Pricing Committee as promptly as practicable thereafter. Written Requests and written confirmations of oral or elecCronically transmitted Requests shall be in substantially the following form: 369958.4 1 1 �t'1-� s � y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 City of Saint Paul, Minnesota Request Pursuant to Section 2.03 of the Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation CommerCial Paper Program (Arena Project) adopted December 17, 1997 No. 1. The City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "City") hereby instructs First Trust National Association, in St. Paul, Minnesota, as Issuing and Paying Agent (the "Agent") under the Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program (Arena Project) adopted on December 17, ].997 (the "Resolution"), to authenticate and deliver to Dougherty Summit Securities LLC its Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes (Arena Project), described in Schedule A hereto (the "Commercial Paper Notes") bearing such dates and in such amounts, at such interest rates and maturing on such dates as are set forth in Schedule A attached hereto. 2. The City hereby conEirms that the representations and warranties of the City set forth in Article VII of the Resolution, Section 3 of the Dealer Agreement and Article V of the Credit Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof with the same effect as though made on and as of the date hereof. 3. The City hereby represents and warrants that no Event of Default exists under any Related Agreement (as specified in such documents), that no event has occurred which, with the passage of time, the giving of notice, or both, would become such an Event of Default, that the City has performed in all material respects all of the covenants and agreements that it is required to have per£ormed under the Resolution and the Related Agreements, that the issuance and delivery of the Commercial. Paper Notes has been duly authorized by the City, and that, immediately after the issuance and delivery of such Commercial Paper Notes, the principal amount of and interest to maturity on Commercial Paper Notes outstanding under the Resolution will be as indicated opposite Item 1 on Schedule A and the available Commitment under the Credit Agreement at such time will be as indicated opposite Item 2 on Schedule A. 4. Unless otherwise defined herein, the tez used in this Request have the respective meanings given to such terms in the Resolution. 369958.4 1 2 °t � -t s �y 1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned has hereunto set his or 2 her hand this _ day of , 3 4 5 CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA 6 7 8 By 9 (Authorized Officer) 369958.4 13 9�-�s3y � 2 3 4 Note Number TERMS OF COMMfiRCIAL PAPER NOTES Principal or Face Date of Interest Maturity Amount Issuance Rate Date SCHEDULE A 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 � Item No. Descriptions 1 Principal Amount of and Interest to Maturity on Commercial Paper Notes Outstanding Under the Resolution 2 Available Commitment under the Credit Agreement 3 Amount authorized by Section 2.01(2) and Section 2.02(4) 4 Expiration Date of Credit Facility 369958.4 14 Dealer Fee Amount 9�-1s3y F� 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 li 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 SSCTION 2.04. Pavment; Execution. 1. The principal of, and interest on, the Commercial Paper Notes shall be payable in any coin or currency of the United States of America which, at the respective dates of payment thereof, is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. The principal and interest with respect to Commercial Paper Notes shall be payable by wire transfer of immediately available funds upon presentaCion and surrender of such Commercial Paper Notes at the principal o£fice of the Paying Agent or designated agents thereof. Payment of interest on the Commercial Paper Notes shall be made only upon maturity of such Commercial Paper Notes. 2. The Commercial Paper Notes shall be signed in the name of the City by the manual or facsimile signature of its Mayor, attested by the City Clerk, and countersigned by the Director, Office of Financial Services, its corporate seal having been intentionally omitted as permitted by law. Tn case any one or more of the officers who shall have signed or sealed any of the Commercial Paper Notes shall cease to be such officer before such Commercial Paper Notes so signed and sealed shall have been executed and delivered, such Commercial Paper Notes may, nevertheless, be authenticated and delivered as herein provided, and may be issued as if the persons who signed or sealed such Commercial Paper Notes had not ceased to hold such offices. Any Commercial Paper Note may be signed and sealed on behalf of the City by such persons as at the time of the execution of such Commercial Paper Notes shall be duly authorized or hold the proper office in the City, although at the date borne by the Commercial Paper Notes such person5 may not have been so authorized or have held such office. SECTION 2.05. Form of Co�ercial PaAer Notes. Subject to the provisions of this Resolution, the Commercial Paper Notes issued under this Resolution shal.l be substantially in the form set forth in Article VIii hereof with such appropriate variations, omissions and insertions as are pexmitted or required by this Resolution. SECTION 2.06. Authentication. Only such Commercial Paper Notes as shall bear thereon a manually executed authentication signature of an authorized officer or employee of the Paying Agent or of the AuthentiCating Agent shall be entitled to any right or benefit under this Resolution, and no Commercial Paper Note shall be valid or obligatory for any purpose or entitled to any benefit under this Resolution unless and until an authentication signature of an authorized officer or employee of the Paying Agent or of the Authenticating Agent shall have been duly executed on the Commercial Paper Note. The authentication 369958,4 15 9�-ts3y signature of the Paying Agent or of the Authenticating Agent by such officer or employee upon any such Commercial Paper Note shall be conclusive evidence that such Commercial Paper Note has been authenticated and delivered under this Resolution. SECTION 2.07. Mutilated, Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Commercial Pa�er Notes. If any Commercial Paper Notes are mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the City shall execute and the Paying Agent sha11 authenticate and deliver a new Commercial Paper Note of like date, maturity and denomination as the Commercial Paper Note that was mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed; provided that (i) in the case o£ any mutilated Commercial Paper Note, such mutilated Commercial Paper Note shall first be surrendered to the Paying Agent authenticating such new Commercial Paper Note, (ii) in the case of any lost, stolen or destroyed Commercial Paper Note, there shall be first furnished to the Paying Agent evidence of such loss, theft or destruction satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City together with indemnity satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City, (iii) a11 other reasonable requirements of the City are complied with and (iv) fees and expenses in connection with such transaction are paid by the Holder or owner of the Commercial Paper Note. In the event any such lost, stolen or destroyed Commercial Paper Note shall have matured, instead of issuing a duplicate Commercial Paper Note the City may pay the same without surrender thereof; provided that there shall be first furnished to the Paying Agent evidence of such loss, theft or destruction satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City together with indemnity satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City. Any such new Commercial Paper Note issued pursuant to this Section in substituCion for Commercial Paper Notes al.leged to be destroyed, stolen or lost shall constitute original additional contractual obligations on the part of the City, whether or not the Commercial Paper Notes so alleged to be destroyed, stolen or lost be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be equally secured by and entitled to equal and proportionate benefits with all other Commercial Paper Notes issued under this Resolution, in any moneys or securities held by the City or any Fiduciary for the benefit of the Holders of the Commercial Paper Notes. SECTION 2.U8. IIse of Commercial Pager Note Proceeds. A11 Commercial Paper Note proceeds shall be credited by the Paying Agent to the CP Note Payment Account established pursuant to the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement and shall be (i) applied to the payment of principal of, and interest on, maturing Commercial Paper Notes, (ii) applied, upon instructions of the City, to the payment of the principal of and interest on the Bank Notes, or (iii) transferred to the Construction Account established under and pursuant to this Resolution for application to the payment of Project Costs. All proceeds of the Commercial Paper Notes held 369958.4 1 6 °1'1-1 s �y 1 pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above shall be held in cash and 2 shall not be reinvested. 369958.4 1 7 9�-ts�y � 2 3 A 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 ARTICLS I2I. AIITSORIZATION AND GSNSRAL TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF BANtC NOTES SECTION 3.D1. Authorization of Sank Notes; Principal Amount and Designation of Series. 1. Subject to subsection 2 of this Section 3.01, the City is hereby authorized to borrow and zeborrow up to $33,500,000 pursuant to the Credit Agreement for the purposes of providing liquidity support for the Commercial Paper Notes. To evidence the City's obligation to repay moneys borrowed by the City from time to time under the Credit Agreement, there is hereby authorized the issuance from time to time of Bank Notes of the City up to a maximum aggregate principal amount Outstanding at any time of $33,500,000, subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions of this Resolution, including, without limitation, subsection 2 of this Section 3.01 and subsection 4 of Section 2.02 hereof; �nrovided that the sum of the aggregate principal amount o£ the Commercial Paper Notes and the aggregate principal amount of Bank Notes permitted to be Outstanding at any time sha11 not exceed $33,500,0�0, subject to the provisions of subsection 2 of this Section 3.01. Such Bank Notes shall be designated Taxable General Obligation Bank Notes (Arena Project). All or a portion of the principal amount of a Bank Note shall not be deemed Outstanding for purposes of this Section 3.01 to the extent the proceeds of borrowings under the Credit Agreement or other Commercial Paper Notes are to be applied toward the payment thereof. 2. The officers of the City hereinafter authorized pursuant to Section 5.05 hereof, and each of them, are authorized to exeCUte and de].iver the Bank Notes, subject to completion thereo£ and to the provisions of this Resolution, and with such changes therein as the officer executing the same may approve as necessary or desirable and in the best interest of the City, such approval and acceptance to be evidenced conclusively by the execution and delivery of such Bank Notes by such o£ficer, the other authorized officer of the City is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to attest such execution and delivery, provided that such attesting officer shall not have executed such Bank Notes. The City's corporate seal shall be intentional.ly omitted as permitted by law. SECTSON 3.Q2. Execution aad Deliverv, Dates aad Denominations of 8ank Notes. On or prior to the Effective Date, the City shall execute, authenticate and deliver to the Agent, for the account of the Banks, Bank Notes as provided in this Section 3.02. The Bank Notes shall be dated the date of their 369958.4 m q� -ts�y execution and delivery. Except as provided in Section 3.05 hereof, and except as otherwise may be provided in the Credit Agreement, a single, separate Bank Note shall be issued on behalf of each Bank, registered in the name of such Bank. Subject to the provisions of subsection 2 of Section 3.01 hereof, each Bank Note shall have a stated maximum principal amount equal to the commitment under the Credit Agreement for the Bank in whose name such Bank Note is registered; provided, however, that the aggregate of the stated maximum principal amounts of all Bank Notes to be Outstanding at any time shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of the Commercial Paper Notes authorized pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof. SECTIOI3 3.03. Outstanding Principal Amounts of Bank Notes, Interest on Bank Notes, Pavment of Bank Notes. 1. The principal amount Outstanding with respect to any Bank Note at any time shall equal the amount borrowed by the City under the Credit Agreement from the Bank in whose name such Bank Note shall be registered, less any prior repayments thereof. 2. Each Bank Note shall bear interest during the same periods and at the same rates as are applicable to the Loans (as defined in the Credit Agreement) evidenced by such Bank Note made by a Bank under and pursuant to the Credit Agreement, determined as provided in the Credit Agreement. 3. The principal of the Bank Notes, and interest thereon, shall be payable (and prepayable) at the same times and in the same amounts as are applicable to the respective Loans (as defined under the Credit Agreement) evidenced by such Bank Notes made by the Banks under and pursuant to the Credit Agreement, determined as provided in the Credit Agreement. SECTION 3.04. Form of Bank Notes and Schedule of Loan5 and ReAavments, Completion of Such Schedule. 1. The Bank Notes issued under this Resolution, including the schedule of loans and repayments attached thereto, shall be substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit A to the Credit Agreement with such appropriate variations, omissions and insertions as are permitted or required by this Resolution or the Credit Agreement. 2. The Holder of each Bank Note is authorized to record on the schedule of loans and repayments attached to such Bank Note, or a continuation thereof, each loan made by such Holder to the City, the respective dates, amounts, types and maturities thereof and all repayments of the principal thereof and, prior to any transfer thereof, appropriate notations to evidence the foregoing 369958.4 1 9 9�-ts�y information shall be endorsed by such Holder on such schedule, or a continuation thereof; provided, however, that the failure of such Holder to make any such recordation or endorsement shall not affect the obligations of the City under such Bank Note or under the Credit Agreement. SECTION 3.05. Limitations on Trausfer aad Exchanae of Baak Notes. 1. Except as hereinafter provided in paragraph 3 of this Section 3.05, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the this Resolution, the Bank Notes shall not be transferable by the Holders thereo£. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Section 3.05, if and to the extent provided in the Credit Agreement, any Holder of a Bank Note may, by notice in writing to the City, request that its loans of a partiaular type be evidenced by a separate Bank Note in an amount equal to the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such loans. Upon receipt of any such request, and upon presentation and surrender by such Holder of its Bank Note, the City shall execute and deliver to such Holder, in substitution for the Bank Note so surrendered, separate Bank Notes in respective principal amounts equal to the aggregate unpaid principal amounts of the loans of each such particular type. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Section 3.05, any Holder of a Bank Note may assign its rights with respect to such Bank Note and its commitment under the Credit Agreement in accordance with the provisions of the Credit Agreement. Upon such assignment, and upon presentation and surrender of such Bank Note, the City shall execute and deliver to the appropriate person(s), in substitution for the Bank Notes so surrendered, one or more Bank Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Bank Note so surrendered, so as to give effect to such assignment. 369958.4 2 � °l�-1s�y ARTICLE IV. FDNDS AND ACCOUNTS; SECIIRITY FOR COb1[�SERCIAL PAPER NOTES AND BANK NOTES 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 SECTION 4.01. Fund and Accounts. There is hereby created a special account designated the "Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program Fund (Arena Project)" (the '�F'und") to be administered and maintained by the Treasurer as a bookkeeping account separate and apart from all other funds maintained in the official £inancial records of the City. The Fund shall be maintained in the manner herein specified until the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes and any additional temporary bonds issued pursuant to Section 4.04 hereof and made payable from the Fund have been paid. There shall be maintained in the Fund two separate accounts to be designated the "Construction Account" and "Debt Service Account", respectively. (1) Construction Account. To the Construction ACCOUnt there sha11 be credited at Closing $30,000,000 of the proceeds of the sale of Commercial Paper Notes. The proceeds of the Commercial Paper Notes held in the Construction Account shall be disbursed to pay Project Costs in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Lease. Pending such disbursement, funds in the Construction Account shall be invested by the City Treasurer in accordance with the applicable provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 118A, as amended. Any investment earnings on the funds in the Construction Account may be transferred by the City at any time to the Costs of Issuance Subaccount hereinafter established in the Construction Account. (a) Cost of Issuance Subaccount. There is hereby created within the Construction Account a special subaccount designated the "Costs of Issuance Subaccount." The City may deposit in the Costs of Issuance Subaccount any investment earnings on amounts deposited in the Construction Account. Funds in the Costs of Issuance Subaccount may be used and withdrawn by the City to pay costs of issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes or may be transferred to the Debt Service Account and used to pay principal or interest on maturing Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes. (2) Debt Service Account. There are hereby irrevocably appropriated and pledged to, and there shall be credited to, the Debt Service ACCOUnt: (a) any Tax Increments received by the City pursuant to the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement to pay the principal and interest paymenCs on the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes; (b) such amount of the proceeds of the sale of Commercial Paper Notes as are determined by the Pricing Committee as necessary to fund capitalized interest; (c) the proceeds of 369958.4 2 1 q�-�s3y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ai 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 any additional temporaxy bonds or definitive bonds issued by the City to refund the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes; (d) any collections of taxes which may hereafter be levied in the event that the Tax Increments and other sums, including the proceeds of additional temporary bonds or definitive bonds herein pledged to the payment of the Commercial Paper Notes, Bank Notes or other temporaiy bonds are insufficient therefor; (e) all investment earnings on funds held in the Debt Service Account; and (f) any and all other moneys which are properly available and are appropriated by the governing body of the City to the Debt Service Account. The Debt Service Account shall be used solely to pay the principal and interest of the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, or any additional temporary bonds issued by the City and made payable from the Debt Service Account. SECTION 4.02. Pledqe of Tax Increments. The City hereby appropriates, to the extent and subject to the limiCations of the Tax Increment Act, to the Debt Service Account, the Tax Increments received by the City from the Authority pursuant to the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement, which appropriation shall continue until a11 of the Commercial Paper Notes and Bank Notes, and any other general obligation temporary bonds issued by the City and made payable from the Debt Service Account, are paid or discharged. The City hereby expressly reserves the right to use the Ta�c Increments to finance costs set forth in the Tax Increment Plan not financed by the Commercial Paper Notes. Notwithstanding any provisions herein to the contrary, the City reserves the right to terminate, reduce, or apply to other lawful purposes the Tax Increments herein pledged to the payment of the Bonds and interest thereon to the exCent and in the manner permitted by law. SECTIOAI 4.03. Pled4e of Tax Inaremeats and Full Faith and Credit Tax Increments derived from the Tax Increment District are hereby pledged to the payment of the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes and any other additional temporary bonds hereafter issued and made payable from the Debt ServiCe Account. The estimated collection of Tax Increments exceeds twenty percent (20°s) of the Project Costs financed by the Commercial Paper Program. For the prompt and full payment of the principal of and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes any other additional temporary bonds or definitive bonds hereafter issued and made payable from the Debt Service Account, as the same respectively become due, the full faith, credit and taxing powers of the City sha11 be and are hereby irrevocably pledged. If the balance in the CP Note Payment ACCOUnt or Debt ServiCe Account is ever insufficient to pay all principal and interest then due on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes, any other additional temporary bonds hereafter issued and made payable from the Debt Service Account, the deficiency shall be promptly paid out of any 369958.4 Z 2 9� -� s�y 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 other accounts of th and such other funds Debt Service Account therein. e City which are available for such purpose, may be reimbursed without interest from the when a sufficient balance is available SSCTION 4.04. AnDlication of Moaevs ia Debt Service Account. 1. Amounts in the Debt Service Account shall be applied to the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the Commercial Paper Notes and to the payment of the principal o£, or interest on, the Bank Notes when due, as £urther provided in this Section 4.04. 2. To the extent moneys are not available on any date in the CP Note Payment Account from the proceeds of Commercial Paper Notes, borrowings under the Credit Agreement or other lawful sources to pay the full principal of, and interest on, Commercial Paper Notes maturing on such date, then the City shall, by telephone, telex, telecopier or other telecommunications device, direct the Paying Agent to pay out of the Debt 5ervice Account, and upon such direction the Paying Agent shall deposit in the CP Note Payment Account, the amount of such difference. Such direction shall prompCly be confirmed in writing by an Authorized Officer. 3. To the extent moneys are not available on any date in the CP Note Payment Account from the proceeds of Commercial Paper Notes or other lawful sources to pay the principal of, or interest on, the Bank Notes maturing on such date, then the City shall, by telephone, tielex, telecopier or other telecommunica- tions device, direct the Paying Agent to pay out of the Debt Service Account, and upon such direction the Paying Agent shall pay, to the Holders of such Bank Notes the amount of such difference. Such direction shall promptly be confirmed in writing by an Authorized Officer. In making the payments provided for in this paragraph 3, the Paying Agent may rely upon written statements from the Agent as to the principal of, or interest on, Bank Notes. Payments in respect of the Bank Notes shall be made to the Agent for distribution to the Holders of the Bank Notes. SECTION 4.05. Additional Temporary Bonds. To provide money for the prompt and full payment of the principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes or the Bank Notes, if and to the extent that the principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes and Bank Notes cannot be paid from other sources herein pledged or appropriated for such purpose, Che City may issue one or more issues of general obligation 369458.4 23 q1-\S� y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 il 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 temporary bonds maturing not more than three years from their date of issuance and in no event later than six years after the date of original issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes. The aggregate principal amount of any additional temporary bonds, together with any outstanding Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, shall not exceed $33,500,000. The Pricing Committee hereby is authorized to negotiate the sale of the additional temporary bonds, to determine the redemption provisions, maturity dates and to set the interest rate or rates to be borne thereby; provided that no interest rate shall exceed fifteen percent (15.00°s) per annum. STCTION 4.06. Definitive Bonds To further provide moneys for the prompt and full payment of principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes or any additional temporary bonds issued pursuant to Section 4.05 hereof (collectively, the "Temporary Bonds"?, the City shal], issue and sell definitive bonds, at or prior to the final maturity date of the Temporary Bonds issued hereunder, in such amounts as are needed to pay the principal and interest then due on said Temporary Bonds after the application and the appropriation of such other munioipal funds as are properly available for such purpose. The Council hereby finds, determines and declares that the estimated collections of other revenues Co be received before the maturity date of the Temporary Bonds, together with the proceeds of any definitive bonds to be issued at or before said maturity date, and other revenues p7,edged for the payment of said Temporary Bonds and the interest thereon will equal the principal and interest requirements of said Temporary Bonds as the same become due. 369958.4 z4 `i�-�s�y ARTICLE V. 3 4 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 5� INITIAL RELATI3D SECTION 5.01. Credit Aareement. The Credit Agreement in the form presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, of Che City may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services and Clerk are hereby authorized to execute the Credit Agreement, with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Credit Agreement to the Banks. SECTION 5.02. Dealer Acrreemeat. The Dealer Agreement presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services, and Clerk are hereby authorized to execute the Dealer Agreement, with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Dealer Agreement to the Dealer. SECTION 5.03. Issuina and Paving Aqency Acrreement. The Issuing and Paying AgenCy Agreement in the form presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, of the City may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services, and Clerk are hereby authorized to execute the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement, with such changes therein as the Director, Office of Financial Services or Treasurer may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement to the Paying Agent. SECTION 5.04. Tax Increment Pledae Aareement. The Tax Increment Pledge Agreement presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit D, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services, and Clerk are hereby authorized tio execute the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement, with such changes therein as the 369958.4 2 5 q�-ts3y 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 41 Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Dealer Agreement to the Dealer. SSCTION 5.05. Offerina Memorandum. The offering memorandum (the "Offering Memorandum") in substantially the form provided at this meeting be and it hereby is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit E, subject to such changes therein as the fireasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the delivery of the Offering Memorandum to the Dealer, the Treasurer or the Director, Office of Financial Services, are authorized to deliver the Offering Memorandum to the Dealer. SECTION 5.06. Officers Authorized to Execute and Deliver Bank Notes. The Mayor and the Director, Office of Financial Services, of the City are each hereby authorized to execute the Bank Notes on behalf of the City, subject to completion thereof, and with such changes therein as such officers may approve as necessary and desirable and in the best interest of the City, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof. The seal of the City may be omitted from the Bank Notes as permitted by law. Such officers are each hereby authorized to deliver such Bank Notes on behalf of the City. to do such other acts and things, as may be necessary or advisable in connection with the execution and delivery of the Initial Related Agreements, the Bank Notes, the delivery of the Offering Memorandum to the Dealer, the sale and issuance from time to time of the Commercial Paper Notes, the deposit and SECTION 5.07. Authorized Officers. The Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer, Director, Office of Financial ServiCes, or any other officer, employee or agent of the City as shall hereinafter be designated by resolution o£ the City, be, and they hereby are, and each of them hereby is, authorized to take such action as may be required to be taken by Authorized Officers hereunder and under the Initial Related Agreements, to execute such doCUments, instruments and papers, and to operate, such bank accounts, and investment of the proceeds thereof and the delivery of amendments and/or supplements to the Otfering Memorandum to the Dealer from time to time. 369958.4 2 6 `t�-1 s�y ARTICLE V2. , WARRANTISS APID AGRBEMR�iTS OF THE City The City hereby represents, warrants and agrees with the Trustee and the Holders ot the Commercial Paper Notes as follows: SSCTION 6.01. Pavment of Commercial Paner Piotes. The City shall duly and punetually pay or cause to be paid principal and interest on each of the Commercial Paper Notes at the dates and places and in the manner mentioned in the Commercial Paper Notes, according to the true intent and meaning thereof. For the purpose of providing for the payment of the principal and interest on Outstanding Commercial Paper Notes on the date that the same shall become due and payable, the City, on or prior to such date, and if on such date, no later than 2:00 P.M., New York time, will pay or cause to be deposited in the Debt Service Account an amount which, together with other amounts then on deposit in such Debt Service Account or on deposit in the CP Note Payment Account, wi11 be sufficient and available to make such payment on such date. SECTION 6.02. Office for ServicinQ Cou¢nercial Paper Notes. The City shall at all times maintain an agency in New York, I3ew York, where Commercial Paper Notes may be presented for payment. The City shall at all times maintain an agency in New York, New York, where notices, demands and other documents may be served upon the City in respect of the Commercial Paper Notes or of this Resolution. The City hereby appoints tihe Paying Agent as the Sond Registrar to maintain an agency for the registration, transfer or exchange of Commercial Paper Notes, and for the service upon the City of such notices, demands and other documents. SECTION 6.03. Further Assurance. At any and all times the City shall, as far as it may be authorized by law, comply with any reasonable request of the Paying Agent to pass, make, do, execute, acknowledge and deliver, all and every such further resolutions, acts, deeds, conveyances, assignments, transfers and assurances as may be necessary or desirable for the better assuring, conveying, granting, pledging, assigning and confirming all and singular the rights, moneys, securities and funds hereby pledged or assigned, or intended so to be, or which the City may become bound to pledge or assign. 369958.4 2 7 g� -�s� y SECTION 6.04. Power to Issue Commercial Paper Notes. The City is duly authorized under all applicable laws to create and issue the Commercial Paper No�es, to adopt this Resolution and to pledge the full faith and credit of the City to the payment of the Commercial Paper Notes. The Commercial Paper Notes and the provisions of the Resolution are and will be the valid and legally enforceable obligations of the City in accordance with their respective terms. SECTION 6.05. Performance of Covenants. The City will faithfully perform at all times any and all covenants, under- takings, stipulations and provisions contained in this Resolution and in any and every Commercial Paper Note and Bank Note executed, authenticated and delivered hereunder. SECTION 6.06. Maintenance of Outstanding Commitment. 1. The City covenants and warrants that it will at all times maintain an available commitment under the Credit Agreement at least equal to the principal of the Outstanding Commercial Paper Notes. 2. The City covenants that it will not substitute another liquidity support agreement for the Credit Agreement then in etfect, nor will it permit or allow any Bank to assign all or any part of its obligation to make loans under the Credit Agreement unless, in any such case, prior to such substitution or assignment, as the case may be, the City shall have received written evidence from each rating agency then rating the Commercial Paper Notes to the effect that such substitution or assignment, as the case may be, will not, by itself, result in a reduction, withdrawal or suspension of such rating agency's ratings of the Commercial Paper Notes from those which then prevail. SECTION 6.07. General. 1. The performed all or on behalf Resolution. City shall do and perform or cause to be done and acts and things required to be done or performed by of the City under the provisions of the Act and this 369958.4 2 $ q� -ls�y 1 2. Upon the date of authentication and delivery of any of 2 the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, all conditions, acts 3 and things required by law and this Resolution to exist, to have 4 happened and to have been performed precedent to and in the 5 issuance of such Commercial Paper Notes and Bank Notes shall 6 exist, have happened and have been performed and the issue of 7 such Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, together with all 8 other indebtedness of the City, shall comply in all respects with 9 the applicable laws of the State of Minnesota and the City 10 Charter. 369958.4 2 4 9� -�say ARTICLE VII. MISCELLANEOIIS Section 7.01. DefeasaaCe 1. If the City shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall otherwise be paid, to the Holder of any Commercial Paper Note the principal and interest due or to become due thereon, at the times and in the manner stipulated therein and in this Resolution, then the pledge of funds, moneys and securities pledged under this Resolution with respect to such Commercial Paper Note and all covenants, agreements and other obligations of the City to such Holder, shall thereupon cease, tenninate and become void and be discharged and satisfied. If the City shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall otherwise be paid, to the Holders of all Commex�cial Paper Notes the principal and interest due or to become due thereon, at the times and in the manner stipulated therein and in this Resolution, then the pledge of moneys and securities pledged under this Resolution and all covenants, agreements and other obligations of the City to the Holders of the Commercial Paper Notes, shall thereupon cease, terminate and become void and be discharged and satisfied_ 2. Al1 or any portion of the Commercial Paper Notes shall be deemed to have been paid within the meaning and with the effect expressed in paragraph 1 of this Section 7.01 if there shall have been deposited with the Paying Agent either monies in an amount which shall be sufficient, or securities of the type enumerated in Minnesota Statutes, Section 475.67, the principal of and the interest on which when due will provide monies which, toqether with the monies, if any, deposited with the Paying Agent at the same time, shall be sufficient, to pay when due the principal of and interest due on said Commercial Paper Notes on the maturity date thereof. SBCTION 7.02. No Personal Recourse on Commercial Paper Notes. No member of the City and no officer, agent or employee of the City shall be individually or personally liable for the payment of the principal or interest on the Commercial Paper Notes. 369958.4 3 0 �� -ls�y 1 ARTICLE VIII. 2 3 FORM OF CObIDSERCIAL PAPER NOTS 4 5 6 SECTION 8.01. Form o£ Commercial Paoer Note. The form of 7 the Commercial Paper Notes shall be of substantially the follow- 8 ing tenor with such variations, omissions and insertions as are 9 required or permitted by this Resolution: 369958.4 3 1 9�-�S�y 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2Q 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 [COMMERCIAL PAPER NOTE FORMj IINITBD 5TATES OF AMERICA STATB OF MIIQNESOTA CITY OF SAINT PAIIL, RAMSEY COIINTY Note Number $ TAXABLE GAQSRAL OBLIGATION COMi��RCIAL PAPER NOTT (ARENA PROJECT) Issue Date: Iaterest Rate: Interest Amount: % On , for value received, CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (the "City") promises to pay to the Bearer, by wire transfer of immediately available funds, the sum of U.S. Dollars upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the offices of First Trust National Association (the "Issuing and Paying Agent"), 100 Wall Street, 20th Floor, Attention: Commercial Paper Operations Manager (or at such other address or addresses as the Issuing and Paying Agent may elect upon written notice to the City). Such payment will be made on the same day as presentation and surrender of this NoCe to the Issuing and Paying Agent (or, if such day is a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the ciCy in which the principal office of the Issuing and Paying Agent are authorized by law to remain closed, on the next succeeding day that is not a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the city in which the principal office of the Issuing and Paying Agent are authorized by law to remain closed) if this Note is presented and surrendered to the Issuing and Paying Agent at or prior to 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on such date; if this Note is presented and surrendered to the Issuing and Paying Agent after 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on any day, such payment will be made on the next succeeding day that is not a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the city in which the principal office of the Issuing and Paying Agent are authorized by law to remain closed. Interest has been computed on the basis of actual days elapsed and on the basis of a 365 or 366 day year. No interest will accrue after maturity. This Note is one of the notes of the City known as Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes (Arena Project) (the 369958.4 32 g�-1s�y '�Notes"), authorized for issuance, from time to time, pursuant to the Resolution Authorizing A Ta�cable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program (Arena Project) adopted by the City on December 17, 1997 (the "Resolution"), up to but not exCeeding $33,500,000 in aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding, or such lesser amount of similar short-term indebtedness as may be permitted to be issued and outstanding thereunder pursuant to the provisions of the Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 475, and Minnesota Statutes, Sections 469.174 through 469.179, as amended (the "Act"), and other applicable provisions of law, to pay for Project Costs (as defined in the Resolution), and to pay amounts owed under the Sank Notes in accordance with the Credit Agreement dated as of January _, 1998, among the City, Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, and such other Banks as may become party thereto from time to time and Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as agent for the Banks thereunder, or such other credit agreement as is permitted by the Resolution (the '�Credit Agreement��). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Resolution. The City is required by law to issue additional temporary bonds or definitive bonds at or prior to the maturity of this Note for the purpose of refinancing, the same if the other funds which are properly available and are appropriated by the CiCy Council are not sufficient for the payment thereof. This Note constitutes a general obligation of the City, and to provide moneys for the full and prompt payment of its principal and interest when the same becomes due, the full faith and credit and taxing powers of the City have been and are hereby irrevocably pledged. IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED AND RECITED that all acts, Conditions and things required by the Constitution and laws of the State of Minnesota and Charter of the City to be done, to happen and to be performed, precedent to and in the issuance of this Note, have been done, have happened and have been performed, in regular and due form, time and manner as required by law, and this Note, together with all other debts of the City outstanding on the date of original issue hereof and on the date of its issuance and delivery to the original purchaser, does not exceed any constitutional, charter or statutory limitation of indebtedness. This Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the ResoluCion or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until this Note shall have been authenticated by the execution by the Issuing and Paying Agent of the Certificate of Authentication hereon. 369958.4 3 3 q'1-�s34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 IN WITNESS WSEREOF, the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, has caused this Note to be signed in its name and on its behalf by the manual or facsimile signature of its Mayor, attested by its Clerk and countersigned by its Director, O£fice of Financial Services, and its corporate seal having been intentionally omitted as provided by law. Countersigned for Authentication only: CITY OF SAINT PAIIL, RAMSEY COIINTY, MINNESOTA Mayor Attest: City C1erk FIRST TRIIST NATIONAL Countersigned: ASSOCIATION, as Issuing and Paying Agent By Authorized Signature 369958.4 Director, Office of Financial Services � q�_�s3y � 2 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ARTICLE IX. MISCELLANEOIIS SECTION 9.01. Severabilitv. If any one or more of the covenants or agreements provided in this Resolution, the Related Agreements, the Bank Notes or the Commercial Paper Note5 should be held contrary to law, then such covenants or agreements shall be deemed severa.ble from the remaining covenants and agreements of this Resolution, the Related Agreements, the Bank Notes or the Commercial Paper Notes, as the case may be and sha7.1 in no way affect the validity of the other provisions of this Resolution, the Related Agreements, the Bank Notes or the Commercial Paper Notes. SECTION 9.02. Reaistration. The City Clerk is hereby directed to file a certified copy of this resolution with the Director, Department of Property Taxation, of Ramsey County Minnesota, together with such other information as he shall require, and to obtain from said Auditor his certificate that said Commercial Paper Notes have been entered in the said Auditor�s Bond Register. SECTION 9.03. Governincr Law. This Resolution shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Minnesota. SECTION 9.04. Effective Date This Resolution shall be effective upon adoption by the City Council. 369958.4 35 g�-�s�y 1 2 SECTION 9.04. Effective Date. This Resolution shall be effective upon adoption by the City Council. Adopted by Council: Date ��•-�� �`�q'7 Adoptio Cert'rfied by Cou�cil Secretary ay: �.s.�� 1� .r.��...---- c Approved by Mayor. Date By: Requested by Department of: Office of Financial Services ey' � �'ln ""`._-` Form Appr e b City �e By: _� �/� �... ..�t��- .J% . . . /. . / � � Financial Services � PERSON & PHONE \\\` S�-u.SJ \i�l � DqTE INITIATED ,99� I GREEN SHEET FOR TOTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGES 1 �1'rl'1'� � z' pEPARTMENT pRECfOP q� - i53y No 60936 LRYCd111CIL ❑ L�,,�, ❑ 2 CrtYPiTOxNE/ GIYCLERK _� ❑ iRWlMJ4LSE0.V10E5qR ❑ RIFNCIpLSERY(4CCT0 � MnmRfoR4S515TANT) ❑ _ (CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATURE) authorizmg a Taxable General Obligatlon Commercial Paper Prog2m for the Arena Pro�ec[. PLANNING CAMMISSION q6 COMMITTEE GIVIL SERVICE CAMMISSION PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS MUST ANSWER iHE FOLLOWING Q 1 Has this person)firtn eve� wo�ketl under a coM2ci tor [his tlepartment? YES N� Has this perso�tfirm ever heen a cM1Y emPloYee? YES NO �oe; th�s Persontfrm Mssess a sWU not no�maily possessetl 6Y anY curtent ciry emPbYee7 VES NO Is this persoNfirtn a targeted ventloh YES NO �Explain all yes answers on separate sheet and attach to green sheet fING PROBLEM ISSUE, OPPORTUNITY (Who, What, When, Whe�e, Why) bonds are for the purpcse ot fu�ug the Qtys portion ot the costs M cons[nic4on antl eqwpp�ng of a new areira ad7aceM to the RiverCerit*e compiex �, pnmary sources of revenue to repay any obligahons issued to fnance the CRy Gontnbu[ion will not 6e a�aAable uMil the construction of the new arena is completeq R is recommerMed issue temporery obligations which wdl be repaid with the proceeds W deflndrve obhgahons aMiapated to he issued dunng the altowable temporary penotl Paper was deemed to provitle the 9reatest flenbihty fo� temporary fnanang m place for the CRy contnbWOn to the arena pro}ect ��i ; �y�}' i's�v � "1 19�1 wrrtnbutlon to the prqect wAI not have financing AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION S FUNDING SOURCE COSTiREVENUE BUDGETED (CIRCLE ONE) ACTNITY NUMBER YES NO FINpNCULL INFORMNTION (E%PW N) � .. _ '��, � TM Presented Sy Referred To 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Council File # q�� 1 � y Green Sheet # GOq_,_'�� MINNESOTA Committee: Date AUTHORIZING A TAXABLE GENERAL OBLIGATION CObIBSERCIAL PAPER PROGRAbI AND AIITHORIZING THl3 ISSIIANCE OF TAXABLS GENERAL OBLIGATION COMMERCIAL PAPER NOTES (ARENA PROJECT) AND TAXABLE GENERAL OBLIGATION BANK NOTES (2:RENA PROJECT) IO WHERfiAS, the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "City") has agreed pursuant to an Arena Lease among the City, its Civic Center Authority and Minnesota Hockey Ventures, Group LP to contribute $30,000,000 (the "City Contribution") to pay a portion of the costs of construction and equipping of a new arena as a part of the RiverCentre Complex; WHEREAS, the primary 5ources of revenue to repay any obligations issued to finance the City Contribution will not be available until the construction of the new arena is completed and therefore the City has determined to issue temporary obligations to finance the City Contribution, which temporary obligations will be repaid with the proceeds of definitive obligations anticipated to be issued on or before the final maturity date of the Commercial Paper Notes (as hereinafter defined), by the City pursuant to a separate resolution of the City Council; WSEREAS, the City has determined that it is desirable to issue the temporary obligations under a commercial paper program as hereinafter more fully set forth, which program involves the 369958.4 ��•ts�y issuance of commercial paper notes maturing in 270 days or less, with a final maturity date not later than six years after their date of original issuance; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 475.60, Subd. 2(b), the requirement of a public sale does not apply to the sale of commercial paper notes since the interest thereon is not excluded from gross income for purposes of federal income taxation; WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City that the commercial paper notes be issued in book-entry form as hereinafter provided. NOW, THEItEFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council o£ the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota as follows: ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND AUTHORITY SECTION 1.01. Definitions The terms defined in this Article (except as otherwise herein expressly provided or unless the Context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program (the "Resolution") shall have the following respective meanings: Act shall mean Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 475, as amended, and Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.174 through 469.179, both inclusive, as amended. Agent shall mean Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Assoaiation, or any bank designated as Agent for the Banks under the Credit Agreement. Authority shall mean the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Authorized Officers, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, shall mean the Authorized Officers designated pursuant to Section 5.06 hereof. Banks shall mean Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, and its respective successors and assigns under the Credit Agreement and any other banks with which the City may enter into a liquidity support agreement similar to the Credit Agreement from time to time. 369958.4 q � -1 s � �{ Baak Notes shall mean the Taxable General Obligation Bank Notes (RiverCentre Arena Project) of the City authorized to be issued pursuant to Article III o£ this Resolution. Sond Registrar, when used with respect to the Commercial Paper Notes, sha11 mean the Paying Agent and, when used with respect to the Bank Notes, shall mean the City. City shall mean the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Closiag Date shall mean the date of issuance of the first series of Commercial Paper Notes under this Resolution pursuant to SeCtion 2.03 hereof. Commercial Paper I�Iotes sha11 mean the Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes (Arena Project) of the City authorized to be issued and sold pursuant to this Resolution. CP Note Payment Account shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6 of the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement. Credit Agreement shall mean the Credit Agreement authorized by the City pursuant to Section 5.01 of this Resolution and entered into among the City, Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, and such other Banks as may become party thereto from time to time and Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as agent for the Banks thereunder, as amended from time to time, or such other Credit agreement which the City determines to be in replacement thereof or supplemental thereto as may be entered into by the City from time to time with one or more banks each having a capital surplus and undivided profits of not less than $150,000,000. Dealer shall mean Dougherty Summit Securities LLC, as the exclusive dealer designated pursuant to the Dealer Agreement and any other person with which the City may enter into a dealer agreement from time to time. Dealer Agreement shall mean the Dealer Agreement authorized by the City pursuant to Section 5.02 of this Resolution and entered into by and between the City and Dougherty Summit SeCUrities LLC, as such Dealer Agreement may be amended from time to time, or such other dealer agreement which the City determines to be in replacement thereof. Debt Service Account shall mean the account established pursuant to Section 4.01 hereof. Depository shall mean The Depository Trust Company, a limited purpose trust company organized under the laws of the 369958.4 3 9'►-1s�y State of New York, or any of its successors or successors to its funetions hereunder. Effective Date shall have the meaning given to such term in the Credit AgreemenC. Fiduciary or Fiduciaries, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes, shall mean the Paying Agent, the Bond Registrar or the Authenticating Agent, or any or all of them, as may be appropriate. Global Certificate, shall mean one Certificate representing the entire principal amount of the Commercial Paper Notes due on a particular maturity date. Holder, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes, shall mean any person who shall be the bearer of any Commercial Paper Note and, when used with respect to the Bank Notes, shall mean any person who shall be the holder of any Bank Note. Initial Related Agreement5 shall mean the Dealer Agreement, the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement, and the Credit Agreement authorized pursuant to Article V hereof. Issuing aad Payiag Ageacy Agreement shall mean the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement authorized by the City pursuant to Section 5.03 of this ResoluCion and entered into by and between the City and the Paying Agent, as amended from time to time, or such other agreement as may be entered into by Che City from time to time which the City deterniines to be in replacement thereof. Lease shall mean the Arena Lease among the City, the Civic Center Authority, and Minnesota Hockey Ventures, L.P. Letter of Representatioa shall mean the Letter of Representations heretofore executed by the City and the Depository with respect to the Depository's role with respect to G1oba1 Certificates. Outstanding, when used with respect to Bank Notes, shall mean, as of any particular time, all Bank Notes as to which amounts shall be payable with respect thereto at such time and, when used with respect to Commercial Paper Notes, shall mean, as of any particular time, all Commercial Paper Notes authenticated and delivered under this Resolution, except Commercial Paper Notes theretofore canceled by the Paying Agent or defeased pursuant to Section 7.01 hereof. 369958.4 4 9'1-1S3y Participants shall mean those financial institutions for whom the Depository effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited and immobilized with the Depository. Payiag Agent shall mean the Agent appointed pursuant to the terms of the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement. Pricing Committee shall mean a committee Consisting o£ the Deputy Mayor, Debt Manager, the Treasurer and the Director, Office oE Financial Services of the City or their designees. Project Costs shall have the meaning given such term in the Lease. Related Agreements shall mean the Dealer Agreement, the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement and the Credit Agreement. Request shall mean a request made, or instructions given, by telephone or electronic transmission by, or in writing from a member of the Pricing Committee pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof. Resolution shall mean this Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program adopted by the City on December 17, 1997, as from time to time amended or supplemented in accordance with the terms hereof. Tax TnCrement ACt shall mean Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.174 through 469.179, both inclusive. Tax InCrement District shall mean the Block 39/Arena Redevelopment Tax InCrement Financing Di5trict established pursuant to the Tax InCrement Plan as a"redevelopment district" pursuant Co Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.174, Subdivision 10a. Tax InCrement Plan shall mean the tax increment finanCing plan for the Tax Increment District adopted by the Authority on September 24, 1997, and approved by the City on September 24, 1997. Tax Increment Pledge Agreement shall mean the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement by and between the City and the Authority pursuant to which the Authority has pledged certain Tax Increments to the City to pay principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes and any temporary bonds issued pursuant to Section 4.05 hereof. Tax Iacremeats sha11 mean the tax increments derived from the Tax Increment District established pursuant to the Tax Increment Plan. 369958.G S °t� -� s �y Except where the context otherwise requires, words importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa, and words importing persons shall include firms, a associations, corporations, districts, agencies and bodies. All references in this Resolution to Articles, Sections, and other subdivisions are to the corresponding Articles, Sections or subdivisions of this Resolution and the words "herein", "hereof", "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Resolution as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or subdivision of this Resolution. The headings or titles of the several Articles and Sections of this Resolution shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not affect the meaning, construction or effect of this Resolution. SECTION 1.02. Authoritv for this Resolution. This Resolution is adopted pursuant to the provisions of the Act. SECTION 1.03. Resolution to Constitute Contract In consideration of the purchase and acceptance of any and all Commercial Paper Notes authorized to be issued under this Resolution by those who shall hold the same from time to time and in consideration of the agreement of the Banks to make loans under the Credit Agreement, this Resolution shall be deemed to be and shall constitute a contract between the City and the Holders from time to time of the Commercial Paper Notes and the Bank Notes; and the pledge made in this Resolution shall be for the equal benefit, protection and security of the Holders of any and all o£ the Commercial Paper Notes and the Bank Notes Outstanding at any time, all of which, regardless of the time or times of their authentication and delivery or maturity, shall be of equal rank without preference, priority or distinction of any of the Commercial Paper Notes or of the Bank Notes over any other thereof except as expressly provided in or permitted by this Resolution. 369958.4 6 � 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 ARTICLE II. AIITHORSZATION AND GENERAL TERMS AND PROVISION5 OF CObtZ�RCIAL PAPIsR NOTES; IISB OF PROCEEDS °t�-�s�y SECTION 2.01. Authorizatioa to Borrow aad Issue Commercial Paper Notes As Evidence Thereof. 1. The City is hereby authorized to borrow and reborrow from time to time up to $33,500,000 at any one time outstanding pursuant to this Resolution during the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on January 31, 2002 or, if such day is not a Business Day (as defined in the Credit Agreement), the next preceding Business Day), for purposes of (i) financing Project Costs, (ii) paying the principal of, and interest on, maturing Commercial Paper Notes, and (iii) paying amounts owed under the Bank Notes. To evidence such borrowing by the City for such purposes, there is hereby authorized the issuance and sale from time to time of Commercial Paper Notes of the City, including renewals thereof, up to a maximum aggregate principal amount Outstanding at any time of $33,500,000, subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions of this Resolution including, without limitation, subsection 4 of Section 2.02 hereof; provided that the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Commercial Paper Notes and the aggregate principal amount of Bank Notes permitted to be Outstanding at any time shall not exceed $33,500,000. A Commercial Paper Note or Bank Note shall not be deemed Outstanding for purposes of this Section 2.01 if the proceeds of other Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes are available for the payment thereof. Nothing herein contained shall prohibit the City from issuing other series of notes or commercial paper notes pursuant to other resolutions or resolutions supplemental to this Resolution, all of which the City expressly reserves the right to do. SECTION 2.02. Issuance o£ Commercial Paper Notes. 1. The Commercial Paper Notes herein authorized shall be in suCh denomination or denominations of $100,000 or any larger integral multiples of 51,000, shall bear such number or numbers, such date or dates of issue and maturity and such rate or rates of interest, as shall be specified in a Request given or delivered to the Paying Agent pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof. 2. The Commercial Paper Notes shall be designated "Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper 13otes (Arena PrOjeCt)." The Commercial Paper Notes shall be dated the date of their issuance, shall bear interest from their date, and shall be issued in bearer form, without coupons. Interest on the Commercial Paper Notes shall be payable on their respective maturity dates. 369958.4 q�-1S3y Unless the City shall otherwise direct, the Commercial Paper Notes shall be consecutively numbered. 3. The Commercial Paper Notes shall otherwise have such terms and conditions as shall be set forth in a Request to be given or delivered pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof in connection with the issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes; provided. however, that unless the City shall adopt an appropriate supplement to this Resolution amending the following parameters, each Commercial Paper Note: (i) shall bear interest at an annual rate (calculated on the basis of a 365 or 366 day year and on a basis of actual days elapsed) not in excess of an interest rate of 15°s per annum, (ii? sha11 mature not more than 270 days after the date of issuance thereof, and in no event later than January 31, 2002 (or, if such day is not a Business Day (as defined in the Credit Agreement), the next preceding Business Day), and (iii) shall have a purchase price of not less than 100% of the principal amount thereof, less any fee to the Dealer. 4. No CommerCial Paper Note shall be is5ued pursuant to this Resolution unless, at the time of such issuance, (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Commercial Paper Notes and all Bank Notes then Outstanding, after giving effect to (a) the issuance of Commercial Paper Notes and borrowings with respect to Bank Notes on such date and (b) the application of the proceeds thereof by deposit into the CP Note Payment Account or the Debt Service Account, as the case may be, is equal to or less than the greater of $33,500,000 and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of all Commercial Paper Notes Outstanding after giving effect to (a) the issuance of Commercial Paper Notes and borrowings with respect to Bank Notes on such date and (b) the application of the proceeds thereof by deposit into the CP Note Payment Account or the Debt Service Fund, as the case may be, will be equal to or less than the unused available amount of the Banks' commitment under the Credit Agreement. For purposes of this subsection 4 of this Section 2.03, the proceeds of Commercial Paper Notes and borrowings with respect to Bank Notes deposited into the CP Note Payment Account or the Debt Service Account, as the case may be, shall not be taken into account in the foregoing calculations unless such proceeds are used on the date of the issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes to pay maturing Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, as the case may be. 369958.4 $ °t -t -t s3 y 5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Commercial Paper Notes shall be issued from and after (i) the occurrence of any event which terminates the Banks' commitment to make loans under the Credit Agreement for the purpose of paying the principal of, and interest on, Coaanercial Paper Notes issued after the occurrence of such event, or (ii) receipt by the City and the Paying Agent of No-ISSUance Instructions from the Agent pursuant to Section 2.1(b) o£ the Credit Agreement. 6. Upon their original i5suance the Commercial Paper Notes will be issued in the form of a single Global Certificate for each maturity, deposited with the Depository by the Purchaser and immobilized as provided in paragraph 7. No beneficial owners of interests in the Commercial Paper Note will receive certificates representing their respective interests in the Commercial Paper Notes except as provided in paragraph 7. Except as so provided, during the term of the Commercial Paper Notes, beneficial ownership (and subsequent transfers of benefiaial ownership) of interests in the Global Certificates will be reflected by book entries made on the records of the Depository and its participants and other banks, brokers, and dealers participating in the national system. The Depository's book entries of beneficial ownership interests are authorized to be in increments of $100,000 of principal of the Commercial Paper Notes, but not smaller increments, despite the larger authorized denominations of the Global Certificates. Payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Global Certificates will be made to the Paying Agent, and in turn by the Paying Agent to the Depository or its nominee as the owner of the Global Certificates, and the Depository according to the laws and rules governing it will receive and forward payments on behalf of the beneficial owners of the Global Certificates. Payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on a Global Certificate may in the City's discretion be made by such other method of transferring funds as may be requested by the Holder of a Global Certificate. 7. Pursuant to the request of the Dealer to the Depository, immediately upon the original delivery of the Commercial Paper Notes the Dealer will deposit the Global Certificates representing a11 of the Commercial Paper Notes with the Depository. The Global Certificates shall be in typewritten form or otherwise as acceptable to the Depository, shall be registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and shall be held immobilized from circulation at the offices of the Depository on behalf of the Dealer and subsequent owners. The Depository or its nominee will be the sole holder of record of the Global Certificates and no investor or other party 369958.4 9 9�-ts�y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2& 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 purchasing, selling or otherwise transferring ownership of interests in any Commercial Paper Notes is Co receive, hold or deliver any bond certificates so long as the Depository holds the Global Certificates immobilized from circulation, except as provided below in this paragraph. Certificates evidencing the Commercial Paper Notes may not after their original delivery be transferred or exchanged except: (i) To any successor of the Depository (or its nominee) or any substitute depository (a "substitute depository") designated pursuant to clause (ii) of this subparagraph, provided that any successor of the Depository or any substitute depository must be both a"clearing corporation" as defined in the Minnesota Uniform Commercial Code at Minnesota Statutes, Section 336.8-102, and a qualified and registered "clearing agency" as provided in Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (ii) To a substitute depository designated by and acceptable to the City upon (a) the determination by the Depository that the Commercial Paper Notes shall no longer be eligible for its depository services or (b) a determination by the City that the Depository is no longer able to carry out its functions, provided that any substitute depository must be qualified to act as such, as provided in clause (i) of this subparagraph, or (iii) To those persons to whom transfer is requested in written transfer instructions in the event that: (a) the Depository shall resign or discontinue its services for the Commercial Paper Notes and the City is unable to locate a substitute depository within two (2) months following the resignation or determination of non-eligibility, or ib) upon a determination by the City in its sole discretion that (1) the continuation of the book-entry system described herein, which precludes the issuance of certificates (other than Global Certificates) to any Holder other than the Depository (or its nominee), might adversely affect the interest of the beneficial owners of the Commercial Paper Notes, or (2) that it is in the best interest of the beneficial owners of the Commercial Paper Notes that they be able to obtain certificated bonds, 369958.4 10 °�'1-�s�y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 in either of which events the City shall notify holders of its determination and of the availability of certificates (the "Replacement Commercial Paper Notes"). In the event of a succession of the Depository as may be authorized by this paragraph, the Paying Agent upon presenta- tion of Global Certificates shall transfer them to the substitute or successor depository, and the substitute or successor depository shall be treated as the Depository for all puzposes and functions under this resolution. The Letter of Representations shall not apply to a substitute or successor depository unless the City and the substitute or successor depository so agree, and a similar agreement may be entered into. SECTION 2.03. Delivery of Commercial Paper Notes. 1. Prior to the delivery by the Paying Agent of any Commercial Paper Notes under this Resolution, there shall be given or delivered, via telephone, telex or any other communication medium available to the City, the Paying Agent and the Dealer, a Request of the City executed by a member of the Pricing Committee instructing the Paying Agent to authenticate and deliver such Commercial Paper Notes to the Dealer (or any designee or affiliate thereof) specified, which Request shall contain instructions with respect to, and approve on behalf of the City: (i) the aggregate principal or face amount of Commercial Paper Notes then to be issued and the denominations in which they are to be issued, (ii) the rate of interest with respect to each Commercial Paper Note, (iii) the date of each Commercial Paper Note and the maturity date thereof, and (iv) the purchase price of each Commercial Paper Note, which will be 1000 of each Commercial Paper Note, less any Dealer fee. 2. All oral Requests or Requests given by electronic transmission (other than by a time-sharing terminal) given as herein provided shall be confirmed in writing by a member of the Pricing Committee as promptly as practicable thereafter. Written Requests and written confirmations of oral or elecCronically transmitted Requests shall be in substantially the following form: 369958.4 1 1 �t'1-� s � y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 City of Saint Paul, Minnesota Request Pursuant to Section 2.03 of the Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation CommerCial Paper Program (Arena Project) adopted December 17, 1997 No. 1. The City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "City") hereby instructs First Trust National Association, in St. Paul, Minnesota, as Issuing and Paying Agent (the "Agent") under the Resolution Authorizing a Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program (Arena Project) adopted on December 17, ].997 (the "Resolution"), to authenticate and deliver to Dougherty Summit Securities LLC its Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes (Arena Project), described in Schedule A hereto (the "Commercial Paper Notes") bearing such dates and in such amounts, at such interest rates and maturing on such dates as are set forth in Schedule A attached hereto. 2. The City hereby conEirms that the representations and warranties of the City set forth in Article VII of the Resolution, Section 3 of the Dealer Agreement and Article V of the Credit Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof with the same effect as though made on and as of the date hereof. 3. The City hereby represents and warrants that no Event of Default exists under any Related Agreement (as specified in such documents), that no event has occurred which, with the passage of time, the giving of notice, or both, would become such an Event of Default, that the City has performed in all material respects all of the covenants and agreements that it is required to have per£ormed under the Resolution and the Related Agreements, that the issuance and delivery of the Commercial. Paper Notes has been duly authorized by the City, and that, immediately after the issuance and delivery of such Commercial Paper Notes, the principal amount of and interest to maturity on Commercial Paper Notes outstanding under the Resolution will be as indicated opposite Item 1 on Schedule A and the available Commitment under the Credit Agreement at such time will be as indicated opposite Item 2 on Schedule A. 4. Unless otherwise defined herein, the tez used in this Request have the respective meanings given to such terms in the Resolution. 369958.4 1 2 °t � -t s �y 1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned has hereunto set his or 2 her hand this _ day of , 3 4 5 CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA 6 7 8 By 9 (Authorized Officer) 369958.4 13 9�-�s3y � 2 3 4 Note Number TERMS OF COMMfiRCIAL PAPER NOTES Principal or Face Date of Interest Maturity Amount Issuance Rate Date SCHEDULE A 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 � Item No. Descriptions 1 Principal Amount of and Interest to Maturity on Commercial Paper Notes Outstanding Under the Resolution 2 Available Commitment under the Credit Agreement 3 Amount authorized by Section 2.01(2) and Section 2.02(4) 4 Expiration Date of Credit Facility 369958.4 14 Dealer Fee Amount 9�-1s3y F� 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 li 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 SSCTION 2.04. Pavment; Execution. 1. The principal of, and interest on, the Commercial Paper Notes shall be payable in any coin or currency of the United States of America which, at the respective dates of payment thereof, is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. The principal and interest with respect to Commercial Paper Notes shall be payable by wire transfer of immediately available funds upon presentaCion and surrender of such Commercial Paper Notes at the principal o£fice of the Paying Agent or designated agents thereof. Payment of interest on the Commercial Paper Notes shall be made only upon maturity of such Commercial Paper Notes. 2. The Commercial Paper Notes shall be signed in the name of the City by the manual or facsimile signature of its Mayor, attested by the City Clerk, and countersigned by the Director, Office of Financial Services, its corporate seal having been intentionally omitted as permitted by law. Tn case any one or more of the officers who shall have signed or sealed any of the Commercial Paper Notes shall cease to be such officer before such Commercial Paper Notes so signed and sealed shall have been executed and delivered, such Commercial Paper Notes may, nevertheless, be authenticated and delivered as herein provided, and may be issued as if the persons who signed or sealed such Commercial Paper Notes had not ceased to hold such offices. Any Commercial Paper Note may be signed and sealed on behalf of the City by such persons as at the time of the execution of such Commercial Paper Notes shall be duly authorized or hold the proper office in the City, although at the date borne by the Commercial Paper Notes such person5 may not have been so authorized or have held such office. SECTION 2.05. Form of Co�ercial PaAer Notes. Subject to the provisions of this Resolution, the Commercial Paper Notes issued under this Resolution shal.l be substantially in the form set forth in Article VIii hereof with such appropriate variations, omissions and insertions as are pexmitted or required by this Resolution. SECTION 2.06. Authentication. Only such Commercial Paper Notes as shall bear thereon a manually executed authentication signature of an authorized officer or employee of the Paying Agent or of the AuthentiCating Agent shall be entitled to any right or benefit under this Resolution, and no Commercial Paper Note shall be valid or obligatory for any purpose or entitled to any benefit under this Resolution unless and until an authentication signature of an authorized officer or employee of the Paying Agent or of the Authenticating Agent shall have been duly executed on the Commercial Paper Note. The authentication 369958,4 15 9�-ts3y signature of the Paying Agent or of the Authenticating Agent by such officer or employee upon any such Commercial Paper Note shall be conclusive evidence that such Commercial Paper Note has been authenticated and delivered under this Resolution. SECTION 2.07. Mutilated, Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Commercial Pa�er Notes. If any Commercial Paper Notes are mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the City shall execute and the Paying Agent sha11 authenticate and deliver a new Commercial Paper Note of like date, maturity and denomination as the Commercial Paper Note that was mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed; provided that (i) in the case o£ any mutilated Commercial Paper Note, such mutilated Commercial Paper Note shall first be surrendered to the Paying Agent authenticating such new Commercial Paper Note, (ii) in the case of any lost, stolen or destroyed Commercial Paper Note, there shall be first furnished to the Paying Agent evidence of such loss, theft or destruction satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City together with indemnity satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City, (iii) a11 other reasonable requirements of the City are complied with and (iv) fees and expenses in connection with such transaction are paid by the Holder or owner of the Commercial Paper Note. In the event any such lost, stolen or destroyed Commercial Paper Note shall have matured, instead of issuing a duplicate Commercial Paper Note the City may pay the same without surrender thereof; provided that there shall be first furnished to the Paying Agent evidence of such loss, theft or destruction satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City together with indemnity satisfactory to the Paying Agent and the City. Any such new Commercial Paper Note issued pursuant to this Section in substituCion for Commercial Paper Notes al.leged to be destroyed, stolen or lost shall constitute original additional contractual obligations on the part of the City, whether or not the Commercial Paper Notes so alleged to be destroyed, stolen or lost be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be equally secured by and entitled to equal and proportionate benefits with all other Commercial Paper Notes issued under this Resolution, in any moneys or securities held by the City or any Fiduciary for the benefit of the Holders of the Commercial Paper Notes. SECTION 2.U8. IIse of Commercial Pager Note Proceeds. A11 Commercial Paper Note proceeds shall be credited by the Paying Agent to the CP Note Payment Account established pursuant to the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement and shall be (i) applied to the payment of principal of, and interest on, maturing Commercial Paper Notes, (ii) applied, upon instructions of the City, to the payment of the principal of and interest on the Bank Notes, or (iii) transferred to the Construction Account established under and pursuant to this Resolution for application to the payment of Project Costs. All proceeds of the Commercial Paper Notes held 369958.4 1 6 °1'1-1 s �y 1 pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above shall be held in cash and 2 shall not be reinvested. 369958.4 1 7 9�-ts�y � 2 3 A 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 ARTICLS I2I. AIITSORIZATION AND GSNSRAL TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF BANtC NOTES SECTION 3.D1. Authorization of Sank Notes; Principal Amount and Designation of Series. 1. Subject to subsection 2 of this Section 3.01, the City is hereby authorized to borrow and zeborrow up to $33,500,000 pursuant to the Credit Agreement for the purposes of providing liquidity support for the Commercial Paper Notes. To evidence the City's obligation to repay moneys borrowed by the City from time to time under the Credit Agreement, there is hereby authorized the issuance from time to time of Bank Notes of the City up to a maximum aggregate principal amount Outstanding at any time of $33,500,000, subject, in all respects, to the terms and conditions of this Resolution, including, without limitation, subsection 2 of this Section 3.01 and subsection 4 of Section 2.02 hereof; �nrovided that the sum of the aggregate principal amount o£ the Commercial Paper Notes and the aggregate principal amount of Bank Notes permitted to be Outstanding at any time sha11 not exceed $33,500,0�0, subject to the provisions of subsection 2 of this Section 3.01. Such Bank Notes shall be designated Taxable General Obligation Bank Notes (Arena Project). All or a portion of the principal amount of a Bank Note shall not be deemed Outstanding for purposes of this Section 3.01 to the extent the proceeds of borrowings under the Credit Agreement or other Commercial Paper Notes are to be applied toward the payment thereof. 2. The officers of the City hereinafter authorized pursuant to Section 5.05 hereof, and each of them, are authorized to exeCUte and de].iver the Bank Notes, subject to completion thereo£ and to the provisions of this Resolution, and with such changes therein as the officer executing the same may approve as necessary or desirable and in the best interest of the City, such approval and acceptance to be evidenced conclusively by the execution and delivery of such Bank Notes by such o£ficer, the other authorized officer of the City is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to attest such execution and delivery, provided that such attesting officer shall not have executed such Bank Notes. The City's corporate seal shall be intentional.ly omitted as permitted by law. SECTSON 3.Q2. Execution aad Deliverv, Dates aad Denominations of 8ank Notes. On or prior to the Effective Date, the City shall execute, authenticate and deliver to the Agent, for the account of the Banks, Bank Notes as provided in this Section 3.02. The Bank Notes shall be dated the date of their 369958.4 m q� -ts�y execution and delivery. Except as provided in Section 3.05 hereof, and except as otherwise may be provided in the Credit Agreement, a single, separate Bank Note shall be issued on behalf of each Bank, registered in the name of such Bank. Subject to the provisions of subsection 2 of Section 3.01 hereof, each Bank Note shall have a stated maximum principal amount equal to the commitment under the Credit Agreement for the Bank in whose name such Bank Note is registered; provided, however, that the aggregate of the stated maximum principal amounts of all Bank Notes to be Outstanding at any time shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of the Commercial Paper Notes authorized pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof. SECTIOI3 3.03. Outstanding Principal Amounts of Bank Notes, Interest on Bank Notes, Pavment of Bank Notes. 1. The principal amount Outstanding with respect to any Bank Note at any time shall equal the amount borrowed by the City under the Credit Agreement from the Bank in whose name such Bank Note shall be registered, less any prior repayments thereof. 2. Each Bank Note shall bear interest during the same periods and at the same rates as are applicable to the Loans (as defined in the Credit Agreement) evidenced by such Bank Note made by a Bank under and pursuant to the Credit Agreement, determined as provided in the Credit Agreement. 3. The principal of the Bank Notes, and interest thereon, shall be payable (and prepayable) at the same times and in the same amounts as are applicable to the respective Loans (as defined under the Credit Agreement) evidenced by such Bank Notes made by the Banks under and pursuant to the Credit Agreement, determined as provided in the Credit Agreement. SECTION 3.04. Form of Bank Notes and Schedule of Loan5 and ReAavments, Completion of Such Schedule. 1. The Bank Notes issued under this Resolution, including the schedule of loans and repayments attached thereto, shall be substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit A to the Credit Agreement with such appropriate variations, omissions and insertions as are permitted or required by this Resolution or the Credit Agreement. 2. The Holder of each Bank Note is authorized to record on the schedule of loans and repayments attached to such Bank Note, or a continuation thereof, each loan made by such Holder to the City, the respective dates, amounts, types and maturities thereof and all repayments of the principal thereof and, prior to any transfer thereof, appropriate notations to evidence the foregoing 369958.4 1 9 9�-ts�y information shall be endorsed by such Holder on such schedule, or a continuation thereof; provided, however, that the failure of such Holder to make any such recordation or endorsement shall not affect the obligations of the City under such Bank Note or under the Credit Agreement. SECTION 3.05. Limitations on Trausfer aad Exchanae of Baak Notes. 1. Except as hereinafter provided in paragraph 3 of this Section 3.05, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the this Resolution, the Bank Notes shall not be transferable by the Holders thereo£. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Section 3.05, if and to the extent provided in the Credit Agreement, any Holder of a Bank Note may, by notice in writing to the City, request that its loans of a partiaular type be evidenced by a separate Bank Note in an amount equal to the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such loans. Upon receipt of any such request, and upon presentation and surrender by such Holder of its Bank Note, the City shall execute and deliver to such Holder, in substitution for the Bank Note so surrendered, separate Bank Notes in respective principal amounts equal to the aggregate unpaid principal amounts of the loans of each such particular type. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Section 3.05, any Holder of a Bank Note may assign its rights with respect to such Bank Note and its commitment under the Credit Agreement in accordance with the provisions of the Credit Agreement. Upon such assignment, and upon presentation and surrender of such Bank Note, the City shall execute and deliver to the appropriate person(s), in substitution for the Bank Notes so surrendered, one or more Bank Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Bank Note so surrendered, so as to give effect to such assignment. 369958.4 2 � °l�-1s�y ARTICLE IV. FDNDS AND ACCOUNTS; SECIIRITY FOR COb1[�SERCIAL PAPER NOTES AND BANK NOTES 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 SECTION 4.01. Fund and Accounts. There is hereby created a special account designated the "Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program Fund (Arena Project)" (the '�F'und") to be administered and maintained by the Treasurer as a bookkeeping account separate and apart from all other funds maintained in the official £inancial records of the City. The Fund shall be maintained in the manner herein specified until the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes and any additional temporary bonds issued pursuant to Section 4.04 hereof and made payable from the Fund have been paid. There shall be maintained in the Fund two separate accounts to be designated the "Construction Account" and "Debt Service Account", respectively. (1) Construction Account. To the Construction ACCOUnt there sha11 be credited at Closing $30,000,000 of the proceeds of the sale of Commercial Paper Notes. The proceeds of the Commercial Paper Notes held in the Construction Account shall be disbursed to pay Project Costs in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Lease. Pending such disbursement, funds in the Construction Account shall be invested by the City Treasurer in accordance with the applicable provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 118A, as amended. Any investment earnings on the funds in the Construction Account may be transferred by the City at any time to the Costs of Issuance Subaccount hereinafter established in the Construction Account. (a) Cost of Issuance Subaccount. There is hereby created within the Construction Account a special subaccount designated the "Costs of Issuance Subaccount." The City may deposit in the Costs of Issuance Subaccount any investment earnings on amounts deposited in the Construction Account. Funds in the Costs of Issuance Subaccount may be used and withdrawn by the City to pay costs of issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes or may be transferred to the Debt Service Account and used to pay principal or interest on maturing Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes. (2) Debt Service Account. There are hereby irrevocably appropriated and pledged to, and there shall be credited to, the Debt Service ACCOUnt: (a) any Tax Increments received by the City pursuant to the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement to pay the principal and interest paymenCs on the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes; (b) such amount of the proceeds of the sale of Commercial Paper Notes as are determined by the Pricing Committee as necessary to fund capitalized interest; (c) the proceeds of 369958.4 2 1 q�-�s3y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ai 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 any additional temporaxy bonds or definitive bonds issued by the City to refund the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes; (d) any collections of taxes which may hereafter be levied in the event that the Tax Increments and other sums, including the proceeds of additional temporary bonds or definitive bonds herein pledged to the payment of the Commercial Paper Notes, Bank Notes or other temporaiy bonds are insufficient therefor; (e) all investment earnings on funds held in the Debt Service Account; and (f) any and all other moneys which are properly available and are appropriated by the governing body of the City to the Debt Service Account. The Debt Service Account shall be used solely to pay the principal and interest of the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, or any additional temporary bonds issued by the City and made payable from the Debt Service Account. SECTION 4.02. Pledqe of Tax Increments. The City hereby appropriates, to the extent and subject to the limiCations of the Tax Increment Act, to the Debt Service Account, the Tax Increments received by the City from the Authority pursuant to the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement, which appropriation shall continue until a11 of the Commercial Paper Notes and Bank Notes, and any other general obligation temporary bonds issued by the City and made payable from the Debt Service Account, are paid or discharged. The City hereby expressly reserves the right to use the Ta�c Increments to finance costs set forth in the Tax Increment Plan not financed by the Commercial Paper Notes. Notwithstanding any provisions herein to the contrary, the City reserves the right to terminate, reduce, or apply to other lawful purposes the Tax Increments herein pledged to the payment of the Bonds and interest thereon to the exCent and in the manner permitted by law. SECTIOAI 4.03. Pled4e of Tax Inaremeats and Full Faith and Credit Tax Increments derived from the Tax Increment District are hereby pledged to the payment of the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes and any other additional temporary bonds hereafter issued and made payable from the Debt ServiCe Account. The estimated collection of Tax Increments exceeds twenty percent (20°s) of the Project Costs financed by the Commercial Paper Program. For the prompt and full payment of the principal of and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes any other additional temporary bonds or definitive bonds hereafter issued and made payable from the Debt Service Account, as the same respectively become due, the full faith, credit and taxing powers of the City sha11 be and are hereby irrevocably pledged. If the balance in the CP Note Payment ACCOUnt or Debt ServiCe Account is ever insufficient to pay all principal and interest then due on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes, any other additional temporary bonds hereafter issued and made payable from the Debt Service Account, the deficiency shall be promptly paid out of any 369958.4 Z 2 9� -� s�y 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 other accounts of th and such other funds Debt Service Account therein. e City which are available for such purpose, may be reimbursed without interest from the when a sufficient balance is available SSCTION 4.04. AnDlication of Moaevs ia Debt Service Account. 1. Amounts in the Debt Service Account shall be applied to the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the Commercial Paper Notes and to the payment of the principal o£, or interest on, the Bank Notes when due, as £urther provided in this Section 4.04. 2. To the extent moneys are not available on any date in the CP Note Payment Account from the proceeds of Commercial Paper Notes, borrowings under the Credit Agreement or other lawful sources to pay the full principal of, and interest on, Commercial Paper Notes maturing on such date, then the City shall, by telephone, telex, telecopier or other telecommunications device, direct the Paying Agent to pay out of the Debt 5ervice Account, and upon such direction the Paying Agent shall deposit in the CP Note Payment Account, the amount of such difference. Such direction shall prompCly be confirmed in writing by an Authorized Officer. 3. To the extent moneys are not available on any date in the CP Note Payment Account from the proceeds of Commercial Paper Notes or other lawful sources to pay the principal of, or interest on, the Bank Notes maturing on such date, then the City shall, by telephone, tielex, telecopier or other telecommunica- tions device, direct the Paying Agent to pay out of the Debt Service Account, and upon such direction the Paying Agent shall pay, to the Holders of such Bank Notes the amount of such difference. Such direction shall promptly be confirmed in writing by an Authorized Officer. In making the payments provided for in this paragraph 3, the Paying Agent may rely upon written statements from the Agent as to the principal of, or interest on, Bank Notes. Payments in respect of the Bank Notes shall be made to the Agent for distribution to the Holders of the Bank Notes. SECTION 4.05. Additional Temporary Bonds. To provide money for the prompt and full payment of the principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes or the Bank Notes, if and to the extent that the principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes and Bank Notes cannot be paid from other sources herein pledged or appropriated for such purpose, Che City may issue one or more issues of general obligation 369458.4 23 q1-\S� y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 il 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 temporary bonds maturing not more than three years from their date of issuance and in no event later than six years after the date of original issuance of the Commercial Paper Notes. The aggregate principal amount of any additional temporary bonds, together with any outstanding Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, shall not exceed $33,500,000. The Pricing Committee hereby is authorized to negotiate the sale of the additional temporary bonds, to determine the redemption provisions, maturity dates and to set the interest rate or rates to be borne thereby; provided that no interest rate shall exceed fifteen percent (15.00°s) per annum. STCTION 4.06. Definitive Bonds To further provide moneys for the prompt and full payment of principal and interest on the Commercial Paper Notes, the Bank Notes or any additional temporary bonds issued pursuant to Section 4.05 hereof (collectively, the "Temporary Bonds"?, the City shal], issue and sell definitive bonds, at or prior to the final maturity date of the Temporary Bonds issued hereunder, in such amounts as are needed to pay the principal and interest then due on said Temporary Bonds after the application and the appropriation of such other munioipal funds as are properly available for such purpose. The Council hereby finds, determines and declares that the estimated collections of other revenues Co be received before the maturity date of the Temporary Bonds, together with the proceeds of any definitive bonds to be issued at or before said maturity date, and other revenues p7,edged for the payment of said Temporary Bonds and the interest thereon will equal the principal and interest requirements of said Temporary Bonds as the same become due. 369958.4 z4 `i�-�s�y ARTICLE V. 3 4 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 5� INITIAL RELATI3D SECTION 5.01. Credit Aareement. The Credit Agreement in the form presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, of Che City may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services and Clerk are hereby authorized to execute the Credit Agreement, with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Credit Agreement to the Banks. SECTION 5.02. Dealer Acrreemeat. The Dealer Agreement presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services, and Clerk are hereby authorized to execute the Dealer Agreement, with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Dealer Agreement to the Dealer. SECTION 5.03. Issuina and Paving Aqency Acrreement. The Issuing and Paying AgenCy Agreement in the form presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, of the City may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services, and Clerk are hereby authorized to execute the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement, with such changes therein as the Director, Office of Financial Services or Treasurer may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement to the Paying Agent. SECTION 5.04. Tax Increment Pledae Aareement. The Tax Increment Pledge Agreement presented at this meeting is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit D, subject to and with such changes therein as the Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof. The Mayor, Director, Office of Financial Services, and Clerk are hereby authorized tio execute the Tax Increment Pledge Agreement, with such changes therein as the 369958.4 2 5 q�-ts3y 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 41 Treasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services, may approve as aforesaid, and to deliver the Dealer Agreement to the Dealer. SSCTION 5.05. Offerina Memorandum. The offering memorandum (the "Offering Memorandum") in substantially the form provided at this meeting be and it hereby is approved in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit E, subject to such changes therein as the fireasurer or Director, Office of Financial Services may approve as necessary or desirable, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the delivery of the Offering Memorandum to the Dealer, the Treasurer or the Director, Office of Financial Services, are authorized to deliver the Offering Memorandum to the Dealer. SECTION 5.06. Officers Authorized to Execute and Deliver Bank Notes. The Mayor and the Director, Office of Financial Services, of the City are each hereby authorized to execute the Bank Notes on behalf of the City, subject to completion thereof, and with such changes therein as such officers may approve as necessary and desirable and in the best interest of the City, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof. The seal of the City may be omitted from the Bank Notes as permitted by law. Such officers are each hereby authorized to deliver such Bank Notes on behalf of the City. to do such other acts and things, as may be necessary or advisable in connection with the execution and delivery of the Initial Related Agreements, the Bank Notes, the delivery of the Offering Memorandum to the Dealer, the sale and issuance from time to time of the Commercial Paper Notes, the deposit and SECTION 5.07. Authorized Officers. The Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer, Director, Office of Financial ServiCes, or any other officer, employee or agent of the City as shall hereinafter be designated by resolution o£ the City, be, and they hereby are, and each of them hereby is, authorized to take such action as may be required to be taken by Authorized Officers hereunder and under the Initial Related Agreements, to execute such doCUments, instruments and papers, and to operate, such bank accounts, and investment of the proceeds thereof and the delivery of amendments and/or supplements to the Otfering Memorandum to the Dealer from time to time. 369958.4 2 6 `t�-1 s�y ARTICLE V2. , WARRANTISS APID AGRBEMR�iTS OF THE City The City hereby represents, warrants and agrees with the Trustee and the Holders ot the Commercial Paper Notes as follows: SSCTION 6.01. Pavment of Commercial Paner Piotes. The City shall duly and punetually pay or cause to be paid principal and interest on each of the Commercial Paper Notes at the dates and places and in the manner mentioned in the Commercial Paper Notes, according to the true intent and meaning thereof. For the purpose of providing for the payment of the principal and interest on Outstanding Commercial Paper Notes on the date that the same shall become due and payable, the City, on or prior to such date, and if on such date, no later than 2:00 P.M., New York time, will pay or cause to be deposited in the Debt Service Account an amount which, together with other amounts then on deposit in such Debt Service Account or on deposit in the CP Note Payment Account, wi11 be sufficient and available to make such payment on such date. SECTION 6.02. Office for ServicinQ Cou¢nercial Paper Notes. The City shall at all times maintain an agency in New York, I3ew York, where Commercial Paper Notes may be presented for payment. The City shall at all times maintain an agency in New York, New York, where notices, demands and other documents may be served upon the City in respect of the Commercial Paper Notes or of this Resolution. The City hereby appoints tihe Paying Agent as the Sond Registrar to maintain an agency for the registration, transfer or exchange of Commercial Paper Notes, and for the service upon the City of such notices, demands and other documents. SECTION 6.03. Further Assurance. At any and all times the City shall, as far as it may be authorized by law, comply with any reasonable request of the Paying Agent to pass, make, do, execute, acknowledge and deliver, all and every such further resolutions, acts, deeds, conveyances, assignments, transfers and assurances as may be necessary or desirable for the better assuring, conveying, granting, pledging, assigning and confirming all and singular the rights, moneys, securities and funds hereby pledged or assigned, or intended so to be, or which the City may become bound to pledge or assign. 369958.4 2 7 g� -�s� y SECTION 6.04. Power to Issue Commercial Paper Notes. The City is duly authorized under all applicable laws to create and issue the Commercial Paper No�es, to adopt this Resolution and to pledge the full faith and credit of the City to the payment of the Commercial Paper Notes. The Commercial Paper Notes and the provisions of the Resolution are and will be the valid and legally enforceable obligations of the City in accordance with their respective terms. SECTION 6.05. Performance of Covenants. The City will faithfully perform at all times any and all covenants, under- takings, stipulations and provisions contained in this Resolution and in any and every Commercial Paper Note and Bank Note executed, authenticated and delivered hereunder. SECTION 6.06. Maintenance of Outstanding Commitment. 1. The City covenants and warrants that it will at all times maintain an available commitment under the Credit Agreement at least equal to the principal of the Outstanding Commercial Paper Notes. 2. The City covenants that it will not substitute another liquidity support agreement for the Credit Agreement then in etfect, nor will it permit or allow any Bank to assign all or any part of its obligation to make loans under the Credit Agreement unless, in any such case, prior to such substitution or assignment, as the case may be, the City shall have received written evidence from each rating agency then rating the Commercial Paper Notes to the effect that such substitution or assignment, as the case may be, will not, by itself, result in a reduction, withdrawal or suspension of such rating agency's ratings of the Commercial Paper Notes from those which then prevail. SECTION 6.07. General. 1. The performed all or on behalf Resolution. City shall do and perform or cause to be done and acts and things required to be done or performed by of the City under the provisions of the Act and this 369958.4 2 $ q� -ls�y 1 2. Upon the date of authentication and delivery of any of 2 the Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, all conditions, acts 3 and things required by law and this Resolution to exist, to have 4 happened and to have been performed precedent to and in the 5 issuance of such Commercial Paper Notes and Bank Notes shall 6 exist, have happened and have been performed and the issue of 7 such Commercial Paper Notes or Bank Notes, together with all 8 other indebtedness of the City, shall comply in all respects with 9 the applicable laws of the State of Minnesota and the City 10 Charter. 369958.4 2 4 9� -�say ARTICLE VII. MISCELLANEOIIS Section 7.01. DefeasaaCe 1. If the City shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall otherwise be paid, to the Holder of any Commercial Paper Note the principal and interest due or to become due thereon, at the times and in the manner stipulated therein and in this Resolution, then the pledge of funds, moneys and securities pledged under this Resolution with respect to such Commercial Paper Note and all covenants, agreements and other obligations of the City to such Holder, shall thereupon cease, tenninate and become void and be discharged and satisfied. If the City shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall otherwise be paid, to the Holders of all Commex�cial Paper Notes the principal and interest due or to become due thereon, at the times and in the manner stipulated therein and in this Resolution, then the pledge of moneys and securities pledged under this Resolution and all covenants, agreements and other obligations of the City to the Holders of the Commercial Paper Notes, shall thereupon cease, terminate and become void and be discharged and satisfied_ 2. Al1 or any portion of the Commercial Paper Notes shall be deemed to have been paid within the meaning and with the effect expressed in paragraph 1 of this Section 7.01 if there shall have been deposited with the Paying Agent either monies in an amount which shall be sufficient, or securities of the type enumerated in Minnesota Statutes, Section 475.67, the principal of and the interest on which when due will provide monies which, toqether with the monies, if any, deposited with the Paying Agent at the same time, shall be sufficient, to pay when due the principal of and interest due on said Commercial Paper Notes on the maturity date thereof. SBCTION 7.02. No Personal Recourse on Commercial Paper Notes. No member of the City and no officer, agent or employee of the City shall be individually or personally liable for the payment of the principal or interest on the Commercial Paper Notes. 369958.4 3 0 �� -ls�y 1 ARTICLE VIII. 2 3 FORM OF CObIDSERCIAL PAPER NOTS 4 5 6 SECTION 8.01. Form o£ Commercial Paoer Note. The form of 7 the Commercial Paper Notes shall be of substantially the follow- 8 ing tenor with such variations, omissions and insertions as are 9 required or permitted by this Resolution: 369958.4 3 1 9�-�S�y 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2Q 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 [COMMERCIAL PAPER NOTE FORMj IINITBD 5TATES OF AMERICA STATB OF MIIQNESOTA CITY OF SAINT PAIIL, RAMSEY COIINTY Note Number $ TAXABLE GAQSRAL OBLIGATION COMi��RCIAL PAPER NOTT (ARENA PROJECT) Issue Date: Iaterest Rate: Interest Amount: % On , for value received, CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (the "City") promises to pay to the Bearer, by wire transfer of immediately available funds, the sum of U.S. Dollars upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the offices of First Trust National Association (the "Issuing and Paying Agent"), 100 Wall Street, 20th Floor, Attention: Commercial Paper Operations Manager (or at such other address or addresses as the Issuing and Paying Agent may elect upon written notice to the City). Such payment will be made on the same day as presentation and surrender of this NoCe to the Issuing and Paying Agent (or, if such day is a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the ciCy in which the principal office of the Issuing and Paying Agent are authorized by law to remain closed, on the next succeeding day that is not a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the city in which the principal office of the Issuing and Paying Agent are authorized by law to remain closed) if this Note is presented and surrendered to the Issuing and Paying Agent at or prior to 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on such date; if this Note is presented and surrendered to the Issuing and Paying Agent after 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on any day, such payment will be made on the next succeeding day that is not a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the city in which the principal office of the Issuing and Paying Agent are authorized by law to remain closed. Interest has been computed on the basis of actual days elapsed and on the basis of a 365 or 366 day year. No interest will accrue after maturity. This Note is one of the notes of the City known as Taxable General Obligation Commercial Paper Notes (Arena Project) (the 369958.4 32 g�-1s�y '�Notes"), authorized for issuance, from time to time, pursuant to the Resolution Authorizing A Ta�cable General Obligation Commercial Paper Program (Arena Project) adopted by the City on December 17, 1997 (the "Resolution"), up to but not exCeeding $33,500,000 in aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding, or such lesser amount of similar short-term indebtedness as may be permitted to be issued and outstanding thereunder pursuant to the provisions of the Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 475, and Minnesota Statutes, Sections 469.174 through 469.179, as amended (the "Act"), and other applicable provisions of law, to pay for Project Costs (as defined in the Resolution), and to pay amounts owed under the Sank Notes in accordance with the Credit Agreement dated as of January _, 1998, among the City, Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, and such other Banks as may become party thereto from time to time and Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as agent for the Banks thereunder, or such other credit agreement as is permitted by the Resolution (the '�Credit Agreement��). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Resolution. The City is required by law to issue additional temporary bonds or definitive bonds at or prior to the maturity of this Note for the purpose of refinancing, the same if the other funds which are properly available and are appropriated by the CiCy Council are not sufficient for the payment thereof. This Note constitutes a general obligation of the City, and to provide moneys for the full and prompt payment of its principal and interest when the same becomes due, the full faith and credit and taxing powers of the City have been and are hereby irrevocably pledged. IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED AND RECITED that all acts, Conditions and things required by the Constitution and laws of the State of Minnesota and Charter of the City to be done, to happen and to be performed, precedent to and in the issuance of this Note, have been done, have happened and have been performed, in regular and due form, time and manner as required by law, and this Note, together with all other debts of the City outstanding on the date of original issue hereof and on the date of its issuance and delivery to the original purchaser, does not exceed any constitutional, charter or statutory limitation of indebtedness. This Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the ResoluCion or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until this Note shall have been authenticated by the execution by the Issuing and Paying Agent of the Certificate of Authentication hereon. 369958.4 3 3 q'1-�s34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 IN WITNESS WSEREOF, the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, has caused this Note to be signed in its name and on its behalf by the manual or facsimile signature of its Mayor, attested by its Clerk and countersigned by its Director, O£fice of Financial Services, and its corporate seal having been intentionally omitted as provided by law. Countersigned for Authentication only: CITY OF SAINT PAIIL, RAMSEY COIINTY, MINNESOTA Mayor Attest: City C1erk FIRST TRIIST NATIONAL Countersigned: ASSOCIATION, as Issuing and Paying Agent By Authorized Signature 369958.4 Director, Office of Financial Services � q�_�s3y � 2 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ARTICLE IX. MISCELLANEOIIS SECTION 9.01. Severabilitv. If any one or more of the covenants or agreements provided in this Resolution, the Related Agreements, the Bank Notes or the Commercial Paper Note5 should be held contrary to law, then such covenants or agreements shall be deemed severa.ble from the remaining covenants and agreements of this Resolution, the Related Agreements, the Bank Notes or the Commercial Paper Notes, as the case may be and sha7.1 in no way affect the validity of the other provisions of this Resolution, the Related Agreements, the Bank Notes or the Commercial Paper Notes. SECTION 9.02. Reaistration. The City Clerk is hereby directed to file a certified copy of this resolution with the Director, Department of Property Taxation, of Ramsey County Minnesota, together with such other information as he shall require, and to obtain from said Auditor his certificate that said Commercial Paper Notes have been entered in the said Auditor�s Bond Register. SECTION 9.03. Governincr Law. This Resolution shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Minnesota. SECTION 9.04. Effective Date This Resolution shall be effective upon adoption by the City Council. 369958.4 35 g�-�s�y 1 2 SECTION 9.04. Effective Date. This Resolution shall be effective upon adoption by the City Council. Adopted by Council: Date ��•-�� �`�q'7 Adoptio Cert'rfied by Cou�cil Secretary ay: �.s.�� 1� .r.��...---- c Approved by Mayor. Date By: Requested by Department of: Office of Financial Services ey' � �'ln ""`._-` Form Appr e b City �e By: _� �/� �... ..�t��- .J% . . . /. . / � � Financial Services � PERSON & PHONE \\\` S�-u.SJ \i�l � DqTE INITIATED ,99� I GREEN SHEET FOR TOTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGES 1 �1'rl'1'� � z' pEPARTMENT pRECfOP q� - i53y No 60936 LRYCd111CIL ❑ L�,,�, ❑ 2 CrtYPiTOxNE/ GIYCLERK _� ❑ iRWlMJ4LSE0.V10E5qR ❑ RIFNCIpLSERY(4CCT0 � MnmRfoR4S515TANT) ❑ _ (CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATURE) authorizmg a Taxable General Obligatlon Commercial Paper Prog2m for the Arena Pro�ec[. PLANNING CAMMISSION q6 COMMITTEE GIVIL SERVICE CAMMISSION PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS MUST ANSWER iHE FOLLOWING Q 1 Has this person)firtn eve� wo�ketl under a coM2ci tor [his tlepartment? YES N� Has this perso�tfirm ever heen a cM1Y emPloYee? YES NO �oe; th�s Persontfrm Mssess a sWU not no�maily possessetl 6Y anY curtent ciry emPbYee7 VES NO Is this persoNfirtn a targeted ventloh YES NO �Explain all yes answers on separate sheet and attach to green sheet fING PROBLEM ISSUE, OPPORTUNITY (Who, What, When, Whe�e, Why) bonds are for the purpcse ot fu�ug the Qtys portion ot the costs M cons[nic4on antl eqwpp�ng of a new areira ad7aceM to the RiverCerit*e compiex �, pnmary sources of revenue to repay any obligahons issued to fnance the CRy Gontnbu[ion will not 6e a�aAable uMil the construction of the new arena is completeq R is recommerMed issue temporery obligations which wdl be repaid with the proceeds W deflndrve obhgahons aMiapated to he issued dunng the altowable temporary penotl Paper was deemed to provitle the 9reatest flenbihty fo� temporary fnanang m place for the CRy contnbWOn to the arena pro}ect ��i ; �y�}' i's�v � "1 19�1 wrrtnbutlon to the prqect wAI not have financing AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION S FUNDING SOURCE COSTiREVENUE BUDGETED (CIRCLE ONE) ACTNITY NUMBER YES NO FINpNCULL INFORMNTION (E%PW N)